THE DIVINE GENESIS AND HUMAN DEVELOPMMENT OF

INTEGRATIOANL  SPIRITAN MOVEMENT FOR TRUE GLOBAL FELLOWSHIP HAS LASTED FOR HALF A CENTURY

“MODUS OPERANDI” meaning ‘THE OPERATIONAL CODE’ - “ET” and  “MODUS VIVENDI” meaning ‘THE CODE OF CONDUCT’ FOR ALL BONA-FIDE MEMBERS OF INTEGRATIONAL SPIRITAN MOVEMENT FOR NOW AND FOR ALL TIMES WORLDWIDE UNDER NORMAL TEMPERATURE & PRESSURE ARE EMBEDDED HERE

PROLOGUE

I once met three philosophers arguing about the nature of God. The Christian theologian among them insisted on the Trinitarian doctrine, the Oriental Christian emphasised that the Holy Spirit proceeded only from the Father whereas the Roman Christian argued that the Holy Spirit proceeded from both the Father and the Son!

I laughed at them. They got angry. In unison, they demanded to know why I was laughing them to scorn. I said, “Why not bother yourselves about the things in the world that you can comprehend? Leave God alone!” One of them interjected, “Why do you say that, are you wiser than the Holy Church fathers and the great theologians that handed down these doctrines?”

“Thank you very much for being truthful. You just called them ‘doctrines’ and that’s exactly what they  are! You can’t arrive at any meaningful conclusion in your argument since all we can ever know or say about him is,  “God exists!” And what that really means is this: “God is the Almighty Being that created everything that exists in the universe. Anything else anybody says or we say is puerile, futile and simply mundane guesswork!” I concluded.

In I.S.M. we do not theorise about what we have no existential answers that can satisfy human reasoning! We limit ourselves to provable and rational concepts, no mysteries, no dogmas and no doctrines. You are very welcome to disproving anything we posit, provided you can defend your position convincingly, and carry along seventy-five per cent of humankind. We are okay

From Your Chief Servant ; 
The International Animator of I . S. M.

CHAPTER 1:

AN OVERVIEW

i.                  Oh! Mortal man, why do you pride yourself with such titles as “ Homo sapiens”, “His or Her Excellency”, “His Lordship or His Grace”, His Royal Highness” and finally the “Lord of the Material Universe”, when you can never hear better than a common bat, nor see better than the eagle?

ii.              What achievement has any man made that is not built on what has already been provided by Nature? Just name one. Is it not enough to humble us down to our knees in respect to whatever put us here on planet earth?

iii.          What is it that took care of our forefathers and ensured that they survived to rear us the best they could? Who protected us in our mothers’ wombs and those deadly infant diseases that killed some of our peers so that we survived to flaunt our high resounding titles.

iv.           Now let us all bow our heads. Be silent for a while and listen to Nature communicate wisdom in its simplest forms. When you hear the cock that crows at night, starting from about 3.00am till it is 6.00 a.m. marking out the hours while you sleep, what is it saying? -- It is thanking its Creator for another day. And secondly, it is obeying Him by doing its duty twenty-four hours a day marking out the hours of each day for all other animals and you, man, the lord of the material universe as you choose to call yourself!

v.              It does it regularly and has been doing so before you, oh little creature copied him to make your wristwatches in an attempt to supplant him, but you have failed. The cock is more precise than the best chronometer you ever invented or will soon manufacture! For one thing, it does not need a battery to operate nor does it need servicing!

vi.           So man, learn to imitate the birds that wake each morning chirping their morning prayers of thanks, while pleading to the Lord for their daily bread.

vii.        What of trees that daily release oxygen for your use? Have you ever gone to the gas station to purchase human fuel, either air or water? How much air and water do you use each hour of your life? Who provides and purifies them?

viii.    Did you thank the Creator of this universe for these two items only? When will you do so? Do it now! Stop at this page, kneel down and reverence whatever put you here on planet Earth

ix.          From today when the birds start their own morning hymns, oh you little man, join them. That is why He feeds them on a daily basis, but you have to struggle and suffer or steal to have food on an irregular basis besides our human greed that makes it difficult for his fellow men to even have a little!

x.              Whatever or whoever created us all must have put some laws to govern whatever breathes his air and drinks his water, for there are accidents and suffocation when these elementary functions are performed inappropriately.

