With our world imperiled to where the possible extinction of humanity is a real subject, the most important thing that could happen would be to adopt a new story of who we are and what we are doing here. If we think we are sinners we create a different world than if we think we are glorious. And how we can come by that understanding is to tune into what’s called the Universe Story. Understanding ourselves as the magnificent creation of a 3.8 billion year process of evolution, from cosmic dust to us, will do the trick, and the way to arrive at that understanding is to tune into its most charismatic, brilliant storyteller, Brian Swimme. You have a chance to do that in two days, when there will be a gala celebration of his most recent book,
It's not a matter of "seeing into the afterlife," but in recognizing that it exists and is not the humdrum heaven and horrific hell of orthodoxy. It is a deeper existential dive than the one you mention. Once we successfully take that dive, we can better appreciate being human and cherishing the earth. It is difficult to appreciate these things with a nihilistic approach, at least it is for me and most people I know. Thanks for the link. I will check it out later. Meanwhile, you might want to check out the writings of Sir Oliver Lodge and Professors James Hyslop.
I have read a little of Swimme and his inspirations, including Alfred North Whitehead, and Teilhard de Chardin, and the problem I see with them is that they do not actually use the words, life after death, afterlife, consciousness surviving death, whatever. They imply that such exists, or one might infer that they exist, but the person of normal intelligence is never really sure what they are saying. It is apparently too unscientific for them to use such verbiage and so they continually beat around the bush on the subject and make little or no progress with their ideas among the masses.
Here is a different take. Work like Brian's helps elevate a small segment of population's consciousness directly and a larger section indirectly by raising the frequency. But it is the education movement called Social Emotional Learning that has the best chance of making the fundamental change needed in human consciousness because it doesnt directly aspire to do so and therefore has a chance to go mass. SEL proves that human pain, conflict and dysfunction - personal and collective - derive from lack of skills in self and relational management and a mindset that values non-judgment behaviors and other life skills. Taught comprehensively pre-K to 12 in all schools, it will produce the most evolved generation in human history - one not trapped in the passed-along lack of skills and one- up mindset that is the bane of human existence and accounts for everything from nuclear weapons to pedophilia and everything in between. The world is an effect. The cause is how well or poorly we re trained to deal with its realties. Change how kids are trained, and they will produce the world Sue envisions.- - Jay Levin
I will be present. I feel that Brian activate on us that hidden memory in our DNA.
It's not a matter of "seeing into the afterlife," but in recognizing that it exists and is not the humdrum heaven and horrific hell of orthodoxy. It is a deeper existential dive than the one you mention. Once we successfully take that dive, we can better appreciate being human and cherishing the earth. It is difficult to appreciate these things with a nihilistic approach, at least it is for me and most people I know. Thanks for the link. I will check it out later. Meanwhile, you might want to check out the writings of Sir Oliver Lodge and Professors James Hyslop.
I have read a little of Swimme and his inspirations, including Alfred North Whitehead, and Teilhard de Chardin, and the problem I see with them is that they do not actually use the words, life after death, afterlife, consciousness surviving death, whatever. They imply that such exists, or one might infer that they exist, but the person of normal intelligence is never really sure what they are saying. It is apparently too unscientific for them to use such verbiage and so they continually beat around the bush on the subject and make little or no progress with their ideas among the masses.
Short, sweet & profound. Thank you.
Here is a different take. Work like Brian's helps elevate a small segment of population's consciousness directly and a larger section indirectly by raising the frequency. But it is the education movement called Social Emotional Learning that has the best chance of making the fundamental change needed in human consciousness because it doesnt directly aspire to do so and therefore has a chance to go mass. SEL proves that human pain, conflict and dysfunction - personal and collective - derive from lack of skills in self and relational management and a mindset that values non-judgment behaviors and other life skills. Taught comprehensively pre-K to 12 in all schools, it will produce the most evolved generation in human history - one not trapped in the passed-along lack of skills and one- up mindset that is the bane of human existence and accounts for everything from nuclear weapons to pedophilia and everything in between. The world is an effect. The cause is how well or poorly we re trained to deal with its realties. Change how kids are trained, and they will produce the world Sue envisions.- - Jay Levin
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