1. Creating a Wisdom Culture Paul H. Ray Wisdom University Integral Partnerships, LLC paulhray@aol.com

2. The Era of the Great Divide = A watershed in history As big as the Rocky Mountains We cannot go on as before: “More of the same” is physically impossible Most trends of the past are not sustainable

3. The Era of the Great Divide Either We Go Up to a Wisdom Culture and Planetary Integration As Big as the Industrial Revolution Or We Go Down to eco-collapse and end of advanced civilization Poor chances to restart from zero: All easy resources are now used up

4. No Longer an Era of Change, But A Change of Eras To Change Agents, that means To Change Agents, that means : New dangers emerging that we have not seen before New opportunities emerging we don’t know how to benefit from The recent past is a very poor guide to our new future

5. No Longer an Era of Change, But A Change of Eras “The World is Getting Better and Better, And Worse and Worse, Faster and Faster”

6. No Longer an Era of Change, But A Change of Eras Climate Change is Now Obvious, Dangerous and Irreversible Glaciers melting, sea levels rising 6 metres (20 feet), ports flooded Crop failures, diseases, famines, etc. Peak Oil, and energy crises Extinctions and population crashes

7. Upsala Glacier, South America 1928 vs. Now

8. Finally, Even TIME Magazine gets it

9. No Longer an Era of Change, A Negative Change of Eras Big Downside Economic Risks: That we’re at a sub-critical state = Just before the avalanche of crises: Each wrinkle of disruption threatens integrity of the whole system: Peak Oil Crisis in fluid fuels, runaway weather systems, runaway US debt crisis, Iran nuclear weapons crisis

10. No Longer an Era of Change, A Negative Change of Eras 400 known crises over 20 years, each @ Probability of 5% = average 1/year AND linked crises trigger each other –Famines => Genocides –Weather Disasters => Depressions –Peak Oil => Resource Wars (Iraq, Iran) This Era’s Crises Come in Bunches: They may overwhelm our collective capacity to respond

13. Secular, materialist The big city Hip, up to date Style & efficiency Cary Grant LaurenBacall 50%TRADITIONALS Conservative, pious Small town, country Square, out of date Character, reliability Jimmy Stewart June Allyson The Culture Wars 50 Years Ago 50% MODERNS

14. There are 3 Subcultures Today (as of 2000) Traditionals24.5% Moderns49.4% Cultural Creatives26.1%* Total: 100% *If past trends continue this should be 28-30% in 2006—which fits all data

15. Cultural Creatives They’re literally creating a whole new culture for our time 26-30% of adults in United States –50-60 million people 30-35% in Western Europe –80-90 million people

16. Era of Change to Change of Eras: A Wisdom Culture Cultural Creatives can be the Carrier Population for a Wisdom Culture The right values and worldview Core constituencies of most new social and consciousness movements in North America & Europe

17. VALUES: Love Nature

18. VALUES: Deeply Concerned About Its Destruction

19. VALUES: Relationships Altruism

20. VALUES: Women’s Issues Spirituality

21. Peace Movement & Anti-War

22. Anti-Globalization

23. VALUES: Reject Materialism, Getting and Spending

24. VALUES: Social Justice, Social Responsibility

25. VALUES: Spirituality, Personal Growth

26. VALUES: Linking the Personal and the Planetary, The Elders and Generations to Come

27. The Cultural Creatives Story It’s about floods of new information world-wide over last 40 years: Planetary environment/ecologyPlanetary environment/ecology Health beyond catastrophic medicineHealth beyond catastrophic medicine Organic food vs. environmental-poisonsOrganic food vs. environmental-poisons Spiritual traditions from everywhereSpiritual traditions from everywhere Nuclear, infotech, biotech, nanotech - all go from promise to threatsNuclear, infotech, biotech, nanotech - all go from promise to threats

28. The Cultural Creatives Story It’s about women’s values and concerns going public for the first time in recorded history It’s about the role of the new social movements and consciousness movements in educating the Western world over the past 40 years

