True freedom in connection

There is no personal freedom in Integral Nature

We are going through a shocking revelation that will take a while to digest, accept.

As more and more events, crisis situations keep showing us again, and again, we have evolved into a globally integrated world where each of us depends on everybody else and we are totally responsible for one another.

“Globalization” as we call it is not a man-made construct for markets, global business. It is our new evolutionary state necessitated by nature’s developmental plan. Evolution relentlessly drives the whole Natural system — we also exist in, we are also integral part of — towards a full, most optimal integration.

So the personal freedom we imagined before, fought for so many times does not actually exist. We are all but integral cells of a single, fully interconnected Human super-organism.

At this stage this revelation shocks us, we find this idea revolting since all our upbringing, education, social norms were telling us that we are all independent, we are all free to do whatever we want, the world is our oyster….

On the other hand, even logically we can understand that this kind of misunderstood, misinterpreted “personal freedom” has no place in Nature. How can one element be free to do whatever it wants, when the whole system is integrated and survives based on the mutually responsible and mutually complementing balance, homeostasis between all of its parts?

The moment parts of the system start behaving individually — for example in our own biological bodies — sickness, cancer, death occurs.

True Freedom is liberation from the Self

Still, it will take some time — either through increasing blows from Nature’s system; or with the help of a special, purposeful, and practical educational method — until we will understand, moreover accept that this is so. Then we will also understand that our actual true freedom is liberation from our inherently egocentric, subjective cocoons, “Plato’s Caves” we were born into, from where we see a very limited, distorted, hostile, personal version of reality.

Then when we explore our true freedom — existing, tasting everything through the desires, viewpoints of others until we learn how to enter, roam the whole system without any egocentric, subjective limitations of time, space and motion — we will understand what we were missing while we were chasing, holding onto “personal freedom”.