Western civilization is now dying because it is based on seven pillars of unwisdom, on the belief that we are separate from God, Nature, and each other. The cure for our delusional, obsessive, and schizoid behaviour is thus obviously to become consciously unified with God, Nature, and each other. Specifically, to make the transition from Western civilization and the global economy to the Paragonian Society and the Sharing Economy, we need to replace the seven pillars of unwisdom that underpin the West with seven pillars of wisdom, described here.
| Number | Pillar of wisdom |
| Union with God | |
| 1 | Every one of us is in union with the Divine for every instant of our lives. There is only one absolute Whole, which provides the overall context for all of us as individuals. God has no image, for Wholeness is the union of all opposites, including form and formlessness. |
| Union with Nature | |
| 2 | Consciousness is all there is, the only Reality. Everything in the relativistic world of form, including the physical universe and ourselves, is an illusion, an appearance in or abstraction from Consciousness, with no permanent existence; this is called maya in the East. We are thus all an integral part of Nature, inseparable from anything else in the world of form. |
| 3 | Evolution, from the most recent big bang fourteen billion years ago, through the evolution of the species, to human learning, progresses accumulatively through the synergistic effect of structure-forming relationships, the whole process being driven by the creative power of Life, whose origin is the Divine. The ultimate destiny of evolution is Ineffable, Nondual Wholeness, whence it began. |
| 4 | In essence, human beings are divine, cosmic creatures. Our true nature is thus Wholeness and the Truth, Love and Peace, Life and Freedom, Consciousness and Intelligence, and Stillness and Emptiness, capitalized words to denote Ultimate Reality, the Absolute, and God. The power of Life, alone, is quite capable of restoring us to health, wholeness, and holiness. |
| Union with each other | |
| 5 | All growth processes in the Universe are limited, following an S-shape. To trade in financial products is, like buying and selling kilograms and metres, an absurdity. We can best see what is happening in business today by integrating all the semantic models developed by individual information systems architects working in separate enterprises. We can only survive as a species, and thereby realize our fullest potential, if we learn to cooperate with each other synergistically. |
| 6 | We human beings are the products of some fourteen billion years of evolution, which has been brought about through the power of Life, acting in the timeless, constantly refreshing the blind, mechanistic evolutionary processes that take place in the horizontal dimension of time. There is thus no doership or ownership, no separate entity who can be said to do or own anything. What we call ‘justice’ is thus an egoic concept, which arises because of our inability to see our personal lives in the context of the Whole. |
| Logical implications | |
| 7 | The Universe is inherently paradoxical, a situation that we need to incorporate in a hologenetic, noninferential, self-reflective science of reason that truly reflects the world we live in. To see both our own and the other person’s perspective is a sign of intelligence, leading to peace and harmony in personal and group relationships. |
