5. Spiritual life values
Spiritual life values initially came to me through my study of Objectivism, but now I see them in another dimension. Particular values might be classed as ‘destination values,’ such as a great musician, those we prize as being what we wish to be or become. Material values are a no-brainer, leaving us with three value types: material values, spiritual life values and destination values.
The critical role of life values
Our subconscious mind cannot process data that it does not have any more than an empty stomach can digest food. Unless we program values into our subconscious mind, it will source our values from past actions and behaviours because our actions speak louder than words.
Material values are a no-brainer, like house, car, vacation, wardrobe, jewellery, etc. Other values express what we most want from life: peace, satisfaction, happiness, joy, abundance and fulfilment. We can call these our destination or goal values.
What’s missing, and what science does not grasp, is that specific spiritual values, or ‘Spiritual life values’ as I call them, help us reach our goal values. Examples include respect, truth, integrity, grit, grace, and commitment. Akin to virtues, they bring spiritual purpose and meaning to our lives. Think virtues. Think ‘life-values.’ Think (non-taxable, non-material) spiritual growth.
Metaphysics, not mechanics
Today’s monumental tragedy results from focussing on mental mechanics in laboratories, not metaphysics.’ Mental science practitioners, including neurologists and quantum physicists, do not understand spiritual value exchange. They reject spirituality as subjective, just like free will. So, they focused on consciousness as the concern for physical matter, which resulted in inventions such as panpsychism.
Had neuroscientists awakened to the idea that consciousness concerns life and not matter, they might have concluded that Nature’s source Creator tasked the subconscious mind with upholding and sustaining our life as the supreme value and automated that process.
Our two minds have different vocabularies. Nevertheless, we are gifted with the means to cross-communicate values that uphold and sustain our lives.
Humanity is cheated of conscious thriving
Neuroscientists, philosophers, and cognitive scientists have entirely overlooked a simple truth: ‘Qualitative values’ are inherent in all our mental deliberations. In particular, they are the (constituent) driver of conscious thriving within our operating process and the source of our feelings and emotions.
‘Qualitative values,’ or Spiritual life values as I call them, are rejected today, first because the subconscious mind is considered out of reach, and second, because free will is considered subjective, whereby consciousness cannot be a science.
Scientists do not distinguish our (free will-driven) cognitive process from the (automatic) subconscious mind. As a result, they find no connections among our (nine, not six) higher faculties. Thus, feelings, emotions, conscience, and intuition remain unexplainable mysteries. They dismiss Spiritual life values from consideration, virtues likewise, whereby ethics and morality are stolen from the ‘private domain’ and consigned to government, more accurately described today as ‘service corporations.’
No remedy exists since no one has ventured that consciousness is the transfer of spiritual and material values between our two minds, authored by our free-will choices. That is the subject of psycho-epistemology, itself a branch of objective philosophy.
Values for conscious thriving
These spiritual life values are transferred between our conscious and subconscious minds just as our cardiovascular system transfers bodily nutrients. Consequently, our conscious ‘process’ is objective in life, although it may be called upon to process subjective data or (even harmful) ‘content.’ Life-value transfer best explains what conscious thriving is.
Our task is to separate values that uphold our lives from those that do not. The good news is that there are only about fifteen primary spiritual life values, although some sub-set values apply.
For people to enjoy a life of harmony and (emotional) rewards, the conscious mind needs to be on the same page as the subconscious mind, respectful of its innate spiritual values. Discord and stress result if they are not. (“No one can serve two masters.” —Matthew 6:24.)
Such requires that we commit to our efforts, exercise diligence, insist on accuracy, and polish our efforts with love. Happiness results from mastering our commitments in this manner because they bring us achievement, fulfilment, progress and joyous satisfaction.
Failure to consciously choose values in support of our lives exposes us to all manner of ills. As a result of that mental vacancy, our subconscious mind will apply values that it has assimilated from our past (choice of) actions, even values dating from childhood. We will not know of them; hence, we cannot learn from our feelings. We’ve no emotional relief and no means of effecting any change. Thus, we indeed are “ruled by our emotions,” which means, ‘awareness’ is automatically conducting the entire orchestra at the expense of our free choice as the conductor. No fine-tuning of our vibrations or frequencies will remedy that condition.
Values source our feelings
Material results bring rewards, most certainly, but the absolute joy is a celebration of our spiritual accomplishments.
- We can learn from our feelings simply by asking–
- Which of our spiritual life values originated the feeling?
- Should that value be affirmed or altered?
