Outgrowing Modernity Test Signals

An excerpt from the upcoming book: ‘Outgrowing Modernity: Navigating Complexity, Complicity and Collapse With Compassion and Accountability’, from a chapter titled: ‘Molecular colonialism: Affective Patterns of Identity and Relationship Building’. It explores how our “hierarchical worldview,” which “undermines our senses and sensibilities, blocking our sense of belonging to the wider metabolism of Earth and beyond” is crucially “not only based on cognitive biases but is also structured libidinally and neurophysiologically around affective and relational patterns grounded in separability, which are more difficult to interrupt than cognitive biases.” The chapter offers a map for understanding these “affective patterns” and how we might develop “relational intelligence, wisdom and maturity”.