Nirmalan Dhas

It is my privilege to continue to be an interested part, observer of and participant in the evolutionary development of the dominant developmental paradigm in the face of increasing evidence exposing the illusory nature of its underlying dualist perspective with its consequent perception of objects and its compulsive commitment to their manipulation by force. In particular I have been keenly interested in the emergence, progressive consolidation and impact of the growing global networks of conflict resolution mechanisms with their awareness of the role of perception in conflict generation that seems solidly grounded in the secular, material spiritualism of the Synthetist Vision with its emphasis on processes and their guidance through love.

Throughout my life I have been aware of the increasing number of people who have begun to see the world in a new way from a different point of view and am deeply impressed by the systematic and sophisticated manner in which they are coming together in order to re organize social processes of production and reproduction in keeping with their perspectives. I have become aware that the new vision of the world that they share is an emergent one and that it has been accessible to certain persons from the very dawn of human being and that the number of those able to access this perspective has been steadily increasing and continues to do so. It seems as though the perception of this emergent vision and its progressive realization is necessary for life's universal spread and for its evolution beyond human being.

At the same time I have also been aware of the systematic manner in which the authoritarian intolerance of the dualist perspective underlying the dominant developmental paradigm seeks to violently hinder, suppress in every possible manner and destroy those who access this emergent vision of the world; defining their goals as illegitimate and subjecting these visionaries to cruel processes of discrimination, marginalisation, torture and murder, and causing them great suffering and spiritual distress the somatic manifestations of which are then categorized as mental illnesses and subjected to coercive chemical, electrical and mechanical modifications.

The rapid increase of this small minority and its impact upon the corporate sector that forms the heart of the dominant developmental paradigm in the form of processes described as Human Resource Development, seems to indicates that far from being a marginal phenomenon peripheral to the developmental process, it is in fact indicative of the emergence of a strategic function that will lead us through peace to life beyond human being. It may also be indicative of the continued unfolding of those processes which have been described as evolution and which are seen to have led to the emergence of increasingly complex and sophisticated perceptual mechanisms and the organisms required for their sustenance and for the expression of their perceptions. The emergence of this minority may thus in fact constitute the very center and rationale of the developmental process and the most current manifestation of evolutionary change.

My life is an ongoing attempt to examine some aspects of this new perspective and some of the phenomena that have been seen to attend its emergence. I hope that it will help orient those who may be awakening to this emergent perspective and help them realize that though there are still but a few of them they are not alone, that many of them have already linked themselves together forming vast networks and that they too may join others who share their perspectives in their ongoing attempts to guide the world to peace and to the evolution of life beyond human being.

Much of my life has been lived within the particular context of the bloody and brutal war between the State and the Tamils in Sri Lanka where I currently reside. Most of my adult life has been and continues to be devoted to the development, through training, of advanced human resources; the provision of training for strategic competence to those interested in guiding the developmental process away from states of war and towards states of peace, in therapeutic ministrations to those in spiritual distress and in the initiation, support and sustenance of processes aimed at generating supportive, facilitative, inspirational and therapeutic human relationships.

I have chosen to articulate and advocate secular, spiritual, materialist, synthetist perspectives free – as far as I have been able to render them – from all forms of coercive indoctrination, dogmatism, ritual and cultic practice and all other forms of spiritual exhibitionism, anthropomorphism, gender specificity and bias and am closely engaged, through The Synthetist Mission, with those who share such perspectives.

The Synthetist Mission through its School of Life continues to provide training in the acquisition of Mastery and The Power To Guide; the cultivation of Wisdom, Insight and Understanding; the accession of Enlightenment and Illumination; and the practice of Respect, Radiance and Compassion and offers several other courses of training in life skills, human relations and spiritual development for children, teenagers, young adults, and mature individuals.