What is the cause of the inherent separation between human beings?
Question from the Internet:
“Why do I, despite being an outgoing person who is actively part of society, feel completely separated from the human part of humanity, as if I am not even human but an involved spectator?”
I fully sympathize with you as I feel the same. And I suspect, that if we all looked into ourselves honestly, without any rosy illusions, we would all feel the same. After all, it is this kind of “separation”, through a totally independent, egocentric, subjective, and individualistic worldview that we are born with.
And all of humanity’s problems arise from this innate inability of true empathy and association with each other. This is not our “evil” or “sin” at all, human beings were “created” by nature’s evolution this way. Without this independence and the resulting strife and competition, humanity would have never developed and progressed beyond where other developed primates are and have been for millions of years.
On the other hand, if we do not recognize and understand how our inherent nature works, and how potentially self-destructive we are as long as we follow our nature blindly and instinctively, we cannot continue our unique human development — as we will exterminate ourselves.
This is why we need a unique, empirical method, that can teach us and help us practice how to truly feel and internally “embrace” each other — above and against our instinctive separation and mutual rejection.
And it will be specifically this unique duality and contrast between instinctive rejection, distrust, and animosity and consciously acquired mutual integration and collective consciousness that will propel us to the “ truly Human” level of natural evolution.
This is how we will become nature’s only fully conscious, on the one hand, integrated, on the other hand, independent internal observers and equal partners.