APRINIA
Honoring GOODNESS through CHOICE
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 is intrinsically manifest in human makeup.
We both need and have the opportunity to benefit ourselves, our loved ones, and our societies by engaging this implanted light, and welcoming a restoration of simple goodness through its applications.
Wisdom advises us that clean air, pure water, and life-sustaining nutrients are essential for a good life.
Aprinia promotes the understanding that timeless human values—our First Principles—are also essential to a prosperous, fulfilling life. Our being cannot function optimally without these baseline absolutes in balance.
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 such as corporations, governments, and societies will talk about their values or principles. Aprinia, though, addresses a collective set of stable, inherent, nonexclusive values apparently vested in all of us: first principles.
Aprinia was founded more than a decade ago to advocate for our valuable First Principles.
Aprinia chooses to promote beneficial historic values. Some of our essential values are being slowly buried beneath a mountain of alternative 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, but not all, of human-engineered 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.
However, many of history’s most revered jurists and judges have explicity stated that human law is not the ultimate authority, but rather a machanical tool subordinate to higher principles. Please note two quotations from noted jurists associated with the U.S, Supreme Court:
Chief Justice Earl Warren declared, “It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.”
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, famously stated “This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice” to a young lawyer who had expressed hope that justice would be served in a particular case.
It is our hope that every man woman and child will be introduced to the realization that while human law is an essential balancing rod in civil societies, there is a powerful management tool granted to every person that will often enable us to make wise decisions based on universal concepts and values originating on a higher plane than we occupy, as these quoted justices acknowledge.
Across time and place, humanity has carried forward a set of values that can enable us to be our best – for example, rightness and truth. Such values did not originate with human discovery, but originate with eternity. They are not delivered with exclusive rights to be branded by nations, creeds, or cultures.
Original values, or first principles, are unchangeable; they are not the same as corporate or entity principles, which have been modified by human intellect and refashioned to serve a variety of mundane applications. First principles are eternal and unchangeable. Any attempt to alter them is an abandonment of them, for they cannot be refashioned and retain the same identity.
Today, we are encouraged to recognize and claim first principles as a first response in all of our dealings.
Many are adding their voice to a chorus that 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 help make us human, and to give them renewed honor now.
Join with Aprinia. Stand with us. Speak with us. Together, we are a unified voice that ensures honor, dignity, fairness, justice, and equity are not only verbalized but also vitalized.
First Principles are a living golden thread woven throughout the fabric of humanity. How can we honor them without honoring the source of light and love?
What is the source of life, light, and love?
This question has inspired, and at times confounded, human inquiry for as long as it has been asked. Many traditions, philosophies, and belief systems offer answers with confidence, yet no single explanation has been universally acknowledged by humankind.
If archaeologists discover a cave containing prehistoric paintings on its walls, or tools fashioned for practical use, such findings are readily recognized as evidence of purposeful intelligence and design.
Likewise, when we observe Earth—and even the small portion of the universe available to our view—we encounter extraordinary order, beauty, and complexity. To many, such harmony reasonably acknowledges the presence of an intelligent and capable source. Over time, countless stories, beliefs, and theories have attempted to identify and explain this source, but again, no evidence has seemingly emerged that satisfies all human inquiry.
Despite competitive human persuasions, perhaps such great creative intelligence purposefully chooses a degree of mystery. From our perspective, why not graciously bow to such mystery? Let each person and culture believe, or search, and peacefully act according to their curated or adopted understanding. In time, greater clarity will surely emerge for the benefit of all.
What is obvious to the willing mind is that all humans are endowed with the same stream of potential, obviously from the same source. All humankind is richly endowed with a set of principles, or values, that support and elevate life on Earth. Wherever such applications as compassion, fairness, integrity, goodness, and care, for example, are found in action, they stand as a living testimony to a wellspring worthy of honor. Rather than engaging in ideological contests that deepen rivalry and division, we are better served to recognize and honor goodness wherever it appears. In doing so, we will also honor its source.
Such uplifting qualities as those mentioned above are found to be active among all people. They appear among creationists and secular thinkers, among deists and atheists, within religious communities and outside of them, and in the quiet actions of independently prone individuals everywhere.
Perhaps it is the living expression of light, love, and goodness that speaks most eloquently on behalf of that source. In due course, a fuller understanding will reveal itself to all. When such a revelation proves to be the will and intention of such greatness existing beyond our comprehension, we may realize that one of the theories espoused was more accurate, but in contemporary light, tolerance and patience seem to represent prudent and wise companions alongside any faithful convictions.
DO THE RIGHT THING
“Do the Right Thing” is a maxim finding representation in every language and culture on Earth. We have the capacity to realize a path to an engaging answer to that challenge through a streaming gift to our humanity – one that we recognize as a ready set of values or principles.
When we choose to exhibit such qualities as compassion, integrity, fairness, stewardship, goodness, and equity, for example, we are employing inherent, enriching values that are markers of our human identity.
Through universal human distribution, often in tandem with conscience, 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 between INSTITUTED CODE and PRINCIPLE
In the struggle to manage the affairs of societies and entities, humans have discovered the introduction of human codification as an expedient means of accomplishment.
While some codes or laws are built on a foundation that recognizes inherent principles, others are crafted by human intellect to generally serve 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 universal acceptance, and that 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 or abused.
First Principles will not.
– Human-instituted 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 tool set 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. It is not engaged in an individualism versus communitarianism debate, but recognizes and advocates that the best solution is generally found in serving the common good.
Please support this purposeful effort by contributing any amount to this timely mission.
In turn, we will give you a free digital audiocopy of the book One for All by Greg Lawson, now in its ninth updated edition. One for All reveals humanity’s most significant influencers and the free tools to manage them.
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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 each life. My work exemplifies love, principle, and a recognition of the whole person, the physical and the non-physical facets of our being.
“I relish the inherent freedoms that we each have received 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 Designed For Living It
Greg Lawson is an independent naturalist, ponderer, 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 published more than fifty books and magazines themed in arts and philosophy.
It’s Our Tern
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 of it. I photographed the lovely tern lifting into the sky while in Antarctica.
This remarkable medium-sized bird is a fitting symbol of the ideal recognition that 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, many can attain the sense of belonging in oneness with the living planet,
CONTACT US
Aprinia is our name. Honoring the Goodness in You is our Mission.
Our friends are welcome to communicate with Aprinia at:
PO Box 72
Sedona, AZ 86339
or
now@aprinia.com