The contemporary western worldview has had tremendous success in its investigations of the physical world, discovering many of its mysteries and applying this knowledge to human goals. We have survived the harshness of winter, decreased suffering via medical breakthroughs, and learnt to connect electronically with people who live far away. Simultaneously, we have used our knowledge to develop weapons of devastation that may now easily destroy life as we know it. Our use of modern technologies to extract resources from the planet is threatening the ecosystem. We are a species that has lost touch with nature, gone berserk in the pursuit of its goals at the expense of other living creatures and the land that has provided us with life.
Reversing this tendency will be a monumental job. Even as we acknowledge the danger we have created, the entrenched interests that stand in the way of finding a balance in our connection with environment remain strong. Massive corporate, scientific, educational, and military organizations consume billions of dollars in material commodities and maintain a paralyzing stagnation that is impossible to reverse. For international business, the globe appears to be nothing more than a massive market to be split among the most astute entrepreneurs.
However, there are psycho-spiritual vested interests that oppose change and may be much more powerful than financial ones. These interests are mirrored in the belief that the physical principles we know explain everything, and that if other creatures exist in the universe, they would act similar to us. The SETI (Search for Alien Intelligence) project, which works on the premise that extraterrestrial intelligence may be discovered by sending radio waves out into the cosmos, exemplifies this bias. The idea that superior intelligences may not choose to connect with us via such a little or restricted technical aperture, preferring instead a larger opening of our awareness, does not seem to have been considered....<<<Read More>>>...
