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I'm going to be safer if I share this space with
others because there is safety in numbers. Not only is there safety in numbers, but
there is the possibility of being able to do research and of being able to work
together on the foundation. So, when you have somebody that has a first line in their
profile, they're going to be motivated to either be loners in their life or to seek out
others in order to find protection. It doesn't matter that they finally become secure
beings or that they finally get that foundation. That underlying motivation isn't going
to go away.
One of the things to see is that every time that you get the sense that there is a
community, all of a sudden, separatism arises. You can look at all of the places in the
world where you have separatist movements, because they think it's safer to be
separate. If you're an Albanian in Macedonia, you think it's safer to be separate. This
is a mechanism that is underlying the foundation of what it is to be human, one of
the basic responses to the threat of what life is. Remember, we are bio‐systems; we
are always under threat. We are driven to form communities or to separate in order
to be safe and to be able to get to the bottom of things and be secure. Fear drives us
to find out how things work. Once we find out how things work, we get a sense of
security.
I don't want you to look at this duality as polarities. I want you to look at it as a
prana. It's an ongoing prana, a naturally flow from one to the other. In looking at it as
a prana, you can see an evolutionary pattern, an underlying motivation in humanity
to bring us to the point that we've reached today in the development of our
civilization. Also, as a first color theme, a foundation theme, in understanding its
evolutionary process, you can also see that that time is just about coming to an end.
You can see through the color itself that there's a limit to how we can evolve in this
particular form.
Think about how that works. You start off in the beginning, whatever our mythical
beginning is, whatever group or beginning source you have, and basically, the way
that we've evolved is that community, tribes or whatever, have grown together for
security. Yet, the moment that they grow together and the moment that there's a
semblance of security, there is a breakup of that and a moving on. The first line
theme of the demand for a solid foundation is also the beginning of what we call
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