A human identity that we are individually separate from one another fosters fear, competition, dissonance, aggression and more -- a fight for survival. Aterah Nusrat suggests that human identity may be evolving “to a shared sense of self that is not separate from the planet, the cosmos, and even more essentially, the Divine, or Consciousness, as the ground of our existence.” This potential is espoused by many faiths and thought leaders, such as Christianity’s one body, Quaker collective silence, Thich Nhat Hanh’s concept of Interbeing, and current movements toward a Symbiocene Ecological Civilization in community with all of life. Aterah suggests that, more than countering our current destructive path “defined by fragmented and separate constructs of self,” this paradigm shift could become a “reflection point that could bring humanity into interbeing with an evolving cosmos as it awakens to itself.”
