Caitlin, We are both striving for the same thing.
Documenting our demise through journalism is not going to save us. When the need arises TPTB will shut down alternative media overnight. Alternative media is not the answer anyway. Religion is not the answer. Spirituality is not the answer, Consciousness is not the answer. Community, farmers markets, anarchy are not solutions.
You are engaging in the most important endeavor with your article here. You are going after a real solution.
The real solution has never been implemented or seen before because it was not possible before our technological advancements. As you said, “it will necessarily come from a place that is historically unprecedented.”
Your first statement, “A radical change in human behavior”, “will necessarily involve a drastic transformation in humanity's relationship with thought” This is 100% correct!
You are just a little off course., “The transformation in human consciousness is the plan of action.”, kinda, not really, the transformation in human consciousness will be a result of our plan of action. A transformation in human consciousness is just not going to magically happen without some sort of impetus.
The cart and the horse, what we are really looking for in your words, “ a healthy state of collaboration with each other”. This will produce the change in consciousness. We need as you say to,
“radically change the way we function above the neck”.
The same goes for your terms of “ego death and spiritual enlightenment”, These are the product of , “people realized collectively that it is in their best interests to do so.” But to do what?
What is the real plan then?
It is a Collective Intelligence. Your statement, “it also means learning to really love the most tender, guarded parts of ourselves which we used to leave unattended running on autopilot in our subconscious mental processes.” It is not so much learning as being enabled. When our “mental processes” are allowed to roam freely, and stand strong the world will truly change.
I hope you will read my blog. This is of the most importance. As you say, “We'll keep repeating and repeating the same old patterns in whatever way we've been conditioned to until we either go the way of the dinosaur” and “Unless we radically change the way we function above the neck, we will keep killing, consuming and destroying like a bunch of mindless automatons until everything is dead.”
No amount of “Alternative Media” and “Activism” is going to change our future demise if no change is made.
War our one fix all is now obsolete
Leaders are now obsolete also, or should be. One individual with a finger on THE BUTTON, insane.
Please see my blog. “Viable” is the most comprehensive. Even if my “implementation” section is a little weak also. I do have what I believe are working pillars of foundation: Permanence, Transparency, Anonymity, Human logic as moderator
It is impossible to imagine how the new dynamics of human thought will manifest It will be a new world a new beginning. A new page in human history.
The point is that a “ Collective Intelligence” will be a sea change. We would, “see a world in which the status quo is overturned and replaced with something more wholesome” and “seeing through the illusory nature of our sense of self and ceasing to believe the babbling mental narratives which are premised upon it.”