Asleep Inside The Matrix?
We all share a common psychological environment that many of us take for granted most of the time. We underestimate the impact of human thought worldwide, neglecting to consider the power of destructive thought and “mental pollution” on a sensitive and responsive biosphere. Within an integral world and also within a total integral universe, everything counts. How we are taught or conditioned to think affects the way our species manages cultural development and that culture’s subsequent intervention into Earth’s living systems.
For the most part, humanity unknowingly operates from within a state of cultural hypnosis. From early childhood, our experiences are guided to conform to a specific cultural norm; any anomalies are corrected, and the corrections are then reinforced through socializing concepts and processes such as family, school, friends and such. Thus, our “world” is often presented to us through the lens of specific cultural filters, and each of us is literally hypnotized from infancy to perceive the world in the same way that people in our culture perceive it. This is a very powerful behavioral socializing method.
To break from this indoctrinated perceptual environment is extremely difficult, and beset with personal problems arising from peer pressure and ties to friends and family, and a shock may be necessary to catalyze our own change of mind. Events such as near-death experiences are often cited as examples that radically change people’s worldview. What we may be experiencing on a collective level during our planetary evolutionary transition is a near-death experience as a species. If this doesn’t shock us awake, then we may as well sleep forever.
It is no accident that our recent letters from the publisher have centered on the topic of planetary evolutionary transition, because many of us are already beginning to think, feel, and even act differently as a result of the current and impending changes. We’re moving into an understanding that there is more to life than work, money, TV, food, vacations, shopping malls and economies.
Those that are no longer thoroughly plugged in to mainstream culture are feeling more alienated by it and have begun to seek out more fulfilling ways to occupy their time during their short stay on planet Earth. We witness this regularly, mostly echoed within the ranks of the younger generation. As we conduct the day-to-day business of publishing this magazine and other related activities, we meet many people each month and engage in plenty of intriguing conversations about the state of affairs and our part in it. Have you asked yourself what exactly is your part in all of this? Are you making even some small contribution to impact the course of your local chapter of humanity? …or are you completely asleep, inside The Matrix?
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