Sensing and seeing the world beyond instinctive self-interest

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readNov 2, 2022

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Question from the Internet:

“How does one relate to one’s self, family, society, and nature?”

By default, we relate to the world through a 100% self-centred, subjective, self-serving and self-justifying worldview and calculation. We all sense ourselves at the centre of the Universe, and we expect this Universe — and in it everybody and everything — to serve our calculations, needs and desires.

This is how we are born; it is not our “sin” or fault; we simply cannot comprehend or perceive the world in any other way. We do not even understand and have no clue about seeing and sensing the world “outside” of us beyond our instinctive self-interest.

If it was not for the globally integrated and fully interdependent world, we evolved into, where we are experiencing constantly worsening and more and more devastating blows and crisis situations with a threat of seemingly inevitable self-destruction, we would have never actually recognized the dangerous and explosive incompatibility between our inherent “inner software” and our actual, evolutionary existential conditions.

As today more and more people start to recognize that by blindly and instinctively following our original operating software, we will simply not survive, there is a general desire and need developing in masses of people towards changing and further developing ourselves. More and more people tangibly feel and understand now that if I want to survive, and we all want to survive, we will have to develop previously unfelt and unknown abilities to feel, calculate and act beyond and against our instinctive self-interest.

Thus we urgently need a unique, purposeful and highly practical educational method that can teach us the ability to sense reality and other people “outside of ourselves”, beyond our self-interest, beyond all our instinctive differences and distrust.

Our individual and collective problem-solving abilities and survival depend on developing these new skills and abilities!

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Zsolt Hermann
Zsolt Hermann

Written by 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.

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