Actionism - How to Become a Responsible Man

<p>We all have to act. There is no choice between an active and an inactive life a “vita activa” versus a “vita contemplativa”. We all have to sustain our body functions we at least have to breathe – therefore everybody has to act. Thus everybody needs a book on “how to act” – <em>Actionism – How to Become a Responsible Man.</em><br />Written by renowned author Lennart Svensson <em>Actionism</em> is footed in perennial metaphysics. Essential reality is immaterial eternal ideas and patterns rest in the causal sphere where they affect the material world and material man all “incarnated souls” in the confluence of samsâra. This kind of ontological background makes this into a refined selfhelp guide the statements and assertions forming the core of the book being founded in the esoteric thought of western and eastern tradition.<br />As intimated a prominent place in the book is occupied by responsibility.  The basic of all reality of God is will thought and passion and the individual human being having a spark of the divine light is a being of will thought and passion. And from will is derived the value of responsibility a much neglected virtue in the mindless emotionalism of today. Thus the subtitle of the book: “<em>How to Become a Responsible Man</em>”.<br />Along with will there’s a conceptualization of thought and passion <em>Actionism</em> thus forming a valid ethic for the mindful operator of today. This is about eternal values operational in your everyday. This is a serious essay in popular form a “tight but loose” deliberation on the deathless issue of How Shall I Act.<br />The first seven chapters of the book lay the foundation explaining the Actionist way of life with references to Nietzsche Castaneda the Bhagavad-Gîtâ and the Bible introducing concepts like “action as being” and “movement as a state” and the need for mental calm and a memento mori mindset. After a look into the role of art – the passion of compassion – the study takes a look at operators like d’Annunzio Evola and T. H. Lawrence from an Actionist viewpoint. Then Svensson deliberates on operations – how to operate as a hiker a soldier a trained chef and such all within the framework of Actionist ethics. This is an operational pro spilling the beans about “how to act” not some philosophy professor making abstract examples.<br />The mid part of the study discusses how contemporary society might be conceived of in Actionist terms. We here read of things like “declining war trend” “the nature of decadence” and “the society of the future” Svensson in the latter case giving a structural outlook on how to arrange and re-arrange a modern society.<br />Finally part three of the study again focuses on the microcosm on individual man as an ethical operator by referencing greats like Poe Kierkegaard and Neale Donald Walsch. It all results in a veritable “hymn to the active life” – since as you know by now we all have to act.<br />In 2015 author Lennart Svensson published his metaphysical essay <em>Borderline – A Traditional Outlook for Modern Man</em> a study focusing on holistic metaphysics and epistemology a perennially footed conceptualization of everything. Now in<em> Actionism</em> we finally have Svensson’s magnum opus study of prescriptive ethics and morals an arousing vision of an active mindful lifestyle – a clarion call to live the responsible life to become the first ever Responsible Men in the history of mankind.</p>