Tom Bougsty's 12-Step program

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A Comprehensive Blueprint On How We Can Finally Create A Healthy And Sustainable Future.

  • This 12-Step program introduces a comprehensive blueprint on how we can finally create a healthy and sustainable future.  I want to share this vision, including its practical tools, methods, and ethics, with you for FREE. I choose to share my life’s work with you because we face multiple life-threatening crises and have limited time to cooperatively transform the world into a successful, healthy and sustainable future.

Ultimately, this program provides the vision, map, tools, and ethics to resolve the two greatest challenges facing humanity:

1.    How do we solve the many life-threatening crises that exist in the world today?

2.    How do we utilize our natural, co-creator capacities to finally develop a healthy and sustainable future?

In relation to the first challenge, nuclear weapons, global climate disruptions, the 6th Great Extinction, and violent discrimination place the future of humanity in extreme danger.  Yet, solving such individual problems proves extremely difficult, as each exists within complex interdependent relationships.  Our traditional approaches focus largely on separateness, rather than relationship and oneness perspectives, and therefore, they fail to resolve these difficulties.  Moreover, Albert Einstein indicated that we cannot solve problems at the same level of thinking that created them.

In efforts to address these life-threatening crises, while we simultaneously act to create a healthy and sustainable future, I have worked for over fifty years to develop and refine this comprehensive, 12-Step program.  It introduces a systematic roadmap to guide us to solve these interconnected problems, while we simultaneously expand our consciousness.  As we work to create a healthy and sustainable future that benefits us, our loved ones, and the world, we naturally help solve these life-threatening problems.

Ultimately, our success and survival depend on fulfilling two essential needs in life—healthy living and sustainable living.  We rely on healthy growth and sustainable maintenance to prevent destruction, so we can thrive and survive.  To fulfill these universal needs, our internal functioning and our external life-support systems must operate in harmony and in support of healthy sustainability living and regeneration.

I will now briefly summarize each step to help you understand this 12-step program:

Step 1.  We need a New Human Story that transcends and includes our limited Present Human Story.  This New Story includes all six of our inherited natures (Human, Social, Species, Planetary, Evolutionary, and Spiritual), while our Present Story usually considers only three of these natures (Human, Social, and Spiritual).  Due to the perceptual limitations in our Present Story, we produce remarkable successes in areas in which we are interested, while we often generate destructive and unsustainable side-effects in areas beyond our special-interests.  Thus, we succeed, but at the cost of risking the lives of all future generations of humanity.
Step 2. Fortunately, we can awaken to and embrace hidden aspects of our Spiritual nature.  For instance, our Authentic Self arises from our Spiritual nature to empower us as co-creators in the conscious evolution of the universe.  Our co-creation capacities derive from the four unconditional dynamics of the Power of our consciousness to create Unique mutations that add Worth to ourselves.  When we also act to add worth to others and the world, we enliven the fourth dynamic of Love.  Thus, our Spiritual nature empowers us to achieve our higher purposes in life, in which we serve all people, the world, and reality, as we attempt to satisfy our self-centered and group-centered concerns. These first two steps reveal our unconditional nature from which we need to ground in order to successfully co-create a healthy and sustainable future in our ever-changing, conditional world.
Step 3. As our Authentic Self, we can both prevent and Heal False Beliefs and Shadows. False beliefs often develop when we perceive threats to our lives, when no imminent threat actually exists.  For instance, we may feel powerless, self-less, worthless, or loveless in the situation.  We then naturally react with fear that generates automatic fight, flight, or freeze reactions to save us.  This combination of false beliefs and primitive reactions is remembered, and in the process, it produces a Shadow of the past that follows us into future similar situations.  For instance, these beliefs and reactions reactivate and hi-jack our perceptions and actions in the new situation.  Thus, they frequently harm us, others, and the world.  We heal both the false beliefs and the reactions by consciously waking up, grounding in our authentic self, and then, choosing and practicing healthy responses for the situation.  In these ways, we rewire our brain to respond in healthy manners in similar future situations.
Step 4. We need to expand our consciousness beyond our traditional self-centered and group-centered awareness (that leads to both successes and unsustainable outcomes).  Consciousness Growth into higher levels of awareness allows us to care for all humanity, the planet, and the evolution of the world, so we protect the life-support systems necessary for our continued existence.
Step 5. We learn to develop, integrate, and then balance the 12 major dimensions of life that serve as the ingredients for Individual Healthy Living.
Step 6. The same 12 dimensions of human life contribute to Societal Healthy Living in our family, business, community, nation, and the world.  Thus, we now have a blueprint on how to systematically create healthy living throughout society and the global community.
Step 7. We have traditionally lived guided by Dominant/dependent relationships that often unsuspectingly propel us toward an unsustainable future.  In contrast, we need to develop our three more advanced styles of Healthy Relationships. These include our unique Independence within us, our Interdependence with others, and our Oneness with the whole.  A successful future depends on our conscious use of these four relationship styles to create both health and sustainability..
Step 8. Our children require Healthy Parenting that teaches Steps 1-7, as well as develops their multiple intelligences and the skills for personal “mind management.”  Children also learn to embody their natural co-creator capacities, so they can responsibly help build a healthy and sustainable future..
Step 9. Healthy Sustainable Living requires that we prioritize how to fulfill both healthy living and sustainable living.  This includes aligning our personal reality with the existing external reality that has taken billions of years to successfully evolve.
Step 10. Healthy Sustainable Institutions satisfy the goals for healthy living and sustainable living as their highest priorities.  They can then pursue their institutional special-interests, while serving these larger life goals.
Step 11. Peace on the Personal to Global levels naturally improves through practicing Steps 1-10.  Importantly, when we embody our Authentic Self, we naturally invite internal peace.  When we appreciate these authentic dynamics in others, and apply Healthy Sustainable Living practices across the six natures of our New Human Story, we then cultivate peace throughout the world.
Step 12. A Global Ethical System designed to create a Healthy and Sustainable Future guides and integrates the previous 11 steps.  We then evolve into responsible co-creators who contribute health and sustainability to others and the world, as we develop into a more Loving Human Species. We work to integrate our internal reality with the existing external reality, instead of forcing the external world to change to meet our personal and group desires.  Thus, we consciously work to benefit all our life-support systems, including within ourselves, with others, the planet, and reality as a whole.
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