The shift of humanity’s mindset or worldview from one of
separation to one of interbeing will of necessity involve, accordingly, a
transmutation of our whole cultural ethos, that is, our understanding of what’s
the morally right way to behave and do things and what’s the morally wrong way
to behave and do things.
The paradigm of separation is what has resulted in fear,
scarcity, and zero-sum calculus being at the very foundation of the structures
and rules of the game of our economic and financial institutions and
transactions, of politics and government (as the way we make collective
decisions), and of social organizations and relationships. A paradigm of
interbeing, on the other hand, implies that love, abundance, and positive-sum
calculus must perforce be foundational to a transmutational redesign of our
political, economic, and social institutions as the old structures and rules of
the game will no longer make any sense.