The NAP sounds great in theory. It reminds me of indigenous societies who exist in harmony with the natural world. There is a book out there called Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient way of knowing (Robert Wolff, 2001) - which I fully admit I have not gotten around to reading - that talks about how indigenous societies are built on trust, patience, and joy rather than anxiety, hurry, and acquisition. Unfortunately Western (American) society is not only disconnected from nature, but from one another. Additionally, our culture seems to have a tendency to breed sociopaths. So long as a culture lives under the principle of hyper-individualism and, as you stated, separation consciousness, and devalues collectivism (the healthy kind of collectivism [as you stated "We're all fractals of the same eternal essence. We're all woven together"] – not hyper-collectivism) I do not believe that this principal could be put into actual practice. Small steps I suppose – a good place to start would be the Steemit community.
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