Embodying the Human Organism
- GODSAVEME
- Mar 15
- 4 min read
Editorial Avenue No. 30: 15th March 2026
(Part 2 of the Editorial for February 2026)
‘Should I sleep, who would give me the moon?’
-Caligula (1979)
When a society begins to believe that the moral language it uses reflects the actual disappearance of darker human capacities, it begins to lose sight of the structural work that is required to contain them. Below are three ethical dilemmas that can be hard to fully condemn as they are all reflections of a very human way of interacting with each other:
(i) As a helicopter approaches with the donor liver, a trauma surgeon discreetly marks a homeless patient as being medically inactive, ensuring the liver will be automatically diverted to the 12-year-old child under her unit's care.
(ii) A father destroys the only record of the adoption papers he has kept a secret for years, deciding that his son should never attempt to seek out the identity of his biological parents.
(iii) A teenage daughter accepts to create an online dating profile for her widowed, tech-averse mother and then anxiously proceeds to delete every message received on the site.
All three examples are expressions of normative awareness, a facet that is purely human. In normative awareness, one does not merely act out of righteousness but also has the capacity to ask: “What ought to be done?”. The surgeon could have the moral authority to choose which life holds greater value over the other if he was able to uphold complete institutional and professional integrity. The father cannot withhold truth out of love either unless he can be upheld to a higher standard of psychological development that truly seeks out the best possible outcome for his child. As for the daughter, she cannot protect her mother by simultaneously engaging in dysregulated deception.
However, our societies have succeeded for long enough in containing its destructive impulses thereby making the containment mechanism itself become invisible. We have begun to believe that people are entirely capable of behaving in a completely ethical manner towards others that are not members of their own family. The structures that maintain equilibrium (deontology, laws, social harmony, cultural values, civilisation itself) all become taken for granted and as more and more people grow up within these containments, they begin to believe that their behaviour in society is a natural expression of human goodness. But that is a fallacy in our thinking process. Civilisations from the medieval ages are seen as barbaric whilst the modern world is an act of continual progression. Yet current generations still carry the same range of impulses that earlier societies had attempted to regulate with the means available to them. When supporting structures erode, impulses of aggression, domination and violence do not politely remain dormant. They begin to express themselves again sometimes in gradual ways such as peaceful protestations and, sometimes more abruptly in the form of armed conflict. What then looks like a sudden moral decline often reflects something else: the removal of containment mechanisms that had been quietly maintaining equilibrium. In our case, we will refer to this containing mechanism as being Heaven. But in such a case, this brings up the following line of enquiry:
Does being human then imply that we are nothing more but an appetite that needs to be restrained through heavenly mechanisms?
Or, is being human in fact a form of higher intelligibility that is trying to incarnate through a creaturely body?
A human being is not only pure spirit. Nor just pure awareness. Or even a state of pure consciousness. It is a living embodied creature. And embodiment requires metabolism, defense, orientation, reproduction, attachment, aversion, vigilance, movement toward nourishment, withdrawal from threat. In other words, to inhabit a body is already to enter a field of impulses. Yet, that does not make us into a species of domesticated animals either. A domesticated animal can be trained, softened, conditioned, bonded, made socially compatible. But the animal remains within its species-form. Its tameness is not the birth of conscience. It is modulation of instinct through conditioning, repetition, and environment. Under certain conditions, the deeper animal pattern reappears because it was never ontologically transformed into moral subjecthood.
Human beings are different in one crucial respect: they are answerable moral beings. They can recognise norms, experience guilt, deliberate, symbolise, repress, sublimate, transcend, and even orient themselves toward truths that are not reducible to survival advantage. Many traditions today will therefore hold that the human capacity for ethical awareness reflects a participation in a higher order of divine intelligence or goodness.
However, we are theorising that Humanity itself may be the regulatory layer through which biological existence then becomes capable of expressing ethics. In other words, goodness is not simply the faculty of reasoning restraining strong biological impulses nor is goodness divine law being imposed on all creatures on earth. In our model, Humanity demarcates itself from the species Homo Sapiens by becoming a conscience that not only inhabits a biological organism but also organises it. The human organism becomes the vessel. Humanity is the ordering intelligence of that vessel. This brings us to the understanding that if Humanity is the conduit to ethics, then civilisation is an ecological system that allows Humanity to maintain a stable axis while it restructures the behaviours of its human organisms.
As we presented above, an organism that lacks in stabilising conditions will inevitably fall back into impulse-driven behaviour. But in light of how humans behave on Earth at the moment, it must tragically be understood that Humanity is not fully occupying its vessel at the moment …
(To be continued)
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End note:
Our monthly editorials are pure channellings received from Heaven. The administrative team responsible for their transmission has the duty to publish each editorial on the 15th of every month. This date is symbolic, as it coincides with the official founding date of the web platform of the accredited Centre known as “God's Save Me,” on September 15, 2023. More than a simple editorial, “The Editorial Avenue” is a sacred pathway opened to humanity so that it may reconnect with the Light, for God cares for everyone.
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