Saving the human

The Human Givens Charter owes no allegiance to any political party, any religious or non-religious institution, or indeed to any ideologically based body. It is a completely independent project and has to remain so. You can help it succeed by encouraging people to read, think about and discuss these ideas.

To make progress it will need practical help — with finance, information, expertise and time — from anybody who supports it. Many tens of thousands of people over the next few decades would have to involve themselves if its aims are to be achieved. There are no magic wands. The finance to set up each prototype project will have to be sought and found individually; then each will have to be designed, built and managed properly.

But, if too many good people do nothing and don't start challenging institutional thinking and replace it, it is clear that the huge problems our society now faces — and that politicians, despite their best intentions, seem at a loss to do anything about — will get worse.

However, although we are facing major problems in the world today, it is important to be optimistic. We believe the ideas deriving from the human givens perspective, and explored in detail in the book, Human Givens: A new approach to emotional health and clear thinking, offer much that is realistic to help us move out of the straitjacket of emotionalism and autistic straight-line thinking that is causing such chaos in society. If the time is right, we may succeed and, in the process, positively help to further our evolution.

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