INTRODUCTION

There are as many rules in the world as there are men. Each genetic code is in fact a book of rules subtly managing the differences and oneness at the same time of being for all existing. Things go right, things go wrong, always one goes for the rules that by evolution are always 'the other rules'. Time and again the genetic codes are changed by the pressure of adaptation. Always the rules are upgraded for better management so that in fact the rules change in outlook and seem to be different. Despite of always having other rules, loving to adapt to the changing world, there are themes that recur. These themes concern the nature of time, space and matter; God, man and woman; politics, religion and science; fathers, sons and the purity of spirit; differences, oneness and the cultures abridging. Things seem to go in three having a soul aware of the tri-polarity of superego, ego and the dominance of the lower drive. As the world to that seems to consist of four basic cultural options that tend to be in opposition and conflict, the recurrence of the other rules maintains the complete of the reality: North America, Europe, and Australia seem to run on the scientific method, the Middle-East and India on the religious approaches of Lordship, the japanese/asian continent runs on the supreme of politics and Africa and South America on the rhythm of natural living. Not being able to live square to the complete of reality as one is proud of one's own and negligent to the other culture, still the world runs on the triangular pyramid of these four basics of mankind (pict.). We always see reality in three living four alternatives. Therefore the plea of the other rules is to become aware of oneself: to the soul of one's own conscientious contribution to the complete whole of our worldculture balancing political, religious, scientific and natural values. We cannot live without the spark of consciousness we individually are ourselves in the midst of this pyramid of worldculture. Each has his own unique nature and contribution in this full cultural complexity. The Other Rules, stressing the importance of soul and the order of time, are dedicated to the civilian population of the whole world longing for unity and peace at the one hand and respect for the differences of culture at the other hand. With a world living in peace and harmony the rules of the other person, other culture and other time need to be respected. This book is an attempt to sketch a concept of worldorder that can change and still stay the same. Many may recognize their own religion, politics, scientific theory or natural drive in it. To the writer it has been a pleasure to serve the ongoing spiritual soul minding its adaptation to time and place in the light of euro-american scientific ideals, middle-east/indian lordship, asian politics, and the latin/african ecstasies of natural rhythm.*

 

Warning: study these rules one by one. To consider this book as a running narrative is a mistake. To study more than a couple of rules at a time is certainly ill advice.

 

a) As an adult try not to sleep for more than six hours.
b) Always relax as much as you can.
c) Always keep your mind busy.
d) Always think for the sake of the soul.
e) Lead a regulated life.
f) Do your own duty and not that of others.
g) In case of conflict over ruler ship always resort to the impersonal order.
h) Always try to adapt to the environment.
i) Take care of the basic needs.
j) Always set work before the profit.
k) In case of anger seek isolation.
l) In rage never attack people.
m) Always take responsibility for your actions.
n) Try to avoid collecting and keeping.
o) Be loyal to your teachers.
p) Graduate and be your own boss.
q) Respect the authorities and laws of your country.
r) Always dress,shave and clean appropriately.
s) Try to be expert from intuition.
t) Try to cooperate as much as you can.
u) Guard your personal privacy as your life.
v) Stand up for your rights assertively.
w) Always try to be friendly and polite.
x) Stick to your decisions and keep your promisers as much as possible.
y)Do the necessary and do not cause grief.
z) Make a rule and break a rule in guard of your integrity.

 

 

 

        a) As an adult try not to sleep for more than six hours.

An adult should not sleep for more than six hours. Children sleep considerably more. They lack experience and personal order and get quickly exhausted. Sleeping for more than six hours dulls the nervous system and gives rise to depression and other mental disorder (pict.). People who sleep too much are more susceptible to illusion, need to compensate more as a consequence and have thus less resistance against stress. Compensation goes at the cost of synergy; the energy meant for cooperation and coordination. Adults who sleep for seven, eight hours or more should train themselves in social skills and learn to cling to an orderly life. 

 

         b) Always relax as much as you can.

