Greta Thunberg after landing in Paris

[ananda]

17. IMO, because we operate on assumptions that are false...

that the universe, people, every single thing is a machine that
can be treated separately and divided into parts.

People didn't always think this way, but it's become more and
more prevalent since Descartes fell in love with the hydraulic
statue on his estate and came up with the idea of the "beast
machine."

He started a debate, mostly through letter-writing, with all
the prominent philosophers, theologians, and scientists
across Europe. Newton took this on too.

Then the Industrial Revoution sealed it. People became
numbers and parts in both making machines and forming
the world thought of in those terms.

We think this way to this day, and it tends to make all of us
think and act fascistically, top-down. Our whole education
and work-system works that way. It's oppressive by nature
and divides us from each other.

However, if you think of the universe as a hologram, and the
brain as the means to project it, well, assumptions change.

This all came out of quantum physics, and answers so many
questions it's unreal. David Bohm and David Peat were
prominent in promoting this theory. Their books are great!

Then Michael Talbot wrote a book called The Holographic
Universe, which is a great synopsis and highly recommended.