Technological development has exceeded personal development and inner growth, so we are at a critical point in history. "We
are in a deeper shift than we may have thought. People are starting to
wake up the fact that the market in it's present implementation and
democracy again in it's present implementation with its high dependence
and cohabitation with commercial media and with campaign funding does
not actually work.... It might be necessary for us to not only shift
the system also shift our world view." - Tomas Björkman A worldview is a set of beliefs and values that are honored and withheld by a number of people. For a long time the prevailing worldview was tribal, based on its resources and functions, hence tribal worldview is naturalistic. Based on nature, the belief and worship the supernatural power in both animate and the inanimate substances. Earth, river, water, hills, forest, birds, animals and plants are inseparable from the life of tribal people. Tribal people often live in small villages in parts of the world that are hard to get to, including the mountains and forests. This worldview places them at one with nature. Only after the Ice Age ended about12,000 years ago, the environmental conditions arose that would allow for the type of farming that can support civilizations. Gradually the hunter gatherer world view gace way to a feudal system where people are ranked one above another according to status. It was built on land ownership, loyalty, duty, and allegiance. About 2500 years ago new ways of thinking appeared in religion and philosophy In a striking parallel development, without any obvious direct cultural contact between the cultures during the Axial Age, the spiritual foundations of humanity were laid simultaneously and independently in China, India, Persia, Judea, and Greece. Some towns became cities and empires were formed. Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. So that worldview is about a system of behaviors and practices, that relate to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. Eventually religion convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of things he does not want you to do. There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide. Because of the nature of religious belief it has an incredibly powerful hold on the psyche of humanity which has often made for easy manipulation by the ruling classes. The essence of the struggle for emancipation from organized religion, from Socrates to the present, has been mostly about opposing the use and abuse of religious power and authority to suppress what are known today as the basic freedoms and basic human rights. A feudal state or period, was a regime or a period dominated by lords who possessed financial or social power and prestige. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships that were derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labor and loyalty. Thus Feudal Heritage was often a source of corruption, collusion, and nepotism. About 250 years ago we went from a feudal society into a market based society. And during what we call The Enlightenment, there was an intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries when we went from a religious world view into a more scientific era. About 150 years ago the industrial revolution shifted our society yet again. The future is getting more and more uncertain There is much speculation about how deep the next shift may be. The deeper the shift, the have to look into ourselves and our history to form a new world view and build a new social structure. This will demand more of our inner capacities. Björkman speaks of a metacrisis involving several areas of crisis: environment, inequality, obesity and ill health (both mentally and physical). If you add the food, energy, greed and military aggression crises, it becomes apparent that our world view has reached the limits of its capacity. Our present world view is focused on the benefit to the individual person, the individual corporation or industry and the individual nation nation, But to become sustainable our focus needs to shift toward meaning and purpose that includes all people and the planet itself. Michio Kaku writes and speaks intelligently about the Future of Humans, Aliens, Space Travel, Physics, and Artificial Intelligence.
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