Existence in a global and integral world – and how we can survive

Question from the Internet:

“What does it mean to exist in a global and integral world?”

We exist in a global and integral world. And actually we have always existed in a global and integral world, except that we were not aware of it before.

Until now, humanity has developed in a blind and instinctive way, automatically driven by our inherently egocentric, subjective and individualistic nature. Human beings – even the early “hunter-gatherers” – instinctively feel themselves as separate, standalone individuals, that have to constantly fight and compete in a hostile world, trying to survive and succeed at the expense of others.

When we look at nature superficially, from our usual, self-serving and self-justifying point of view, we see the same. We see how animals and even plants compete and fight for survival, the stronger gunts and consumes the weak. What we do not see and do not want to see is that in nature, this fight and competition unfolds according to a carefully planned and conducted choreography, each element and part playing out their predetermened and precisely governed role and purpose in the system. Each element and part exactly what they have to do, in order to contribute to and sustain the general balamce and homeostasis of the whole system, without which life and optimal development would not be possible.

Animals consume others as it is their role, and they do it in a way that they help the natural selection of the species of the prey, while providing nutrition to the rest of the system as well. Animals always remain within the optimal parameters of natural necessities and available resources, and they stay within and preserve their natural habitat.

Human beings are not keeping any form of natural balance. We are not even aware of the general balance of nature we would need to keep, we are unaware of our actual necessities and we have no idea about available resources. We simply want to accumulate and consume everything possible for ourselves without any limits.

Our human system – especially today – is based on reckless and unlimited quantitative growth, and we are in constant and destructive war with each other and with nature.

As our population and technological development advanced, now we have reached a state, a saturation, where the whole system is out of balance and we find ourselves on the brink of self-destruction.

Only in this dire state did we start to recognize and talk about existence in a global world. Only now do we start to awaken to the total interdependence that desvribe our world. And only now did we started to feel, that if we continue existing according to our inherent nature, we will not survive.

In fact, we are all totally interconnected and interdependent elements or cells of the same living organism that includes humanity and the whole natural system. But as long as we feel ourselves as separate and independent parts that are forced to exist and survive at each other’s expense, we exist and act like cancer cells. All of us.

Thus we urgently need a special method – based on the laws, principles and mutually integrated template of nature – that can help us change our self-perception and general perception of reality. Acknowledging that we are living in a global and integral world, talking about it and making theories about it is not enough. We have to develop and acquire true and “visceral” sensations and emotuional impressions about this mutual integration and interdependence, so we would start approaching others not as “others”, but as our own, integral parts.

Only when we practically and “viscerally” feel ourselves as a single, inevitably and irrevocably united living organism, when we know and feel without any doubts that our individual health, success, prosperity and survival is intimately intertwined with the health, success, prosperity and survival of the whole system will our viewpoint, thinking and behaviour change.

Then our instinctive self-love and self-service with evolve into the “love and service” of others according to thge ancient, often mentioned but previously never implemented principle of “love your neighbour as yourself”. Then it will become possible and practical to start loving and serving “our neighbour” since that “other” has become my own integral part.

Obviously this is not going to unfold overnight, with 8 billion people, all at once. But it can start with a “critical minority” of people that are already sensitive and willing enough to go through this unprecedented human revolution, with the help of the above-mentioned method. And as the general, global human society will continue to decline and collapse, people will get softer and more desperate day-by-day. So when this critical minority – that has already started forming – becomes strong enough to show a positive example, they will be able to pull the rest of human behind them.