In a relaxed state one is more aware to the environment and to oneself. Action concentrates the mind within a certain focus of attention. This is needed to do work. Even during work though, one should, so to say, regularly step back to become aware of the greater context of one's activity. Also important is to minimize the use of energy for optimal efficiency. Another expression of this rule is: don't overdo, keep cool, stick to the necessity.

This rule implies the greater importance of reflection. Being less focused to the body and more to the spirit puts a greater stress on the ability to organize one's thought. Only a conscientious person is really capable of a 'cool' style of life. For neglect there is no positive and quiet spirit. A negative and restless spirit means dissatisfaction and disorientation. When e.g. one is hungry and does not know what to do, first proper action should be taken as to alleviate the primary needs of the body and the person in his status (pict.) and orientation (pict.) in life. All healthy reflection is based on this basic security. War for instance is to be recognized as a vicious circle: because of lacking security there is conflict, and because of conflict there is a lack of security. 

 

         c) Always keep your mind busy.

De mind should always be focused on the goal of action which can be defined as service to the underlying order. A wandering mind may discover extraneous influences and affairs, but such speculation open for intuitive suggestion should be submitted to the order of one's life. The hierarchical principle should work internally in awareness of the importance of one's independence and personal choice. Dependence on outside authority will lead to conflict with the mature option. One might not be completely mature in all walks of life, but the option is always there. To break the rules can be considered as an appeal for outside authority as any citizen might remember e.g. with police-intervention. But adolescents biologically lacking maturity, will have to submit to parental authority. The parent is responsible for youth up to the age of 21. Uprooted youth should receive proper guidance from a guardian service or be put under legal custody. 

 

         d) Always think for the sake of the soul.

The underlying order pertains to the reality of the soul which can be defined as the conscientious remembering true spiritual self. One should accept the fact that the body or false, say temporal self, is governed by the spirit and the spirit is governed by the soul (pict.). The order of the soul is defined as God to which there are many names and definitions. As far as the impersonal is concerned one can say that all of the realigning about the soul is stemming from a concept of celibate order representing the wisdom of ancestral holiness. For this purpose one can study holy scriptures of preferably different kinds to ascertain one 's mature option. With one-sided study to this one is caught within one school of thought while the healthy psyche demands a freedom of choice. It is not bad to have chosen, it is bad to be denied freedom of opinion as laid down by democratic law. What is considered good and bad is simply defined linguistically and fixed by legislation. One has to answer to the demands of ones culture. Disagreement about this necessitates political action. This might eventually lead to social conflict and international war. Thus can be concluded that the basic security of proper law and order is of prime importance for a successful life and world-order. Success can be defined as general public contentment with existing law and order containing a low interest in further political action. Since normal non-political individuals cannot make the law themselves, only the concept of personal order is of further relevance.

Rules for personal order are thus considered as service to the soul and God irrespective of one's religious preference. Personal order amounting to compulsive disorder implies an alienation from the soul: in that case the rules pertaining to the soul should be checked. 

 

         e) Lead a regulated life.

There are a few important points to remember here. One should balance; that is to say, rest and activity, social and personal interests, work and leisure should not repress one another. Repression is the prime cause of unconscious action and cultural fall-down. There are always at least two sides to the material truth and mental health demands respect for both. So in general one can say that twelve hours of rest and twelve hours of activity form a good basis for the division of the day. This gives us 6 hours of rest in total to be spent in intervals throughout the day. Normally after sleep and before breakfast one has an hour to get started. During work in the morning as well as in the afternoon it's wise to have a break of half an hour. This leaves one and a half hours around lunch- and diner-time , with one hour to get at ease for sleeping completing the six in total. Work can be done for maximally twelve hours which necessitates further balancing. There is work for the maintenance of the body and mind and work in the care for others (pict.). Provided a fully emancipated society where the autonomy of each mature individual is accepted, one ideally spends 6 hours for the personal body and mind (shopping, cooking, cleaning, reading) and six hours for the others (duty of labor, socializing, appreciating the media together). Besides such a daily routine there should be days of rest to secure contentment, days of study to secure education and days of celebration to secure the need for festivity. Lacking this one will find oneself dropping out of work and society, losing one's education and ability to learn and losing control in breaking out of order lacking festivity (see tables). In regard of repression about time it should also be taken into account that politically fixed standard time ,'work-time', constitutes another consciousness as the awareness to the regularity relative to the position of the sun (pict.). 

