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OVERVIEW

Prior to the 1970's few people knew that Doctor Burrhus Frederic Skinner --the renowned American Behaviorist Psychologist-- predicted that he could and would fill up America first --and the whole world eventually-- with human beings who did not need either freedom or dignity in their everyday lives. He did not say what he was going to use as replacement for these two fundamental values of autonomous human beings, he simply said he was going to do away with them.

Then in 1971 with the first publication of his book "Beyond Freedom and Dignity" --a book openly acknowledged to have been bought and paid for by the United States Government via the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) Grant number K6-MH-21, 775-01-- Dr. Skinner told all of us e.x.a.c.t.l.y what his plans were for autonomous man and how he and his cohorts were going to kill him off.

One cannot say "we" did not believe him, that "we" did not take him seriously because Beyond Freedom and Dignity was touted as "…one of the most important happenings in 20th-century psychology…", quoting an excerpt from its own cover. The same cover that reminded us that Dr. Skinner's previous book, Walden Two, was a million copy best seller.

The NIMH today --an avowed Behaviorist Institution-- is stronger now than it was in Skinner's day and it continues to grow stronger.

In 1957 with the first publication of Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand said she was going to stop the mystic, collectivistic, altruistic machine --that is, the anti-autonomous man "machine"-- then running the world. She said she'd do this by filling up the world with people who were so objectively selfish that they would not tolerate the likes of those who preached people didn't have any kind of needs of consciousness, let alone no fundamental, basic needs of consciousness such as the need for freedom and dignity.

If these aren't basic human needs, why do we value them so deeply?

The answer to this depends on which way the meaning of "born tabula rasa" is interpreted. Is it as Behaviorism interprets it: everything is learned or as BiO Spiritualism interprets it: everything is learnable. The difference here is critical and its subtley forms one cornerstone of what can be called "psycho-hermeneutics" and the beginnings of a truly New Spiritualism. A spiritualism that cares about precision and being right. A spiritualism that worships non-contradiction and cares about truth. A spiritualism that starts by saying that truth and falsehood are not the same thing. That truth --as Aristotle said-- must be preferred.

For example, in Ayn Rand's Philosophy of Objectivism freedom and dignity are basic human needs. In Behaviorism they are not. That is, in Behaviorism the alleged "science" of psychology as proclaimed by the mainstream American intellectuals of the last century, freedom and dignity are not human needs. Contrast this with the psychology of the early Objectivist, Dr. Nathaniel Branden. He --along with Ayn Rand-- "preaches" that freedom and dignity are such basic human needs that without them we are not human beings. Dr. Branden's first major book on psychology: The Psychology of Self-Esteem (New York, Nash Publishers) is totally and completely dedicated to teaching developing man how to become dignified, authentically self-valuing man. This book was published the same year an American explorer first stepped on the moon and it is an intricate study and blueprint for man --the explorer-- to follow as he discovers how to create and build his own autonomous self out of nature's raw materials.

Some years later --in 1982-- Dr. Peikoff --the intellectual heir to Ayn Rand's Objectivism following her unfortunate, sad death that same year-- published his book "The Ominous Parallels. The End of Freedom in America." , (New York, STEIN AND DAY, 1982). In this book he meticulously traced and identified for the whole world to see the philosophical roots beneath and hence the cause of the German Nazis who initiated World War II. With this book Dr. Peikoff predicted that freedom in America was going to die by forces similar to those inhabiting the inner-conflicted ideologues --Social Democrats-- of Germany's Weimar Republic following World War I. The Social Democrats of that era thought they could integrate the non-integrable, that is, that they were exempt from the laws of consciousness and as such that they could do the impossible. That is, they predicted they could integrate Marxist ideals [from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs] and Capitalism's methods [from each according to his need...to consume, to each according to his ability...to produce].*   As a result --that is, you absolutely cannot integrate the non-integrate-able-- so as a result, the Social Democrats made themselves and their country along with them ineffectual obstacles to the Nazi thugs who eventually took over Germany. The thugs made fun of those contradictory idea peddlers, the Social Democrats, by saying they were "revolutionists who wanted peace and quiet; proletarian militants who made collaboration with the bourgeoisie an essential policy; socialists who refused to socialize". (Bracket material added, Ominous Parallels, p. 148,149 Hard Cover).

These thugs and their accomplices then --in the long run-- ended up taking over Germany by predicting that they and their social designers could design and produce what nobody else could:  a square circle society. Then, these Nazi thugs and their sympathizer thugs with their no-one-to-oppose-them slogans: "might makes right", "individual rights is nothing more than mere Western selfishness" (Ibid.), and innummerable other...word-strings that have selfishness as the whipping boy... slogans, proceeded to show the world what a "real" square circle looks like, and how to build one.

If one believed in God, which I no longer do, but if one did, it is here that one would stand erect, look up while throwing one's hands skyward and say: "thank god for America".

And Americans.

(Or if you are British, you might want to say: "...thank god for Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill..."; or if you were...and so on... freedom lovers and freedom fighters know who to thank for the historical victories over tyranny --be they victories over the external kind or the internal kind.)

Today is a day in the first year of the first century following all of last century's dire predictions.

And where do we stand?

We stand where....

...and so on. Yes, the first BiO Spiritualism book, investigates this question further and presents answers that enable individual Americans to continue to say, as they --as the torch-bearers of freedom on planet earth-- have always said: "I stand tall". America, psychologically, is all about "tallness": tallness of
[BiO] spirit [ualism].


BiO Spiritualism

INTRODUCTION

Man's life on earth is an end in itself.

Body is man's means to physical independence and autonomy, for that life.

Mind is man's means to psychological independence and autonomy, for that life.

Spirit is man's means to consciousness independence and autonomy, for that life.

Spiritualism, that is true Spiritualism, is the process of making oneself the...

...and so on and so forth continues the new book, BiO Spiritualism: Body, Mind and Spirit - Man's Means, Nature's Ends by new author Gary Deering, who --to repeat-- is a seasoned, experienced Engineering-Scientist, amateur philosopher, and trained and formally educated psychological counselor. As such he understands the engineering mentality so thoroughly that when he predicts we all should listen. Especially we should listen to his most important prediction: if we don't embrace and achieve autonomous development for ourselves, the Social Engineers hired by the State to propagate the non-legitimate functions of government will roll over us like so much inconsequential grass under their treads.

One salvo can stop their entire army. That salvo is: I think for myself. I feel for myself. I act for myself.

 

Sincerely yours,

Gary Deering

 

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