1. Global Transformation A new worldview transforming humanity Carmel Bracken, rsm The Future We Need September 2014

2. 2

3. Kofi Annan, United Nations, 2001 2

4. “Which world are we trying to sustain: A resource to fulfil our desires for material prosperity, Or an Earth of wonder, beauty, and sacred meaning?” Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

5. 1.A good education 2.Better health care 3.Better job opportunities.... 16.Action taken on climate change www.myworld2015.org Jan 2013

6. ...we’re in an accelerating, global epidemic of institutional failure……..with organizations increasingly unable to achieve the purpose for which they were created… “ “ Birth of the Chaordic Age – Dee Hock

7. “The Great work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth, to a period where humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.” Thomas Berry

8. THE GREAT TURNING 1.“HOLDING ACTIONS” IN DEFENCE OF LIFE ON EARTH 2.ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL CAUSES AND CREATION OF ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONS 3.SHIFT IN PERCEPTIONS OF REALITY, BOTH COGNITIVELY AND SPIRITUALLY Joanna Macy

9. Advocacy and Lobbying

10. “Actions that seek out structural causes or build alternatives are more clearly prophetic in nature.” Leonardo Boff and Mark Hathaway

11. Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better… Vaclav Havel

12. “No problem can be solved from the consciousness that created it.” Albert Einstein

13. Today, many things indicate that something is on the way out and something else is painfully being born. It is as if something were crumbling, decaying, and exhausting itself – while something else, still indistinct, were rising from the rubble. Vaclav Havel

14. Something is happening in the structure of human consciousness. It is another species of life that is just beginning. Teilhard de Chardin Humanity has just entered what is probably the greatest transformation it has ever known….

15. Homo universalis Ecozoic era

16. The only way to change the world is to change the story. Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

17. We need to be aware of the powerful influences on our culture of two deeply held beliefs that have long governed our actions. ~ The belief that ‘God’ is separate from this world and that we were given dominion over the Earth ~ The secular belief of scientific materialism. Anne Baring & Scilla Elworthy

18. 1. UNIVERSE STORY 2. PHYSICS 3. BIOLOGY 4. MATHEMATICS

19. UNIVERSE STORY ….in essence we are stardust evolving into awesome complexity over billions of years in an expanding universe shaped by invisible dark matter and dark energy The New Universe and Future Human

20. Reality is “a single unbroken wholeness” in flowing movement. Each part of the flow contains the entire flow. David Bohm Epigenetics controls genetics Bruce Lipton

21. Self similar patterns of organisation are found at every level of the Universe‘s structure. The microcosm replicates the macrocosm

22. Subtle Transformations

24. From Masters to Co-creators From Doers to Listeners

25. An increased sense of connection and communion of all of life A Natural Ethics

26. Interconnectedness of all minds Greater compassion for all beings

27. THE PRIMACY OF UNCONDITIONAL LOVE RESPECT FOR BEING PRESENT

28. Valuing of Intuitive Knowledge Integration of the feminine