 

         f) Do your own duty and not that of others.

This is a tricky point. Nothing as destructive as jealousy and confusion about this. A good division of labor demands clearly defined social roles and according duties (pict.). A housewife or house-man has to work for the maintenance of the children and the home. An outdoors working individual has to maintain the social position of professional orientation and status. But these things are dynamic. They come in phases and also intermingle. Attachment gives rise to a lot of trouble during the inevitable transitions. One cannot always be a student-bachelor, a married spouse, a reorienting withdrawing person or a detached upholder of tradition and old-age wisdom. Also professionally one can change orientation from the intellectual studious, to the governing, to the enterprising and finally toiling vocation. Still one needs to be clear as well as for oneself as for the other, about what one is doing. Without this there will be unwanted confusion and conflict. One has to do one's own thing and one needs to be clear about it. That is the meaning of this rule.

For an example one may think of the order typical for a planet: the month on this planet takes 30.5 days as part of a year that counts four seasons to the sun. Thus we do respect our nature and earth and do we have duties with it. But if we speak of a commercial labor-week of seven days which not by leaping are linked to that solar month, nor to the lunar month, to what to we belong then with that regularity? Thus is one with an other rhythm oriented on a planet one doesn't even know. Thus is one estranged, if not engaging cosmically disturbed, with something which might a be natural rhythm but which is strange to one's own planet, and waging wars with blaming one another that backward attitude won't be of any avail, thus anyone may know. 

 

         g) In case of conflict over rulership always resort to the impersonal order.

Things need to be settled, one has to cooperate. Because of this one is confronted with the expertise and authority of others. Not understanding the why and how of each others position and duty, troubles ensue. As a consequence lots of people get disappointed and estranged. Without consent and agreement people take to unqualified action and the general quality of life diminishes in a more and more chaotic society. In this situation people, out of frustration develop resentment against authority, especially across generations, and autocratic rulership begins to reign with injustice and rebellion against the others.

For the sake of order one cannot say that one rule is better than the other. There is conflict over rulership, and one cannot choose between fighting against and fighting against. Either side gives the same problem. So there is no other solution but to resort to the impersonal. No person will do but the mature person to himself having internalized the diverse authorities. He cannot propose himself as the solution but he can propose the conclusion of the teachings. Putting oneself up leads inevitably to the proof of one's imperfection and limitations. Resorting to the impersonal is then the only practice left over, in fact consisting of positive identifications with the personal. What is important is not to wage against other people, not to become an heretic of whatever kind, but to be convinced of one's order. One can be critical about other forms of order but with the constructive proposition of one's own this is amenable. 

 

         h) Always try to adapt to the environment.

There are two options: the expression of one's own identity and the necessity to conform to the others. In society this generally gives rise to the culture of the formal uniform at the one hand and the culture of individualism at the other characterized by free association and free expression. The dictum of the latter is: thou shall differ, no greater sin than the uniform. Even in the highest circles it is absolutely forbidden to wear the same neck-tie or the same dress. Each grey suit of e.g. the politician is from another tailor and another cloth. Informal dress dominates formal society which in itself is an inconsistency. Individualism can be recognized as a fear of formal identification or a cultural identity-crisis. The fear of the uniform evidently arises from warfare where the military show nothing but the horror of the formal uniform. But It is still the uniform ending the war too. The uniform we absolutely need at least for police and other agents of control. So irrationality and the psychology of trauma seems to reign in this society. It is nice to have your own dress and be informal most of the time, but it is not nice not to be recognized and have no formal relationship confirmed (pict.). Then what to adapt to if we no longer delve in the informal but sincerely express our need for formal identity? To distinguish between what is becoming or not is not enough to answer this question. One cannot escape from defining formal order. This is the true meaning of adaptation. Without it, what to adapt to? 

 

         i) Take care of the basic needs.

