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laodan discovered 5 months ago- The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity via Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing / Bruce Eisner, in Reality Sandwich by Stanislav Grof
Humanity as a whole possesses enormous resources in the form of financial means, technological know-how, manpower, and womanpower. Modern science has developed effective means that could solve most of the urgent problems in today's world u2013 combat the majority of diseases, eliminate hunger and poverty, reduce the amount of industrial waste, and replace destructive fossil fuels by renewable sources of clean energy. The problems that stand in the way are not of an economical or technological nature; their deepest sources lie inside the human personality. The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity Stanislav Grof says that "In the last analysis, the current global crisis is basically a psychospiritual crisis. And he adds that a "radical psychospiritual transformation of humanity is not only possible, but is already underway." I fully subscribe to Grof's conclusion. The worldview of modernity is indeed crumbling under its devastating side-effects that are visible to all and a new paradigm about reality is indeed in the shaping that is integrating spirituality with science. The central thesis in my book Artsense goes along those same lines. But my personal analysis of modernity (Western technological civilization) goes deeper in history than "the Newtonian-Cartesian paradigm and monistic materialism". Those are indeed nothing more than the ideological form taken by something deeper that had already been at work along the 4-5 centuries preceding Newton and Descartes. I mean the logic of capital was indeed at work controlling human actions totally out of human knowing. Grof's approach then says that "spiritual hunger and needs are important and powerful forces inherent in human nature, more powerful than sex". I again totally subscribe with this hypothesis but in Grof's presentation this hypothesis is no more than an assertion and as such it is not convincing. This epistemological weakness is then artificially overcome by Grof saying "I have seen over the years profound emotional and psychosomatic healing, as well as radical personality transformation, in many people who were involved in serious and systematic experiential self-exploration and inner quest." There is no doubt that "systematic experiential self-exploration and inner quest" changes those who practice it. But inferring from that fact that it is the solution to the present crisis is like confusing a plow for a horse. This is a real pity, for otherwise, Grof's argument is right on the mark... "A New Vision of Reality and a New Myth to Live By" are indeed starting to emerge but this new worldview shall not be shared by all on earth through the magic of "systematic experiential self-exploration and inner quest". In other words all the citizens of the earth don't have to transform into shaman for a "post-modern" worldview to be shared by all.
- The Current Global Crisis and the Future of Humanity via Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing / Bruce Eisner, in Reality Sandwich by Stanislav Grof
