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The Mind and Sustainable Development Establishing the Necessary Internal Mental Conditions for a Sustainable, Equitable, Secure and Peaceful Future Changing how we Understand and Manage Existence and Development Through Education and Training in Mental Development and Growth Today, we face a global crisis of related and connected human, social, and ecological issues. Understanding and dealing with our inner mental life is the essence of human problems. The social issues are how we relate and interact with each other. The ecological problems stem from how we interact with nature and the natural environment. The answers and solutions lie in understanding and managing human existence and development in an ecologically sustainable, socially equitable, individually secure, and peaceful way. It requires a paradigm change in understanding and managing existence and development. It involves shifting from understanding and managing human existence and development within socio-cultural reality to understanding and managing socio-cultural reality within human existence and development. Human life and existence are not just elements of society, economy, and business. On the contrary, society, economy and business are elements of human life and existence. We must develop the knowledge, understanding and mental faculties to understand and manage human existence and development in a constantly changing and transforming world within the natural parameters, boundaries and limits of existence set by nature. In the process, society, economy and business become sustainable, equitable, secure and peaceful. Understanding and managing existence and development from the ground up, beginning with the individual, the mind, and mental existence, is necessary. We consciously exist and act in the mind. It is where we experience and become aware, and we must consider the conditions of existence and how to deal with them. Change and transformation must begin in the mind. To this end, the Institute provides education and training in mental development and growth. Develop the knowledge, understanding and mental faculties to understand and deal with the mind on the inside as the place where we consciously exist and act, where the inner mental life takes place and the mental self, we, the conscious and aware self, is active, and our role and responsibility. Not as traditionally is the case, understanding and dealing with the mind only indirectly, from the outside, in the abstract. Being understood and dealt with as a human organ, a physical-biological part of the human being, a thinking substance, a set of psychological faculties or functions, an information processing mechanism, or, predominantly today, as an epiphenomenon, nothing more than a reflection of what takes place in the brain in neurological and biochemical processes. Education and training in mental development and growth to address mental health problems, prevent them from developing, and provide the conceptual foundation for sustainable development. __ © 2023 Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development. All rights reserved. No material from this site may be used in part or in whole by any other publication or web site without the written permission of the Institute for Human Conceptual and Mental Development.

PowerPoint Lectures The Human Condition: How as a Species we Got to Where we Find Ourselves Today The Natural Conditions of Existence and our Role Inside the Mind: Understanding and Dealing with the Mind as the Place where we Consciously Exist and Act Establish and Maintain the Necessary Internal Mental Conditions Manage and Improve the Self: Consider, Plan and Organize Ahead Necessary Conditions for a Sustainable, Equitable, Secure and Peaceful Future Development, Change and Transformation from the Ground Up and from the Inside Out Beyond Religion, Philosophy and Science: Existence and Development from the Ground Up and from the Inside Out Sustainable Development: Understanding and Managing Existence and Development within the Natural Parameters Education and Training in Mental Development and Growth: For a Sustainable, Equitable, Secure and Peaceful Future Future Scenario: Understanding and Managing Existence and Development from the Ground Up and from the Inside Out