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This consciousness is the repository of our universal history and
the very field of time which limits our intelligence and condemns
us to a mechanistic and conflict-ridden way of life. Insight into
and freedom from this limitation is therefore critical in the trans-
formation of consciousness and the liberation of humanity from
its enduring ills and tragic mode of existence. The very perception
of this global predicament, that it affects all human beings every-
where independently of race, class, culture, language, ideology and
belief, places each of us at the centre of the challenge and makes us
all equally responsible, for we are the world.
This is one of the most fundamental insights at the core of K’s
teachings, and one whose profound relevance and utter urgency is
daily demonstrated by the ongoing panorama of social injustice,
ecological devastation and war. For K it was a law that where there
is division there must be conflict. These divisions are the result
of our identifications with nations, ethnic groups, traditions, etc.,
which then enter into a struggle for power and resources. These
separate entities are invested with the fundamental values of our
security, happiness and self-worth and become the very definition
of what we are. But at their core lies a deep and dangerous confusion
concerning being. The insight that we share a common conscious-
ness and, therefore, that we are the world, is a denial of these seem-
ingly entrenched separate realities. Consciousness is not yours or
mine, just as the earth is not yours or mine. The perception of the
falseness of these conceptual divisions is a fundamental first step
in the healing of the traditional psychopathology of mankind and
the establishing of a truly wholesome and responsible relationship
with the whole.

Relationship is life, while thought breeds
division and conflict

Relationship, K never tired of reiterating, is life, for nothing can
exist in isolation. And yet we live in a world whose culture is

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