Hidden dangers of globalization
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September 5, 2010
We need to understand the hidden dangers of our so-called modernization and globalization.
The traditional nature-based cultures understand that nature is a living intelligence. They are interested in co-existing with nature, not abusing it and exploiting it. The Vedic tradition grew with the Ganga River, the Himalayas and nature in a beautiful co-existence.
I recently saw a YouTube clip of a shaman levitating so casually. Shamanism is a spiritual tradition from South Africa. Very casually, he is just chanting a mantra and levitating four feet above the ground, and after a few minutes, he is relaxing and coming down.
Please understand, this was not seen
as a miracle in our Vedic tradition. It
was a lifestyle. You don’t need to
gather around an enlightened Master
and receive all kinds of initiations and
take a course to learn how to levitate
It was a lifestyle for many ethnic
tribes and spiritual groups. But so
many centuries of ancient wisdom has
been lost, so much natural intelligence
has been destroyed in the name of
modernization and globalization!
You will be surprised to know that just a handful of people own around 60% of the wealth of planet Earth! Just four communities, four groups! It means that the whole world is just serving these four groups! An enormously disproportionate amount of wealth has been accumulated and centered under a few people.
Whoever has a body, has a right over whatever exists on the planet Earth - because planet Earth provides everything for all the people. All the human bodies have a right over whatever exists. Just a few people depriving other bodies of their rights is the root and source of violence.
All the major problems planet Earth is facing now is because we have forgotten the art of co-existence. All our wars, ideological conflicts, and economically depriving certain sections of society, happen because we are missing the truth of Advaita, Oneness.
Understand, there are tribes whose lifestyles, art, tradition, and extraordinary powers have been dismantled and destroyed so badly. The whole science of living with nature, the whole science of handling the extraordinary powers, has left planet Earth.