It’s the loss of our inner world that causes loneliness.
There is probably no greater loss, except for life itself.
We begin life with a rich inner life. All life does.
Life is normally supported and encouraged to flourish through its own efforts.
People have forgotten the need to do that!
Instead, we try to program our young with our beliefs.
Unfortunately, none of us can comply and still keep our own inner world.
Why? Because all life is designed to live directly from its own inner power!
To follow directions instead of natural life, we become forced to leave our identities behind.
Without our identities, we lose connection with our self-esteem, our instincts, our feelings, and a lot of our awareness!
Of course we feel lonely!
Why did this spread to so many?
It starts small. Once it has happened to one person, they have lost connection with their instincts.
Without the internal guidance of instincts, that person can no longer recognize that their young need to manage life through their own efforts!
They therefore interfere and guide their young in whichever way they choose.
The only way for the young to comply is to leave their identity behind!
From this person onward, all their offspring will have reduced connection with their own identities, and of course, their instincts.
Without a connection to instincts, parenting has changed from support to domination!
Why would nature allow this to be possible?
Could this be a defect in humans?
I don’t think we understand why this can happen. Perhaps it’s nature’s population control.
I doubt if humans are intended to survive without a connection to our identities, self-esteem, instincts, and awareness.
It seems to be our technology that has permitted our survival so far.
Survival or not, our condition is not good.
Without a connection to our identities, we have no connection to our needs.
Being unaware of our needs, we have no instinctive morals.
We behave against our own interests!
And, of course, we’re lonely!
We all instinctively crave support and acceptance above all else, but our own behavior now makes that impossible.
People are becoming increasingly isolated!
Most of us can feel the anxiety all around us, along with increasingly competitive life.
Can mankind survive with each of us so alone?
It appears that we have so far.
We seem to have become aggressive to each other, fighting to either defend or dominate.
Should we survive as a race?
Without a connection to our needs, we sure seem to get destructive!
Can we get our identities back?
That’s a lot of work and hurt for each of us.
As a race, can we get back to living from our own identities?
Of course it’s possible, but first, we have to want to!
There is cause for hope!
Many of us are concerned that others should have rights!
If we ever realize that infants should get these same rights as well, their identities will get some opportunity to do their natural jobs.
The freedom to be our own identity should be the first right of all.
If our identities allow us to feel our needs once again, everything changes!
Kindness and community become not only possible but the normal conditions.
Our own needs tell us that if we can feel them!
It does seem like despair has a whole lot to do with overpopulation.
Overpopulation will probably cease to overwhelm the environment!
What a strange series of events it is, that might save the human race!
Any group of humans living from their own identities with their full self-esteem intact will easily have the power to protect their own group.
But, first, we need to recognize the danger!
We haven’t so far recognized the danger of not allowing others to live their own identity!
The threat came from within our own group, and we didn’t see it coming!
We have paid dearly, and that’s getting worse!
Can we protect ourselves?
Our natural arrangement, where our identity drives our own path has become almost extinct.
It has cost us companionship and the joy of life!
We also lost most of our self-esteem, instincts, feelings, and general awareness including our own needs
Granting other life their natural right to be their own identity fixes it all!
This is a war that can be won, one person at a time!
Thanks for listening.
This post is part of https://clarity-of-innocence.com To return you will probably need that internet address!
Good luck on your own journey.
Take care,
Norm Cormier
I welcome considering other thoughts.