Basis needs are food, shelter, clothes, law and order. There are secondary needs as security, love, happiness, contentment, excitement, diversion, exploration and innovation. All these are forms of selfrealization, the common denominator of all human activity. God won't grow houses, clothes and books on trees. For God we may be naked apes in a fools paradise. For the Lord and His representatives, whatever be His name, we would endeavor to be somewhat like Him: detached but cultured, self-aware, but not egoistic. Thus religiously there seems to be a command of humanity in short defined as soulful non-possesiveness. This seems to be the denominator of the religious need. Politically we are in need of our freedom of expression, organization and participation. This secondary need is in one word called democratic, independent of the form of state being republic or monarchic.

For the arts and the sciences the need is doubtful. To be recognized is also psychologically understood. Scientific progress costing billions gives no guarantee of happiness and even offers a risk of war shifting the balance of power. Art and science are more realistic though but belong to the secondary needs of selfrealization which only in case of emergency and service in the interest of the primary needs can be called basic. From this the intellectuals, clergy and enterprising artists have big drawers with secret solutions in case ... we do not know. 

 

         j) Always set work before the profit.

One of the most important rules is to work for the work and not the outcome. Success or failure may not be of any influence on the factual work that has to be done as a duty. There are times of trouble, and times of elation. Whether it is summer or winter, important is that one continues to work. Because we tend to depend upon the stimulation and reinforcement of others, we also tend to refrain from work when the other no longer personally cares about us. Since each and everyone has to follow his and her own way sooner or later we have to continue on our own course. Therefore it is more important to find ones duty than to have this or that outcome as a condition. Another point of interest here is the definition of work. Unemployment is a relative notion. Everyone not doing the job I do is not employed as such. I have my own values about what and how to work. Work done in regard of the soul seems futile for the one running after the profit. On the other hand is going for the profit exactly the way to have no effect in the eyes of the one living for the soul. If one defines success as contentment with one's preferred activity, profitable or not, then the world is liberated from the slavery of its opposing compulsions. 

 

         k) In case of anger: seek isolation.

Sooner or later everyone gets angry upon frustration. No one is without desire, and thus no one is free from disappointment. To withdraw is the ideal strategy for mourning. For the other one has to keep front and integrity. One mustn't let oneself down. Loyalty to the soul is number one. It is the material thing of winning or losing that tempts into the trap of the ego saying I want this and I want that. A possessive attitude does more harm than swallowing some pride.

Isolation is a thing not to be feared. It is the ultimate solution for all problems. Once accepting one's fundamental aloneness in life there is no loneliness anymore: the other is found in one's heart. Being angry clouds this vision of reality. One cannot and must not drive the other from one's heart. There one has to learn to forgive and forget. Remember the good things of the others and fight against the delusion of the eternal negative missing the other physically. It is the biological drive of the body that may not lead astray. As stated above: satisfaction is found in the dutiful, not in the material effect itself. 

 

         l) In rage never attack people.

Once the train of anger is running it is difficult to stop. It is not so easy to let go instantly and have no clouds in the sky anymore. They disappear slowly. When thunder and lightning are storming, people should be on guard against destruction. Then let the storm bring down a tree or a shed. As long as the house is on solid ground and properly founded, the walls won't tumble so easily. Likewise one's personality is to be solid and properly founded in the decision not to harm anyone. It is o.k. to fight with people and show some emotion. But it is bad to give in to attack and destruction. Violence can be a necessity of selfdefence, so: don't attack. Fight with people and not against people.

Practically this means that trust is not lost on the expression of anger in a rage as long as there is no factual attack. Therefore it is words that do the fighting. Physical fighting is the end of reason and can also end the relationship. Even a hopeless attempt to deal with words is in the service of reason. One doesn't have to be reasonable to serve reason. Delirious gibberish is also for the spirit. Nobody believes everything that is said or thought, but everybody believes in physical pain and the necessity to escape from it. Thus, as long as anger turns into words one can stay, when anger turns into physical attack, the game is lost when the previous rule (1k) is neglected. War is the result of the inability to withdraw. 

 

         m) Always take responsibility for your actions.

