Human consciousness is still largely egocentric, thinking of self before others. We are unaware that by giving rather than getting, all needs will be satisfied. As the saying goes, “There is room enough for everyone’s need but not for everyone’s greed.” Human consciousness is still very much ethnocentric, thinking of our own cultural grouping as above that of others. We are unaware that by respecting cultural backgrounds, we can unearth a variety of richness and wisdom and color in human diversity. Much more, we can prevent disunity and even war. Human consciousness is still very much anthropocentric, centered so much in human satisfaction to the utter destruction of nature. We are unaware that by pillaging nature, we are destroying our very selves. We are merely a strand in the web of life. We should learn to move away from isolationism to connectedness, from individualism to corporativism, from our cosmic loneliness to the interrelatedness of all life, from group mentality to universal mentality, from competition to sharing. Diseased mindscapes can only produce diseased landscapes. As the saying goes, “We think and it comes to pass, the earth is our looking glass.”
