Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist, neuroscience researcher, philosopher, and literary scholar. He is a polymath, best described as a natural philosopher.
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The phrase and its associated values and ethos actually first appeared in the public conversation well over a century ago.
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Those of us committed to Conscious Evolution now find ourselves, in one way or another, very much an integral part of the decolonisation process.
How many planetary civilisations have failed at this hurdle? And how many have made it through?
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In our days, when we are experiencing what some have called a “sensemaking crisis”, we collectively struggle to align our different maps of the world.
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Spiral Dynamics is a system for describing the ways in which human mindsets evolve to adapt to changes in our life conditions. Spiral Dynamics is to human cultural evolution, what Darwinistic adaption is to biological evolution.
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Just as music is an emergent phenomenon arising between a player and listener attuning through patterns of vibrations, so meaning is an emergent phenomenon enacted by a conscious entity as it relates an experience to other experiences.
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Given the striking similarities between principles that govern human nature and those that direct the growth and flourishing of the natural world, what can we learn about human flourishing by applying Mencius’s metaphor of cultivation?
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The story of life’s deep purpose begins, ironically, with death. A certain kind of death: the ‘heat death’ that scientists tell us is the likely ultimate fate of the universe.
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Darwin’s 212th birthday is a good time to introduce Prosocial World, a new organization dedicated to achieving rapid positive multilevel cultural change.
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Just as sexual reproduction turbocharged the biological evolutionary process, Conscious Evolution is about to turbocharge the cultural evolutionary process.
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The state of gnosis is defined as total awareness, a direct and often sudden expanded experience of hyper-clarity, wholeness, of truth beyond any conceptual understanding.
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Evolutionaries recognize the vast process we are embedded within but also the urgent need for our own culture to evolve and for each of us to play a positive role in that outcome.
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As we approach the one-fifth mark of the 21st Century, the concept of conscious evolution is becoming respectable again.
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To the metamodernist, there are almost no bad-guys left, nobody and nothing to blame: not even an impersonal structure.
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One of the hallmarks of evolutionary thinking is the ability to see past seemingly intractable differences towards a higher-level integration.
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With the world in the grip of Covid-19 and a deepening economic slump, pundits are again asking whether capitalism as we know it has come to an end.
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Toward the end of his life, the humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow was developing new insights into self-actualization – and envisioning an even higher motivation, which he called transcendence.
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This sand pile provides the perfect visual metaphor for global civilisation today and for how complex systems can rapidly change.
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The chaos all around us is the result of a war of worldviews. The tectonic plates of perspective are shifting, causing shockwaves across our global human system.
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