The further the spiritual evolution
of mankind advances,
the more certain it seems to me
that the path to genuine religiosity
does not lie through the fear of life,
and the fear of death,
and blind faith,
but through striving after
rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
THE BIG PICTURE
Many years ago, I started clipping articles and collecting data for a book of readings that I thought might be useful for students at the senior high school and college level.
The idea was to get them thinking and talking about their values and identity.
Although the book was never published, throughout the years, the collection continued to grow, and eventually I began to see how the lessons of art, science, philosophy, psychology and religion, fell into place like a jigsaw puzzle to reveal the “big picture”.
A NEW TERMINOLOGY
Secularism is growing — and growing more complicated.
Its impact on politics and self-identity looms large, experts say,
“There has been no innovation in secular thought in 50 years, few new policy ideas,” Berlinerblau said in an interview. “There’s no coherence, no leadership, no central movement. They can’t articulate what they want it to do.”
Berlinerblau’s book, and others of late, look at different parts of personal and public secularism, but they agree that the contemporary terminology is inadequate.
“Now we’re seeing religious polarization and political polarization lay on top of one another,” Burge said. “Religious polarization is just as real, but we don’t talk about it as much because no one has articulated it in a way that makes sense.” (Washington Post)
According to a 2012 Pew Research Center survey, within the next four decades, Christians will remain the world’s largest religion; if current trends continue, by 2050 the number of Christians will reach 3 billion (or 31.4%).
In the wisdom literature, perennial philosophy, and more recently psychology, a more complete understanding of human evolution is emerging. It is becoming more clear that we are not only evolving physically and sociologically, but more importantly – psychologically. Through experience gained in many lives we are becoming more self-conscious – naturally.
One of the things
that has to be faced
is the process of waiting
to change the system
to find out who we are
where we have come from
and where we are going.
Ella Baker
SOCIAL EVOLUTION
The biogeochemist Vladimir Vernadsky defined the noosphere
as the new state of the biosphere and described it as
the planetary “sphere of reason”.
As “creatures evolve, a new biosphere emerges,
and with it a new noosphere”
The noosphere is a postulated sphere or stage of evolutionary
development dominated by consciousness, the mind,
and interpersonal relationships. Wikipedia
The world has become too dangerous
for anything but truth
and too small for anything but love.
William Sloane Coffin
IWARRIOR WORLD CULTURE
With a quarter
of the global population
connected to the world’s
learning communities –
and one-half of the global
population under the age of thirty –
Iwarrior World will be an infrastructure
to take humanity to the “next level”.
