[…] solutions to the various global crises certainly demand efforts on the ecological-economic-financial [and technological] front, which is where most efforts are now being concentrated. But it’s a losing proposition without a corresponding shift in worldviews that will allow citizens and their governments to perceive the greater advantage in the lesser death (the surrender of some sovereignty for the greater good).
Tribal consciousness will not do; mythic-imperialism will surrender nothing; ethnocentric cleansing could care less about a worldcentric consensus. Mythic-membership is and always has been perfectly willing to sacrifice the lives of its true believers (and thus even more so the lives of nonbelievers) in order to advance the cause of the One True God, and if that means global suicide in exchange for life eternal, well, that’s a small price, no? And magical blood cleansing would rather take its ethnic tribal self, and the world, into oblivion than mix with unpure tribes.
Thus, without in any way denying the crucial importance of the ecological and economic and financial factors in the world-demanding transformation, let us not forget that they all rest ultimately on a correlative transformation in human consciousness: the global embrace, and its pluralistic world-federation, can only be seen, and understood, and implemented, by individuals with a universal and global vision-logic, where the new scarce resources involve not only material-economic shortages, but the resources of a meaning-in-life that can no longer be found in self or tribe or race or nation, but will finds its context, its therapia, its omega, and its release, in a worldcentric embrace through which runs the blood of a common humanity and beats the single heart of a very small planet struggling for its own survival, and yearning for its own release into a deeper and truer tomorrow.
