The Audit

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

When an agency wants it books checked it first performs an internal audit and on occasion hires an independent Certified Public Accountant (CPA) to audit its books. That way if the internal audit is flawed due to subjectivity it can get an objective response of its financial practices. The CPA will also make recommendations to the firm as to level of accountability and effectiveness of the agency’s fiduciary practices.


It would be a wise thing for a healthy and well rounded people to have the desire and ability to audit their own behavior and actions. In other words a group or individual must have the ability to perform critical self reflection and analysis. This action is comparable to a financial audit of an agency. It takes courage to take stock and trade of certain behaviors, thoughts and actions.

Sometimes there is an emotional attachment and affinity to certain actions especially if those action had previous been demonstrated by people we are relative to. For example our parents may have given us advice that though it sounded good wasn’t necessarily
true or effective. A child is concrete literal and must trust the advice of a caregiver even it such advice is not in their best interest. The parent may not be aware, as is often the case, of their not knowing.

Here is an example: whom would have guessed the consequences of the so called integrationist movement in 1965 after the last of the great civil rights laws were passed?
After so much promised and investment of energy and lives to gain social accommodations and so called equality who would have guessed that in 2009 the results would be as dismal as they are for a great many people of color?

It is hard to think that our parents could have been wrong, but just ask yourself this question. Have you ever been wrong about anything? How often? If your answer is yes read on, if it is no, stop, there is no hope for you and you are the perfect example of the problem I am illuminating.

Here are another set of questions one may want to consider. Have you ever audited the behavior and actions of your parent and their generation? One is from the microcosmic point of view, the other is from a macrocosmic point of view. Have you critically analyzed the cause and effects on you personally and on your group and generation as a whole? Did you do so objectively? OK ,so what tools did you use? What modalities did you employ? How did you measure it? What were your results?

[Clifford Black]

Al, this that you are asking everyone to engage themselves into is not 'JUST' an IMPORTANT matter of concern IT IS AN IMPARITIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MR.> Black

[Gene Williams]

Self-Inventory is very important, and, in this case, it is best to be your own worst critic, in order to keep an objective perspective. Constantly modeling our thoughts, words, and actions to reflect our highest ideals and intentions.

[Aaron (Al) Lewis]

M. Scott Peck, the author of the best selling book, "The Road Less Traveled" had two workable definitions of evil. One being anyone incapable or unwilling to perform critical self analysis. The other, he said, was interfering with the spiritual growth of another to bolster your own egoic needs. When I first read it and didn't quite understand why he chose that particular definition.

I redefined, I do have that power, the latter for myself to mean an act of evil is to assume I know what is best for another person and then act upon that assumption. I have since come to understand the first definition to mean when a person or a people refuses to measure their own actions, reactions and behaviors they have a propensity to lie to themselves about reality. When you combine the two you have an incubator for pure evil.

That allows them to justify and validate their own insanity often doing harm to those they are relative to.