xi.          We must eat to live, drink to survive, sleep to rest and procreate to save our species from extinction. Each of these functions we perform from generation to generation, educated or not, civilised or not pious or crooked! It wonderful isn’t it.

xii.         Order and grace, beauty and serenity adorn His creations wherever you find them in their natural habitats unperturbed by the most destructive animal; man! So let us relent!

xiii.   The voice of wisdom speaks in all His creations but only the wise can hear them! Can you interpret the language of honeybees or bring fellow men to march in formation like the soldier ants without coercion and spending some funds on training programmes, which the ants never do even at birth!

xiv.    These and similar precision occurrences like sunrise and sunset should make us more pious and respectful but what do we find? Arrogance or buffoonery intoxicates most of us.

xv.       The wisdom of the Creator shines forth everyday as the sunlight, but we prefer to walk around like blind men vaunting our ignorance of His natural laws that govern our very existence.

xvi.    So how do you assist a blind that does not see properly but claims that he is okay and is not in need of your help, as he will never accept that he does not know everything!

xvii.That is the problem with our human race. Other animals are ready to learn from their parents and obey them diligently, only man claims to know when he does not! When shall we ever learn as other baby animals learn?

xviii.            The time is now, not tomorrow, not next month, not next year but this very moment. How does one do exactly that, you may ask?

xix.     Don’t ask me, Kenez; rather ask King Solomon, the Wise! Go and read and memorise 1^st Kings, Chapter 3, verses 6-15. Or for an elaborate treatise, find the complete bible edition and read chapter 9 verses 1- 18 of the WISDOM OF SOLOMON.

CHAPTER 2: 

PRACTICAL LESSONS FROM NATURE

i.                  Open your eyes and look at newborn babies. Study them for a whole week. Who taught them to cry? Why do they cry? Watch them during breastfeeding. Who taught them to suck properly? Did you, or did their mothers teach them? Answer me, Oh man!

ii.                 Look at babies everywhere, you were once like that, so learn to be humble and thank your father and mother if they are still alive! You were a helpless animal that a cat or a dog could have eaten raw, were it not for their paternal and maternal care!

iii.              There from, O arrogant creature learn the virtue of gratitude, it does not hurt you nor will it cost you anything more than to always say a loud “Thank You” all the rest of your short span of existence on this planet

iv.              Carry a baby and note that it looks you straight in the eyes and either smiles or begins to cry. If the latter, be sure you are a bad person or you looked aggressive. Babies are the best judges of character! So, learn to drop your worries and frowns when you approach others in life.

v.               Everyone else you meet has personal problems but they do not advertise them all the time, so why that scowl on your face? Smile at difficulties and so learn forbearance, tolerance and equanimity! There are virtues that you will need all the time!

vi.            Babies have weight as you must have noticed, and this increases as they feed well and grow. What makes them grow? How do they learn to sit, crawl, stand, and then walk? Answer me, oh Homo sapiens! Lord of the material universe!

vii.         Why does an object fall to the ground? Even when you throw objects far into the air, they return to the earth on which you stand. You may simply answer that it is because of the force of gravity, as you must have learnt by rote memory far back in elementary school.

viii.      But that answer was not so easy for the first men and women on earth! Prehistoric men once worshiped that magnetic phenomenon. So learn to investigate nature, discover new facts and share your knowledge with others. It is a fundamental lesson of life!

ix.            The ground you stand on carries your weight, no matter how large and heavy you think you are! All those heavyweight wrestlers you watch on television all walk on the same ground. Those heavy trucks that compete with trains in carrying loads are also resting on the same ground! It carries all of us besides all the tall buildings man has constructed everywhere in the world. Have you ever wondered what would happen if the earth for once refused to carry our weight?

x.               We bury dead men and animals in the ground to avoid their stench and the epidemics they could cause! Yet has it at any time rejected to accept more corpses? Why? Answer me,   the self-styled “Man, the summit of creation”

xi.            It is no use answering titles one cannot defend, nor lumber around under the euphoria of crammed information gathered from books and school curricula. Put on your thinking cap and attempt an answer.