- Or should I choose to act differently in future?
Changing our values or behaviour allows us to grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. When we find and address the cause of a feeling, its purpose (value) becomes apparent.
That’s how simple conscious thriving is. The conscious process operates like a symphonic orchestra conducted by our free will, which explains awareness as only one instrument.
- Spiritual life values power your subconscious mind — 92% of the conscious process.
- They are intrinsic to our biology, our psychology and our consciousness.
- They manifest in everyday life — if only we would look.
- They form an integrated, indivisible whole — none can exist separately.
- They are necessary in all people. None can be erased.
- They contain the divinity of all creation. Although cultural expressions are different in all societies, they are found in all societies.
- People who use these values in their activities and behaviour receive tremendous strength—a dynamic consciousness that others never dream of.
Spiritual life values are the most essential part of our life — bar none.
They are the driving life force of our subconscious minds, upon which our success and well-being depend.
The secret to spiritual consciousness.
Unless your subconscious mind knows what you value in the spiritual sense, it cannot give valid progress reports via your feelings. You’re trapped. Has the penny dropped yet? Life-sustaining (spiritual) values are your choice. Better still, your free will is (functionally) sandwiched between two different functions of your subconscious mind, where it is fully protected. ‘Awareness’ is merely one small part of this two-way value exchange.
It follows there is ‘order’ (orderliness) when our conscious mind and subconscious mind spiritually agree. If not, disorder results, experienced as stress, anguish or trauma. That means we choose success or distress. That order or disorder results from our actions and behaviour regarding material and spiritual value.
Because our choices cannot be governed, or free will is a lie, nature invites us all to live a life filled with joy and happiness, with efficiency and efficacy, all marked by spiritual attainment and love. Intrinsic (natural law) governance ensures it, provided we do not (free will) block it.
It becomes clear that beautiful, loving, cooperative, and moral secrets exist in our conscious processes that we have never learned.
First, human consciousness interfaces physicality with spirituality, revealed as a ‘value transfer process’ between our two minds. Thus, we are spiritual beings living a spiritual life, albeit in a material realm. This revelation calls all present understanding of consciousness into question.
Second, (twenty) natural laws are intrinsic to our nature. Because they determine ethics and morality to support life’s necessities and human spirituality, (present) ’natural law theories’ are (morally) overturned. That outcome delivers more punch and validity than ‘natural law theorists’ ever claimed.
Knowing how consciousness works is essential. The Bible states—
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God” Romans 12:2
Spirit is our connection across all boundaries and barriers. It transcends race, religion, gender, culture, nation and education. It unites mental understanding and the ability not to produce one unified entity or collective consciousness but instead coalesce as a spiritual force. This spiritually cohesive dynamic unites independent beings.
Many people claim that the sovereign will of government is absolute.
"As nature gives every man absolute control over all his members, so the social contract gives to the body politic an absolute power over all its members.” —Jean Jacques Rousseau.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Rousseau’s notion means the sovereign (government) has unlimited control over the people’s general welfare and the indisputable right to judge what that is, thereby denying individuals any rights. As Rousseau conceived, this travesty of natural justice and nature itself is held absolute, infallible, indivisible and inalienable. Today, it manifests as the (birth certificated) contract permanently fixed in the legal ‘body politic’ known as ‘citizenship.’ Thus, the individual must surrender as the State requires, without appeal.
Three questions arise. Are you a born sovereign? Was the State born of nature, or is it purely Man’s invention?
Can any state be sovereign with no conscious means for people to exercise sovereignty?
Reprogram your subconscious mind.
Central to personal sovereignty is our ability to program our subconscious mind with our chosen spiritual values. Because the subconscious mind cannot work in a vacuum, it automatically defaults to assimilating your values from past actions. That must be because the subconscious mind cannot decide, and past actions were your choice. I’ve described the process in my book ‘Conscious Ascendance,’ as taught us by infants. The subconscious vocabulary is images (a picture paints a thousand words), which explains the blessing of imagination. Its fundamental purpose is to convert concepts, values and principles into images for inter-mind communication, known as psycho-epistemology. Conscience, intuition and feelings are the primary means of the subconscious communicating with our cognitive mind.
This ability allows us to have both minds cooperating on the same page. We open the door to divinity and our souls by programming spiritual values into our subconscious. As a result, our minds interface physicality with spirituality, illustrating that we are spiritual beings living a spiritual life on a material plane. The outcome of this coercive unity is that we develop a synergistic power unlike anything we could obtain otherwise, and it unites with the life force born within us. We learn to master ourselves, our spirituality and our progress, which is personal sovereignty.
