Humanity today is on the brink of disaster for it is unable to fathom, and deal with the present-day complexities of our society. It is incapable of determining the direction we must take and what is to be done about it. All successful functioning organisms, apart from human society share one quality; the ability to function together in harmony as a whole. This so far we seem unable to achieve.
In order to overcome our difficulties we will have to change and evolve inwardly as much as we have outwardly. If evolution is indeed to achieve higher levels of integration, the most crucial changes must take place in the realm of the human mind. Our real problem lies not in the physical constraints imposed by the external world, but in the constraints imposed by our own minds. We have succeeded in effectively using the rational characteristics of our left forebrain (our conscious mind) but we must also learn how to make effective use of our right forebrain (our intuitive mind).
Our previous evolutionary leap of self reflective consciousness not only allowed us to become aware of ourselves as conscious thinking beings, it also gave us the capacity to develop Philosophy and Science. They contributed to the growing increase of our knowledge and the enormous material progress we have made in recent times. Despite this progress we are painfully aware of our inability to tackle many of our pressing moral and social problems, which repeatedly bring about so much misery and suffering to many people on earth.
When we explore our inner selves we find that we are mainly working with the rational powers of our conscious brain because the conscious brain dominates and restricts the function of our right intuitive brain. Meditation training releases the right intuitive mind from the said domination it also opens the way for moral training aided by the four faculties of the intuitive mind.These four faculties are creative thinking, altruism, moral conscience and fairness. By extending the use of such training and its simplification we can raise the level of. moral decision making of increasing numbers of individuals, and elevate the level of moral conduct. This in turn will help solve pressing moral problems which have plagued us in the past.
With the development of the rational powers of our conscious mind and the invaluable knowledge derived from Philosophy and Science we were in the past disinclined to draw on the non-logical and untapped resources of our intuitive mind. We little realized that the intuitive faculties of our unconscious mind had also developed and could if called upon, provide the support and guidance which we so desperately need, and which cannot be supplied by our conscious mind alone.
At this phase in human evolution that we on earth are currently passing through, there exists an urgent need to bring about the aforesaid expansion in human consciousness. Without this change our moral and social problems can only increase. The manifestation of this new type of consciousness now shows every likelihood of providing the foundation for a new era of moral. and social harmony on earth. We must now focus on achieving these aims thereby making the aforesaid objectives a reality.