29. Origins: ALL the new social movements of past 40 years Civil Rights, Social JusticeCivil Rights, Social Justice Peace (1960 to 1990, and Now, again)Peace (1960 to 1990, and Now, again) Women’s (to Eco-Fem, Fem-Spiritual)Women’s (to Eco-Fem, Fem-Spiritual) Environmental, becoming EcologyEnvironmental, becoming Ecology Planetary: Anti-globalization, HungerPlanetary: Anti-globalization, Hunger Personal growth & New spiritualityPersonal growth & New spirituality Alternative Health CareAlternative Health Care Organic Food & ‘Natural Everything’Organic Food & ‘Natural Everything’

31. From an Era of Change, To a Positive Change of Eras Solar Economy Is Now Feasible Solar firms aim at new price target as low as $1/Installed Watt, $.02/kWh Very large scale solar production cheaper than coal, + produce hydrogen from water + Big solar farms China and India develop with less CO 2

32. From an Era of Change, To a Positive Change of Eras Green and Alternative Claims and Stances Will Get Taken Up FOR SURVIVAL by most of society Surging Demand for Green and Socially Responsible Strategies Going Green: Synergies & Subsidies Big Business and Big Finance Will finally get on board

33. From an Era of Change, To a Positive Change of Eras Household Transformation: — Living Outwardly Simpler, but Inwardly Richer Lives — Making a Virtue of Necessity Personal Transformation : — Spiritual Growth Over Your Entire Life Cycle: Initiations of Birth, Youth, Middle Age, Elders, Death — Access to the whole planet’s spiritual riches

34. A Positive Change of Eras Beyond Incremental Change: It is NOT gradual in these times Need for Resilient Communities –Buffer against supply disruption –Buffer against collapse of government services –Buffer against hunger, cold, weather –Buffer against lawlessness

35. A Positive Change of Eras Beyond Incremental Change: It is NOT gradual in these times Need for New Social Inventions –But NOT top-down elite-driven ones to only benefit big money and power –Bottom up, bubbling from the people who are most affected –Massive parallel social invention

36. When It’s A Change of Eras Work to Create the New Era, Don’t just react to crises. The wise community strategist: –Sees the hand writing on the wall –Opens an exploratory process for new opportunities –Declares a big enough dream for the emerging world

37. A Change of Eras Means You Must Choose New Visions and Strategies And that’s why we have the Citizens Wisdom Culture Design Charette Collectively, in the field of the group, we can see what no one of us can see: The shape of the Emerging New Planetary Civilization

39. A Time for New Visions and Strategies Build FOR the emerging culture, and emerging planet –i.e., FOR the road ahead, NOT for your familiar past, and habitual practices –i.e., NOT steering your car by using the rear view mirror

40. A Time for New Visions and Strategies Today is like when ancient tribes needed to move to a new territory: –Costly, big effort, major life changes –So, there’s big resistance to change It takes a major vision of possibility to get people to move It often needs wise leadership

41. A Time for New Visions and Strategies Wisdom says: ‘Make your costly new move to grasp new opportunities when you have a big surplus (for us all = this decade) ‘Don’t wait until you are nearly starving and you have to go to new territory in survival mode.’

42. A Time for New Visions and Strategies Wisdom says: ‘Make your risky move to the new territory in good company.’ ‘Make it an altruistic and visionary game, and more good people will come with you (not just the greedy opportunists)’

43. Name the New Goal and New Vision for All to See CREATING A WISDOM CIVILIZATION: A Culture That Supports Sustainability Beyond Nationalism, Planetary Integration –One Humanity, One Planet Alliance of Civil Society and Business Re-inventing Community WORK WITH CONVERGING TRENDS

44. Name the New Goal and New Vision for All to See CREATING A WISDOM CIVILIZATION: “The future is a design problem” –In well-designed systems we don’t have to fix messes that should not have been made in the first place…