To gain our balance we will need to reintegrate our ourselves with nature, find ways to explore a deep bonding with one another and with the universe, and learn to act in conscious harmony with the universe.
This will mean transcending the separate ego as we know it.
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One source of our troubles is often ignored: our way of thinking about things. We need to embrace complexity.
Speaking of humanity's profound need for "a reform in thinking," Morin describes the all-too-common black/white, right/wrong, either/or approach to solving problems as a mode of thought that is""simplistic in the extreme, which underlies so many dialogues, [leading] inevitably to dead-ends"[This occurs in part because it is] blind to inter-retro actions, [feedback loops and] circular causality."
Morin argues that, only a complex kind of thinking (which he also describes as "holographic," "recursive," and "dialogic") can provide the perspective to help release us from the quicksand in which we are mired. Only, what he calls "complex thinking", which transcends our taken-for-granted premises regarding linear causality, can "deal with the "inseparability of problems"in which each depends on the other." Such a reform in thinking, Morin summarizes, implies a mental revolution "of considerably greater proportions than the Copernican revolution."
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