Perspective
Humanity's existence is complex but not beyond understanding. The following ten statements frame our perspective and drive our mission and vision at Planet Gel-O Outreach.
1. Everyone is a composite of their Whole Person Experience which is a combination of our genetics, life encounters, experiences, interactions, choices, and what we learn. Who we are at any point in our life is a composite of all the elements.
2. Everyone's whole person experience creates a system of beliefs and assumptions which they hold and engage the world with. We call this our Existence Paradigm. We use our term because we believe this paradigm includes both conscious and unconscious ideas about things like God's existence or not, life after death, aliens, our worlds origins. These have an influence upon our lives whatever those beliefs may be. Therefore our existence paradigm includes our conscious and sub-concious beliefs about human existence as a whole.
3. Our existence paradigm directs how we interact with the world around us and the decisions we make.
4. Regardless of what existence paradigm we hold, we do so by faith - beliefs trusted to the point of action- and we will only know the final truthfulness of those of beliefs when we die. Death is the final arbiter of truth.
5. Due to the way our existence paradigm is formed in us, it will not easily change and usually requires a crisis of some form. This crisis can be as small as a new understanding or as large as suffering or death, but crisis must create enough confusion in our existence paradigm to force reevaluation and then change.
6. The turbulence on our planet between people, or communities, or nations, in most situations is connected to a clash between existence paradigms.
7. This turbulence has existed from man's earliest time until now, regardless of knowledge, education, sophistication, or technology.
8. Our integrated and technologically driven world is bringing this turbulence to peak that puts our planet and our existence at risk.
9. Unless humanity can choose courageous coexistence a global crisis is inevitable and dystopian future is coming.
10. Our survival as a species is probable based on history and the current rate of technological innovation, but what portion of humanity survives will be determined by whether we can find a path to courageous coexistence or we hold on to the notion of ideological dominance.
