save our civilization from suicide?

My path of personal development has taken me on roundabout routes through the wholistic spectrum of body, emotions, mind, relationships (with other people and the environment) and spirit. My education and training in psychology, medicine and psychiatry thoroughly indoctrinated me in the theories, research, beliefs and practices of modern science, medicine, psychiatry and psychotherapy. Unfortunately, these included skepticism and even serious disparagements of emotional, intuitive and spiritual aspects of life. Reconnecting with the spiritual end of the spectrum has been a particular challenge. It took many years of 'peeling the onion of life ' to identify and neutralize the intellectualized defenses against awarenesses of feelings, intuitions, consciousness of my oneness with all of creation in the physical world, and of my oneness with the All. Over the years, I've pondered just how my brainwashing occurred and what I can learn from understanding that process, along with the approaches that have proved helpful in opening into broader and deeper wholistic consciousness. This is the basis of these musings. Lessons about distancing from aspects of awareness I often felt in childhood that my emotional needs were unmet. My father was absent and m