The Five Elemental Goals
Key to Balanced Natural Living
1. Wealth
Rugged Self Sustenance
Eliminates the tendency to unjustly blame others in ways which might encourage underlying feelings about some alleged right to be sustained by the efforts of other people. The individual is then shown in very simple fashion how to proceed systematically towards economic goals.
2. Health
Proactive Self Esteem
The premise here is that people who abuse their health do not esteem themselves very highly. Most such individuals would not deface a church, but would render their body, the temple of their own spirit, sickly through unhealthy practices. Problems here usually come from too much emotional reaction to the opinions of others and not enough analytical thinking about simple health goals.
3. Pleasure
Focused Productive Enjoyment
This is concerned with eliminating the kind of compulsive simian gregariousness that keeps people embroiled in activities which, decades later, may well come to be viewed as worthless and unproductive. The axiom here is that life's best pleasures are the ones where something wholesome and new is being learned or mastered. This can be done in large or small groups, or alone.
4. Intellect
Courageous Independent Knowledge
Here is the goal of total open-mindedness in seeking truth. The individual bypasses all pre-packaged opinions and seeks only facts, even from strange or "forbidden" sources. He then forms his own opinions without feeling that he must necessarily discuss anything that he has learned with anyone else.
5. Spirit
Viable Rooted Spirituality
This involves taking an eclectic approach to the study of many spiritual systems(23). When this is done, the seeker will find that for every idea in any one system, their is usually a parallel idea in every other system. Differences usually involve only emphasis. The individual, no longer parochial in his understanding, is now free to explore all the more deeply his own ancient heritage. In this way he can reap the benefits of being both worldly and rooted. For moral excellence to prevail in society nobody needs to be converted to anybody else's national tradition. Cosmopolitan tolerance between separate indigenous traditions is superior to the bland, faceless beehive spirituality of global universalism.
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