The highly respected author and biologist Edward O. Wilson, in a recent interview with
The Wall Street Journal, mused that a new basis for spiritual values might be found, not
in the usual religious sources, but in what he sees as the inspiring story of human origins
and history.

“We need to create a new epic based on the origins of humanity,'' he said, adding:
''Homo sapiens have had one hell of a history! And I am speaking both of deep history -
evolutionary, genetic history - and then, added on to that and interacting with it, the
cultural history recorded for the past 10,000 years or so.''

That is what we are going to do—we are going to take a completely new look at how the
world works and that will include human civilization and its development. In the
process, we will discover a dynamic that has existed among and within modern human
populations since their emergence over 100,000 years ago. We will also see that the same
dynamic operates in the physical world. We are going to marry the two worlds, human
civilization and the atom, and what we see will probably surprise you—they are
behaving exactly the same. If you understand one, you understand the other. And there
is something else you will see as well. Not only could this discussion potentially reorient
your view of the world, it is also going to be fun and exciting.

Basically we are going to discover one very important variable that has been overlooked
in the study of modern human beings, and that variable is going to change our view of
everything. In the epilogue to Guns, Germs, and Steel, author and scientist Jared
Diamond writes, “The challenge now is to develop human history as a science, on a par
with acknowledged historical sciences such as astronomy, geology, and evolutionary
biology.” That is precisely what we will do, and as we proceed, we will be able to see
how this new knowledge will aid us in understanding the dynamics operating at any
moment in history and in our contemporary world.

Discovering a dynamic at work is energizing. Not seeing the dynamic that is operating
costs us in incalculable ways, depriving us of potential motivation, further discovery,
and creative production. If we can break down some initial barriers, we can push over
more and more.

We need a new more realistic way of looking at human civilization and human society—
more objective and less sentimental. But here is the paradox—if we approach our study 
objectively, we are going to find that the whole experience actually produces more 
sentiment. The truth usually does. Our efforts to ‘figure everything out’ with the current
paradigm are doomed just as pre-Copernican Europe’s were when it tried to be
‘scientific’. We cannot possibly see what is going on with our present model. If we do
not understand the beginnings and development of our modern human foundation, we
have no chance of understanding the present.

Let’s see if we can’t figure out some answers that have eluded us. Presently, as opposed
to early modern humans, we have a very disjointed view of reality. Theirs was more
connected, and their world was more harmonious as well, with each other and with
nature. Let’s determine why we have drifted apart since those early times other than the
obvious reasons of increased population. Is something else at work?

I think we have been asking the wrong questions and looking for the answers in the
wrong places. We have been looking within the current paradigm when experience
should show us that the answers come from the 'outside' or periphery and always
have. But we have grown up with this paradigm; we do not realize that there are far
more plausible truths currently residing just beyond our reach. The energy field has us
solidly within its grasp. Because we have the wrong paradigm, we are identifying
problems incorrectly and consequently we are searching for the wrong solutions.

We are going to find that there are two major forms of energy within human civilization
and they are the same two energies that exist within the atom. One energy dominates
the discussion and grabs most of the resources. The other energy creates and produces. Our
present view of the world comes from the dominating energy; we are going to look at it
from the other side, the side that is actually DOING the work—the dynamic side—and
we are going to see that we are being poorly served and badly deceived.

With this study we are going to demystify human civilization and its origins. My aim is
to try to see, understand, and explain the world and universe as it is – not how some
want it to be, believe it is, or want us to believe it is. If we turn the camera angle just a
little, drop our biases, and be and remain open to whatever we see, we will encounter an
entirely new picture, one that makes a whole lot more sense. We cannot go about fixing
the world until we know what is actually wrong with it, and what is wrong with it is not 
what we have been told.

Many will think this explanation is too far out to be seriously considered but actually
what we have now is the fanciful paradigm, where we think we behave according to
certain principles and the rest of the universe to others. We look at the night sky as if it
were a light show rather than the dynamic universe that it is, and then we retreat into
our cocoon and 'invent' explanations for our behavior, never considering that the same
dynamic exists within us as in a distant galaxy. We are too blindly adhering to the script
that has been written for us. That script needs to be revised or rewritten.

I cannot find the author of the following quotation so my apologies to him or her but it is
too valuable to be left unsaid—“The assumptions that are the most pernicious are the
ones we don’t know we are making because they appear so intrinsically obvious.” And
we might add, “Or because we have been ‘taught’ so well.”

The failure to examine our assumptions helps support the status quo. Soft-pedaling or
tiptoeing through the issues serves no purpose whatsoever. Examining these issues
head-on is a necessity. We have become a nation and world of enablers as we turn away
from cruelty and exploitation committed in ‘our names’. We are part of the conspiracy to
‘not know’. But all of this can be explained through an understanding of the dynamics at
work. The power-control core survives by inducing fear, and the avoidance of that fear
drives our behavior. Consequently we focus on ourselves and our needs and ignore the
needs of others. Hierarchal structures push the constituent members apart. If we start to
gain an awareness of the basic dynamics, we can begin the work of rectifying the
imbalances.

Humanity’s development is much more formulaic than we would ever suspect. We cannot 
see it because we have tried to paint the picture ourselves instead of seeing it for what
it really is. Just as it was during pre-Copernicus days, we are still putting ourselves at
the center of the universe.

Continued in the Introduction section under IMPACTS Concept.

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