I spent over twenty years of my life studying the duality at the core of
human identity, and wrote three books on my findings. The same duality
permeates all human activity. We are all holons, each of us both Sun and
Moon, both male and female, both autonomous wholes and at the same time
also parts of other wholes.
Any approach to solving
humanity’s problems, whether individual or collective, must come from
and satisfy both halves within us, both the head and heart, both our
male and our female, both our right and left brains. Sooner or later,
all attempted solutions that don’t satisfy both halves of the equation
will be abandoned as ineffective and unworkable. This is a lesson that
our religious leaders, as well as our politicians, should have figured
out a long time ago. Humanity has tried for millennia to place male
above female, science above faith, logic above feeling, Republican over
Democrat, law and order above right and wrong, justice over love (and
vice versa), and it never, ever works.
Having tried this
partisan, divided, fractured approach for millennia, we as a species
should be about ready by now to admit that it just doesn't work. Society
as a whole, as well as its individuals, have all just been stunted and
crippled by this naive approach.
We are today finally at the
end of the 2000 year-long Age of Pisces, a time so accurately
represented by the Piscean symbol of two fish tied together yet trying
to swim in opposite directions.
The simple truth is, humanity
is not more right-brain than left-brain, not more head than heart, not
more intellect than emotion, not more republican than democrat, not more
Sun than Moon. Or vice versa.
Whenever we find ourselves in a
dilemma and willfully choose to honor one side by rejecting, denying,
and ignoring the needs of the other side, we betray half of ourselves,
dividing both our selves and our world in two.
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