ABSTRACT
We are born whole. As we grow, all too often, somewhere along the way we get divided, not as branches with fruits and flowers of a common tree that sing out our natural diversity, rooted in unity and wholeness, but as cut or fallen branches that in their artificially disconnected existence fail to recognize themselves or each other. Not only is our body compartmentalized, our psyche is too. Unless we somehow succeed in retaining or regaining that consciousness as whole human beings, the dissolution impacts the way we treat other fellow human beings, the way we treat other nations, the way we treat other species and the way we treat our common home, the Earth. Alienated from each other, and from ourselves, even our natural instinct for survival gets driven by fear, hostility, insecurity, exploitation, and either incapability or unwillingness to face the other – to engage in dialogue. These tendencies do not just reside in our psyche, they are projected in the way we conduct practical affairs. The divisions get institutionalized, even defended.
