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- “For the first time in history, the physical survival of humanity depends on a radical mental transformation of human beings.” Erich Fromm
“For the first time in history, the physical survival of humanity depends on a radical mental transformation of human beings.” Erich Fromm
THERE IS NO HEALTHY BODY WITHOUT A HEALTHY MIND
HUMANITY
“For the first time in history, the physical survival of humanity depends on a radical mental transformation of human beings.” Erich Fromm
We live in materialism, greed, egoism and fear. We are controlled by low emotions and love, respect, empathy, compassion have disappeared from our lives. Humanity has reached a state where we must agree with Kurt Cobain, who said: “People are stupid. I am ashamed to be human”. Yes, we have been gifted with wisdom, but we do not use it. We are one species, we come from one source, we have the same essence, together we form one big family, but we treat each other as “strangers”. We live in the 21st century and we already have enough experience with suffering. We have already made many steps towards humanization, but probably because we feel very well, we forget the huge tragedies that we had to go through as humanity. They had their justification for our further development, so that we could learn from them and move forward towards humanity, towards humaneness. But somewhere we got lost. The mirror of our current state is set by the words of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk:
“On one thing I have always believed. That God created us all equal. One is white, another is black. One is beautiful, another is covered with acne. But all of us feel cold when it freezes outside and all of us sweat when the sun is burning. And all of us must breathe so that we do not suffocate. All of us will be taken away in the end. In other words, all of us are mortal. And immortal. But because of this we must not make slaves out of one another. Because of this everyone, whether his father was a president or a tinkerer, must have the same opportunity to live a full life. No one must think that he is something more, something better than the other. Maybe he has more in his head, maybe he wears a better shirt, has more skillful hands, maybe he has bigger biceps. But all of this only obliges him, only obliges him to do that much more. More for those with smaller biceps and worse shirts. But only those people who love people can believe and understand this. To like people and to love is the whole secret and the only recipe for happiness and that applies to everyone. For me, for you, for Stalin, Truman, for the whole world.”
The only possibility of a positive change in the behavior of humanity is the change of the inner programming of the human mind from fear to love on the individual level of every single person, which will be reflected in the collective level of consciousness of humanity. We are energetic beings and we have the power to change our programming of the mind and its level of consciousness. Everything external, external circumstances and our external reality, which we create by perceiving reality and reacting to it, is only a reflection of our inner world. If we want to change the external world, we must change our invisible inner one. In order for humanity to survive, every single one of us must change, because we together form the whole which we call humanity. With programming towards love, we can all be a better version of a human and thus create a better world not only for us, but also for the generations that will come after us.