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1		The Force of Love Is the Force of Total Revolution A tender, loving concern for all living creatures will need to arise and reign in our hearts if any of us is to survive. And our lives will be truly blessed only when the misery of one is genuinely felt to be the misery of all. The force of love is the force of total revolution. It is the unreleased force, unknown and unexplored as a dynamic for change. We have moved very far away from love in our collective lives, dangerously near destruction, close to starvation. Perhaps we have the wisdom now, the awareness that love is as essential to human beings as the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat. Love is the beauty, the delicate mystery, the soul of life, the radiant unspoiled purity that brings spontaneous joy, songs of ecstasy, poems, paintings, dances, dramas to celebrate its indescribable, never-to-be-fully-captured bliss of being. Can we bring love into the marketplaces, into the homes, the schools, the p...
2		SWIMME: Could you say a bit more about what you mean by "constructing the habitats"? BECK: Well, when I talk about habitats, I mean the social, political, and economic habitats or life conditions that will facilitate new levels of psychological emergence in individuals and cultures. The system of Spiral Dynamics uses the image of a spiral to describe the underlying developmental process through which individuals and cultures progress, with each upward turn representing a meme—the worldviews or value systems within us that form in response to changing life conditions. [For more information about Spiral Dynamics, see www.wie.org/spiraldynamics] My late colleague Clare Graves identified eight memes or levels of development through which both individuals and whole societies pass, and we use colors to differentiate these stages in the Spiral Dynamics model. These fundamental core patterns, although expressed in different ways in various cultures and subcultures, are common themes across...
3		The Challenge of Our Moment A Roundtable Discussion with Don Beck, Brian Swimme, & Peter Senge Moderated by Andrew Cohen 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 When it comes to predicting the future, uncertainty seems to go with the territory. But if there is one thing that all of the futurists and visionaries we spoke with for this issue seem to agree on, it is that whatever course our collective destiny takes, navigating the years ahead is going to be a challenge. As the unpredictable forces of change transform every sector of planetary life and culture—societal, technological, environmental, geopolitical—the terrain of our global village is morphing beneath our feet, bringing with it an increasingly complex, interwoven web of problems requiring our attention, demanding a response. But what sort of response will truly meet the challenges ahead? To whom can we look for a vision all-encompassing enough to embrace the complexity of the conditions that confront us at the dawn of the twenty-first cen...
4		Awakening To Total Revolution The following article is excerpted from Vimala Thakar’s Spirituality and Social Action: A Holistic Approach (Berkeley: Vimala Programs California, 1984). This article first appeared in WIE Issue 19, “Can Enlightenment Save The World?” In a time when the survival of the human race is in question, to continue with the status quo is to cooperate with insanity, to contribute to chaos. When darkness engulfs the spirit of the people, it is urgent for concerned people to awaken, to rise to revolution. The cleverness of the human mind has led us to the complex, horrifying, and all-encompassing crisis that we now face. The familiar solutions, based on a limited view of what a human being is, continue to fail, to be pathetically inadequate. Yet we pour vast resources into these tired solutions and feel that if we achieve a grand enough scale, the old solutions will meet the new challenges. Do we have the courage to see failures as f...

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1			It is urgent that we begin to define a new moral, philosophical, and spiritual context that will in its depth and breadth be able to embrace the multidimensional nature of the human predicament at the beginning of the twenty-first century. What is Enlightenment Magazine (Andrew Cohen)