Freedom is the exercise of sovereignty.
Your (born) moral nature assures independence and freedom, provided you respect the equal rights of all others to live likewise. Their freedom guarantees yours. This new moral undertaking flies in the face of every form of societal control witnessed in recorded history. The beauty is that personal and societal benefits fly off the charts when practised.
Natural justice prevails because individuals who indulge in ethical or unethical thoughts cannot harm anyone but themselves. Morality and justice emerge as people express their moral (or immoral) stature through actions. Everyone is the author of their expressed morality and is fully accountable.
Self-reliant people are self-focused. They master their abilities, minds, ambitions, imagination, values, thoughts, actions, and emotions. They exemplify respect and morality for all others. These sovereign people apply Spiritual life values such as diligence, discipline, courage, and integrity, all in pursuit of practical, moral, and spiritual thriving. They accept full responsibility and liability for their actions. Every mental and emotional reward signifies success. Skills of personal excellence, mental acuity and spiritual accomplishment testify to their advancement. Joy and happiness are their rewards.
Perfection is not demanded of anyone. Instead, an exemplary attitude toward Life—a spiritual mindedness resulting in ethical thought, leading to just actions and behaviour, and a will to correct errors are required, should they occur. These people set their desires, ambitions, and values on human nature and Life, rightfully and lawfully establishing that all challengers must refer any dispute to their Creator.
Peace-loving, organic societies are possible
Nature urges that we do so. Many individuals will unite to institute such societies. The (goverenment replacment) ‘Protectures’ that people institute will ensure that no political instrument may ever deny, control, usurp, brutalise, force, coerce or confiscate anyone's mind, no matter what political, authoritarian, legal, off-world or bloodline they may authoratatively claim!
As our source creator determined, the human mind is inviolate, and our nature permits no excuse or exception. We must comprehend that achievement and success are finitely bound by our spirituality authored by our free choice.
Once employed, this platform of personal benefit will usher in a new sociological and political foundation, more ethical and moral than any used in the past. A new conscious era for mankind dawns.
Peace-loving, organic societies are not only possible, the likes of which the world has never witnessed; our nature impels them.
Personal sovereignty by exercising spiritual life values
Sovereignty is little more than an ethical mind engaging in moral actions. Sovereign people apply Spiritual life values such as truth, discipline, respect, and integrity to pursue practical, moral, and spiritual success. They accept full lawful responsibility for their actions. Every mental and emotional reward signifies success.
Skills of personal excellence, spiritual accomplishment, and emotional satisfaction testify to their advancement. Joy and happiness are their rewards.
A true sovereign embodies natural law, morality, ethics, and natural justice, leading people into more significant states of freedom by their example. That example is their badge of honour. None else is needed.
When that process is engaged and upheld, sovereignty will emerge. That is not an automatic status acquired at birth because until self-actualised, it does not exist.
Social emancipation is now possible as described in Navigate to Freedom. Do you see it yet? This is not a battle to be won, a war between good and evil. It is the fact that life triumphs over any opponent who, by believing it's a battle, denies the life by which their thought originates. You triumph by exercising your divine sovereign power. All who stand in your path confess failing by their choice. By wilfully denying your divine essence, they admit to failing their own.
Social emancipation is now possible. Do you see it yet? This is not a battle to be won, a war between good and evil. It is the fact that life triumphs over any opponent who, by believing it's a battle, denies the life by which their thought originates. You triumph by exercising your divine sovereign power. All who stand in your path confess failing by their choice. By wilfully denying your divine essence, they admit to failing their own.
Your triumph is not a win. No battle exists. It’s simply that you choose to succeed in life while others refuse voluntarily. You’re not competing with evil. You're uniting and cooperating with your (born) life force by choice. Cooperative enterprise is how your conscious process, intrinsic natural law, and divine power work, and that succinctly defines humanity’s new conscious era. Competitive battles are past. Read ‘Nature's Providence.’
Those who recognise and embrace these discoveries will break through the strangleholds of ignorance and complacency as though they never existed. As spiritually empowered beings, they will activate their creative energy and become sovereign facilitators of a new age unlike anything previously thought possible. The Creator has their backs all the way!
If, as an adult, you want to recapture childhood exuberance, its joys and delights, and supercharge your life in ways you’ve never dreamed of, now is the time for action utilising (cost-free) spiritual life values. That is conscious intelligence.
© Kenneth E. Bartle 2025