Have you ever wondered why the world is so screwed up? If you hadn’t noticed that things are screwed up, you need to have your head examined.

Look just under the surface of things and you will see that there is virtually no area of human action, activity, or involvement that is free of problems. Everywhere we turn, in every government on the planet, in virtually every bank, corporation, and every enterprise we find corruption, duplicity, greed, and a disregard for life and the planet.

There are massacres; rape is used to intimidate, humiliate, and break the will; there is trafficking in flesh, and unimaginable debaucheries. If you take a moment I am sure you can add to the list.

What is it; as a species are we crazy? Eckhart Tolle clearly thinks so. He flatly states that the human species is both insane and very dangerous (The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment ). I agree with him that man’s history looks insane.

Our insane behavior is nothing new. It has followed us since we emerged as a species. It is not stupidity, because the schemes we use to dupe and harm one another are too clever, or too cruel.

Whatever is going on, it appears to be universal and unchanging, something endemic to humanity, a basic thing in our minds that works to our individual and collective disadvantage.

In his biography, Jiddu Krishnamurti succinctly points out man’s fundamental problem:

“Thought is time. Thought is born of experience and knowledge which are inseparable from time and the past. Time is the psychological enemy of man. Our action is based on knowledge and therefore time, so man is always a slave to the past. Thought is ever-limited and so we live in constant conflict and struggle. There is no psychological evolution.” (Krishnamurti: The Years of Fulfillment)

Our collective insanity is our collective undoing. It is the wellspring of our problems, both individually and collectively. It is why we do not learn or profit from history’s lessons. It is why the world is collectively bankrupt. It is why all governments are corrupt, businesses are rapacious, and why what is coming could be long and dark.

No one can accurately predict what is going to happen; no one, no how, no way. The only thing that seems clear is that things are going to change, and we all are going to be part of it.

Individually we must get our minds ready for what is coming or we will be swept along helplessly.  Let me show you why it is not likely that you will be ready.

It is easy to point to specific groups as being responsible for what keeps happening, bankers, lawyers, politicians, the IRS, or the Powers That Be (PTB), but that is not the case. It’s the easy cop-out to point the finger and say “They’re the problem!”

But that just can’t be.  There is too much of it, evidence of man’s insanity is everywhere. Actually I think that the PTB could not exist without man’s underlying insanity. They are a natural outgrowth of it. The PTB simply take advantage of human nature, our greed, our fears, and our consistent reactions.

If we want to stop shooting ourselves in the foot, individually and collectively, we must get rid of our own insanity. We must recognize that there is something fundamentally wrong with how our minds work; something that ensures that things keep turning out the same way, time after time.

I will tell you now that it is possible to be free, but when given the opportunity, just like in the Matrix, most of you will choose the blue pill. Tomorrow you will wake up, brush your teeth, and go to work doing whatever you do to make a living. Life will simply go on – until it doesn’t.

If you are tempted by the red pill of truth, read on. I will make the offer later after I explain the soup that mankind finds itself swimming in.

Part Two – The Soup continued…

This article was written by Dr Kurt Ebert.

Dr R. Kurt Ebert is a licensed Clinical and Neuro Psychologist. He is also the world-renowned creator of both the Acupuncture4TheMind system and the Attractor Field Techniques (AFT). AFT is a system using sound technology and meridian stimulation to promote healing of hundreds of physical disorders.

Dr. Ebert was formerly Director of Clinical Neuropsychological Services, Department of Neurology, Temple University Hospital; Director of Research, Division of Family Study, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania; Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry and Associate Clinical Professor of Psychology in Neurology, Thomas Jefferson Medical School.