Can we even now create a vision for a future worth dying and living for?

In the prevailing despair we're identifying a transformed cosmology of a meaningful and purposeful world.

As the remaining residents of Mariupol are mercilessly pounded, and we anxiously anticipate an imminent violent push by Russian forces in Eastern Ukraine, it is easy to fall into despair at any hope of addressing the larger global meta-crisis we face.

Against the tragic loss of life and destruction, the anticipated economic disruption, and the looming threat of climate change, it is important to remember that we are not victims of circumstances - we, humanity, are essentially the authors of our human experience.

Metanoia

As David Lorimer of the Scientific and Medical Network, in his presentation to the Holos Project https://holos-earth.org/ ?put it - we need to move from ‘paranoia’ to a ‘metanoia’ - we need a fundamental ‘change of heart and mind’. https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/humanitys-future-paranoia-metanoia-the-holos-earth-project/

Thinkers like Iain McGilchrist warn that without a fundamental ‘shift’ in our awareness and relationship with the world, we are likely to strive even harder to do even more effectively the very things that don’t work!

And that paradigm shift we have described in the Holos Project as an era change from ’Logos’, the era of rational reductionist materialism, to ‘Holos’, an emergent era of holistic, living-systems-focused interrelatedness.

But that’s not going to be easy.?We face a deep institutionalisation of current extractive and exploitative economic practices rooted in a scientific paradigm based in reductionistic materialism. The global political game that comes from that frame keeps us all metaphorically running on its accelerating treadmill. ?

Trustworthy leadership

Fundamental change therefore desperately requires trustworthy and compelling leadership, a clear strategy for behavioural change, and insight into the meaningfulness of any sacrifices to be made by the general population. ?Above all this demands an inspiring and compelling vision of possibility for humanity in its enabling natural milieu.

Without a vision of possibility worth striving for the painful challenge of change will likely be found unendurable. But we can create an alternative vision. We can recognise that in addressing our current challenges, the meta-crisis, we are presented with a significant milieu for deeper human becoming. Then we can collectively summon the courage and collaboration to ‘take on’ the conditions of the world.

However the critical requirement is that we learn to accept our global condition both as our own individual and collective responsibility. As Patrick Geddes already said in 1915: “Think globally, act locally.” Only then will we be able to escape the trap of the blame-game, finding scape-goats, in the futile war of ideologies; political, economic and religious.

“Where there is no vision, the people perish’’ Proverbs 29;18

Given the understandable scepticism about the role of religious, political and economic ideologies, where can we turn to find reassurance in the deeper possibility of transcending our critical existential hiatus?

The author of the holistic view, Jan Christian Smuts, introduced a holistic cosmology with deeper vision of human agency - one that includes our capacity to create a better world. ?In his seminal Presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1931. He told the assembled scientists:

Creative mind

“The free creativeness of mind is possible because … the world ultimately exists, not of material stuff, but of patterns, of organisation ... The purely structural character of reality thus helps to render possible and intelligible the free creativeness of life and mind”.

Smuts contested the view that our origin is accidental, our human position is exceptional and our fate is sealed, with, as he put it, the inevitable running down of the solar system. In this erroneous view, he declared, life and mind were thus reduced to a very casual and inferior status in the cosmic order, “... a transient and embarrassed phantom in an alien, if not hostile universe”. But then Smuts offered an encouraging counter affirmation:

“The human spirit is not a pathetic, wandering phantom of the universe … but meets with spiritual hospitality and response everywhere. Our deepest thoughts and emotions are but responses to stimuli which come to us not from an alien, but from an essentially friendly and kindred universe.”

Unitive cosmic narrative - fantasy?

Now we can question, and rightly so, whether this view Smuts offered was little more than fantasy. ?

That is why we in Holos-Earth Project https://holos-earth.org/ are excited that author and futurist Dr Jude Currivan will be offering a free online presentation on a new unitive cosmic narrative - one that includes us.

?This free on-line presentation takes place this coming Thursday 21st April @ 18h00 BST. ?

?To register go here: https://holos-earth.org/event/holos-lecture-by-jude-currivan-the-unitive-new-narrative-of-the-universe-gaia-and-us/

Scientific breakthroughs?

Jude will offer scientific breakthroughs revealing a radical new view of reality. Presenting an emergent Wholeword-view converging with the pioneering insights of Jan Smuts and with universal wisdom teachings, it will reveal a conscious Universe that meaningfully exists and purposefully evolves as a unified and sentient entity.

Jude writes:

“Our planetary home, Gaia, has nurtured its universal evolutionary impulse to ever greater levels of individuated and interdependent complexity, diversity and self-awareness. Instead of the old secular paradigm of materialism and illusory separation, this unitive new narrative invites us to heal our fragmented perception and can serve to empower and help guide our conscious evolution.”

Bio:

Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist and author. She was previously one of the most senior business women in the UK, is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and in 2017 co-founded WholeWorld-View, seeking to empower the understanding, experiencing and embodying of unity awareness to serve collective and planetary healing and conscious evolution.

She has worked with the wisdom keepers of many traditions and has a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a master’s degree in Physics from Oxford University, specialising in cosmology and quantum physics. International best-selling and award-winning author of six nonfiction books, her latest is The Cosmic Hologram: Information at the Centre of Creation. Her next book The Story of GAIA sharing the evolutionary story of our living planetary home, is due to be published in October 2022.

For more information visit www.wholeworld-view.org?www.evolutionaryleaders.net and www.judecurrivan.com.

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