Society is in a state of chaos; yet almost all life stresses are
human-made. Our species is literally making itself sick. In A World in
Two Minds, Kenny Jamieson considers the two complex adaptive systems
behind the chaos - the individual mind and the global mind - and how the
latter emerges, in the form of culture, from the former. We have a
global cognitive imbalance due to the dominance of the mechanistic
worldview of scientific materialism, which is strongly rooted in the
left mind and Western culture. Over centuries, this bias has gradually
dissociated us from the right mind, lowering consciousness, denaturing
the human condition and negatively impacting our health. Today, life
offers the human race both opportunity and danger. Our global mind could
evolve to a higher cognitive plane where harmony, health and happiness
prevail, but it could just as easily disintegrate, leading to
catastrophic conflict. Our future is unknown but whatever we bring forth
will be the output of the global mind we collectively create.
Critically, everyone has a role to play. Any one of us could be the
final catalyst which tips our whole human system into a new era.