Evolution's arrow is toward progress, but waiting for individual wake-ups to tip mass consciousness is a dangerous way to go. Speeding up that natural process, tlo where we work together as one humanity, could be what saves us from a cataclysmic consequence.
Evolution's arrow is toward progress, but waiting for individual wake-ups to tip mass consciousness is a dangerous way to go. Speeding up that natural process, tlo where we work together as one humanity, could be what saves us from a cataclysmic consequence.
Maybe it's because I'm not spiritual in anyway, but I struggle to understand what the call to action is. Like what is the thing that's going to turn ""dominators of the earth" to "caretakers"? hat could possibly cause a "mass wake-up?" I don't think humans are just going to magically start behaving better toward other humans and the planet we live on. Certainly scientific discovery reshaped our understanding of the universe and that changed the way we act toward religion and the planet, but is there something you imagine that will happen now to do that again? Because from reading your work it seems like that shift is more spiritual than tangible?
Have you watched Brian Swimme videos? He is beloved by those who understand, and he says the scientific position we are in now, when it gets interpreted as to its meaning and significance, will institute a bigger change in humanityтАЩs consciousness than from what Copernicus contributed. As we understand the cosmos differently, we understand ourselves differently. Before Hubble we thought we were the only galaxy and we know now there are 2 trillion. The story we subscribe to, essential being sinners, has not been rewritten since that discovery. What I linked you to was about the significance of a creation story тАУ how it affects the gestalt of how a civilization operates.
You donтАЩt need to be spiritual for this, just scientific. But a beauty of that is that when you delve into the science you find the spirit. There are organizations devoted to that merger.
That it's an evolving universe where it started as nothing and everything has been evolving together, all interconnected. Before Hubble we thought it was a static universe, all fixed, with us on a dead planet here for our use. Our bodies are pretty much all developed now but our thinking dimension is still evolving, from being rugged individualists chasing personal gain to understanding we are one interconnected body here to be caretakers of the planet.
You get the idea that the whole universe is what you could call sacred -- what god is. It evolves itself -- an awesome enterprise.
Hmmmmm, this is where you lose me. We know that we are in an evolving universeтАФit doesnтАЩt make people act unselfishly. Even if we are aware that we need to take care of each other and our planet, we still act selfishly and there will still be selfish people. I donтАЩt believe a scientific discovery will make humans suddenly selfless and working for the good of all. Maybe we just disagree about human nature?
It's back to our creation story. We're not sinners. There is a zeitgeist for human beings in a culture, and the evolutionary story -- that we haven't yet based our creation story on -- changes us from being sinners needing salvation to being the very stuff of the universe, the glorious universe, the sacred universe, what God is. Humanity is due for a massive shift in our understanding of the universe that will radically affect its behavior. After Copernicus and Galileo, we went from kings and serfs to get to democracy. With you being looked up to, you owe it to humanity to get wised up about this. This is not my clever idea but a track of Teilhard de Chardin to Thomas Berry to my favorite contemporary storyteller, Brian Swimme. I'd suggest having a look at my Substacks about Brian -- you'll see him illustrating them -- to get it from a charismatic horse's mouth. Love to continue with you after that.
Evolution's arrow is toward progress, but waiting for individual wake-ups to tip mass consciousness is a dangerous way to go. Speeding up that natural process, tlo where we work together as one humanity, could be what saves us from a cataclysmic consequence.
Speeding up individual wake ups?
It's what I write about. Like this:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-115508252
Delivering the Universe Story
Getting Serious About Changing the World
Maybe it's because I'm not spiritual in anyway, but I struggle to understand what the call to action is. Like what is the thing that's going to turn ""dominators of the earth" to "caretakers"? hat could possibly cause a "mass wake-up?" I don't think humans are just going to magically start behaving better toward other humans and the planet we live on. Certainly scientific discovery reshaped our understanding of the universe and that changed the way we act toward religion and the planet, but is there something you imagine that will happen now to do that again? Because from reading your work it seems like that shift is more spiritual than tangible?
Have you watched Brian Swimme videos? He is beloved by those who understand, and he says the scientific position we are in now, when it gets interpreted as to its meaning and significance, will institute a bigger change in humanityтАЩs consciousness than from what Copernicus contributed. As we understand the cosmos differently, we understand ourselves differently. Before Hubble we thought we were the only galaxy and we know now there are 2 trillion. The story we subscribe to, essential being sinners, has not been rewritten since that discovery. What I linked you to was about the significance of a creation story тАУ how it affects the gestalt of how a civilization operates.
You donтАЩt need to be spiritual for this, just scientific. But a beauty of that is that when you delve into the science you find the spirit. There are organizations devoted to that merger.
What is the scientific discovery that will allow us to believe that humans are good? (as in тАЬnot sinnersтАЭ)
That it's an evolving universe where it started as nothing and everything has been evolving together, all interconnected. Before Hubble we thought it was a static universe, all fixed, with us on a dead planet here for our use. Our bodies are pretty much all developed now but our thinking dimension is still evolving, from being rugged individualists chasing personal gain to understanding we are one interconnected body here to be caretakers of the planet.
You get the idea that the whole universe is what you could call sacred -- what god is. It evolves itself -- an awesome enterprise.
Hmmmmm, this is where you lose me. We know that we are in an evolving universeтАФit doesnтАЩt make people act unselfishly. Even if we are aware that we need to take care of each other and our planet, we still act selfishly and there will still be selfish people. I donтАЩt believe a scientific discovery will make humans suddenly selfless and working for the good of all. Maybe we just disagree about human nature?
It's back to our creation story. We're not sinners. There is a zeitgeist for human beings in a culture, and the evolutionary story -- that we haven't yet based our creation story on -- changes us from being sinners needing salvation to being the very stuff of the universe, the glorious universe, the sacred universe, what God is. Humanity is due for a massive shift in our understanding of the universe that will radically affect its behavior. After Copernicus and Galileo, we went from kings and serfs to get to democracy. With you being looked up to, you owe it to humanity to get wised up about this. This is not my clever idea but a track of Teilhard de Chardin to Thomas Berry to my favorite contemporary storyteller, Brian Swimme. I'd suggest having a look at my Substacks about Brian -- you'll see him illustrating them -- to get it from a charismatic horse's mouth. Love to continue with you after that.