The world system that we live in is criminal

The world system that we live in is criminal. 

It raises us to believe that it is by competition that we will thrive. 

We learn that by being independent and individualist we will progress and succeed. 

These main currents take us into a life of we feel apart and disconnected from everyone else. 

The other is as a rival, someone to compete with. 

And little by little, these feelings of loneliness, unsafe, and disconnection, take us into feelings of sadness, and depression. 

This system is criminal. 

It disconnects us from within, whereas there is only the outside world to succeed and pursue. The world within is forgotten. 

And so, the system raises us to a path where we cannot trust anyone, everyone is competition, and violent.

This is sad. 

I feel sad when while reading an article I come across the results of a psychedelic treatment done to people with a life-threatening illness who were able to “By feeling connected to something greater than themselves, patients may experience a sense of comfort and support that can help them to cope with their illness and reduce their suffering”*.

Where did we lose this sense of a creator? Or connectedness? 

This sense of nature, of fraternity?

And why did this happen to the world we live in? 

People were able to get better from attempting against their own lives by having this remembrance of connectedness, of something greater than themselves. 

What happened to us?

It was not too long ago when communities lived in peace and harmony with Mother Nature and the Great Spirit. 

Mother nature, the Great Spirit, gives us strength to reconnect ourselves to the world within, so we might understand the meaning of fraternity. 

The ones who want unity, who want to add up, do not want to reign. They want to be together. This is the force of the fraternity.” (Halu Gamashi) 

*Penn, A. D., Phelps, J., Rosa, W. E., & Watson, J. (2021). ‘Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Practices and Human Caring Science: Toward a Care-Informed Model of Treatment.’ Journal of Humanistic Psychology.

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