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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