Each individual is responsible for his or her own growth. Personal change is the foundation of collective change. Back to the top of this page 5. Our biggest job is to change our whole way of thinking to a larger perspective, to recognize ourselves as a body of humanity embedded in, and with much to learn from, our living parent planet, which is all we have to sustain us. The place to work out conflict, resistance, and separation from each other and the living system is in the life of the group.
People yearn for community.
We treasure those extreme conditions where a blizzard or power failure break us out of our habitual isolation from each other and bring us together in cooperation. For the first time, our species faces a task that transcends all our past and present conflicts. The human tribe and the life system upon which it depends will move into the future together or evolution will find a way to continue without the human. On every level, from family to school to business to church to nation and beyond, we need to forge a shared vision of what it means to cooperate with each other and the rest of the life-system. In the natural systems that surround us, we are given a magnificent demonstration of synergy, of the 'how' of community.