Global Transformation
A new worldview transforming humanity
Carmel Bracken, rsm
The Future We Need
September 2014
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Kofi Annan, United Nations, 2001
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“Which world are we trying to sustain:
A resource to fulfil our desires for material prosperity,
Or an Earth of wonder, beauty, and sacred meaning?”
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
www.myworld2015.org
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A good education
Better health care
Better job opportunities
Action taken on climate change
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...we’re in an accelerating, global epidemic of
institutional failure……..with organizations
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increasingly unable to achieve the purpose
for which they were created…
Birth of the Chaordic Age – Dee Hock
“The Great work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to
carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of
the Earth, to a period where humans would be present to the
planet in a mutually beneficial manner.”
Thomas Berry
THE GREAT TURNING
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“HOLDING ACTIONS” IN DEFENCE OF LIFE ON EARTH
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ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL CAUSES AND CREATION OF ALTERNATIVE
INSTITUTIONS
3.
SHIFT IN PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY, BOTH COGNITIVELY AND SPIRITUALLY
Joanna Macy
Advocacy and Lobbying
“Actions that seek out structural causes
or build alternatives are more clearly
prophetic in nature.”
Leonardo Boff and Mark Hathaway
Without a global revolution in the
sphere of human consciousness,
nothing will change for the better…
Vaclav Havel
“No problem can be solved from the
consciousness that created it.”
Albert Einstein
Today, many things indicate that something is on the
way out and something else is painfully being born.
It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and
exhausting itself – while something else, still indistinct,
were rising from the rubble. Vaclav Havel
Humanity has just
entered what is
probably the
greatest transformation
it has ever known….
Something is
happening in the
structure of human
consciousness. It is
another species of
life that is just
beginning.
Teilhard de Chardin
Ecozoic era
Homo universalis
The only way to change the world is to
change the story.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
We need to be aware of the powerful influences on our culture of two
deeply held beliefs that have long governed our actions.
~ The belief that ‘God’ is separate from this world and that we were
given dominion over the Earth
~ The secular belief of scientific materialism.
Anne Baring & Scilla Elworthy
1. UNIVERSE STORY
2. PHYSICS
3. BIOLOGY
4. MATHEMATICS
UNIVERSE STORY
….in essence we are stardust evolving into awesome
complexity over billions of years in an expanding
universe shaped by invisible dark matter and dark
energy
The New Universe and Future Human
Reality is “a single unbroken wholeness” in flowing
movement. Each part of the flow contains the entire
flow.
David Bohm
Epigenetics controls genetics
Bruce Lipton
Self similar patterns of
organisation are found at
every level of the Universe‘s
structure.
The microcosm replicates
the macrocosm
Subtle Transformations
From Masters to Co-creators
From Doers to Listeners
An increased sense of connection and communion
of all of life
A Natural Ethics
Interconnectedness of all minds
Greater compassion for all beings
THE PRIMACY OF
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE
RESPECT FOR BEING PRESENT
Valuing of Intuitive Knowledge
Integration of the feminine