This is because, at the world-wide scale, humanity has a deep-seated problem that has yet to be correctly identified, and taken seriously, by a sufficiently broad section of the population. The vast majority of humankind still lacks insight into the true nature of, this, its most telling issue.
This is an issue that has existed for several millennia but which has become a far greater risk to our collective happiness and survival ever since humanity established itself as a single global community. Our one world has observably 'shrunk' to the point at which we all, along with our considerable mix of creeds and cultures, are now very alertly and nervously sharing in it together.
One striking effect of this is that many, if not most, of us are feeling uncomfortable and insecure, to say the least. For the last few decades this has been the elephant in our ever shrinking room.
We anxiously wonder, "Has the world, its experts and its leaders, stopped to carefully consider at which level the real problem (and its solution) exists?" Is there a remedy at the level of zero tolerance policing and the irresistible forces of modern military might? How about the level of economic strategies and sanctions? Or perhaps, after all, satisfactory resolutions might become possible at the political level?
Throughout history, 'solutions' at each of those three levels have been tried over and over again. None of them have worked. They are still not working. They have failed to work simply because the problem (and, thus, the way to deal with it) exists at an entirely different level.
Our global problem exists at the spiritual level, at the level of our underlying beliefs about 'life, the universe and everything'. However, a working solution at this level might be nothing like we would have imagined.
Why so? -- It is beginning to dawn on us that our whole world has a long record of being too spiritually arrogant, short-sighted and stubborn. We have unwittingly abetted our problems by neglecting to update our old, limited and vexed spirituality. Consequently, that which could have given us a working solution (the collective human spirituality) has, instead, prolonged and worsened it. (This is neither accusation nor indictment; it is a plain observation of what is so.)
While disagreement between different spiritualities (religious/cultural traditions) has often been experienced as a danger in itself, the root problem is a major conflict within the collective human spirituality as one whole. It issues from the inaccuracies that we all have in common in our deep rooted and largely sub-conscious beliefs about life and about God. These inaccuracies originated in our earliest history and they have been tenaciously perpetuated, even until the present time, as the collective spiritual illusions of humankind.
To see this, we have to revisit the time when we human beings first began to become self-aware. At the dawn of primitive human culture, our inner awareness was only then beginning to unfold. More than anything else we were mindful of our experiences of hunger and thirst, pleasure and pain. Our daily action plans and way of life were therefore given to satisfying our basic requirements of physical comfort and wellbeing. Because our inner (spiritual) life was then largely undeveloped and undiscriminating, we very soon took to heart a belief that life was about survival, about meeting material/physical needs. The first illusion - "Need exists"- thus derives from our earliest experience.
This, and other illusions that stem directly from it, have been consistently passed on into each new generation until the present day. Our now very serious global problem (due to a resultant and ongoing spiritual fog) exists because right from the beginning the whole of humanity has been, all unwittingly, living inside of its own very long-standing illusions about God and about life.
The following spiritual information is evidenced across the world's wide variety of sacred writings -- also including the Holy Bible which I use here as a means of reference (New International Version).
For us, our Universe is all that is. It is both spiritual and material/physical. It is thus the whole of Life. And this Life is intelligent. The whole Universe, the material and the sentient, is subject to the same physical, and the same spiritual, laws. Everything in our Universe is connected/unified. The Universe is one; it is a unified whole.
It follows that are we are not only transitory offspring of the Physical universe: But that we are the offspring of God (the Spiritual side of the Universe)-- Acts 17:28 and Galatians 3: 26. We are not part-material and part-spiritual; we truly are spiritual beings. How so? -- Our physical bodies are finite and temporary. You are not your body. A body is a temporary possession; it is merely something you have. What you are is divine. Our spirits are infinite -- Ecclesiastes 3:11. Our bodies are the vehicles through which we (may, and do) express and experience our divinity. As such, we have far more freedom and far more ability than we have so far noted -- Romans 8:18. In summary, we are divine beings having physical bodies.
Jesus Christ was directly from and of God, as are we all. The salient difference was that he knew it -- he had the confidence (faith) of it. When we accept that same confidence for ourselves, we then know that we are not merely born physically (simply born as flesh and blood), but conceived and born of God -- John 1:12. In truth, we always were spiritual beings. In the beginning God, the Spirit of Life, breathes a human spirit into an inert human body that he has prepared from the elements of the earth. As he does so, the body comes to life -- Genesis 2:7.
Jesus thus came to reveal God to us, to show us who we really are (-- John 1: 9, 13, 18 and Colossians 1:26-27 --) because this had long remained a mystery, not only to Israel but to the world as a whole. Unfortunately, The Bible and other sacred writings from around the world have given what seems to be a mixed, self-conflicting message. Talk of God's "wrath", a real place termed "Hell", something lacking in the human makeup, and eternal 'death'-destruction-condemnation, are inaccuracies that deny the truth of God's unconditional love for the creation including ourselves. Those inaccuracies reflect the fact that, at a very deep and primitive level, we came to believe that we are separate(d) from God due to some innate or inherited 'fault'. This is a very powerfully destructive illusion that disunity, or separation, characterises Life/the-Universe.
When it comes to taking dictation from God and, later, reading back what he has said, we are not always the perfect secretaries - it would be unrealistic to say that we were! Those errors in, or false interpretations of, the world's various works of scripture are almost certainly the direct result of the tenacious spiritual illusions that have been keeping us blind even from the onset of our history.
The most influential and damaging of those anciently originated illusions is that God and humanity are, somehow, separate and that each individual person and each nation is separate from the next. That is simply not true. God/Life/the-Universe is one. We are all one -- John 14:11, 20 and 17: 6-26 Bodily, we all consist of one family of elementary particles intrinsic to the whole natural Universe; while, our life and intelligent consciousness flow through us from the One Spirit of the Universe.
Unity is the reality. But until we set ourselves free from our illusions, and especially from the primitive root belief that disunity exists, our present problems can only get worse. That is as complete an answer as can be given to this question without it becoming very lengthy. Why can't we get out of our mess? (And: Why could things very easily get worse?). The world's worst ever disasters will be averted when we are truly ready to accept and experience that we are all one.
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