Although break is cognate with fragment, paradoxically, to heal the fragmented mind and split psyche, we need to break the cultural taboo that asserts that we humans are separate from the Divine, opened up at least five thousand years ago, as we see from the roots of humanity and Divinity.

Such a liberating, healing, and awakening adventure does not happen through any act of conscious will by individuals. Nevertheless, this wonderful release of energy would become far easier in the collective within spiritual communities becoming aware of what is happening to us all as a species.

Quite remarkably, in Cosmic Consciousness in 1901, the Canadian psychiatrist Richard Maurice Bucke prophesied that this could happen one day, writing, “our descendants will sooner or later reach, as a race, the condition of cosmic consciousness. … In contact with the flux of cosmic consciousness all religions known and named to-day will be melted down. The human soul will be revolutionized.” And when this happens, “Churches, priests, forms, creeds, prayers, all agents, all intermediaries between the individual man and God will be permanently replaced by direct unmistakeable intercourse. Sin will no longer exist nor will salvation be desired. Men will not worry about death or a future, about the kingdom of heaven, about what may come with and after the cessation of the present body. Each soul will feel itself to be immortal,” extraordinary words written many years ahead of their time.

So, by healing the experiential and cognitive split between humanity and Divinity, we would experience the Divine in the depths of our hearts, and there would no longer be any need for organized religions. It is through enlightenment that we could know that humankind is not special, essential if we are to face the imminent extinction of our species with equanimity.