Building true Collective Human consciousness right here, right now

Question from the Internet:

“Why does collective human consciousness still not care about “not waging war upon each other”? When it’s so plain to see that “to redirect our attention (away from war)” is the only real way out of this mess?”

A true “collective Human consciousness” would obviously come to that decision. But at this stage, we do not have a true “collective Human consciousness.

At the moment — at best — we tolerate each other, making shaky, temporary connections, alliances with a knife hidden behind our backs waiting for the opportunity to ruthlessly compete, fight for success and survival at each other’s expense.

If we needed any further proof of this we got it through the self-serving, self-justifying, subjective individualistic and nationalistic reactions and “solutions” during the pandemic.

By birth, we are programmed to exist as separate, unique individuals, that inherently feel that the whole world, everybody in it exist only to serve them. We all sense, perceive reality from our own, personal, introverted point of view, we are incapable of truly feeling others, empathizing with others. Thus the chance of ruthless competition, war is always in the air.

For a true, collective Human consciousness we would need to change ourselves, our attitude towards the world, and others, so we could build an unprecedented, qualitatively much higher connection network as the basis for that collective consciousness.

From “individual cancer cells” that live only for their own sake we would need to turn into healthy cells of a single, fully integrated body that can comprise that collective consciousness, the systemic vision we can never reach as individuals.

Most importantly this is neither mysticism nor is it science fiction, such collective consciousness is not recommended by political ideology, dogma or religion or New Age spirituality. This collective consciousness — our problem-solving ability and survival depend on — is necessitated by Nature’s evolution and the Natural system’s laws that sustain balance and homeostasis life depends on.

Basically we have to repeat — but this time consciously — what Nature has already gone through billions of years ago when single cells combined into multi-cellular organisms for the obvious evolutionary advantage. But Human beings have to repeat this feat consciously, proactively, by their own efforts.

This will lift up to the peak of evolution’s pyramid, as the conscious integration with each other — that facilitates our integration into Nature — will make us Nature’s conscious, objective partners and observers.

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I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.