Excerpt #3 from my book, Interconnected, Interrelated & Interdependent, Like It or Not:
Sadly, each day we observe the growing chasm that exists between our potential and our reality.
Our freedom to evolve has, in effect, not only been inhibited but threatened.
Instinctively, we are aware that something, not easily definable, is amiss.
Perhaps the most challenging aspect of many problems facing humanity today is their gradual, insidious nature.
Many search in vain for solutions to complex national and international problems that seem unsolvable.
Coincidentally, growing numbers of people seek meaning and purposefulness in a world that has grown impersonal.
Often what emerges is a disturbing conviction, as James Reston wrote:
“Reconciliation among nations, the races, and the diverse political, economic, and religious ideologies is unattainable and maybe even impossible.”
We live at a time calling for a much clearer understanding of that which enables us to we exist.
It is apparent that the future we desire is not to be found in the excesses typical of our overly competitive world.
It may be that it is time we realize that the benefits derived from cooperation are more than coincidental.
If we are to sustain our civilization, it is apparent that we must begin moving toward a new mode of relating, both to each other as individuals and as nations, to our environment, and to ourself.
During his Presidency, Thomas Jefferson wrote of his faith in the time when humankind in its steady upward progress would transcend its present limitations: “and enter into a larger and more inclusive human fellowship.”
It may be that in our time we have reached a critical juncture in our evolutionary track.
The anxiety that we experience may be signaling an epochal rendezvous with our destiny, of pivotal import to the future of our world.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Shakespeare (Hamlet)