Or: Why and what we can and need to do to make the whole sustainable?
Sociopaths/psychopaths are winning on the planet.
Okay, that is not the whole story, because the more correct would be: sociopaths are winning in the short term to get for themselves what they want, and are destroying the world as we know in the long term.
The situation is that humans with their tool making ability have changed the natural laws of evolution and are now capable to extinct themselves and everyone else with them. Tools break the symmetry of power in natural evolution.
In order for the whole (body-mind, humanity, ecosystems, earth), to be thriving and healthy, there needs to be a balance between will, mind and heart in the humans.
Will here is energy and action, discipline to DO something, drive.
Will can be developed if it is currently underpowered. Will can be trained so you may have more actual choice over your actions, rather than going into a default mode, acting out of habit.
Mind here is knowledge/science, understanding of how things work, strategies, experience, insights and learning.
This too can be developed if underpowered.
Heart here is caring for the whole, feeling ever more deeply for ever wider circles of beings, becoming more and more inclusive in your caring.
Deepening in caring can be developed.
Now let us look at what is happening when even one part is not developed or not coupled with the 2 others.
Strong in Will and Mind leads to selfish doing what is best in the short term for one’s self, without much regard or caring for anyone or anything else. It will get things done to further their economic goals (win in the short term), ultimately leading to the destruction of everything. (remember, the tools for total destruction are available.)
Strong in Mind and Heart, but no Will, is a soft-hearted , conscientious, caring, but ineffective scientist, unable to take action.
Strong in Heart and Will is the activist, however, without knowledge, without a good strategy, they will be ineffective and the military industrial complex and the corporations will win every time.
This is trying to put in words my take-away understanding of some of what I heard during a podcast with Arjuna Ardagh and Daniel Schmachtenberger.
The reason I love it was that all I ever was able to articulate was: the democrats need to grow some balls. As you can probably intuit, the entire system is more complex, but I still thought it clarifying to think about it in those three pillars.
It is time to consciously create and take responsibility for the health of the whole. For that all three of those pillars need to be developed and coupled.
Interestingly, this balance feels also equally necessary for the health and evolution of our personal bodymindspirt.
In the end, it has to be a win/win …any system where there is a win/loose, we are not gonna solve our situation.
I will end this with a quote by Daniel Schmachtenberger which he made during the podcast in relation to learning deeper caring, visiting a factory farm, after seeing how animals live on factory farms
“…fuck, is there a model of my life that feels like a success to me as long as these animals are in this condition….?”
You can find out more about Daniel Schmachtenberger here: https://civilizationemerging.com/about/