Entertain Great Dreams: RsH"-G7

The Story So Far

In using ultimate values-R"G1 you necessarily use humanity's 7 vehicles of goodness. However …

… goodness is limited by and releases inner strength.

In finding strength-R"G2, you conscientiously use humanity's 6 mantras of self-control. However …

… self-control is both limited by and releases pain and suffering.

In overcoming pain-R"G3, you spontaneously use humanity's 5 techniques of healing. However … 

… healing is limited by and releases character.

In building character-R"G4, you thoughtfully use humanity's 4 theatres of authenticity. However … 

… authenticity is limited by and releases equanimity.

In attaining equanimity-R"G5, you creatively use humanity's 3 uses of empathy. However … 

… equanimity is limited by and releases vitality.

In embracing vitality-R"G6, you wholeheartedly use humanity's 2 sources of experience. However … 

… experience is limited by and releases great dreams.

Now read on:

Greatness in All

Every single person is capable of great things in relation to others. This stems from a deep and simple humane motivation to live with others in a good world that is so different from what we see around us. It's a dream, a great dream. This dream is about having a personal vision of a good world and believing that any goodness that comes into the world can start as easily from you as from anyone else. Indeed it must start from you or why should it start from anyone else?
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It is likely that many are ignorant of their own capacity to be great, while others fear failure or social disapproval. But no-one is given a burden they cannot bear. You must not ask: "Who am I to be inspiring, brilliant, great?" Why shouldn't you be? In your own way you are, if only you let yourself. This Heptad suggests how.

Entertaining great dreams emerges by adding the 7^th final and highest Vehicle of Goodness, unification-R"G1⁷, to generate the single Heptad. This Heptad unifies the 7 vehicles, so it completes this framework.

The function of entertaining great dreams is to sustain a vision of goodness capable of unifying humanity. Mankind needs and deserves such visions. As an example, watch this speech from the end of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator, and imagine what it would be like to be left unmoved.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7GY1Xg6X20

I propose the additional quality associated with the 7^thvehicle is expectancy. Expectation is a form of gentle intrapersonal and interpersonal pressure that permits and facilitates. There is no guarantee of a world where goodness prevails, but you must be expectant, both in regard to yourself and in regard to others.

The only general expectation that is possible of every single person is an infusion of goodwill into all interactions and activities. This, in turn, is dependent on a motivation that is pure and unsullied. Such a motivation towards goodness exists innately within each of us and remains available lifelong as a core of purity. It need never be spoiled or destroyed. But it can suffer through neglect or by—it's almost too awful to think about—a deliberate contempt for goodness.

Infusing Goodwill: R"G7¹

As in the Pentads and Hexads, infusing goodwill-G7¹ is best explained through its Internal Structure.

g7: Infusing goodwill requires expectant unification-R"G1⁷with the psychosocial reality of others: above all, their primal values. Not only do you expect to unify with each and all, you must expect them to unify with you. If your great dream is good, then they will.
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g6: Infusing goodwill requires a wholehearted submission-R"G1⁶ to psychosocial realities as they are. It is impossible to produce goodness by coercing change through wielding power and control. Reality is as it is. So submission of your will to situations can create a foundation and potential for good to emerge all round.
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g5: Infusing goodwill requires creative exertion-R"G1⁵. As noted in being cooperative and being active, most exertion is part of our work, which should itself be intrinsically creative. This double injection of creativity suggests or perhaps confirms that the infusion of goodwill often poses challenges.
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g4: Infusing goodwill requires thoughtful helpfulness-R"G1⁴ for others in a way that is appropriate to them and accords with the situation.
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g3: Infusing goodwill requires spontaneous knowing-R"G1³ which will depend on past experiences that provide a direct point of reference.
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g2: Infusing goodwill requires conscientious aspirations-R"G1² for goodness. This means sustaining a continuing awareness of yourself and your interactions, especially to restrain inappropriate egotistic or power-based tendencies.
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g1: Infusing goodwill requires necessary enjoyment-R"G1¹ as you proceed.

It is your goodwill and the great dreams originating in pure motives that provide the logic for exploiting human freedom via humanity's Vehicles of Goodness: the R"G1 Monads. This brings us full circle.

• The whole framework can now be reviewed.
• The following section investigates the dynamics of bringing goodness to life.

Originally posted: 24-May-2013