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    The Protector of Humanity
    The Protector of Humanity
    The Protector of Humanity
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    The Protector of Humanity

    By Julius Nang Kum

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    This book examines values that are needed for the success of our students in particular and mankind in general. The book provides students with a fascinating insights into the world of values. It identifies the most important value in us and the food that this important value needs. It illustrates from reliable sources how human beings are stron

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUkiyoto Publishing
    Release dateJan 25, 2023
    ISBN9789360496555
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      The Protector of Humanity - Julius Nang Kum

      The Nature of Human Being

      1.0 INTRODUCTION

      In his effort to orientate humankind to changes, this intellectual writes: "What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself" (Abraham H. Maslaw; in Shepherd, 2016). This chapter identifies some qualities that are unique only to humans and not to Animals or machines. For the fact that only human beings possess these qualities, they give humankind an urge over other things such as animals, and machines plants. The aim here is to show the value of human beings which might have been neglected or not known by many persons especially our students, who are the future protectors or guiders of humans on earth. This ignorance or negligence on the values of a human being sometimes result to some people killing others, students shooting their friends or even their teachers, parents or teachers abusing their students and vice versa, husbands torturing or traumatizing their wives and vice versa.  To illustrate the value of a human being, this chapter highlights how human beings are beyond the physical body, how human beings are beyond other animals, how human beings are beyond machines or robots. This is important because a sound knowledge of these characteristics might help us to know who we are and why we must love and protect our lives and the lives of other people irrespective of race, colour, faith, and gender.

      1.1 BEYOND THE PHYSICAL BODY

      Many students do not know who they are. For those students who do not know who they are, an answer to this confusion has been given by this great man: "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience ». (Teilhard de Charrdin; in shepherd,2016). Our success depends much on the above knowledge that we all are spiritual beings first, before putting on the human flesh. This implies a human being is made up of two entities: the spiritual being and the physical being. The discussion below highlights some differences between the physical being and the spiritual being. 

      1.1.1 THE SPIRITUAL AND THE PHYSICAL

      EXPERIENCES

      The discussion above has highlighted the notion of a human being as a spiritual being first before having a physical experience. We now turn to qualities of the physical being and those of the spiritual being that are found in a human being. In this light, read the quotation below.

      What real basis is there for differentiating between human beings? Our bodies may be different in structure and colour, our faces may be dissimilar, but inside the skin we are very much alike, proud, ambitions, envious, violent, and sexual power- seeking. Remove the label and we are very naked; but we do not want to face our nakedness, and we insist on the label- which indicates how immature, how infantile we are (Krishnamurti)

      In the citation above, Krishnamurti summarizes qualities that belong to the outer or physical human beings such as colour, different faces, and mentions those things that are common to the inner human being such as pride, ambition, and envy. He concludes by reminding us that we have remained so immature to identify these realities in us. However, the immediate two sections below detailly examine the outer human being and the spiritual human beings.

      1.1.1.1 THE OUTER OR PHYSICAL HUMAN BEING

      Some of the qualities of the outer human being have been highlighted above, such as colour, faces, and structure. The quotation below identifies in more details, aspects of the outer or physical human being:

      "The most common ego identifications have to do with possession, the work you do, social status and recognition, knowledge and education, physical appearance, special abilities, relationships, personal and family history, belief systems, and often political, nationalistic, racial, religious, and other collective identifications. None of these is you? (Eckhart Tolle; in shepherd, 2016).

      From the words of wisdom above, a sound matured mind will now argue that the qualities mentioned in the citation are found in people who think that they are human beings first and the spirit later. These persons who think that they are physical human beings first before the spiritual being spend all their time taking care or thinking about the colour of their skins, politics, greatness instead of taking care of their spiritual beings. In fact, this is not what a human being is. Your spirit comes first then the human experience follows. If this is maintained, then your success on earth must be natural and you will lead a life of a model and many generations must benefit from your lifestyle on earth. History has taught us that those who think and live with the notion that they are stronger than the spirit has failed countless times. In fact, those human being who begin by recognizing and honouring the spiritual human being first in them must succeed in their lives more than the persons who recognize the physical human being first. As a student who still has much to learn to transform this world to a better place, it would be better

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