One can do a lot of stupid things. To get experienced this is even inevitable. The question is who would be to pay for the error. The basic principle is that each is responsible for his own actions. Also non-action is action. Doing nothing can also cause a lot of misery. The profit motive always wants to blame the other which is a disease of material life. Without the rules we cannot solve this problem. Engaged in material action only God is the final creditor and all people are guilty. We owe to the order and not so much to one another. Things always go wrong, since material form is not eternal. Each rule is in demand of the other. Rule 1g implies the impersonal as an outcome in conflict over questions of guilt. When something is not in order, the cause might be that our idea of order itself is not in line with the dictates of the soul. To the concept of order decisions can be taken for the benefit of everyone. Such conclusions can be worked at. Simply to condemn each other won't lead to any other outcome but grief and alienation. It is important to come to conclusions that lead to work for the sake of general progress. Without it one victim creates the other and in such smoldering discontent problems are never really solved with the continual result of recurring warfare. 

 

         n) Try to avoid collecting and keeping.

Possesiveness is a great stumbling block. It is the disease called desire. From possessions one becomes possessed: there is never enough. But you can't get the whole world under control and call it your own. The more you acquire the more you realize this. To have your house as a furniture showroom annex museum for modern technology, annex library and collection of art etc. is a hopeless endeavor. Materialism is a mental illness in the category of the schizoid. Everyone knows that happiness cannot be bought. All you may hope for is a world that is accessible so that, although not the owner, one can be a visitor. The more we want to own, the less accessible our culture becomes. Thus the real question is: how to get rid of this hindrance (pict.) and have an open culture. End of the twentiest century this is still science fiction. There is an internet connecting everyone to everyone approaching the ideal of an open culture. But still everything has to be bought and saved. Then we are still like the Neanderthaler who knew nothing but hunting and gathering. Homo Sapiens is really a different kind. We are to know each other and not to hunt and posses. So by means of state or private enterprise information banks have to be maintained and made accessible to all. It is not possible nor satisfactory to continue on the line of acquiring and keeping. Ultimately television, telephone, radio, stereo etc, books and assorted computer programming, must be handled with one window on the world available to all people. 

 

         o) Be loyal to your teachers.

It is not about names, but about content. Of course, a name is a code that gives access to a certain field of knowledge. But a name is also falsehood: it directs to the material body, and no Lordship keeps the same body. It is no use to cling to this or that bodily concept. Each body of knowledge refers to a way of learning, a school. They form pyramids of hierarchy and access becomes increasingly difficult at the bottom of the hierarchy. Pyramids collapse as belief is exhausted and more needs to be invested than there will be returned. This bodily aspect of teachers and schools belongs to the battlefield of the ego. Ego wages war in the delusion of the power to control and enjoy. Solution to this problem must be and can be the superposition of the impersonal order. It is not to deny the person or the authority, it is to have all subjected to the reality man can't change. If we burn down the whole planet, the earth will still revolve. It is the one revolution that defeats all others. To recognize its order and respect it in its full relativity is a mission of reform, as for the twentiest century man still clings to an ancient Roman calendar and a contorted concept of clock time being a far cry from the natural situation. Loyalty to teachers means to be loyal to the source (pict.) of teaching in the first place: the cosmic reality and soul of all the worlds finding peace with order in the form of time (pict.). 

 

         p) Graduate and be your own boss.

It is good to go to school and subject. It is bad to make it an eternal duty. It is good to change from school to school, it is bad not to have learned to manage your own. So each man and woman want baby's by nature to form their own school of education, although it is not always clear who the teacher is. The great misery of religion and politics is the inability of internalizing the school and integrate that learning with other options of management. This is the real problem: the constant necessity to adopt new information and integrate it. First there is the problem that advanced learners tend to learn less in the practice of their own conclusions, second there is the problem of evolution. How can a school progress without getting uprooted all together. Things go wrong with the transference of knowledge: books become unreadable because of specialization and teachers refuse to accept newcomers with another adaptation but their own. So repeatedly the same phenomenon recurs: people form their own school and authority. This is natural and must be tolerated. This rule implies live and let live: an ill school won't survive the test of time; it normally doesn't need much fighting against. Remember: all attempt to reason can be recognized as service to the soul (1l);as long as a school is there for teaching and not for ruling, each graduate may decide for himself if he learned anything more than to be patient. 

