How did this happen? How have we became so isolated from ourselves, each other, and the world that surrounds us?
Civilization.
That invention invited us out of the wilderness, where we once all lived seamlessly with everything else. What started thousands of years ago has lead to our modern fragmentation.
“The notion of a separate organism is clearly an abstraction, as is also its boundary. Underlying all this is unbroken wholeness even though our civilization has developed in such a way as to strongly emphasize the separation into parts.”
In our natural state it was just known as "life", or "everything". Then civilization, which by definition separates us from Nature in order to give us control over its workings.
Modern scientists and philosophers have tried to put it all back together, but have mostly just forced us more apart.
Not the brilliant physicist David Bohm. His lifelong quest was to illustrate the underlying structure of reality, and he thought that structure was what everything in the Universe had in common.
Through it, all mind, all matter was joined in a unified whole, and every part contained the whole within it.
But can we recapture our awareness of this wholeness when all we have known is social and psychological fragmentation?
Our continued existence is what is at stake if we can't, as a race, transcend current fragmented ways of thinking and acting.
“Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus, as is now well known, this way of life has brought about pollution, destruction of the balance of nature, over-population, world-wide economic and political disorder, and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most of the people who have to live in it.”
One way to begin to put the fragments back together for ourselves is to watch the film "Infinite Potential: The Life & Ideas of David Bohm".
I highly recommend putting aside the ultimately unimportant mundane considerations of life that we are all so obsessed with for a bit, and view this mind-expanding work.
It is time for the human family to get serious about unity and wholeness, and the only way that will happen is by transcending our current state of consciousness.
Learning from "The Life & Ideas of David Bohm" is a good place to start.
Starting today I am off social media, little to no news and limited tv. I'm taking time (planning on for the rest of this year) to regroup, recharge and connect with the oneness of all. Thank you for the link, I put that on my watch next list.
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