The Wisdom Foundation

Working together, we can bring human civilization into a creative and fulfilling golden age.

[N.B. This website is currently under construction, so the only part available for the public to read is this homepage. Please check back again soon].

Welcome to this online resource - home of the Wisdom Template: a set of principles devised by Simon Rees between 2003 and 2007 and intended as an inspiration to other people and organisations for the wider transformation of all aspects of human society.

The Wisdom Foundation was founded in November 2007 by Simon Rees. Its aim is to define and further a set of key universal humanitarian principles.

These principles were underlying my work with Kevin Eakins and Savely Yurkovsky in the organisation FCT World, and I recognized their wider relevance to other sciences and arts. Thus over a five-year period I developed a full template for them, and then in 2007 established an umbrella foundation as their home, and under which to share them with others and, in doing so, to inspire, encourage and build bridges. This template is still an off-line entity, but I aim to adapt it online soon.

These encapsulate three foundational humanitarian principles from which the rest of the Wisdom Template is derived.

The primary emphasis is on wisdom because you can have love and integrity without wisdom and that had led to many of the world's current problems.

In that case, these values are well-meaning but ultimately self-defeating. You may be the most loving and reliable person that lived, but may, for example, out of love and integrity serve (as, sadly, people so often do) a monstrous cause without realizing it!

On the other hand, it also goes without saying that true wisdom incorporates love and integrity, because if you're not acting out of love and integrity it's ultimately unwise!

Love is widely touted, integrity less so but is nonetheless also esteemed. In contrast, Wisdom, the most important of the three, has until this juncture in history remained the poor step-brother of the others, left trampled in the mud.

The transition to a life and a society in which wisdom is emphasized as the primary value can actually take place relatively easily, provided a critical mass aspire to this ideal. As my reader, if you would like to get involved, all you need to do, is take up the Wisdom Template in your own occupational or other projects, whatever they may be.

It could be that you are already contributing to this effort without having expressed it in these terms. In this case, the Wisdom Template may simply help to crystallize and extend your efforts with an extra clarity and focus.

Thus I realized that Wisdom is the foundation of everything, and, if humanity is to drag it outself out of the mud and into a golden age, wisdom first needs to become the primary focus of all sciences, arts, charities and organisations: This, above all, is what will lead to the greatest success and fulfilment in all human endeavours.

This simple but profound claim is substantiated in greater depth and with many examples throughout this website, and I believe that this simple principle has not only not been applied by most people in their current activities, but could be and, if it were, for a 'tipping point' number of people, the world would literally be transformed overnight.

Thus the definition of wisdom itself is considered in greater depth in the Wisdom Template, published on these pages, for the word itself is not enought to convey the revolutionary concept without being fleshed out with details and examples.

One of the cornerstones of taking a wise approach is that when any of the sciences or arts are in a state of stagnation and/or failure (as so many are at present, including for example medicine - which is what got us started on this concept), it is essential to bring them forward into more productive and fulfilling times through the active support and fostering of creative innovation and genius.

With this in mind, I teamed up with Kevin Eakins in April 2009 and we established the creative arm of the Wisdom Foundation, under the name Brave New Horizons, through which we put into practice many of the principles of the Wisdom Template via a number of ongoing creative projects - for more details, see our separate Brave New Horizons website here. Through Brave New Horizons, then, you will also find links to websites related to our various other activities, all inspired by the Wisdom Template - for example, FCT World, The Living Systems Medicine Institute, The Wisdom Wiki, blogs, forums, etc.

The Living Systems Medicine Institute (LSM Institute), the teaching organisation of Kevin Eakins and myself, out of which we run courses in Living Systems Medicine and Field Control Therapy, is also the first proud owner of the official 'stamp' of the Wisdom Template, denoting its commitment as an organisation to endeavour to stay true to the principles of the Wisdom Foundation as a core aspiration.

I hope that many further organisations, institutions and individuals will also, in the future, come to credit their activities with the stamp of the Wisdom Template, denoting on the one hand their support of these ideals, and on the other, their commitment to aspire to them, in a collective effort to usher in a golden age for life on our beautiful planet.

I take full personal responsibility for the content of this website, so if you find anything with which you disagree, feel free to let me know (please also add the word "wisdom" in the subject box, to help filter your email out of the voluminous spam zone!), and rest assured that these ideas, for better or for worse (I hope for better), can be pinned on me!

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Disclaimer: The information at this website is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor with any questions you may have regarding a medical condition. Any medical-related content on this website comprises only the observations and opinions of the authors and contributors: it does not constitute medical advice to readers.

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