The Organism Of Humankind: Explorations of the Rising Global
Culture.
Experts from the full spectrum of disciplines and professions agree that our
world is in the midst of the greatest leap forward in understanding and
consciousness in human history. As political, economic, scientific and
technological systems evolve, men, women and children are reaching out to one
another across the globe, exploring new ideas, new world views, new paradigms.
As borders fade between previously separate peoples, places and processes, it is
becoming clearer that scientific, medical, and spiritual truths reflect one another.
Central to the current discussion about creating a sustainable future society
are the global challenges looming before us. We are now being called upon as
never before to come together to create a new awareness – as the community of
humankind. In the midst of these challenges, we are discovering that in fact the
human body is a perfect metaphor for the world around us. Both our planet and
our human bodies are sustainable living organisms made up of distinct components
bound together by a web of intricate and delicate relationships. The diseases
that are epidemic today, therefore, carry with them the same patterns as we see
in our society as a whole.
Our body is a living system – a "community of cells" – working
together in a web of relationships. Likewise, we as the community of
humankind are a living system, a macrocosm of our own individual
bodies.
As we embrace the future, within ourselves, and within our global
community, we can re-ignite the spark of wonder and hope that we
seem to have lost along the way. We can implement profound solutions
with joy and gratefulness, as different aspects of a single shift in
awareness, rather than struggling to find and implement solutions to
seemingly separate world problems. The key to this new potential
lies in understanding relationships: within ourselves (mind, body,
spirit) and among ourselves (language, location, politics, etc).
In the wake of these new realities, new
possibilities are emerging – for us, and for future generations.
From some distant place, in our collective
unconscious, our children's children are listening.
What are we telling them by what we are doing
today?
