The last 5,000 years of human history has been dominated by taking and exploiting, and by conquering, consuming, and controlling. A new way of seeing the world is emerging, however, and it is based on interconnectedness rather than separateness.
The last 5,000 years of human history has been dominated by taking and exploiting, and by conquering, consuming, and controlling. A new way of seeing the world is emerging, however, and it is based on interconnectedness rather than separateness.
There seems to be a general consensus amongst those concerned with the subject of a flourishing Earth that the Earth will flourish only if and when the Western world goes through a transformation of consciousness. According to the latest social sciences’ perspective (1970s and beyond) this can only be achieved through a transformation of the culture’s shared, underlying, and semi-conscious, layer of meaning.