Paradigms, Domination, and Trance - Bringing It All Back Home - Part 13 - 1 (Summary: Transcending Paradigms)

Tom Yeomans has articulated the crises that are already visible:

"The litany of difficulties is now familiar, stretching from issues of resource depletion, and destruction, pollution, and species diversity loss, to exploitation and gross disparity of wealth, and political oppression, in the midst of human rights and democratic apathy.

"Accompanying these are social issues of rapidly growing authoritarianism, violence, alienation, constant war, the international weapons trade and a renewed enthusiasm for the use of nuclear weapons. Add to this drug addiction, epidemic disease, illiteracy, child neglect, overpopulation, and irrelevancy of much educational practice to life in a post-modern world.

"Meanwhile, we see meteorological positive (vicious-cycle-like) feedback loops that threaten to accelerate uncontrollably. Then natural cycles that to a great degree have sheltered us from extreme weather conditions. A perfect storm is rapidly approaching.

"Those of us who are open to absorbing at least a modicum of these realities can't help but conclude that a multitude of systems which have sustained life on earth in the past are stretched to the breaking point.

"There are many warning signs that unless we change our collective ways as a species, the future will become increasingly a nightmare of bare survival in a global landscape bereft of the plenty and beauty it provided in the past."

It appears that we are living through the beginning of a world-transforming evolutionary crisis, a planetary rite of passage.

We are faced with a stark choice - evolve or devolve. While we may be able to make a quantum leap beyond a paradigm that is debilitating, we may also resist this leap, leading to a very dark age.

Einstein said it this way:

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