Calling Circle (April)
Dr. Will Varey 
Report on our monthly humanity inquiry call ...
We held the tenth in our series of monthly humanity-inquiry calls on 16 April 2024. Now we are asking what does it mean to go beyond the fulfilment of personal purpose?
In this month's inquiry we commenced from a place of sufficiency that sees a different place of residence, rare within humanity. This is the place where acting with purpose becomes universal in its equity of enactment.
The exemplar of M.K. Gandhi is often evoked, as the inspiration for millions in someone who holds personal ethical convictions. What it means to suffer imprisonment for principles, to speak with fearlessness, to greet enemies with love, and to liberate (and partition) a nation, is conceptually beyond third person-narrative and distant biography.
However, in our own examination of the traits of the humanity contributive, we find these qualities can be discerned with discriminating perception, provided a revealing light is first brought to our own delineations of whom we should be benefiting.
Only at the level of humanity inquiry do we understand that those who fulfil an accomplishment for some, may do so by evidencing the cause of all past wrongs, placing them inevitably into an unacceptable compromise.
There is a Countenance that is asked in a humanity-centric practice, to accept the reality of all past absences. While a failure of response, ineffective transitions, lost moments of readiness, and delays with implications may discourage the hope-filled, in those with humanity-holding the envisaged world-becoming never leaves them.
Gandhi writing his dialogue Hind Swaraj in 1908 on the boat to South Africa already knew what an India with self-rule, self-reliance, own identity and passive resistance would accomplish.
The formation of an independent India in August of 1947 heralded the real pains of that new knowing coming into actual being. The hardships held in the intervening period are this month's lesson of what it means to be contributive.
The insight from Helen Keller's essay 'Optimism Within' on the benefit of a necessary struggle is now apparent: "It lets us into the soul of things and teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
From here we will move into our penultimate month's inquiry ...
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Dr. Will Varey
Apitholo - The Centre for Humanity Learning
"Pathways for the Humanity Contributive"
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