"Man looking into the inner Cosmos"
Engraving, Swiss c.1500

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New Vision1		New Vision, Introductory page This Page
New Vision II		Cosmic Soul, Sacred Mind, Spirit Click here
New Vision III		The Great Challenge of our Time Click here
New Vision IV		War and Weapons of War: Nuclear, Biological and other - Click here
New VisionV		New Perspectives in Science Click here
New VisionVI		Ecological Concerns Click Here
New VisionVII		New Perspectives on the Psyche Click Here

 

A New Vision

The old gods are dead or dying and people everywhere are searching, asking: What is the new mythology to be, the mythology of this unified earth as of one harmonious being?
                                                                           Joseph Campbell, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space

Planetary consciousness is knowing as well as feeling the vital interdependence and essential oneness of humankind and the conscious adoption of the ethic and the ethos that this entails. Its evolution is the basic imperative of human survival on this planet.             
                                                                                                                     Ervin Laszlo, Macroshift

Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed - be it ecological, social, demographic, or a general breakdown of civilization - will be unavoidable.
                                                                                                                                    Václav Havel

The passionate longing of the human heart has always been to go beyond the boundaries of the known, to break through the limitations of our understanding. This is perhaps the most fundamental and essential freedom. Now, more than ever before, we need to honour that longing.
      What is the emerging vision of our time? It is a vision that takes us beyond an outworn paradigm where we were held in bondage to beliefs and attitudes specific to race, nation, religion or gender. It is a vision that offers us a totally new concept of God as an energy field - a cosmic sea of being - as well as the creative consciousness or organising intelligence of that sea or field, and a totally new concept of ourselves as belonging to and participating in that consciousness. It is a vision that recognises the sacredness and indissoluble unity of the great web of life and imposes on us the responsibility to become far more sensitive to the effects of our decisions and our actions. It invites our recognition of the needs of the planet and the life it sustains as primary, with ourselves as the conscious servants of those needs. Above all, it is a vision that asks that we relinquish our addiction to violence and the pursuit of power; that we become more aware of the dark shadow cast by this addiction which threatens us with ever more barbarism, bloodshed and suffering, leading ultimately to the possible extinction of our species.
      We have developed a formidable intellect, a formidable science, a formidable technology but what of the soul, the dimension of our deepest instincts and feelings? What of our visions, dreams and hopes as well as our deepest wounds and the suffering caused by our lack of compassion towards each other? What of our need for relationship with a dimension of reality invisible to our senses? The pressing need for the soul's recognition has brought us to this time of choice. It is as if mortal danger were forcing us to take a great leap in our evolution that we might never have made were we not driven by the extremity of circumstance. Because our capacity for destruction, both military and ecological, is so much greater today than it was fifty years ago, and will be still greater tomorrow, we have only a few years, possibly no more than a decade, in which to change our values and our behaviour. When politicians talk of the changes they plan to introduce, it is this change above all others, that needs to be addressed.
      The crisis of our times is not only an ecological crisis but a soul crisis. The answers we seek will not come from the limited consciousness which now rules the world but from a deeper understanding born of the union of heart and head, bringing the recognition that all life is one, that each one of us is a marvel, an atom in a cosmic body of immeasurable extent. The urgent need for this psychic balance, this profound intelligence and insight, this wholeness, is helping us to recover a perspective on life that has been increasingly lost until we have come to live without it - and without even noticing it has gone - recognising nothing beyond the human mind. It is a dangerous time because it involves the disintegration of long-entrenched belief systems and institutions. But it is also an immense opportunity for evolutionary advance, if only we can understand what is happening and why.
      In Man and His Symbols (p. 101), the psychologist C. G. Jung writes: "As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with an individual; it might be any one of us. Nobody can afford to look round and to wait for somebody else to do what he is loathe to do himself. But since nobody seems to know what to do, it might be worth while for each of us to ask himself whether by any chance his or her unconscious may know something that will help us."
      For a tiny minority of us there is the possibility of asking that question and responding to the ideas that occur to us in the context of our own lives. We can choose whether to imitate the patterns of the past, continuing to live our lives in servitude to the power principle, however subtly expressed, or we can choose relationship with life, respect for life, love of life, and the immense effort of consciousness we need to make to understand and serve its mystery. After so many billion years of evolution, it is simply unacceptable that the beauty and marvel of the earth should be ravaged by us through commercial greed, the destructive power of our weapons or the misapplication of our science and technology. It is inconceivable that our extraordinary species which has taken so many million years to evolve a physical vehicle for consciousness out of the life of the planet, should destroy itself through a deliberate or inadvertent act of violence. The choice is ours and ours alone.

I include here this Declaration of Humanity written by Dr. Ilchi Lee - part of a dedication of the University of Peace, Seoul, South Korea:

I declare that I am a Spiritual Being, an essential and eternal part of the Soul of Humanity, one and indivisible.

I declare that I am a Human Being whose rights and security ultimately depend on assuring the human rights of all people of Earth.

I declare that I am a Child of the Earth, with the will and awareness to work for goals that benefit the entire community of life on Earth.

I declare that I am a Healer, with the power and purpose to heal the many forms of divisions and conflicts that exist on Earth.

I declare that I am a Protector, with the knowledge and the responsibility to help the Earth recover her natural harmony and beauty.

I declare that I am an Activist, with the commitment and the ability to make a positive difference in my society.

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