 

         q) Respect the authorities and the laws of your country.

Actually there should be no comment on this rule. It is exactly the desire to constantly amend on the rules why we get into trouble. But the times are changing, not just this century but for ever. Rules need to be adapted and we need to adapt to the rules. This is inevitable. We cannot fix everything and expect it to stay so. After each painting there will be a new one, after each bible a new story of divinity etc. Life goes on and the disease mankind suffers seems to consist of resistance against change more than of suffering the dynamic of material form.

Important here is to have some loyalty to the inheritance of law and order. It is cheap to be a rebel and go against all of 'the system'. To say no is easy, to say yes a bit more difficult. In nature expansion and differentiation is normal. The art is not to lose the soul, the remembrance of what was added to. To stay connected is the mission, whatever novelty we embark upon. Twentiest century television e.g. is like a fast dream. What do we remember, standing up to our own? 

 

         r) Always dress, shave and clean appropriately.

By means of dress, people express their identity. To settle for order in this one has to distinguish between formal and informal dress being not liberated and liberated in service to the order of the rules of some soul saving tradition. Thus there are four kinds of dress: F(ormally) L(iberated), F(ormally N(ot liberated), I(nformally L (iberated) and I(nformally) N(ot liberated) (pict.). IN-group dressing is fashionable and casual clothing. Loose from tradition these people are considered non-liberated. IL-clothing is non-uniform clothing according to the tradition with hats, neck-ties, suits, frocks etc. These people want to be traditional and neat and are all considered to be informally liberated in their traditional love for the individual. FN-people are dressed in uniform: the military, the police, classical musicians, priests etc are considered non-liberated carrying the cross of the old roman-political uniform of time defying the individual. Those who are dressed up formally in service to the order of the rules can express their identity of professional orientation and civil status e.g. by means of color and a band around their neck showing the degree of commitment (pict.) to the order. This latter dress-code is a proposition given as an option here, being science fiction to the twentiest century. The division to professional orientation (pict.) and civilstatus (pict.)is traditional while the uniform is then subjected to the diversity of the individual and the alternate order of time in service of the soul. Thus the consideration as being liberated to classical formality. One may express one's commitment to one's profession in color: dark grey/black suits for academics and priests in the role of advisor/counselor to the interest of the soul, dark-red for the one's in civil service: politicians, officials representing the government in service to intelligence. Light-grey suits for the people in trade and commerce in service to the mind of the order and beige suits for the laboring people in service to the interest of the physicality of the order. The individual status of being student/bachelor, married, withdrawn and detached can dress up with shirts in respectively green for the students, white for the married, blue for the withdrawn and orange for the detached. The level of commitment can be expressed by honorary signs hanging from a band around the neck or collar of the shirt showing the color of one's professional orientation. By the head of the (state)order, or by rule of time, people can be rewarded with honorary signs in the form of e.g. a six-pointed star (pict.) in silver or gold for participants in the order with respectively primal and enduring merit. Of course this is all optional and cannot be laid down by law: no one can be forced to belong to the order nor be forbidden to act as if belonging to. Social control will work its way to distinguish between actors and originals.

The symbol of the order as a six pointed star refers to the fact that dividing the day and the year in twenty four (one time, one division) gives six star days to mark six two-month-seasons of sixty star days (see table). The whole of time (the celestial sky) divided by six is thus shown as a star (in contrast with the known David-star the indication of the two triangles can be left out keeping the open structure). As to shaving and cleanliness, the positive attitude towards sex (also from the withdrawn and detached) is expressed by being clean-shaven and having the hair short-cut (except for the ladies who have long hair to enhance their sexual attraction). Abstinence can be shown by cultivation of beards and mustaches or short hair for ladies. Cleanliness is mandatory as the most ancient tradition of godliness and civilization. 

