Getting to know others

Question from the Internet:

“Why does any human being want to know another?”

This is a just question. By default, we feel ourselves as independent individuals, that try to survive and succeed as much as we can in a seemingly hostile world, where we have to achieve succeess and survival against others and nature, at their expense. So we are interested in others only to the extent we can benefit from them or to the extent we need to protect ourselves from them.

And as our self-serving, self-justifying and subjective ego developed throughout history, this alienation, distrust and animosity towards others only grew, reaching today’s total disconnection, each person existing within their own individualistic and subjective spheres, especially since we can now conduct most of our activities virtually.

On the other hand though, we have developed into a globally integrated and totally interdependent world, where, in effect, we have all become like individual cells of a single living organism. And this is exactly what nature’s integrated system is expecting from us and puts increasing pressure on us for.

Thus the people who we consider “others” have actually become “our own parts”, parts of our integral being, mutually responsible and mutually complementing cells like ourselves. This is not a natural way of seeing others and the world. This is something we will have to learn and practice, so the notion of existing in a mutually integrated and interdependent world will not remain simply a slogan, an idea and propaganda politicians and influencers use to promote their selfish agendas, but we will actually and “viscerally” feel how much interconnected and interdependent we have become.

Then we will have no problem accepting the need to get to know each other more. This will lead to a state when we will actually care for and become interested in others more than we care for and are interested in ourselves. We will start to feel and experience reality through the thoughts, desires and viewpoints of others.

This will also lead to a completely new, truly objective and composite perception of reality, that will also liberate us from the inherently egocentric and subjective limitations of time and space.

So apart from the practical survival necessity, there are many added advantages of “getting to know one another” more deeply, to the extent of basically forgetting about ourselves and existing through others. And that will even liberate us from sensing physical life or death whatsoever, since we will not relate our conscious existence to the state or presence of a physical body.

This is practical and realistic transition we can all go through, here and now, by using the available and open, purposeful and highly practical method.