Scientifically speaking a human is defined as an animal that has reached a stage in brain development where he/she is self-aware. This has turned out to be an incorrect assumption. We now know that at minimum Elephants, Dolphins, Whales, and Apes have the same self-awareness as humans, and the list is growing. A better way, I think, to define the human threshold is the dawn of agriculture around 11,000 years ago. This was the dawn of hierarchical organization, and as cities grew so did the complexity of the government. The leader, be it a king or queen needed people under him/her to help and an army which needed Generals, Lieutenants and Sergeants. The power of the hierarchy over the people who had less power led to divisions and class in the cities and society. This power over people then led to the abuse of power, bigotry, war, and genocide.

This abuse of power continues today, in spite of the dawn of democracy, and is as bad as ever in some parts of the world. In some respects it is even worse today than ever in history. This is because, in some cases, it has gone underground. Money is now the power and people with money use their power to control the democracy, out of site.

In an earlier blog I talked about a mental hospital that experimented with a self-organizing team approach with no hierarchy and the results were spectacular. What made this system work was that each individual on the team cared more for their contribution to the team, than having control of what was done. This can work on a national and global level. All that is needed for this to happen is for all individuals in society to be raised to a higher consciousness level. Even though this sounds impossible today, societies consciousness is rising and as the new worldview takes over it will accelerate. Slowly we will lose hierarchical thinking and become more self-organizing.  


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