How to Save the World

As Morpheus said in the 'Matrix' 'There'smen who control more wealth than 3 billion people
something wrong--you don't know what it is, buton the planet, and have split us from our
it is there--like a splinter in your mind driving youuniversally connected spirit. They steal from our
mad. It's the world that's been pulled over yournatural spiritual estate, have rendered the planet
eyes to blind you from the truth.' The truth isincoherent and toxic, and are driving us into an
simple: It's that humanity has been imprisoned inabyss.
the mechanized matrix designed by our lesserThe ancient right brain's spiritual structure of
brain.monism is eco-centric. It is literally a sacred,
Our brains have two hemispheres, right and left,miraculous bridge of light between the visible and
each with distinctive functions that are meant toinvisible realms. Illuminating, creative, expansive,
work in tandem. The left-brain is egocentric. Itpoetic and empathic, its view is to unify all
divides and separates and without regard toexistence based on context, compassion, caring,
complex contexts, subtle connections orand cooperation. This is the brain of Golden Ages,
long-term consequences, its focus is short-termfor a new economy of eco-social entrepreneurs,
gain.and for the next 2,000 years.
Its duality sorts existence into hierarchical slots ofThe right brain is the intuitive translator of the
opposites: superior and inferior, physical andinherent, pantheistic spirituality that is archetypal
spiritual, black and white, friend or foe. Lackingimprinted into the deepest fibers of our soul. This
comprehension of life's natural connections, itlife-sanctifying covenant, billions of years old, is
seeks to fix the world by its autocratic andstamped into the DNA of our ancestral memory
fragmenting style: 'you're with us or against us,'that gives us a hunger for reverential relationship
'survival of the fittest,' 'might equals right.' Pittingto nature. The universality of this archetypal
existence into 'us or them' breeds: Nazism,spirituality is depicted by the similar gods and
fascism, militarization, racism, sexism, xenophobia,goddesses, myths, folk stories, art, and images
homophobia, anti-environmentalism, and war.that are found in widely varying cultures
The stratifying, myopic left-brain denies the factthroughout time.
of the unifying principle: that all of Creation is anThe common lexicon of the cosmos, eternity, and
inherently interwoven, interconnected,our soul is symbol. We can read the elegant cave
interdependent whole. Uni-verse means onepaintings of France from 38,000 years ago, or the
metered poem or song. Cosmos means onestories that ancient Egyptians told with their art of
unified, holistic whole. The unbreakable Natural Law5,000 years ago, and they resonate because of
of the Cosmos is order, balance, and equal return.the constant symbols of the underlying secret
What is done to a part is done to the whole. Westory of the cosmos. The astonishing beauty of
cannot escape cause and consequence.ancient Golden Ages, their colossal architecture,
For example, prior to the nuclear fallout fromphilosophy, literature and their way of being, was
Hiroshima, Nagasaki, from nuclear testing, andin many ways richer and more radiant than our
leakage from the nuclear plants, and the nuclearown, because their coherence flowed directly
waste buried in land and at sea, there was nofrom this right-brain connected spirit.
isotope strontium-90 outside of laboratories. NowConnected spirit illuminates the world;
it in inside every person and animal on earth. Indisconnected spirit devolves it. A statement
addition, the billions of tons of Agent Orange,amplified by the past 100 most warring and
defoliants, depleted uranium, pesticides, herbicides,ecologically disastrous years from billions of years
industrial pollution, automobile exhaust that areof global existence.
dumped into the environment, and the toxicAll around the globe today, from every hamlet to
specters that ghost from our landfills, haunt theevery high-rise, connected spirit is the quality we
entire eco-system, including our bodies. We arewould, intelligently, most highly value and prize. It is
the environment. 3,000 Americans die fromthe quintessential spirit of Renaissance. The only
eco-related cancers each day. You, me, our lovedspirit that will save and evolve humanity, and
ones are threatened by 500 disconnected, myopicenhance all life on the planet, today.