About this Website
Introducing the theme
This website has been designed to raise awareness that the human species is on the threshold of change on an evolutionary scale. I hope it will help bring together those who have the same intuition and feel the need to articulate it in order to make a practical response. The website’s theme covers a vast canvas, but its main focus is on a barrier to human progress that is unique in our history, and which I have labelled “the Wall” in the diagram below. Getting over the Wall will demand a step change in human consciousness as fundamental as when our ancestors invented language, and a change in social structures as revolutionary as when they stopped being nomads and learned to live in cities. It need hardly be said that whatever this new challenge turns out to be, success in overcoming it will not happen overnight. We are talking in terms of centuries, but a start must be made.
The evolutionary journey
The diagram illustrates in compressed form the evolutionary process from the Big Bang to the present. The Wall in the diagram illustrates the challenge we face in taking the next step, and the assumption is that on the other side of the Wall will be a different kind of human. “What kind?” is the most basic issue now facing our species, and the search for an answer is what this website is ultimately about. The big question mark graphically illustrates that fact.
We have travelled an immense distance in our evolutionary journey, from the Big Bang through the creation of matter and life and the three of four million years since our species separated from the other apes. We are a uniquely conscious element in planetary life, perhaps even in the cosmos, but we are an integral part of it, for we share our genes not only with baboons but with bananas and more primitive life-forms still. Most thinking people accept that we are humans because we have developed a unique kind of consciousness, but few are aware that this is a consequence of organising ourselves into unique structures. Our animal ancestors lived in packs, but as the centuries have rolled by, we have lived in ever larger groups, which have grown through clan to tribe, to nation and nation state. The planet is now divided into 192 nation states loosely allied in the United Nations, but this is a fragile and often impotent macrostructure, operating usually in the interests of its most powerful members.
The crisis of human identity
A few rare individuals think globally, but the great mass of humanity thinks as tribally as ever. Indeed, in the growing crisis of human identity many evidence a need to retreat to primitive tribalism, as witness the spectators at football contests who paint themselves in their national colours. Unless we are able, somehow, to escape from the primitive consciousness which now imprisons us, our species has no future, for some nations now have destructive power sufficient, as Donald Rumsfeld once boasted, to bomb their opponents “back to the Stone Age.” It is not fantasy or melodrama but stone-cold logic to say that if we do not reinvent the species, we will regress to something lower than normal humanity, and destroy the planet in the process. Homo sapiens must give way to Homo novus.
The website is a place for those who wonder about the future of the human family, but particularly about the split in consciousness brought about by the rise of science, the decay of religion and social breakdown at local, national and global levels. All these questions are related, for science has become inseparably connected with high tech weaponry and profit-making, society has no spiritual vision, and religion is increasingly felt to be in opposition to spirituality. For lack of spiritual vision, democracy is becoming corrupted into self-serving factions, and political skill, which should be the art of wise government, degenerates into the weasel cunning of the spin doctor.
An evolutionary perspective
There is no quick fix to any of these problems: an evolutionary perspective is now called for which envisages a future in which a higher kind of human consciousness has become the norm. What kind of consciousness and what kind of social structures we need to create are what this website is all about.
If the first step towards a new humanity is to agree on the sort of blueprint from which we are to work, the second step is to decide upon the kind of strategies and structures that will be required to make it a reality. Most of this can only be pencilled in. Answers will wait upon answers, and often on inspiration being given to particular individuals. With this in mind, the website proposes that the most effective way to start is to see the global problem as the need for three new paradigms, in
- Religion
- Science and
- Socio-economics
The conceptual structure within which the three new paradigms are contained and interrelated I have called the triple helix.