xii.         The wisdom of the Almighty Creator fashioned all those macrocosms and microcosms and assigned them eternal duties which they religiously obey at all times, come rain, come sunshine! So have you found out yours? If not, when will you begin? Start now. It is yet early morning on creation day for you! Make an honest inquiry. Imitate them. Therefore in life don’t expect a “thank you” for doing your duties!

xiii.      Those macrocosms that serve your purposes; the sun, the moon, water, air and the ground never demanded any from you! They all co-operate to grow the crops from which we prepare the meals at our dinner tables daily! Or are you the one who produces the grains, tubers, roots and fruits that wild animals, birds and humans consume?

xiv.      I have not forgotten that the breast milk is by far better than any infant formula that any scientist can ever produce! The same goes for the natural and clean water collected during a heavy rainfall. Its purer, as it contains all the minerals the animal body needs, both wild and domesticated, including man himself!

xv.         When last did you eat an egg laid by a non-poultry-raised hen, for example a guinea fowl? Or to make it simpler, taste a sample of wild eggs and that of poultry eggs, and you will be amazed that despite all the veterinary care and husbandry of agricultural farmers, the wild eggs taste not only better but also contain more concentrates of the nutrients that build the body! Ask any qualified scientist in that field!

xvi.      Who ensures all these? Can any created being human or non-humans perform these feats?  If your answer is positive please tell us where you got your materials!  If negative, then bow down and worship Nature or whoever produces them for our enjoyment!

xvii.   The focus is still on babyhood. You have many more lessons to learn from infants! Do you remember who carried you about when you were small? Ask your parents. Find him or her and please give a big hug or a large gift in appreciation!

xviii.            Your weight alone must have deformed the natural structure of your babysitter's figure. The spinal column, the backbones or the waist of such a one must have altered its structure, no matter how infinitesimal! Ask physiotherapists. You caused that; and therefore you owe an apology or a “thank you”! Which do you prefer?

xix.     All go to show the interdependence of created beings. House helps; stewards, cooks, maids and servants must be valued and appreciated! We need each other to grow, mature and enjoy life to the fullest. The name of the game of life is; “you rub my backside and I rub yours!”

xx.       The innocence of nudity is the most important lesson the baby teaches. Why do we need clothes if not to cover our guilt and the embarrassment that it enunciates? Try to regain your innocence if you can, however note that shame or societal disdain is what we deserve as the just punishment for disobeying any natural laws!

 

CHAPTER 3:

 SOME INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGES

i.                  Did you know that you were once a linguist? Yes, you were once an international orator and everyone listened and reacted to your famous speeches! You must have lost that talent or suppressed it. But you can reclaim it if you really want to be an international sage!! Read on, if you do!

ii.               Visit the home of a couple that has a newborn and quietly observe everyone in the house for an hour when the baby is wide-awake. Relax. Just watch mummy, daddy, children and others in the house! This is a very important practical. Don’t miss it.  Do this before reading any further, please!

iii.                 What did you see in the home you visited? Who was dishing out orders to everyone else? Who was the parade commander? Who was obeyed and must be obeyed? And finally what did you learn about children and their ability to order everyone around them. Do they get immediate obedience or compliance? ----Yes, they always do!

iv.                 You were once an autocratic baby like the one you observed! You gave commands and everyone came running to obey you. At times you even caused a quarrel between daddy and mummy when there was a delay in compliance to your demands!

v.                    Am I making any useful remarks? Of course, I am! The world of the infant is full of “give me, carry me, feed me, change my wet pants, cant you see I am hot? - do something about it, cant you feel the cold?- common, cover me with a blanket,.. etc”

vi.                 Some of that language still remains in everyone’s subconscious mind and we occasionally demand immediate gratification. If you do so, it shows that you are still a baby when you are among adults. So stop it now! Selfishness or egocentricity is childish behaviour! Drop any vestiges of it remaining with you today!

vii.              But that is not all. Did you also assimilate the love showered on the infant by all around, including yourself? Atimes, while you were there, you felt like scolding the mum for delaying the prompt breastfeeding of the baby. Did you?

viii.           That is called “empathy”. You felt for the helpless infant and wanted to assist in the little way you could. You were right then, but do you do so nowadays helping or assisting others in this selfish country and world that we live in? Sympathy is an international language! 

ix.                Did you notice that even daddy was ready to fight for the baby? He was ready to abandon the love he has for the wife just to please the infant. Why? I need an answer from you, the proud Homo sapiens!

