3.15 The light of love in the tribal dark
Down through the long millennia when we lived as hunter–gatherers in small bands and tribes, it was not okay for us to do deep dives into our personal psyches. That would not have been tolerated, because it would have stressed tribal unity and fractured it.
The key principle of tribalism was that…
You had to be a loyal, contributing member of the tribe.
That was first. That was always first. Nothing was allowed to interfere with that.
You could be an individual, you could develop your own talents and strengths, but only insofar as you put those talents and strengths to work in boosting the welfare of the tribe. Because the tribe was our unit of survival. And in those days survival mattered more than anything else.
But now here we are, a mass global population living in mega-societies. And we were not made for this. We’ve been too successful for our own good. There are so many of us living on this planet that we’re drowning in ourselves.
But despite the dangers and downsides of mass society, there’s one thing I love about it. We’re able to create safe personal spaces where we get to dive down into our inner world and make discoveries and challenge ourselves to do things like upgrading love.
For all those past millennia…
The deepest powers of our personal psyches were on hold.
But now they can now burst into aliveness with abandon.
Which means we’re living inside a sad irony…
Here in the final chapter of the human story, we’re finally able to come into our own as individuals just before our death as a species.
This could be cause for despair, but I choose to stay focused on the happy part. To be able to call forth our deepest powers of play, imagination, healing, and nurturance, this is the best of humanness.
I want to take a stand for our best, and…
Let it flair brightly in this time of darkness.
I want us to maximize our special powers to deepen our self–love and our relationships. And then take the first step into upgrading human togetherness. And that’s what’s up next.
