The 21st Century Human Is Called Upon To Awaken Both Outwardly And Inwardly

The 21st Century Human Is Called Upon To Awaken Both Outwardly And Inwardly

April 23, 2025

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Caitlin Johnstone

We can’t keep living like this. We’ve got to wake up. We’ve got to become better. We’re never going to make it if we don’t awaken to the reality of our circumstances, both as individuals and as a collective.

The 21st century human is called upon to awaken both outwardly and inwardly.

Awakening outwardly is waking up from the trance of propaganda and indoctrination, and awakening inwardly is waking up from the trance of ego and delusion.

Awakening outwardly means becoming fully conscious of what’s really happening in our world beyond the propaganda and what we were taught in school. Learning about all the ways we’ve been deceived and manipulated, learning the truth about war, militarism, imperialism, capitalism, authoritarianism, ecocide, and all the interrelated abuses and injustices caused by the systems and power structures we live under.

Awakening inwardly means becoming fully conscious of the ways in which we have been deceiving ourselves. Doing the inner work necessary to bring consciousness to the delusions and dysfunction within us and discovering what’s really true about our unquestioned assumptions regarding basic elements of our experience like self, other, time, space, thought, consciousness, and separation.

Both are necessary if our species is to survive into the future. We won’t be able to collectively organize the overthrow of the oppressive systems which are driving us toward extinction and dystopia until enough of us have a lucid understanding of how our world really works, and we won’t be able to act as individuals to give rise to a healthy world if we’re still wildly dysfunctional and egoically entranced.

Reading by Tim Foley

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