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as it does, will disintegrate into matter, but it carries with it the entire evolution towards that doom
The promise of technology which this Ego has developed for the optimisation of its pleasure feeds on the very forces of the Thanatos that the course of evolution is bound to get derailed and this Ego is bound to destroy the civilisation and the planet itself. Seeing it from the metapsychic truth of our analysis it becomes evident that our civilisation and the planet itself may be saved only by balancing this Thanatos, this death wish with that of the Eros, the life-wish. Ego must give way to the Self. In Self the Ego will realise its true. recurring, cyclical reality, recover its hope of eternity, and reconcile with itself, the fellowmen and the planet itself. Alone such reconciled Ego can give birth to a new social order and a new world order in which the individual, civilisation, the planet and the process of evolution will be in mutual harmony.
SELF, EVOLUTION, LIBERATION The mechanistic world view of the modern period leaves no place for human hope and evolving planetary destiny of man and his civilisation. For such a world is subject to entrophy--the second law of thermodynamicsand is bound to run out one day of its energy supply, relapsing back into the original inert condition of che dead maiter. The mechanistic worldview is the victory of the
Thanatos over Eros. No wonder that in our today's materialistic. consumerist civilisation we see overwhelming weight of the Thanatos, pointing towards the eventual entrophic death of the planet. The mechanistic worldview is a terminal worldview of the Ego : future, individual and collective--has no other option except the entrophic death of the black hole.
In contrast the evolutionary view of cosmos, which now emerges as the transformative framework of the twentieth century, we have seen. is the affirmation of the eternal human hope underlying a civilisational and planetary
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