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The Illusion of Separation
As mentioned above, the idea of separation from the whole of Oneness is the concept we must find a way to heal.
Absolutely.
The illusion of separation:
When does it first occur?
Specialists inform us that it happens to each human infant at some point when he realizes the “punishing breast” that will refuse the be there 24/7 for him is misbehaving.
At first, the baby is completely in bliiss, knowing that he is a part of everything in the universe, content - if he is raised in the tribal, traditional way, that is - the way we see all the other great apes still rearing their young, as constantly held appendages.
Leave an infant ape alone, whether human or one of the other great apes' infants, and he will experience awful anguish.
At any rate, the infant at one time or another, depending upon his own circumstances, experiences the pain of separation first either as a fearful and hated experience or as the recalcitrant breast.
Then, he sees it as a “transitional object”.
He often hits it as he begins to feed again, since it was tardy.
Later, the idea of this transitional object is trasferred to, say, his first teddy bear, which he alternately loves and punishes, as we can witness in looking at any child's dearest toy.
This, if not evolved by the environment and training of the individual, progresses into a lifelong war against all other objects, be they inantimate or live ones.
The degrees of separation vary, of course, and of the reactions to circumstances.
Other factors like head bangs and nutrition, the behavior observed and absorbed around him, and so on, influence him.
How to channel this back into a realization that we are all One?
In the face of constant commercial bombarding that reinforce this objectification of others, complete with entire nations' imploring us to view the outside world with xenophobic eyes, the opposite sex with a philosophy to dominate and to exploit, and the bare greed fed by incessant corporate mandates to buy, buy, buy, regardless of need or of the ethics of how the goods are obtained or supplied, let alone of the results of such ever-advancing destruction of our planetary resources and the intense suffering of billions of innocent beings and the starvation of ever more millions of human ones, we see a portrait of the condition of the human race which has tied the entire world to its' own suicidalism.
That is the picture we have to work with.
To carve out of this scenario a means to convey and to popularize doing the very things that will save our planet is the quest.
First, to let everyone know that we are all one in this way - our fates, individually and collectively, are tied to the fate of the world as a whole - and, since the world dying will interfere with the indulging of the senses and the stokining of the appetites, then it should ring a bell, even through the hard heads full of denial.
Direct attentions to this one fact, and we can open the minds since this “inconvenient truth” interferes with the selfish concerns of the masses.
Attempts to suddenly spiritualize everyone might help with a certain area of the populace, but even the most cosmic nations, like India, for instance, are now falling victim to the corporate machinery, and they are no longer a shining example of compassion they used to be. Also, the millenia of religiosity that has sought to placate the static condition of poverty and the immobility of the castes has had an enormous apathetic effect on thought in most of the Asian nations, and now, even in these pods, we note that in many cases, enlightenment is seen as a reason not to act, rather than as an energizing influence that can save the world.
But can they, nations already acquainted with the concept of Oneness, be motivated to direct their energies toward world-saving? Do they have the luxury of time in order to even think about it?
Steps To Take
Young people in the West are quickening the pace toward the four things that will save our planet - Veganism, Being Child-Free and/or adopting, Ecoizing, and Internationalism.
Many have already decided to live healthily from an ethical point of view that the religions had dropped the ball on.
As they had become only institutionalized ways of sanctioning everything they profess to stand against, and merely are instruments for cruelty, greed, war, and hatred, and do not even open their doors, despite their tax-exempt status, to the homeless any more, they lost most of their congregations to the Universal concepts I am outlining here.
They, the major religions, had lost their own souls.
There are major movements toward the actual spiritual and away from the old, outdated and impure, the apologists for anything a government or a greedy individual wishes to do,
skipping over the essential parts of any religions - the Compassion preached by their founders.
Now, people want something that smacks of authentic spiritualism, that speaks to the soul.
Now, the lines are blurred between the old teachings, back into the original inspiration - to Compassion.
The world has gotten so entangled with the ownership of things that before were seen as sacred and belonging to everyone, including to other beings, like the land, like resources, like the trees and the air and the water - all of which are under attack and polluted by a small number of people who gain from the spoiling of the world while the majority of us want it to thrive.
We no longer share with the hungry or the needy and the grain that used to go to the famine-stricken people now is fed to cows, along with the grain and vegetable-growing arable land given over to cattle grazing that would fotherwise eed every human being on Earth. In America, even the publicly owned land is leased out to private concerns.
There are so many menacing policies, that it will take a book or two to sort them all out, but there are many excellent ones already on the shelves, some of which I will cite on my own blog, Ocean's Ocean, and also on some of my pods here at Zaadz.
At the risk of sounding like a Cassandra or a Biblical prophet, “crying in the wilderness”, and to get back to How?, I offer this - there already is a great movement forward, toward solutions.
Whether or not we have time for these ideas to sink into the populace or whether we, in our diverse ways, through the old myths we like to adhere to, from the Apocaylypse to Ragnarok, from Hellish retribution to the Kali Yuga, continue to think, oh, well, what's the use? And to make ourselves lazily ineffective, I think we all should make huge efforts toward saving the world.
We should use our own talents, our resources, our time and energy to popularize the four measures above that will save the Earth and all life on it, while there's still a small margin of time.
Against the commercial concerns, against the native denial and torpor of our species, against the hopelessness we all feel, and against the apathy, the negativity and the hedonistic urge to party while the ship goes down with all hands on deck, let's stimulate everyone into action!
Join me at Kai's How to Save the World pod and contribute ideas there too!
 How to Save the World
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