x.                   It is called international justice! The weak are always to be defended or protected before the strong. It is a natural code written in our minds but we sooner than later stifle it, replacing it with cultural stereotypes and ethnic prejudices. Re-learn it today!!

xi.                My dear, I am not giving you any new codes of conduct. No! These have always been there! I am only unearthing them for mankind to become conscious of the international language that everyone once spoke and understood.

xii.             Crying is an international language that translates thus: I am in difficulty… I need your assistance to get out of this sad situation, please help me… will someone listen to me? Did you get my message? How many people have you rescued in the past week?

xiii.          However note that sometimes teardrops could indicate extreme pleasure, unexpected joy or negative emotional upset! But you always tell the difference by assessing the cues in the immediate environment of the one concerned!

xiv.          Smiling is an international language, and converts to laughter when doubled or multiplied in geometric proportions! Both translate into;“ I am pleased at the moment,.. thank you for the pleasant stimulus,.. it is hilarious here, why don’t you join us and laugh! Am I making any sense to you? Do not say yes when you really mean no.

xv.             Frowning is an international language, which when serious becomes a scowl, threat or hatred and a prelude to mischief. In all your life avoid it. It does you no good. Ask Cain, the brother of Abel in the Christian Bible! He is a professor in that subject. He graduated in it and became the first murderer in the history of mankind, as we are told!

xvi.          Music is an international language! And when dramatised turns into various types of dancing! Good ones cut across ethnic, religious and national boundaries. All domesticated and wild animals, especially snakes listen to and enjoy good music. Ask any zookeeper! Even criminals enjoy their own kind of music.

xvii.       Romance is an international language! Falling in love cuts across all human demarcations. It has even resulted in peace accords, unions and festivals as well as murders, wars and enmity!

xviii.    There are many other international languages! Learn to cultivate the good ones and minimise the use of any bad language like scolding, shouting, gossiping, backbiting, slandering and finally maligning others!

xix.          Two other international languages are; urinating and defecating! As an infant we all did it wherever and whenever pressed, but we were also trained to postpone or delay them till we get to the appropriate places for doing so. Have you been doing these rightly?

xx.             Finally, this is definitely the one that runs haywire for immature people! Libido or sexual energy, its profitable use or misuse!! Promiscuity is bad in concept and unhealthy / futile in execution; anywhere, any day, anytime. Control your passions! The ability to do so separates mature rational human beings from all infantile, hedonistic and regressed ones! Which are you? Adieu!

CHAPTER 4:

LECTURES FROM A TODDLER

i.                  Have you ever heard of Sigmund Freud, Jean Piaget, Erik Erickson or Lawrence Kohlberghas? These are well known research scientists that spent years, studying children in minute detail. So you need to get into a library or consult a current encyclopaedia to appreciate the wisdom contained in this chapter!

ii.               We may take off with the toddler. Do you remember some of the things you did at that age? I can only summarise some of them here; you sucked your thumb so much that you had to be punished to stop that 'naughty' habit. Again as you dropped that one, you began to babble monosyllabic words and very much later you were able to pronounce your first meaning words, which were; mama, dada, ada, aha aba, then -mummy, daddy, etc followed gradually!

iii.            But the greatest achievement was what Jean Piaget called; the acquisition of pre-operational concepts of mass, volume, height, and depth. But let's take thumb sucking first, which the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud elaborated on in great detail. It contains so much on personality formation! It is normal for children to suck, for they even started it right there in the womb long before they were delivered!

iv.            Thumb sucking relieves an infant’s tension and stimulates the sensitive membranes of the mouth pleasantly. In this respect the thumb is to the infant what the cigarette is to the adult. When children are tired, sleepy, hungry, sick, or are teething, their finger sucking increases.

v.               Scolding a child for thumb sucking will make him feel guilty, which he will try to relieve by more thumb sucking. This is counter-productive!  It is more effective to keep him well fed and to provide him with adequate toys to occupy his hands and fingers.

vi.            So newly weds should take note. You could be damaging your infant’s future personality by your ignorant enforcement of age-old discipline that was only done in error and is really a cultural proscription!

