Another extremely destructive present worldview is the philosophy of Dualism and Separatism. This is the philosophy held by a number of world religions including Christians, Moslems, and present Jews. This adds a new dimension to the reductionist idea, which says, that the world is real and we are, as individuals, completely separate from each other. The dualists then go further and say, not only are we separate from each other but we are separate from our God, our creator, who exists in a completely separate place, and if we are good enough, we too may get to go live with God. In other words this God has all the same needs and wants as Humans, but because He is superior to us he gets what he wants, and what he wants is for us to worship him in the proper manner, the rules of which are laid down in books called The Torah, The New Testament, The Koran or The Bible, etc.

They say that God is perfect but then they turn around and say he has a need for humans to worship him! How can a God who is perfect need anything from us? If he has needs he can’t be perfect. If this were as far as this strange thinking went there would be no harm done, but this view leads to hierarchal thinking. Therefore the better one is at following God’s laws the more superior one is. Then someone else who does not do as good a job, or those people that don’t even follow God’s laws at all, well-they are completely inferior people and don’t deserve any respect.

This leads to men supposedly being better then women, whites being better than blacks, humans better than animals, and on and on. This thinking leads to all types of bigotry including immigration fights in the U.S., Darfur, 9/11, alQaeda, Israel/Arab conflicts, and our history is one conflict after another.

The new worldview, on the other hand, will emphasize our Holiness and not our apparent separateness. This idea leads to all being equal, and working together as a team.

In the eighties a psychiatric hospital had a ward of chronically ill patients who had been there for years and had to have nursing care 24/7 including bathing, feeding and teeth brushing. The staff of the hospital decided to do an experiment. They started by getting rid of the hospital hierarchy and having everyone, from the psychiatrist to the orderly, all work together as equal team members.

This new team then sat down together and said, what do these patients really need.  It was quickly understood that one of the reasons they had become so dependent was because they had lost their dignity as humans, and so the team set out to find a way to return the patients purpose and dignity. One of the things that give people their sense of dignity is having pride in what they do to earn a living.

So the staff set up a business in the hospital that made rugs, which they sold to the public. They then required all of the patients to work in the business and earn their meals. To get them started they gave tokens for very small things like brushing their own teeth. If they did not earn their meal it would be put in a blender and given to them to drink. It worked, within only a month all of these patients, who were too sick and crazy to take care of themselves, took care of themselves and went to work every day. Then in a number of months about a third were so back to normal they were sent home after being in the hospital for 15 years in some cases. The experiment was a spectacular success.

But why if this program was such a spectacular success don’t we see it used in every psychiatric hospital? The answer is simple; it goes against our present worldview of separateness and superiority to others. The psychiatrist is better than the psychologist, who is better than the nurses, who are better than the orderly, and the only way this will end is when we understand that in the underlying reality we are in fact all one and the same; there is no separateness, only the illusion of it.

O Frank Turner
Author and Speaker
The Science of Spirit: Beyond The Bleep www.ofrank.com