They existed within the primary unity as potentials which were given expression through creative empowerment. In the emerging worldview, the Source of reality is conceptualized as an infinite intelligent unity within which phenomena such as free will, energy, being, consciousness, and ultimately physicality have, so to speak, coalesced or condensed. The resulting existential malaise at the heart of modernity came to be expressed by modern philosophers in terms of anomie and alienation. God was regarded as either outside and absent from the universe and uninvolved, or was ‘dead’ as Nietzsche famously put it. As empirical science became established, it provided no evidence for this concept of God, which became discredited and the authority of science gradually eclipsed the authority of religion. In modernity, reality was understood as a collection of purely physical entities and God therefore had to be conceptualized as a powerful creator being within this reality. The concept of God refers to the enduring notion that there must be a first cause for reality, some source that gives the universe its intelligibility, and its apparent evidence of intelligence and other felt qualities that we experience as human beings. It is offered as an Inspirational Future Image to act as a possible model and catalyst for your own creative thinking about our human future. So this website is a deliberately optimistic scenario developed in detail, from the conceptual underpinnings of a new worldview through to the resulting implications for cultural change in multiple fields, which are precursors for the emergence of a new civilization in the decades ahead. In contrast, pessimism is psychologically unhelpful as it leads to a passive or fearful stance towards the future, which tends to become an unwelcome self-fulfilling prophesy. Being deliberately optimistic is a recipe for better future outcomes, because optimism inspires enthusiasm and encourages actions that can make a positive difference. To the extent that it is consciously optimistic, this work ignores possible negative scenarios of the years ahead, not because they could not exist, but because where the future is concerned the probabilities tilt in the direction of habitual or collective focus. Like any scenario, it fulfils a preparatory role by helping to illuminate and clarify probable positive changes, and also a provocative role by offering a possible framework or template for initiatives that might be taken to co-create a future fit for humans. It has a deeper focus than usual for several reasons: it is important because society needs a map of the profound changes ahead it integrates many threads of change that are usually taken separately and it happens to be relatively easier to spot the deep long-wave sources of change and to anticipate their outcomes, than it is to predict the chop of small waves on the surface. ![]() It looks at deep underlying changes, at their evolution, and at their consequences in terms of cultural change, still some way below the day to day surface, which is where most scenarios and other exercises in future thinking tend to float. Oriented towards optimism, it is an exploratory or prototype image of a hopeful future.Īs such, it is not a scenario focused on possible future events, but on future change in worldview, that is, in cultural outlook and intellectual perspective. This places it at the greatest causal depth beneath the surface of events. ![]() It is an exercise in futures research, and presents a positive future scenario for the decade of the 2020s and beyond. This website is the record of an ongoing research project, somewhat like a book in the process of being written. This website charts the fundamentals of the emerging worldview as a source of insight - for navigating the transition, for preparing psychologically and practically, and for learning how to participate creatively in the changes that are now unfolding. ![]() The challenge now is for everyone to see, be open to, and actively engage with the radical potential for human freedom that is becoming possible. The infrastructure for a replacement system is already coming into being, well below the radar of traditional news reporting. Following the global system shock of 2020-2021, the entire power system and worldview of modernity, which was already in terminal decline, is now collapsing. This is not the Great Reset (which was planned as an engineered change) but a Great Shift – a ‘turning of the ages’ arising organically from changes at multiple levels of reality. Over the next ten years there will be a progressive transformation in every aspect of life. A transformed worldview is taking shape and the ability to make sense of it is the key to navigating what comes next. A profound societal shift is underway The era and culture of modernity is being swept away and a new culture is taking its place.
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