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Vol. XIX, No. 1
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Is Man at a pathological state ?
The external liberation the Western civilisation has achieved, especially its economic and technological power, brings the planet and the evolutionary process itself to a mighty disequilibrium. Seen from the meta-psychic point of view, a serious pathological condition, both in the North and the South, is threatening human survival. Rejecting the meta-cosmos transcending the empirical reality, refusing the progression from the Ego to the Self, which we saw had taken place in the East, the Western civilisation chokes the very evolutionary process and the forward movemont of mankind. Its collective Ego, we saw, fails to move from the oral stage of permissive consumption and regressive narcissism.
And in the South, in view of its perennial scarcity and existential threat, human life loses all sense of coherence and meaning. The collective inferiority complex accumulated over centuries and the acute frustration brewing up in the minds of individuals and societies, brewing in the collective Subconscious of the South is bound to erupt out sooner or later unleashing forces more lethal than all the nuclear megatons stored up during the cold war period.
Will mankind succeed io healing this pathological condition, in the North and in the South, collectively? Will the Western civilisation be able to remove the blockag the path of evolution liberating creativity and distributing it more equitably so that mankind will be able to achieve its evolutionary transition from Ego to Self, from the biological to the psychological and spiritual levels, bringing harmony between the inward and outward aspects of reality ? We need an egalitarian, liberational new world order
We can address these mighty questions only by evolving a broad meta-historic and meta-psychic worldview that has a place for the idea of human liberation upheld by religions both of the East and the West. Individual liberation as the Enlightenment of Self
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