Are you feeling a little out of sorts lately? Family and work conflicts seem to have increased? Are you more stressed and agitated than usual? You are not alone.
In his papers on Morphic Field and Morphic Resonance, Harvard and Cambridge biologist Rupert Sheldrake, PhD presents a modestly accepted theory of an interconnectedness of planetary organisms. A sort of collective unconscious that is impacted by world events and thus reacts on some level. This reinforces some of the earlier work of scientist James Lovelock and his assertions that our planet itself is a living organism which he named Gaia. These assumptions, if correct, could account for some of the collective agitation being experienced around the world right now. The earth has never been a calm place for very long. Human caused turmoil, along with natural disasters, have always been with us, yet there are technological reasons that make this time in history different.
First, many now have instantaneous access to every important event going on in the world in real time, moment to moment. We have the capacity to receive information and react to it in ways that never existed before the 21st century. This means we have a lot to absorb every day that our ancestors would never have been aware of until the barbarians were at the gate. Even though the chance that one of these remote world events would reach us is unlikely, it still can affect us at our primitive core. Our limbic brain doesn’t comprehend distance as a deterrent to danger.
I suspect a more subtle causation is climate change. We sense something unprecedented is happening in our biosphere. Think about it, we are herd like mammals in many ways. Animals sense dangers and changes to their environment and react accordingly. On a subtle level we know something isn’t right and yet we can’t directly put our finger on what it is. I think this is responsible for some of the unconscious stress on us individually and more broadly on our societal structures, causing them them to appear more reactionary and erratic. We may be watching a circling of the wagons, a closing of the gates. The aggregated greed we are witnessing might reflect a kind of stockpiling of resources driven by an innate sense that something is coming. The primal survival buttons are being pressed in to action and we may have begun to sense others as our competitors for survival.
The best chance for the greatest number of earth’s occupants to survive is, of course, just the opposite. Cooperation, collective altruism and sharing of resources is the only strategy that will assist us to make it through the hard times. We will need each other more in these times, even as we are pulling apart. May we figure this out in time.