vii.         For cigarette smokers, you now know that you are regressing to a toddler's method of reducing tension or anxiety, thereby informing all around you that you still immature. This is equally applicable to ladies who always delight in chewing gums! A word is enough for the wise!

viii.      However the most important lesson to learn from the infant at this time is to face your tensions as a mature adult and seek for help if need be! Don’t resort to infantile behaviour!! Excessive drinking is akin to this problem. Alcohol never solved any problems, rather it adds to it!

ix.            The next lesson is what Freud called “fixations”. “Fixation at the oral stage leads to extreme selfishness” states Sigmund Freud. This naturally leads the child onto seeking pleasurable things in later life, thereby developing as an egocentric personality! Sensuality, avarice and gluttony follow in the wake of retaining this misdemeanour!

x.               The next fixation is that of the anal stage, when the child derives pleasure from controlling the anus. Due to routine you may not have noticed that defecation is pleasurable! It relieves tension. But in infancy the toddler notices that he/she can control the parents by inappropriate release or withholding of bowel movements!

xi.            In later life, those that resort to this regression of infantile manoeuvre develop stingy personality traits. They tend to hoard in order to control the relevant others' behaviour! Traders take note! When this trait combines with the previous one; greed, stealing and robbery are the triplets that are delivered! 

xii.          Stingy parents, please realise that your marriage partner is unduly being stressed by you regressed fixation! Some sexual relationships suffer because of this subconscious manipulation learnt in early life!! I have treated many cases of this type in my clinical practice.

xiii.      Bosses in offices, Principals of schools, Pastors in parishes, Bursars or Purchasing Officers in various organisations should take a good note of this and re-evaluate their behaviour henceforth!

xiv.      The next lecture from that toddler is the fixation at the phallic stage! Most infants derive pleasure from caressing their sex organs early in life. Some parents notice this and reclaim their kids before much damage is done. Others ignore this or do not even take notice!

xv.         In reality everyone indulged temporarily in masturbation early in life to relieve tensions. However some carry it to teenage, adolescence, and even to adulthood! This results in promiscuity! It is as simple as that! Retrain yourself if you are involved or consult a sex therapist!

xvi.      By now you may think that all these are psychological jargons, but I assure you that they are not! Sigmund Freud spent all his life after medical college studying these and he is an authority in this area!

xvii.   That one did not take notice of what one did, as a child does not translate to that they never occurred! Observe your own kids from now on and you will be grateful to that great psychoanalyst!

xviii.         The hurdles that every toddler has to cross to develop into a well-balanced personality have been highlighted for you to begin a sanitation exercise within yourself! Consult a clinical psychologist for remedies!

xix.     The integrated personality that we all desire consists in passing those stage in life appropriately assisted by our cultural norm and mores. Parental awareness of these stages is hereby canvassed for. Religion often comes to the rescue, but with varying degrees of success. Some develop scruples or other depersonalisation syndromes!

xx.        A normal heterosexual relationship is hard to attain but it is achievable! Don’t give up! Make the best use of the knowledge your garnered from this chapter to raise your lovely children and leave the rest for the Almighty Creator of both you and you kids!

CHAPTER 5:

WINDOWS OF THE SOUL

 

i.                  Before you misinterpret this subheading, note that it is only a continuation of “ Lectures from a toddler” but from a different perspective. As I was typing this on my computer it occurred to me that we humans perform similar tasks as the hard disc, floppy diskette or CD-ROM.

ii.               All computers need windows to function, and so does the human central nervous system. I quickly remembered also that in the science of ergonomics machines are made to fit human operators. Then the really big one is that electronic engineers studied the human brain, how it functions in everyday life, and copied it to invent the computer itself!

iii.            The eyes, ears, nose, mouth and the skin of the infant allow it to communicate with the external environment just as the keyboard, the mouse, and modems permit the computer to appreciate the “garbage in, garbage out “ paradigm!

iv.            So it is with the human soul! It has many windows with which it interacts with, controls and responds to both the internal and the external environments of the human body!

v.               We feel hot, cold, warm, and have tactile responses because nature’s gift of feeling is a window of the soul! So also are the other windows you may observe in the body of our little lecturer, “the toddler”.

vi.            A brand new hard disc, “the C drive”, is blank until programs are fed into it! And so is the new-born / babe's mind, its early responses and later in life its traits, mannerisms, and ultimately its good and bad behaviours!

