| This book provides perspective on today’s planetary crisis by seeing it as a transition within the larger picture of human social evolution. It develops a model of social evolution that explains how it has led to both worthwhile achievements, moral horrors, and the current world crisis. There are certain ground qualities that were present at the beginnings of our social evolution—natural living, belonging, vitality, community, equality. Over the span of human history certain emergent qualities have developed to give us greater power in the world—technology, social organization, rational thinking. However, in developing these qualities we have suppressed the ground qualities, at the expense of our health and wholeness and now leading to a profound crisis. The next step in social evolution is to take conscious charge of our future by integrating the ground qualities with the emergent qualities so that they can continue to evolve, but now in a healthy way. | |
Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis. An article summarizing the ideas in the book for the general public.
Social Evolution and the Planetary Crisis. A more academic article summarizing the ideas in the book and relating them to General Systems Theory.
A Future Society Must Integrate Current Contradictions A summary article on the book written for futurists.
The Social Evolution of Consciousness. An academic article on the evolution of consciousness using the model from the book.
Global Consciousness. Chapter 24 from Transforming Human Culture, which deals with the idea of global consciousness--what it is, how we can develop it, and how it relates to resolving the planetary crisis.
Slide Show for Talk. Slides for a talk on Transforming Human Culture given at Masterpeace 2001.
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