Epilogue
 
 
I am fully aware that the present portrayal must remain very incomplete and cannot incorporate many of today’s hot new disciplines. My purpose, however, was to introduce a fundamentally new perspective and orientation, one that might be more helpful to us all than the traditional convictions that have kept us neatly marching down the same worn path.

My efforts were directed at showing that our evolutionary situation is characterized by two highly neglected transitions – the first being the chain of events unleashed when we began to produce additional organs, the second equally decisive one being the shift from gaining energy using predatory strategies to making a living through transactional processes.

Overcoming the psychosplit that these transitions dramatically and inevitably provoked is, in my opinion, a priority for humanity, which often appears to lack a common goal and is overly devoted to the pursuit of instant gratification. It may well be that this “me-generation” orientation has progressed to a point of no return, to our great detriment. We have clearly reached a crucial fork in the road. Either we continue trodding blindly down the same old path, which in my opinion would ultimately lead to the self-destruction of life on our planet. Or we choose the other path and attempt to make humankind’s long-held dreams a reality.
 

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