Change never comes easily, but the impending holocaust the world now faces is helping to raise collective consciousness regarding the alarming rate of destruction caused to the world ecosystem, as well as to the human immune system:
A matter of our survival as a species.
Nationalistic borders are obsolete, as people all over the world become aware of the need to focus constructively on issues of economic justice and the environment. The call for accountability has reached astonishing levels.
As we work toward achieving world peace, the entire global community must strive for consensus on matters of military disarmament, and worldwide adoption of energy efficient and ecologically friendly technologies, as well as major economic and social reforms.
It is interesting that the world is focused on the Middle East, and particularly Mesopotamia and the Tigris Euphrates valley where the world's oldest urban civilization developed around the magnificent Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Humanity is still developing and human civilization must be nurtured globally for the blossoming of human wisdom and it's fruits in peaceful and honest co-habitation.
The great Professor Leonard Shlain, Chief of Laparoscopic Surgery at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco and Associate Professor of Surgery at UCSF), author of "The Alphabet vs The Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image" (1998), offered real hope for the future of humanity through his perspective on the evolution of the human brain: According to Professor Shlain, the RIGHT lobes of the brain first evolved holistic, image-based nurturing, feminine aptitudes, enabling peaceful coexistence, while the LEFT hemisphere developed, in turn, rational, linear, logical or masculine modes of perception, which, consequently, 'upstaged' holistic image-based nurturing aptitudes.
With the introduction of the alphabet, Dr. Shlain believed our logical/linear thinking capacity grew exponentially, and that literacy reinforced the brain's linear, abstract, predominantly masculine left hemisphere at the expense of the holistic, iconic feminine right side: “This shift upset the balance between men and women initiating the disappearance of goddesses, the abhorrence of images, and, in literacy's early stages, the decline of women's political status. Patriarchy and misogyny followed.”
The good news is that we can develop our analytical capacity to the point where we can reengage our visionary capacity, with profound consequences for culture in that our evolving interdisciplinary visionary analytical thinking will be directed to finding 'holistic' solutions to our evolutionary needs.
Professor Shlain encourages us to believe that humanity will evolve the means to achieve harmony between our nurturing feminine qualities and our rational masculine qualities.
We just need more time to put these attributes into practice.
As the twenty-first century unfolds, humanity will be forced to find the will to nurture a new golden age of civilization based on economic justice for all, because that is simply the best choice for the survival of the whole planet. In the coming decades, brilliant people everywhere will emerge to inspire goodwill on all levels of human aspiration in the knowledge that billions of people want to actively share their vision for peace on earth.
Many great contemporary thinkers remind us that nurturing qualities must go hand in hand with intellectual integrity if we are to manifest peace on earth because there can be no true democracy without honesty.
