gh material eyes against the background of a material world so that we know ourselves afresh as beings of creative, world-forming information. This is way beyond the fluffy new-age notion of “we are all energy”. For me, this is where Integral Consciousness truly lies, in recognising how the interior and the exterior realities connect, both individually and collectively. All four quadrants are aspects of the universal “mind” – choices about our perspective, and which parts of the information we are engaging with."
"Knowing that, we have more chance of aligning ourselves with the world & with each other."
"It is the beginning of a new level of empowerment and responsibility for our existence."
God’s Ecology: A science of the Spiritual Habitat…
her basic cosmic constituents shortly after the Big Bang occurred.
Consciousness would then not be an accidental “add on” that never quite fits in a material universe, but instead would be a primary feature of the universe that occurs at all levels of reality, right down to that of quarks.
- Michael Zimmerman
The world is in crisis and transformation. Now, our civilization has the opportunity to evolve it's thinking. We are beginning to realize that the old ways of competition and "survival of the fittest" are not sustainable, for individuals, businesses, or the planet. Nature may be our most qualified life coach, with millions of years of experience in creating sustainability.
It's time to look to Her wisdom for some answers. It's time to do something different!
The evolution occurs when we try smarter- not harder!
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e philosophers, scientists, and mystics exploring its implications.
To many, it is simply a compelling philosophy, uniting the revelations of science and spirituality
in a way that no other theory can. But others, like Aurobindo before them, are beginning to reach
beyond a theoretical discussion to wonder: What might human life and culture look like if we fully
took to heart the reality of this view?
Freed from the mythic dogmatisms of premodern religion, transcending the materialistic
biases of modern scientific thought, and liberated from the narcissistic self-absorptions
of postmodernity, what kind of new world could human beings aligned with the trajectory
of a spiritually evolving cosmos actually create?
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gh material eyes against the background of a material world so that we know ourselves afresh as beings of creative, world-forming information. This is way beyond the fluffy new-age notion of “we are all energy”. For me, this is where Integral Consciousness truly lies, in recognising how the interior and the exterior realities connect, both individually and collectively. All four quadrants are aspects of the universal “mind” – choices about our perspective, and which parts of the information we are engaging with."
"Knowing that, we have more chance of aligning ourselves with the world & with each other."
"It is the beginning of a new level of empowerment and responsibility for our existence."
God’s Ecology: A science of the Spiritual Habitat
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pushed beyond safe limits only the natural systems of the planet breakdown and not the human systems? The current economic-financial-industrial system pushes the planet’s ecologies beyond humanly favorable thermal balances. But this system has its own limits, beyond which it cannot function. There are multiple such limits, economic, social, political, even cultural, and many of them are close to critical thresholds.
The operational limits of the global financial system may be the most critical.
The global financial system rests on self-created quicksand. When banks lend to other banks or financial institutions, those funds are used as a basis for further lending, and each transaction is larger than the one before. Interest has its own interest, and money breeds money. The greater the amounts and quicker the transactions, the more money is created. The amount of money in the system has grown exponentially. Computers decide in milliseconds the buying and selling of millions and billions of dollars worth of financial instruments. With so much money available, and with the ease and speed of global transactions, trade in derivates and other forms of financial gambling has progressively detached the financial system from economic and social reality.Ervin Laszlo
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everything that has ever happened on this planet has had at its source the idea of a single individual. For sure, there are groups we can look at throughout history that have been responsible for a lot of things, but the genesis of that group came from someone. And the best of those groups were those where those who made up the group were being ‘someones’ as well.
So in reality, the individual and his individual actions are the only things we have that will make a positive difference. If you’ve ever been led to believe that that isn’t true, that’s because, unfortunately, there are some not too nice people out there who don’t want you to make a difference. And in fact, our society is full of efforts to make people not only feel like they can't make a difference, but that the only way they can survive is to be dependent on someone else, such as the government.
So we are all here to make a difference. We are going to make significant changes in this country and we’re going to look in the mirror every morning and know that we have made a difference. The difference.
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a true real-time democracy was on the way. “One day soon,” he said, “we will be able to click a thing on our wrist to say ‘I like it’ or ‘I don’t like it,’ and that will be our vote.” Bucky’s ideas generally came about fifty years in advance of reality, which means real-time democracy should arrive by about 2020. Considering recent political events, another Bucky thought to ponder is this: “When something is broken, don’t try to fix it. Create a new model that renders the old one obsolete.” Bucky said successful global air traffic control is proof that we can cooperate despite our differences. “You may ask how we are going to resolve the ever-accelerating dangerous impasse of world-opposed politicians and ideological dogmas,” he said. “I answer, it will be resolved by the computer. While no politician or political system can afford to yield understandably and enthusiastically to their adversaries and opponents, all politicians can and will yield to the computer’s safe flight-controlling capabilities and bring all humanity in for a happy landing.” Surely there will soon be an app for that.
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ity, 1988).
Christianity and Judaism are religions of exile: Man was thrown out of the Garden.
The serpent Was the wise one in the Garden. Adam and Eve Got thrown into the field of time. Osbon, Diane K., A Joseph Campbell Companion, 1991 (30-31)
“This is precisely the key to what may well be one of humankind’s greatest leaps in understanding the way the universe works: the fact that time and the things that happen within it are intimately connected as two parts of the same essence—they cannot be separated (96). Physicist, John Wheeler (quoted in Gregg Braden’s Fractal Time: The Secret of 2012 and a New World Age, 2009)
“Wisdom is reflection in time. Knowledge is static and timeless. It is the moment before the Big Bang, the explosion brings Understanding through the fourth dimension, which is time” (Foreward: RZA, The TAO OF WU, 2009).
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