Few people would dispute that mankind’s information, technology and communications advances have been overwhelmingly purposed to facilitate and empower those seeking to dominate and profit from them. Humanity is currently experiencing the positive and negative consequences of these experiments with evolution.
Having had some success taking advantage of the business applications of technology, from our earliest work in the Intelligent Technologies Foundation we committed ourselves to the opposite end of the spectrum. Using new technology to help individuals and families “be the best that they can be”. We believe in the “subsidiary principle” which proposes that decisions and responsibilities should be handled at the lowest, most local level possible, only escalating to higher levels when necessary. In these times of ever-growing technology fueled, concentrated business, government and military power – individuals and the families have disintegrated and people are suffering. Too many children are growing up helpless and becoming adults who are hopeless. The traditions, stories and wisdom of grandparents and the influence of parents have been discounted if not rejected at this most fundamental level of human development – in favor of government and social media influencers. The youngest child is offered the covid pandemic & global warming, military aggression, terrorism and stranger danger on every screen. This fearful messaging is professionally, dramatically, engagingly and persuasively presented and widely accepted thanks to algorithms of presentation that the creators of the technology have lost track of. Some people make a business out of scaring and/or distracting our children. Some people make a business out of preventing us from having successful families.
For the primary school student, studying reading, writing and arithmetic, not to mention history, sociology, psychology, philosophy and theology has become almost “ridiculous” in the age of ubiquitous, undefeatable & omniscient generative and/or artificial intelligence. The ultimate effects of these facts of our times, God Help Us, are just getting started. Too many, too many: Primary school kids are bored, isolated, listless and anxious. Teens consider and too often succeed to end their lives. Young and older adults can’t find, or offer the kind of generous love, to a helpmate, that supports the opportunity or purpose for having children of their own. The right to terminate the life of an untimely or unintended human being is what it is, in the heart of the person who has the power to decide.
Much of what we are presenting about Im2be is repetitive or overlapping with other sections because it is the result of long years of observation, inspiration and our common purpose. It is all integrated. The future of humanity is in the hands of parents and children. Ultimate success for humanity has to start with a family and progress in the family and we believe that Faith In Family should permeate a child’s life. So, we work to support you who will agree that it would be fine for their children to Love their World, Love their Neighbors and Love themselves Better.
Our team includes Judeo-Christian enthusiasts, atheists, agnostics and a self-described apatheist. I will offer from St. Paul: From the beginning of time until now, the entire creation, as we know, has been groaning in one great act of giving birth. —Romans 8:22. A few verses later, St. Paul declares that “all things work together for good” based on his, and my own, perspective on creation.
As the administrator or a family member in Im2be, your theological perspective is relevant but not crucial. What is fundamental is: Are you willing to give something of yourself to another member of your family? Can you give the Power of Love a chance?
This is, perhaps obviously to you by now, Greg Geris as the founder writing again personally. As I have confessed my own story, my role in my own family is full or mistakes and failures. Still, here is what I believe, and what I hope can give you the nudge and power to try Im2be for your family. (In the age of the internet and AI, I believe you can easily access more materials about these simple or less well known subjects, and I hope you will.)
First: many of us believe in the Pareto Principle. For some members of your family your involvement in Im2be can help you organize the 20% of your efforts as an adult or child building better habits, relationships and a better future for your family. We truly believe that your effort with the support of Im2be and your own personal investment can help your family gain 80% of the results you hope for.
Second: many of us believe in the principle behind Blaise Pascal’s Wager (the one published in 1670, not the current dark fantasy app). In this context and in short: If you make the effort to try Im2be you can have extraordinary results. If it is not successful in your family, you just stop. If you don’t try Im2be you will never know if you could have made “that” positive difference in the love and joy and success of your family members.
Third: The author of this piece is a devoted adherent to the philosophy of a little known Roman Catholic-Paleontologist-Priest, and Philosopher of Evolution: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who wrote in the last century. Please consider these gems from his writings, and hopefully make your own research:
“The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things…as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
“Our duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Uncertainty. A time of waiting is a moment of grace. Just wait in the in between, slow down to appreciate each other. Waiting time is not a waste of time….
Above all, trust in the slow work of God… it is the law of all progress that it is made by passing through some stages of instability— and that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you; your ideas mature gradually—let them grow, let them shape themselves, without undue haste. Don’t try to force them on, as though you could be today what time (that is to say, grace and circumstances acting on your own good will) will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give Our Lord the benefit of … his hand is leading you and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.”
― Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
“The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
“Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”
― Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
