One World or None: Project for National Healing
About this book
It was inevitable that humankind should finally have to confront itself. The rapid growth of human sciences, especially psychology, anthropology, sociology, and social psychology, over the past one hundred years or more has been the main line of the evolution of humanity toward self-consciousness. It is the age-old tension between our path to enlightenment versus our own resistance.We try to acknowledge through the title, “One World or None,” the mission that Albert Einstein, H.H. Arnold, J.R. Oppenheimer, and others announced exactly 75 years ago for humanity’s survival in the Atomic Age. At the time of this writing, the Doomsday Clock, a metaphor for the end of humanity, strikes at 100 seconds, but the next positioning is likely to be even closer to midnight.The World Mental Health Coalition attempts to confront this Psychological Age, where a correct understanding of our own mind and its dynamics has become quintessential to survival. We begin with our core membership of mental health professionals but endeavor to reach out to a broad range of domains to exchange knowledge and to collaborate in developing solutions. This book outlines a town hall series that begins this dialogue.