Globalisation,

Since 1948, the world population has mushroomed to such an extent that the world has to find 30 million people extra work year work. The situation is very bad in Africa where the majority of people are youth under the ages of 25. In India, 40% of the adults are unemployed and this is one of the worlds greatest democracy's. India and China have the privilege of being the two countries in the world of having over 1 billion people.

As the years progress, more and more of our 6.5 billion people of which is growing tremendously will be sited in cities, the majority of which will be housing deprived, poverty stricken people.

Although this scenario was not perhaps envisaged in an absolute sense in 1948, certainly subsequent to this time the emphasis has been on environment and the fact that we are losing irreversibly our living and non-living resources.

The consumptive patterns of our developed world are being mimicked by the developing world and as a consequence the developing world is suffering from the diseases of civilisation such as cancer, diabetes, and obesity, as well as infection, heart disease, starvation, tuberculosis and malaria.

This is compounded by the fact that in the developing world a child dies of an avoidable disease every second.

In this scenario, there is one doctor in the world for every tens of thousands of people - whereas there is one soldier for tens to hundreds of people. There is a vast inequity in this situation. The largest most powerful transnational companies which contribute towards the globalisation and control over the world are food companies, pharmaceutical companies and the military machine. People are going to be rationed soon for the water they consume and there are even plans to ban the nutritional supplementation that can be prescribed by health professionals and doctors in order to enhance the commercial power of the pharmaceutical companies that currently have a greater GDP combined than virtually all the developing world.

The rise of Information Technology and the computer industry creates a virtual realty which says nothing about the environmental reality around us which is being destroyed at an exponential rates. This is because of the inordinate consumptive patterns of the developed world and the current economic philosophy which seeks for competition and the acquirement of power at any cost. It is based on the conception on survival of the fittest, an idea which has come down from Victorian times and the philosophy of Malthus. This shows no consideration for the newer scientific philosophies such as process physics and systems theory which show in fact that everything maintains and supports itself at the expense of everything else.

Despite our economic rationalist theories we do not live in a competitive world, it is a world which is symbiotic with other life forms. The human species seems to have become utterly subject to its own emotional and power needs and seeks to further alienate itself from all life forms and even from the very self of the human psyche.

Perhaps this is why there is such an increase of depression in our society and the rise in the use of antidepressants and tranquillisers such as Valium and Prozac.

In the solutions to these problems, scientists think in terms of artificial solutions which are dependent on changing the environment that people exist in or modifying people through their genetic programming and through chemicals (pharmaceuticals such as Prozac and SSRI's) so they adapt to the environment which has already been artificially altered.

We are losing our plant species at an enormous rate and no biogenetic engineering will be able to replace plants, especially for example wheat, the number of species of which have diminished rapidly over the past thirty to forty years.

The solutions seems always to be based on manipulative ideas and are narrow focussed in the sense that they do not look at the whole picture.

Economic rationalism and science seems to avoid looking at a whole and integrated picture. It seems to deny the significance of the life sciences and has no place for consciousness in the scheme of things.

In the new sciences, of system theory, Einsteinian physics, human ecology, Jungian psycho-analysis, psychoneuroimmunology, mind/body medicine and the understanding of ecosystems we see how humanity is related to everything around it and how a new science must be linked with the power and significance of human consciousness.

Only in the past forty years has the human brain become significant in the theories and scientific experiments of medical scientists. It is now seen as a most powerful determinant of the health of the body and it is seen to be inextricably linked with the total wellbeing of the body. In fact the brain is the most significant gland in the whole biomind of the human being because it is inextricably linked and absolutely related to every process that goes on in the body.

Survival of humanity is based on consciousness and on a new spirituality which links all of science, particularly ecology and technology to an integrated whole. It sees each person as a cell in the matrix of a living planet, each person contributing in their own significant creative way to the stewardship of the planet. Stewardship of the planet is intimately involved in their wellbeing as without a sustainable environment, humanity cannot survive.

It is therefore essential that if we are to survive a sustainable planet, we have to look with deep concern at the emotional makeup of the human being and seek to understand the mind in a more holistic and comprehensive sense. In this new study of the mind, we have to see consciousness as the basic process which powers the universe and from which all phenomena derives. In this process, we have to see how the mind of a human being can create happiness and constructiveness around it or can create absolute destruction and cataclysm. We have to understand how all the mind works in all its proclivities and agendas and seek a new way so that the human being becomes a catalyst for sustainability, happiness and cooperation.

Through consciousness and sub conscious process, the minds of all human beings are linked through the fields of well being or suffering they create. Human beings actually determine the life and survival of all things on our planet.

Unfortunately, in our schools and universities, the mind is not talked about. It is not seen as being an important element in any speciality and is not seen as being the only way in which all specialities are linked.

Perhaps the way into the mind and to understanding it is to look at the nature of creativity, and the nature of art, culture, music, poetry, dance and expressive acts of fulfilment and love.

We also seek to look at the untold potential's or noetic abilities of the mind - powers that we have conceivably ignored or suppressed because of the restrictive and suppressive actions of religious and political institutions.

We have to try and understand behind the veneer of group esoteric philosophies the basic nature of consciousness that is being expressed. We have to try and understand the science from which they are being derived so that we can seek to understand the total nature of a human being, particularly with respect to consciousness and unconscious processes.

It is only when we have this kind of expertise in science that we can begin to influence the world around us to be more sustainable, cooperative and loving.

This kind of education should be the prerogative for all children - they need to be educated for all life, and self fulfillment in order that they can find their own unique purpose and mission in this world. Opportunity should be given for the youth of our future to have mastery of the mind and mastery of their health and wellbeing and also to be able to understand that they can gain maximum fulfilment and lead long fulfilling lives in harmony with their community and with nature.