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Brief Introduction The alienation of human consciousness from Nature leads people inescapably to inhabit two potentially profoundly contradictory realities: a cultural world of make-believe and the world about us of our natural neighbourhood. We may know the make-believe world for what it is through the inability of its theoretical assumptions and regulatory practices to make sense in the light of actual evidence and experience. We may also know it by the implicit and explicit cruelty that it both exercises and encourages, whilst swearing allegiance to and proclaiming its own goodness. The make-believe reality that many of us feel obliged to accommodate if we are not to be punished - indeed if our selves are to profit from it - is based on the oppressive notion of sovereignty. This imposition of possessive hierarchical power by the few over the many, along with its antithesis and accomplice, the suppression of the few by the majority, has been at the helm of governmental practice and colonialism throughout ‘civilised’ cultures for millennia, and continues to expand its global influence. It occurs not only in our seeking of dominion over one another through calling upon Higher Authority, but also in our seeking of dominion over all Nature and in the depiction of Nature ‘herself’ as oppressive and selfish. Since this make-believe reality self-perpetuates through the exercise of power, it is impossible to counteract in its own terms without becoming corrupted in turn by its iniquities - as has been the experience of many revolutions and counter-revolutions. It can only be undone by ceasing to believe in the make believe, exposing its materialistic fraudulence, and allowing the spatial receptivity of loving influence to be expressed and valued. Contacts Relevant Writings
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