Quote: Social Action Requires Looking Past the Separate Self
One of the main factors that leads to global contribution is our ability to overcome our preoccupation with the separate self.
One of the main factors that leads to global contribution is our ability to overcome our preoccupation with the separate self.
“In a recent conference, I had the pleasure of listening to Rick Hansen, neuropsychologist and author of Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom speak about “Taking in the Good.” I wanted to share a few simple steps from his talk to help start your week on a positive note:” - Emanuel Kuntzelman
We need to be very aware of how powerful this heart energy is and its incredible ability to create interference wave patterns. As individuals looking to traverse the spiritual path, we sometimes get so caught up in the “third eye” and crown chakra that we gloss over our connection to the Source located in the heart.”
Understanding that our universe, and life itself, wasn’t an accident but a well-constructed plan, allows us to understand that we have a purpose in our evolution. Our conscious beginning has spiraled out in an evolutionary process, coming full circle where now Homo sapiens are beginning to understand this process of evolution, and that we have the power to evolve ever higher in our own levels of consciousness.
Consciousness has always come first. If that is what happened at the beginning of time, then natural processes follow this same pattern through the spiraling of evolution. The information field conceptualized the universe, a thought created this world, the wave function collapsed and the idea took shape.
I think the negative psychological effects of social and economic Darwinism should also be elaborated upon. Our competitive, random and material world have fostered an underlying philosophy of greed and cynicism that is the primary culprit of civilization’s current predicament.
The transformational key is compassion and cooperation, and not so much individual enlightenment. That is too close to separatism, and there can’t be a bunch of separate selves figuring out the answer. We must have these enlightened selves coming together to create solutions, contributing to the morphogenetic field to make some changes.
Evolution comes about as a process of cooperation and networking, and in the case of the first single celled organisms of life, the original bacteria organized into a higher level by forming colonies, not individual characteristics. They made colonies to perform societal functions to push them to a higher level, which set the foundation for evolving more complex characteristics.