Topic: Power
Rev. Michael Dowd, a UCC minister who is author of a new book "Thank God for Evolution," has much to say on the evolving that all of us do as individuals, as well as the evolving of civilizations, and the concept of cosmic evolution as it all relates to both science and religion. It's a delightful text that is challenging my own development of critical thinking on several levels.
On p. 148 of the book, he talks about the problems of what he calls "sex scandals." Some of what he is referring to could be called just that. Other incidents would be more accurately termed professional sexual abuse. He attributes the problems to the tendency of peopole in power to live in a regressed state that is fostered by the "Lizard Legacy."
"So long as religious and political leaders continue to ignore our evolutionary heritage, and thus do not put in place structures of internal and external support that can withstand the high dosages of testosterone that high status and power necessarily confer, then there will be no hope for a less calamitous future."
While the insight offered by this statement can be useful, I want to make it clear that we dare not boil the problems down to single explanations when problems are as complex as the ones that concern us. Still, the "Lizard Legacy" could be used to spark some good conversation, especially with those who need a place to start a discussion.
It leaves me wondering: What could we call the legacy that explains collusion?