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Human internal harmony and internal synergy ('innergy') of body, mind, spirit

Human social harmony and synergies in all human dimensions, with commonalities as bonding element and diversity as dynamic factor.

Recognition of universal, inviolable and indivisible Human Rights based on the universality of Human Dignity

Human Dynamic Harmony and Full Respect for Human Rights as requirement of Genuine Peace

  Violence, especially physical, as violation of human dignity of both perpetrator and victim, and the culture of violence as an indicator of lack of human development and an obstacle to any further human development.

  1. Total Human Development and Harmony Through Synergism

  2. Holistic Health Care and Medicine

  3. Deep Ecology and Harmony with Nature 

  4. Sense of History and Sense of Mission

  5. Civics and Democratic Governance

  6. Culture as Community Creativity

  7. Light-Seeking and Light-Sharing Education

  8. Gender Sensitivity, Equality & Harmony

  9. Reconstructive/Restor-ative Justice

10. Associative Economics, Social Capital and Sustainable Development

11. Synergetic Leadership and Organizations

12. Appropriate/Adaptive Technology

13. Mutual Enrichment of Families and Friendships

14. Human Dignity and Human Harmony: Human Rights and Peace

15. Aesthetics Without Boundaries: 'Art from the Heart'   

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Synergy in Person Dimensions

By Ed Aurelio C. Reyes

Lead Founder and current Executive Director, SanibLakas ng Taongbayan Foundation; and Executive Convenor and Network-Building Consultant, Lambat-Liwanag Network for Empowering Paradigms

This is excerpted from the Introduction to Part Two of Human Holons: Power-Packed Synergies (Pilot Edition, 2002)  To read full text, click here: http://lightshare.faithweb.com/holonsbook2.htm.

AS A "WALKING NUGGET," each human being is a very valuable synergy by itself, of value almost infinitely more times over than that human being’s “weight in gold.” On the other hand, as a “walking magnet,” each human is affected by magnetic fields all around, and creates one’s own magnetic field to affect all else, and the total picture is one of dynamic interaction among humans that create and characterize their synergies such as their families and friendships, their neighborhoods and communities, and commercial systems and arrangements for collective self-governance.

Each human is an organism, a cluster of differentiated cells, acting in a smooth symphony with the least intellectual supervision necessary. Cell colonies are clusters of identical cells that can cohere together for survival but are very unstable as groupings when compared to organisms.

As far as common turn-of-the-millennium reckoning is concerned, each human is a synergy of three person dimensions, namely, the body, the mind and the spirit. I have frequently described the human as a soul wearing a matter-energy body. This, until a student of mine countered by saying the human is the synergy of soul and body, and I had to agree.

I have still maintained, though, that the soul has apparently been the more decisive of the two elements because of these two elements’ respective developments across a stretch of time where the soul is immortal and the body, the very useful tool of the soul for experiencing earth life, grows old, dies and decomposes after it is left by the life-composing force of the soul.

(Explanations follow on these: "The Live Body -- A Synergy of Active Bio-Systems"; "Mind -- Energies Comprehending and Appreciating Experiences"; "The Spirit -- The Real Self.")

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