Proutist Economic Development Planning for Holistic Human Development

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Proutist Economic Development Planning for
Holistic Human Development

• Dada Maheshvarananda

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Holistic Human Development
Dr. Leonardo Boff, co-founder of Liberation
Theology, wrote

• Prout is very important to all who yearn for a
  liberation which starts from economics and opens
  to a totality of personal and social human
  existence.

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Authentic Human Development
The Prout system has a correct understanding
of the human being, personal and collective, and
authentic human development

• In every person there are three dimensions the
  physical, the mental and the spiritual.
• Prout was carefully thought out to create a
  development with equilibrium and with harmony.

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The Physical Dimension

• the physical body human bodies
• the world of measurable phenomena
• nature
• natural resources
• the fertility of the earth
• the physical chemical elements
• also the other created beings
• rocks, plants and animals

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The Mental Dimension

• the mental sphere human minds
• intelligence
• the will
• the imagination
• the psychic life formed by emotions
• our inner and archetypal sensibility

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The Spiritual Dimension

• the spiritual sphere unit consciousness (soul)
• the disposition of the human being to link
  microcosm with Macrocosm
• to perceive the totality
• to discover the whole of all things
• the message that comes from the greatness of the
  universe
• the capacity to contemplate, venerate and dialog
  with the Mystery
• By this actuation, the human being turns into a
  cosmic being.

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The Importance of the Spiritual Dimension

• President Hugo Chavez said
• This book we appreciate very much. Your visit
  has come at such an opportune moment. Thank you
  very much, brother, and let's continue with
  spirituality, spirit, good faith, morality, and
  the mystical force that moves the world.

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Inter-religious gathering in Rio de Janeiro
Universal spirituality Respect for all forms of
mysticism.
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The Communist View of the Human Being

• The human being is an economic animal controlled
  by historical forces.
• Lenin The most essential thing in Marxism is
  the concrete analysis of the concrete situation."
• Sarkar
• But the constant adjustment of psychic waves (the
  analysis) to physical waves (the concrete
  situation) results in the gradual crudification
  of the mind.
• Everything, even the subtle aspects of human life
  become like stone.

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The Capitalist View of the Human Being

• The value of a resource is how much money people
  will pay for it.
• Adam Smith the most efficient production occurs
  when everyone follows their own selfish desire
  (the invisible hand).
• Thus capitalism pushes consumer materialism.
• Strange contradiction effective markets require
  honest and truthful traders.

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Property Rights

• John Locke (17th century) if one buys an area of
  land, he/she has the right to own it and use it.

• All indigenous people and traditional cultures
  thought more wholistically The land doesnt
  belong to me, I belong to the land!
• Prouts concept of Cosmic inheritance expands
  this traditional spiritual perspective.
• The planet and the universe are the common
  property of all humanity.
• We have right to share and use them, but not
  abuse them.
• Individuals can have usufructuary rights.

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Abraham Maslows Hierarchy of Human Needs
Transpersonal
Self-actualization
Esteem
Sense of belonging, love
Safety
Physiological needs
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Expanding Sentiments
Sentiment emotional tendency to identify with
things we like - whatever gives us pleasure.
Neohumanism
Humanism
Socio-sentiment
Geo-sentiment
Community
Self
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Neohumanism

• A true society means a group of people moving
  together towards universal humanism.
• Humanity is like a family.

• There is only one man, and his name is all men.
• There is only one woman, and her name is all
  women.
• There is only one child, and its name is all
  children.
• Carl Sandburg