The temperature of our planet is rising, and I\u2019m not talking about global warming. I\u2019m talking about the rising social anger temperature and its potential to create a social, civil, and economic collapse. Collapse is the corrosive erosion of social, civil, and economic systems that support human civilization. It happens over time, and once that collapse begins, reversing it is extremely difficult and complex. It requires a change in the consciousness of the species that initially created those systems. As we\u2019ll see below, human civilization has begun the process of collapse.<\/p>\n
Growing hatred of \u201cother\u201d created by disinformation, growing invisibility and disenfranchisement of the poor and middle class in countries around the world, massive and growing wealth inequality, increasing political polarization, political extremism, rigid tribal political fundamentalism, growing distrust of governments, distrust of science, distrust of covid vaccines, racism, mass shootings\u2026\u2026the list is virtually endless. And all of the above have been created by the #1 threat to the future survival of humanity: the collective, immature, unevolved ego-consciousness of society and humanity\u2019s unconscious primitive early childhood conditioning.<\/p>\n
Yes, you heard me correctly. The most dangerous threat to human civilization\u2019s future and humanity\u2019s survival as a species is the collective, immature, unevolved ego-consciousness of humanity and its primitive early childhood conditioning.<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s take a look at primitive ego thinking and why it\u2019s so dangerous and why it needs to be evolved, matured, and \u201ctamed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here is a brief list:<\/p>\n
Little did he know in that childhood moment of insight that he was describing humanity\u2019s greatest threat; our human separateness from nature, the universe, and the oneness or interconnected, interdependent essence of all aspects of reality. Today, we describe that primitive ego-sense of separateness from the rest of reality as the creator of global warming and global climate change.<\/p>\n
Even more importantly, the illusion of separateness shuts down our ability to embrace empathy and compassion for \u201cother.\u201d When we embrace the connectedness of all of reality, it changes the way we experience the world. It changes us! We become more compassionate. More empathic. And like the wisdom embraced in indigenous cultures, we begin to see the sacredness of \u201cspirit\u201d embedded in all of reality. We begin to embrace systemic thinking and the interconnectedness and interdependence of our \u201cself\u201d with all other aspects of reality.<\/p>\n
The only question now is, will we embrace systemic, interdependent thinking in time to save our planet? Or will we continue to toward social, civil, and economic collapse and likely extinction as the most invasive species that has ever existed on our limited planet?<\/p>\n
Stated differently, will the cancer of immature, early childhood conditioning be terminal for our planet and our species, or will we learn to tame our collective primitive ego-consciousness and evolve into a more evolved species in time to create a viable and sustainable future for ourselves on this limited planet?<\/p>\n
Given that we are currently heading in the wrong direction, we will look deeper into these critical questions in future blogs.<\/p>\n
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