My chain of trust led me from Jules Evans to Tom Morgan. Yesterday Tom published The Emperor is Naked which makes an important point that I want to highlight. It will not resonate with certain people, as I will explain.
For the last few years I’ve been writing about how a collective “phase shift” might suddenly change our society.
But I will leave discussion of a possible phase shift for another time.
What are some of these half-truths we tell ourselves?
We are all separate individuals.
So far, this is not remarkable. But where Tom goes with this is rare and very metamodern. He states something that I began realizing years ago.
If you add love to the half-truths, they might read something like this:
We are all separate individuals. And we all connected.
The WeSpace seems to me to be an adjecent space to the Metamodern. We are close enough that we could be separate tribes in a larger MOVEMENT. But something I see in many places in the WeSpace has long bothered me. Many like to emphasize a half-truth, that we are all connected as ONE, True Believers in oneness. It is rare in my experience to see someone say that we are BOTH separate AND connected.
As a teenager I was intensely lonely. I have continued to experience this deep loneliness from time to time my whole life. The WeSpace did not help me.
Today it is easy to find articles stating that America has a loneliness epidemic. Here are 6 steps to address it.
But paradoxically, imo, to reduce loneliness we need to speak the whole truth. I have accepted the reality that I am a separate being, in a sense isolated from everyone else, forever trapped in the loneliness of my own mind. AND I feel deeply connected to others and I am experiencing very little loneliness as I live the best years of my life.
There is lots more in Tom’s article worth discussing. One other theme I hope to explore further is our relationship with the feminine. For now, I will just quote one paragraph from Tom’s article.
Another specific way is to seek out communities where we can talk about our own anomalous experiences that point towards this shared consciousness. More than half of Americans have had a mystical experience. And the vast majority of humanity before us and outside of the West have always had an intuitive, embodied, “archetypal feminine” relationship with reality.