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 and 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 is available from www.spiralworld.net.…
rom John
Hazard, entitled Manifesting the Noosphere, IS right on time and on
point. Jose Arguelles may be dead, but as John Hazard has so succinctly
summarised ... Arguelles has left us with a beautifully written book he
calls “Manifesto for the Noosphere.” He clearly envisions a new
synthesis of collective human awareness, a new state of mind that is
a shared experience.
“Just as the biosphere is the unified field of life and its support
systems…so the noosphere is the unified field of the mind, the
psychic reflection of the biosphere. Because we as a species, the
aggregate of consciousness-bearing cells of the evolving Earth,
are not yet awake to our role as a planetary organism, so too the
noosphere is not yet fully conscious. When humanity becomes
conscious of itself as a single organism and unites to activate the
noosphere, we will find the collective resolve and will to reconstruct
the biosphere and divert the energy of the human race from a path of
destruction based on a mechanised abstraction from nature to a new
harmonic order of super-organic reality based on an entirely
different state of consciousness than has yet existed on Earth.”
... and John Hazard concludes - Somehow, part of the description for
how we get there from here is caught up in our perception of time.
Mostly, our way of thinking about time is by thinking about the big
hand and the little hand on a clock. Time is linear, and we perceive
it when we pay attention to the phase of the moon, or the rising and
setting sun. And of course, we get older day by day.
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probably write another book soon on gift, and perhaps a short book on degrowth economics.
My next major book will probably be about the world-creating power of story, and how, on a
personal and collective level, we can exercise that power to participate in the building of a
more beautiful world.
- See more at: http://charleseisenstein.net/about/#sthash.t96u1EAs.dpuf
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gs the possibility of profound personal, societal and global renewal. We need to stop
and ask: Why do we collectively create results nobody wants? What keeps us locked into the old
ways of operating? And what can we do to transform these root issues that keep us trapped in
the patterns of the past?
The book Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-system 2 Eco-system Economies
ponders these questions and proposes a new line of thought that is summarized in 10 insights.
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Added by Michael Grove at 18:59 on September 23, 2013