What goes on inside of us manifests itself outside of us. If, for example, we continuously block off an energy inside of us, such as a wish, a dream, a desire or an inner truth, then that is comparable to forcing a river to flow in a concrete embankment. The result will manifest itself as an illness in our bodies. And then, as a collective, we will create the corresponding illness both in society and in nature, in ecology. Let us take a look at some of the most crucial principles of our dominant culture and try to see what the principles of a possible, and necessary, new culture might be.
Closed systems die.
A person whose life revolves only around himself or herself is uninteresting. A community that only revolves around the interactions within the community is also uninteresting. The family system into which practically all of us were born was the most important system that shaped our inner lives. To a large extent it was a closed system. Of course there are good and bad families, and a lot of very positive qualities, such as trust, care, safety, and security, that are hallmarks of good families, are necessary qualities in all forms of living together.