In this paper I take cues from an ancient Indian verse that advocates an ideal of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' (meaning global family), and link the mechanism of blurring the distinction between self and other that is suggested in the verse to the more recent and western psychological construct of 'perspective taking'. Putting the two together I outline a process by which multiple rounds of perspective taking can be used to strengthen increasingly higher levels of identification and ultimately creating a perception of belonging to a global family. I propose four testable hypotheses that emerge from the arguments I lay out.