Possibilities: The Future of Humanity

As we embark on the possibilities for our futures which we explore in the Lifespring courses, we find ourselves gaining momentum - a power built on the accomplishments, the spirit, and the energy we share in working to create an unprecedented future. And we are not looking for personal transformation alone but, rather, societal shifts towards transformation.

Trainings and courses in personal growth can pave the way for a cultural breakthrough. Yet, the global drive to transform our thinking, our institutions, our economic life, even our practice of the sciences and the arts, is far beyond the claim of a few individuals or organizations. I suggest, rather, that the times themselves have called forth a radical, far-reaching change - a passionate commitment on the part of individuals to make a difference quality of life available to people everywhere.

Change, of course, is seldom easy. Many of us prefer the comfort of the familiar but unsatisfying to the risk of the great unknown. It is perhaps our good fortune to live in an age when so many changes are demanded on so many fronts at such dizzying rates that "tried and true" assumptions are bound to be challenged by new discoveries, new insights, new social and personal realities.

Together, these demand that we transform ourselves and our surroundings consistent with what's possible for humanity. The need to embrace our own creativity, to take responsibility for many views and to share insights, runs counter to a model of the world drawn from science: fixed, immutable, part of a rational and predictable order of things. While it is true that at any given moment things "are" the way they are, we have only began to learn that no one moment dictates or ordains the next. Our future is not confined by the present nor the past. At every moment, each of us has a choice to transform what is possible in the next moment of our lives.

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