What we need now is a value system that places Earth at its center. What we need now is an Earth-encompassing awareness. We are Earth-Humans. Before we are Americans. Japanese, or French, we are Earth-Humans. Before we are Christians. Buddhists, or Muslims, we are Earth-Humans. Just as we represent ourselves as Korean, American, or Mexican in an international forum, on a cosmic stage we have to represent ourselves as an Earth-Humans. Imagine that you arrived in an alien planet populated by intelligent aliens. When these aliens ask you where you are from, are you going to answer, “I am from New York”?
Our way of life already shows us that we are each Earth-Humans. Our communications and business transactions prove our lives as Earth-Humans. Do you still think that you only belong to one unit of organization, a nation or religion or company? Do you believe that any other organization is inherently foreign to the one to which you belong? Do you think you derive your self-identity from your membership in that organization?
Ilchi Lee said that however, we are still far away from having a collective social value infrastructure that can bring the world under one umbrella. In other words, we don’t have a chief Earth deity. We just have many smaller gods who are trying to bite off too big a piece of Earth for them to chew. The Chosen Syndrome is merely an expression of this sad reality.
What kind of constructive contribution can such an ethnocentric and nationalistic value system, as represented by the Chosen Syndrome, make toward the healing of society and the Earth? The value of a piece of information is in its ability to solve a problem. Information, whether it be a god or religion, must be upgraded or deleted and exchanged if it does not help us in solving problems. This is doubly true if that information is actually the cause of the problem.