APRINIA
PROMOTING GOODNESS
Welcome to Aprinia – a platform honoring humanity’s first principles and their source.
The dawn of our morning arrives from a light source that existed long before now. Likewise, the goodness and dignity of principle has been an intrinsic part of human makeup since the origins of our time on Earth.
There is both a need and an opportunity to benefit ourselves, our loved ones, and our societies through acknowledgement of this implanted light, and to welcome a restoration of simple goodness through its applications.
Wisdom advises us that clean air and pure water are essential life ingredients. Aprinia promotes, the recognition that our timeless human values, our First Principles, are equally essential for a prosperous, fulfilling life.
PRINCIPLES ARE GOLD
Gold is a highly favored element, partly because pure gold doesn’t tarnish.
Humanity’s first principles are like that too.
Entities of all manner – corporations, governments, societies – each will talk about their principles. Aprinia, though, addresses the collective set of values delivered inherently to all –– humanity’s first principles.
Aprinia was Founded a Decade ago to Champion and Advocate for our Valuable First Principles.
“Travels and forays into diverse places and differing cultures have been deliberate, purposeful, and rewarding on many levels. A major highlight has been learning by experience that people, sans labels, are much the same everywhere.” – Greg Lawson
Aprinia, has the purpose to promote beneficial historic values. Some of our essential values are being slowly buried beneath a mountain of human mandates. Additionally, we are now seeing the increased prominence of machine dictates, which will, by some human intent, initially be a soft remaking of our wills and capacities through machine influence.
Much in the way of thoughtful human law represents a treasured legacy of order, and has been skillfully crafted to preserve our safety, our dignity, and even our foundational principles and inherent rights.
Across time and place, humanity has carried forward a set of values that remind us of who we are at our best – for example, fairness, justice, equity, and the dignity of every voice. Such values are not bound by nation, creed, or generation—they are a thread that has always been available to unite us, even when the world feels divided. Today, in moments of change and uncertainty, we are called on to remember and reclaim them as a first response in all of our dealings.
If you choose, please add your voice to a chorus honors our shared human history, that celebrates our common humanity, and recognizes that, at the round table of reason, tolerance can replace division, and understanding can mitigate fear.
This is accomplished as a living experience, filling a critical need with a purposeful mission – to lift up the timeless principles that make us human, and to give them renewed honor now.
Join with Aprinia. Stand with us. Speak with us. Together, being a unified voice that ensures honor, dignity, fairness, justice, and equity are not only verbalized but are vitalized.
First Principles are as a living golden thread woven throughout the fabric of humanity in every place, and in all of time. How can we honor them, without honoring the source of light and love?
Join a Lifelong Odyssey to Explore, Taste, and Share the Richness of our Planet, and the Goodness of Human Nature.
Since 15 years of age, Greg Lawson has independently explored all continents of Earth to satisfy his curiosity for our planet. “People. places. creatures. These have been my intense love since childhood – and they still are.
“These immersions granted an early recognition of the collective and individual wealth of characteristics that we possess. Whether sensory or intellectual, our capacities adorn us and enhancelife on many levels. My work purposefully promotes these enrichments.”
In this noisy world, you are invited to enjoy weekly moments of stillness, insight, and beauty – directly from the heart of an impassioned contemporary artist and independent thinker.
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Whatever you choose to contribute to the Aprinia mission is highly appreciated. It will empower us to give generously in return.
DO THE RIGHT THING
“Do the Right Thing” is a maxim finding some representation in every language and culture on Earth. We have the capacity for realizing a path to an engaging answer through a streaming gift to our humanity, one that we recognize as a ready set of values or principles.
When we employ by choice such qualities as compassion, integrity, fairness, stewardship, goodness, and equity, for example, we are employing inherent, enriching values that are markers of human identity.
Because of their universality, these inherent principles are superior tools for the management of human affairs, inter-creature affairs, and the management of matters associated with overseeing our planet Earth’s best interests.
Within the social circle of humanity, we need to maintain the capacity for allowing many different persuasions, even antithetical ones, to coexist. First Principles provide valuable tools for all who will gather at the round table of reason.
DIFFERENCES of INSTITUTED CODE and PRINCIPLE
In the struggle to manage the affairs of societies and entities, humans have discovered the introduction of human code as an expedient means of accomplishment.
While some codes, or laws, are built on a foundation that recognizes inherent principles, these are crafted from human intellect and generally have a specific purpose.
Human law is both valid and valuable. Two advantages of elevating our first principles, however, are that these will, in general, find a universal acceptance. and they do not need a detached enforcement mechanism.
While the best of human law will be based on a foundation of principle, a kind of natural law, there are distinguishing differences between human law and original principles, worth noting:
– Human law can be tarnished.
First Principles will not be.
– Human-instated code might have a narrow or manipulative motive.
First Principles will not.
– Human law can have a menacing edge.
First Principles will not.
PURPOSE of APRINA
Aprinia was formed over a decade ago to promote the set of human values, or First Principles, that we hold in common with all others of our kind. Aprinia does not have a specific agenda or seek a specific conclusion beyond promoting these values, which, once exposed, reflect a powerful and reliable energy source capable of aiding in the mitigation of strife and discord often associated with polarized human cultural spaces.
Aprinia is engaged in an awareness campaign to promote the use of First Principles as a reliable first line of action in human dealings.
This unifying message is being readied for widespread dissemination.
Please support this purposeful effort by contributing any amount to our mission.
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Let’s Be Friends!
“Sometimes I feel like the breeze that flows, because, like it, I am at home in many places. I have no fixed identity with specific social spaces that our many cousins have created and occupy. It is the goodness of nature that I espouse, and the human qualities found working in behalf of our collective benefit that I revere.
“I choose to honor and dignify individuality and the sacredness of your life. My work exemplifies love, and principle, and spirituality, and resonates with many.
“I relish the inherent freedoms that we each have to think and to act as individuals, or if we choose, as insulated groups. I am an advocate of peaceful solutions delivered on the wings of love and practical wisdom.“
Life is For Living It
Greg Lawson is an independent naturalist, thinker, artist, writer, and speaker, embracing freedom, education, first principles, and their source, along with nature’s rightful conservation. His image-based published art, created from a thousand earthly sojourns, includes people, places, wildlife, and abstractions from the global field. It is collected worldwide and has been dispersed for more than 50 years. He has also been published in more than fifty books and magazines themed in arts and philosophy.
It’s Our Tern
Here’s why we chose the Arctic Tern to represent Aprinia.
The arctic tern embraces the planet. It flies from its point of origin in the Arctic, all the way to the continent of Antarctica. Throughout its life, it makes this incredible journey several times. It crosses myriad claimed spaces and numerous national boundaries, but it takes no note of them, and they take no note if it. I photographed the lovely tern lifting into the sky while in Antarctica.
This remarkable medium-sized bird is a fitting symbol of how it should be for all of us. Earth is our home. All of it. We are born here, and we will die here. We will, even if unwittingly, support all of it throughout our entire journey.
Of course, entities have created boundaries, and these need to be respected to support order and dignity among civilized people everywhere. But at least in spirit, I hope that many can attain the sense of belonging in oneness to the living planet – a sense that I have personally acquired from meandering its magnificence for many decades.
The Odyssey – My gift to You
I started recording life’s adventures in 1958. A lingering connection to the Living Planet has physically, emotionally and intellectually enriched me beyond measure, ever since.
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Thank You!
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CONTACT US
Aprinia is our name. Honoring Goodness is our Mission.
Our friends are welcome to communicate with Aprinia at:
PO Box 72
Sedona, AZ 86339
or
now@aprinia.com