 

         s) Try to be expert from intuition.

Of course almost everything can be found in books. Hardly any rule or statement in this collection is new. It is, although, impossible to name the source of each idea. It is not practical, not wanted and against the rule of being one's own boss to play hide and seek behind the back of outside authority. I can err, I can change. Rules change, expressions change, symbols change. From the proposition laid down in the previous rule the final practice may widely differ. Man proposes, God disposes. It is just the game one is playing; the way one tries to do one's best, to be an expert, to be loyal etc. It is and stays just a game that people like to play or not. Intuition is of prime importance to the concept of freedom. Doubting everything by the tradition of natural science is done in service to the soul which is then given free reign by means of intuition (pict.). The rules are known by experience and one doesn't follow much better by mechanically learning them. The rules shown here merely form a checklist to refer to or meditate upon; they are not meant to be taught in school. There are enough schools breaking one's intuition in their plea for the dependency of the pupil. Computers make fine tutors and schools may be reformed by learning from love. Clouding personal intuition is a right out danger to the maintenance and development of intelligence. 

 

         t) Try to cooperate as much as you can.

This is the most ancient rule for civilized manhood and human sanity. The insane do not cooperate just as the uncivilized. Wild nature can be attractive and to go crazy can be a relief. To play the animal though is not the definition of society. Unfortunately we must check our envy with king lion and follow the rules assuring proper cooperation and coordination. Nothing can be accomplished without it but war and destruction. In case of being occupied by foreign forces one might regress to the animal state of using animalistic violence for selfdefence and survival. But forming a normal civil threat to individual freedom one has to agree and cooperate to the definition of defense. To the liberty in the formal order of recognized societal membership ('to have a star') there are 32 possible groups of identification (the immature aspirant 'not having a star' not counted) (pict.). Each group will define its own defense and act to that as far as the law-books permit.

Even the withdrawn have to cooperate in order to have their own place, their food and their adaptation secured. Problems arise when cooperation cannot be found. These people drop out of society and form an insult on the one hand and a challenge for formal order at the other hand. Each man is valuable and because of economy or justice this may not be denied. It doesn't have to cost money or to happen outside penal institutes. In fact formal liberation means to have the capital at your service because of the dominating logic of the order. Once there is cooperation in formal order money is not the problem. To formal liberation even ownership loses its meaning since service to the order is the philosophy. Of course every identification group has its own material management system of credit and provision of goods. It is to the government to settle everything to justice and order to protect private interests of groups and individuals. 

 

         u) Guard your personal privacy as your life.

Society can be an animal devouring the freedom of the individual. Leaders become the slave of their own system and spouses become the victim of their own commitment. This is a basic problem which can be solved by respecting and caring for personal privacy. To have a place of one's own is a blessing. Not to be disturbed by noise, stench or unwanted commerce etc. has become an ideal to work for. In the old days there was lots of land uncultivated open for retreat in the freedom of nature. This type of escape is less and less possible in an overcrowded world where every suitable stretch of land is used for agriculture and cattle. To share a front-door in an apartment-building e.g. is a less private solution, having one's guests mingled with strangers ringing the same door. To share a few square meters of land with hundreds of people in a sky-scraper is certainly an unprecedented concept of vertical space-time-awareness to which there might be more disease than private sanity. How far can one go going private?

What is sure is that personal privacy and the mature position need one another. How to manage your own if you don't get your own? A society failing in this might not get over its mental condition called neurosis and collapse in unwanted psychopathology. Therefore privacy must be safeguarded as one's life. The more people on top of each other the more urgent the urge for going private. Crime in big city's can be fought remembering this rule. Why attack the other if each can have his own?. 

 

         v) Stand up for your rights assertively.

Assertion means to declare, to exert influence. It is a hot debated issue: what are we serving in our assertion. Religion worries about heresy and science about untruth. Politics are worried about cooperation. Together it means that everyone is anxious about truthful cooperation for the sake of the soul. Soul is the word fighting the concept of ego about selfhood defying other self interest and thereby falling into the rage and storm of heresy. It is about unity in diversity; it is about the soul. The ego is a consequence of material identification because of which people tend to oppose and shift the question of quilt in projection. The classical teaching of assertion is therefore to hearten one's own conscience for the sake of one's soul and to beware of egoism which hearten's one's material position.