vii.         Has it ever occurred to you that differences in children are due to a variety of programmers working on its “CPU”, by the very same ways different soft wares fed into a computer determines the behaviours and services it can render?

viii.      So, we intend to reflect on how we influence the making of saints or criminals in our family interactions with toddlers in this chapter! In reality, we are the products of parental influences, cultural, ethnic and religious stereotypes and social prejudices! This is the hard truth!

ix.            If you rear a set of identical male twins, one in a prison yard and the other in a monastery. What would you expect at the end of twenty-five years? Or, on the other hand, you rear a set of female identical twins, one in a convent and the other in a brothel, what will the results of your experiment behaviour-wise?

x.               That is exactly what happens to us all within our short life span of home upbringing by responsible or irresponsible adults around us! Make no mistakes about it; stealing, aggressiveness, telling lies, cleanliness, carefulness, loyalty promiscuity etc are all programmed behaviours!

xi.            So we must be wary and conscious of what we do or fail to do in the presence of toddlers, teenagers and adolescents! They constitute the best imitators and artistes in the world. The irony of it being that they take it for real and the beat way to survive in he socio-cultural milieu they grew up! And they carry it about to other areas of the world unable to differentiate “the good, the bad and the ugly”.

xii.         When I bought my first computer, I had “Microsoft Windows 95” as its pre-installation program from Compaq, the factory that made it. Later on I learnt that two more windows were already in existence since then, but there was little I could do about a change. I made the best use of that primary learning program, even though most of my more informed friends pressurised me to re-program it.

xiii.      Sooner than later, fluctuations in electric current in my neighbourhood took its toll on my hard disc, and all I got after my computer had booted out was; “operating system, not found”. Truly, that was exactly “experimental neurosis” for my poor CPU, and it won my sympathy. I took the whole compartment that houses the hard disc to Lagos, parted with a large chunk of my income and had “Microsoft Windows 98” installed!

xiv.      Before that decision, however, I had made inquiries on the best program that was in the market, for by then two more windows had been introduced into the computer world! And so it is with every toddler's mind! It is programmed. But unlike the computer, it cannot be reprogrammed easily. There are always traces of the original programs, software, on line, Internet (surfed or browsed) and downloaded programs!

xv.         You can begin to appreciate more why parents and other relevant adults around every new-born must be wise and selective about what the baby sees, hears, tastes, feels or touches within the first five years of life! Do I need to explain an idiom? No! It is never done in my culture. You just have to grow up to unravel the nuggets of wisdom wrapped in an idiom! Do so now!

xvi.      The ‘icons, shortcuts, mouse’ and other methods of recognising and inserting good and bad behaviour patterns in the infant, graduates into more sophistication as it learns to walk, talk, read, listen to radio/ tape recorders and watch television programs!

xvii.   Therefore, bringing up a balanced and well-groomed teenager is not a simple task. Unfortunately that is exactly what obtains in most homes! Parents think that all they need do is; feed the baby well, take it hospital, Nursery school or Sunday service. They are as wrong as they can ever be in life!

xviii.            And such parents are the first to exclaim, “ What’s wrong with junior? Why is this child behaving abnormally? During my teenage years, I never did things like these? What is wrong with children of nowadays? I cannot exhaust the list of embarrassing statements I have heard!

xix.     For an answer, I have only this “They had immature parents who ignored them early in life, but were busy chasing money, and those parents are delinquents!”  We over-emphasise what is trivial, magnify or over-prioritise that which does not build good human relationships but in the same vein neglect our children’s proper upbringing.

xx.        Please rethink after reading this chapter. The greatest investment you can ever make in life is training your child properly, not a fat bank account or landed properties scattered all over the world! Many homes have no children but you are toying with the fruits of love Nature has bountifully gracefully given to you!

WE SHALL CONTINUE THIS ON A NEW POSTING, TRUST ME, WE HAVE JUST BEGUN ON A JOURNEY FOR GLOBAL PEACE FOR 'HOMO SAPIENS SAPIENTIS', THE TRUE CHILDREN OF THE ALMIGHTY CREATOR OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE AND ONE HUMAN FAMILY WHO ARE HEIRS TO HIS MUTUAL BENEFITS HE HAS BESTOWED ON ALL HIS CREATURES.