ISBN: 1462850383

We arrive in this world with a BMW mind in a VW Beetle body, struggling to be a BMW in a culture of Volkswagen Beetles. As complex living systems, we adapt to our environment. Alas, most … Plus…

We arrive in this world with a BMW mind in a VW Beetle body, struggling to be a BMW in a culture of Volkswagen Beetles. As complex living systems, we adapt to our environment. Alas, most of us become VW Beetles. We expend our optimum learning years by age 10 under pressure to conform to a socially acceptable level. Through this experience we develop our unique identity. Buried somewhere under all this VW experience is our real, BMW self. The evolutionary history of complex living systems is survival based. This is our primary directive, adapt or die. This instinctive process is essentially automatic, requiring no conscious thought. A minute or two ago in evolutionary time, we began evolution of a logical, compassionate cap over our primitive brain that expresses empathy and compassion. We now find ourselves in a chaotic state of conflict between anger and compassion, both essential, but requiring balance for our survival. Our technology has developed to a level for potential mass destruction and perhaps even extinction events. It would seem that survival behavior that was our savior in the past is likely to be our destruction in the future. Evolution to this point has provided us with anger as a dominant emotion to energize our body for battle. Our compassionate nature is still an infant. We need to seek a new balance between anger and compassion. To give us time to do this we must fall back on the historical theme of moderation in all things. As complex living systems, we fi occult,psychology,religion,religion and spirituality,spirituality Occult, Xlibris Corporation LLC<