The concept of ego is inevitable, as heartening one's material position is inevitable. It is by subduing the ego to the interest of the soul that the heretic -ism of the schizoid opposition is overcome. Thus a proper concept of assertion implies not to harm the interest of others. What we call others is then in need of further consideration. 

 

         w) Always try to be friendly and polite.

This is a common sense rule settling all human interaction to the norm of goodness. Animals bark and roar, human beings are supposed to stay reasonable, that is to say: stay friendly and polite asserting themselves verbally and physically. To the other sex this attention is known as courteousness. By no means this obliging was meant to be exclusively kept in the private sphere of sexual courting or as a gentlemen's agreement among men solely.

Suffering the burden of the ego this rule is often violated. One can feel a neurotic fear for obligations or derange making fuss in self conceit. Cramping on the ego people forget to be nice and lose touch by simply not paying enough attention. Everyone screaming for it and no one giving it is symptomatic for a neurotic society estranged from the interest of the soul. Not to suffer one's nerve's in this case implies that one needs the nerve to be nice and polite. 

 

         x) Stick to your decisions and keep your promises as much as possible.

Basic rule of heroism is to keep principle, to stay consequent, to persevere, stand firm. Not to be stupid and stubborn is the mission. Without the faculty of discrimination this is not possible. So one must keep one's mind to the matter. Not to lose your mind then is the mission. Following this continence is the essence of the true teaching. The question is not only how to contain, but also what to contain. Just to contain the mind does not imply the soul, just as just to contain the seed does not imply the soul either. Just to contain the love-making or spending of seed either. Of course only right decisions and realistic promises can be kept. If you want to stay right and realistic the so-called eternal values come in view. Shortly these are: compassion, truthfulness, cleanliness and non-possessiveness (pict.). Or in simple man's language: stay clean, don't lie, care for others and share. Upholding these basic values will make one steadfast and reliable. 

 

         y) Do the necessary and don't cause grief.

Beyond necessity there is a fool's paradise with holiday's called warfare. Why complicate the issue when simple is o.k. Why do we need more than one division of time as with the division of weeks not matching the division of month's e.g.. Why does the twentiest century cherish timezone's having abandoned the accord of true time? We don't need an other division of weeks set apart from the month, we don't need time-zone's. The answer to these questions is attachment. Because we are used to the old roman calender we continue thinking tradition is soul. This is not so. Soul means conscience, not blind obedience. Sometimes things have to be abandoned when we know and can do better. Above that something new does not imply that the old is forgotten. On a new calendar old divisions can be indicated and vice versa (see table). End of the twentiest century one is also still printing books while in the nineties enough computing power has been developed to publish virtual only.

Not to cause grief means not to violate traditions by abandoning them but to cherish alternatives that are better, that is to say more clear, truthful, simple and easy. When we have paid off to the old the new can be enjoyed. Alternative's are necessary to the freedom of choice. Without it no consciousness will be but captivity in attachment and the unreason of fall-down in ignorance. Cherishing the unnecessary the necessary tends to be obliterated. It is not forbidden to be a fool, it a shame and even dangerous to neglect what is necessary. Everyone agrees: freedom of choice is necessary ; it belongs to the method (pict.).  

 

         z) Make a rule, break a rule in guard of your integrity.

No set of rules lasts forever. Writing this set-up rules replaced each other. Each set pretends to be absolute and final, but the truth is different. The soul may be absolute and final, but it's material expression is not. It is in flux; it is subject to the reality of time (pict.)changing everything. So constant adaptation to time and circumstances is necessary. Therefore rules are broken and created, broken again and recreated. This is natural to the integrity of life and the person. Everything is subject to the conscientious of the adapting selfrealising soul. Certainty is found in the eternal values of clean truthful sharing and caring (pict.). As long as man exists these will be the foundation of human integrity and will be necessary although the interpretation will greatly differ. Forever.