Negative Cycle: Fear leads to Selfishness creating Social Conflict producing Scarcity and reinforcing Fear...
Positive Cycle: Love inspires Sharing, creating Cooperation that generates Abundant Privosion and reinforces Love...
Any diverse society can be understood as a mixture of these two social cycles, shown below:
No individual can control the mood of society as a whole, so
everone is responsible for it in part.
However, we are responsible for our actions.
Both positive and negative outside influences affect out lives each day,
and we have a choice about how to respond.
One of the key factors that determines how
altruistically we behave is whether we
see ouselves as living in a world of
abundance or scarcity - whether we are motivated
by love or by fear.
The diagram above is a simple summary of the cyclical pattern of
interactions between a society and its members:
Individuals' actions create the activity of society as a whole.
The activities within a society shape the social climate.
The social climate affects the mood of individuals ...
The moods of individuals influence their actions ...