Very interesting. In our book, "Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing Through the Eyes of Infinity," we have a chapter on the awakening of the soul and the transformation of society. We include the Sarvodaya movement as one example of the power of small intentional communities to band together to transform a nation.
I wonder now, a few months after you wrote this, if you are still as optimistic?
On the other hand, I feel a sense of tension in the urgency you convey. I wonder if taking a leaf from Owen Barfield and Sri Aurobindo might be helpful?
Both see early humanity (some 10,000 to 250,000 years ago) as living in harmony - though a mostly subconscious harmony - with the universe.
With the "Fall" (the rise of the separative consciousness) some five to ten thousand years ago, humanity's suffering has been rooted in this alienation you speak of. My own sense is it will probably be (at least, as we moderns understand "time") at least 5 to 10 centuries before society as a whole will begin to live in a new more conscious harmony with the All, with God, the Tao, Brahman....
So we can kind of relax. We tune ourselves to the Infinite, give ourselves in utter love and self-offering and then trust that She will do what She is going to do!
Thank you, Don — I appreciate your thoughtful response and the lineage you draw on. I share your long view of humanity’s unfolding, though I sense that what’s now emerging isn’t merely incremental but fractal—the pattern of Divine harmony reappearing in countless small circles at once.
While I can understand the long-term nature of civilizational change, I also believe we may be at a critical juncture where what I call fractal community empowerment could become a real possibility—in 50,000 villages, towns, and cities simultaneously. I’m not attached to outcomes within decades or centuries, but I do feel a sacred urgency to help midwife those seeds now.
Symbiotic Culture isn’t about speeding time, but about aligning with the timeless—so that, even amid the turbulence, Love’s architecture can take form in community again. You might enjoy this short video that captures that vision.
Very interesting. In our book, "Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness: Seeing Through the Eyes of Infinity," we have a chapter on the awakening of the soul and the transformation of society. We include the Sarvodaya movement as one example of the power of small intentional communities to band together to transform a nation.
I wonder now, a few months after you wrote this, if you are still as optimistic?
On the other hand, I feel a sense of tension in the urgency you convey. I wonder if taking a leaf from Owen Barfield and Sri Aurobindo might be helpful?
Both see early humanity (some 10,000 to 250,000 years ago) as living in harmony - though a mostly subconscious harmony - with the universe.
With the "Fall" (the rise of the separative consciousness) some five to ten thousand years ago, humanity's suffering has been rooted in this alienation you speak of. My own sense is it will probably be (at least, as we moderns understand "time") at least 5 to 10 centuries before society as a whole will begin to live in a new more conscious harmony with the All, with God, the Tao, Brahman....
So we can kind of relax. We tune ourselves to the Infinite, give ourselves in utter love and self-offering and then trust that She will do what She is going to do!
Thank you, Don — I appreciate your thoughtful response and the lineage you draw on. I share your long view of humanity’s unfolding, though I sense that what’s now emerging isn’t merely incremental but fractal—the pattern of Divine harmony reappearing in countless small circles at once.
While I can understand the long-term nature of civilizational change, I also believe we may be at a critical juncture where what I call fractal community empowerment could become a real possibility—in 50,000 villages, towns, and cities simultaneously. I’m not attached to outcomes within decades or centuries, but I do feel a sacred urgency to help midwife those seeds now.
Symbiotic Culture isn’t about speeding time, but about aligning with the timeless—so that, even amid the turbulence, Love’s architecture can take form in community again. You might enjoy this short video that captures that vision.
https://richardflyer.substack.com/p/from-crisis-to-commons-building-a
100% thank you