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Film series on the time we are living in now and are going towards. The subjects includes: Pace, choices, retrospect, rational vs. scientific, the climate, consumption, science & weapons. The participants are professor and system philosopher Ervin Laszlo, The American futurist John L. Petersen, Editor of Harpers Bazaar, Thomas de Zengotita, The physicist and author Peter Russel, The Cloning pioneer Steen M Willadsen, the corporate trendsetter and author of The Dream Society, Rolf Jensen, We are likely to reorganize ourselves around what the cultural creatives would recognize as the dawning paradigm. New breakthroughs in physics are leading the way to a new way of understanding the world around us-a way in which the previously materialistic and deterministic interpretations are expanded and eventually discarded. These new breakthroughs show us a new way of envisioning our environment in which thoughts, previously unthinkable, are forming a new organizing principle. Here are a few of them. 1. The mind is separate from the body. The brain is the vehicle for the mind in the physical world, but the mind exists independently. Mind may be the preeminent operating principle in the universe. (Oddly, this is not a new idea. The Corpus Hermeticus states that the first creation of God was The (universal) Mind.) 2. Everything is connected. The entire universe is a single organism, and the fate of any part affects the whole. 3. Organic evolution is shaped by the Mind of the Universe for the goal of the universe's well-being (e.g. the well-being of all, since all parts of the universe share in the well-being of the entire cosmos). 4. There are multiple, overlapping time-space continuums, and time is a dimension in which may be able to move as easily as one does in space. In fact, time itself has many qualities, and is not simply the strictly linear ticking of seconds that we once thought it was. (Pre-clock cultures already recognize this.) What will be the results of this kind of paradigm shift? Clearly there are many more than I could list or you'd wish to read, but just to get your juices flowing here are some results of such a paradigm shift: 1. People will realize that all their actions affect all others. Actions causing pain to any part of the cosmos will cause pain to the individual taking the action. Therefore testing cosmetics on animals would be unthinkable. Not watering your plants (or planting things that don't naturally grow in your environment) would be unthinkable. These would be things that cause pain to living beings. Conversely, caring for and nurturing and giving joy to any living being adds to the joy quotient of the universe, and the person taking the action quite literally would feel this increase in joy. 2. Government organizations would truly focus on the good of the all, because pain in any part of the world would truly and immediately affect the lives of leaders and lawmakers, and the positive results for others would bring joy to the actors. 3. Short-term gain at the cost of long-term suffering would not be possible, since the long-term suffering will cause a ripple of pain in the universe. 4. The health of the planet, the solar system, the galaxy, would all be important. (Space junk may not be a viable way to decommission old satellites.) 5. The exploration of the entire cosmos may be possible through meditational and psychic means. These means will become acceptable tools for discovery. 6. The holographic link between every part of the cosmos (physicist Nassim Haramein's new black hole theories) provide evidence for the psychic link between all of us. These are just a few thoughts about where the new MegaParadigm might take us. As we remove ourselves from a strictly materialistic "truth detector", we will become open to other ways of knowing, honoring the information gained during meditation, holotropic work, and other altered states of being. Our understanding of the nature of reality itself would expand from only what can be measured by instruments of our devising, to include valuing the metaphysical and wisdom experiences of those whose contributions to the world increase its well-being for the long term. If the ancient wisdom of the Mayans is speaking to the period of changes we're experiencing now, we still can't expect this new MegaParadigm to emerge, full-blown, from the chaos of our dissolving mind-set. Children being born today will be lucky to see the beginnings of a new social structure based on these concepts. Still, it seems consistent with current patterns of change to anticipate this kind of intellectual and consciousness revolution to grow as we cross the divide of the ancient world ages. As we move into this ever-more-chaotic period of upheaval, it is useful and comforting to have a sense of where we may land when we reach the other shore. Environmentalism "Environment (biophysical)" Today Power Warming educational

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