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5 – Transcendence

Humans find great meaning in transcending our physical and mental limitations and tapping into enhanced states of consciousness. When we do so we are expressing an impulse that has been inherent in the evolutionary process from the big bang onwards. Evolution has continually transcended its limitations, breaking free from the determinism of blind laws and

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2 – Meaning

The pursuit of happiness is one of the founding American ideals. But evidence from psychology research points to the conclusion that pursuing happiness for its own sake doesn’t actually work. What can work, however, is to cultivate a meaningful life, because in doing so, happiness tends to follow as a by-product. What do humans find

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4 – Creativity

Creativity is one of the enduring mysteries of the universe. How does something more keep coming from something less? From cosmological to biological to cultural evolution the universe appears to be getting more and more creative as it evolves, and human creativity is just the latest example of that trajectory. Can this explain why humans

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1 – Maslow’s Hierarchy

For much of human history, most people have been far too pre-occupied with the question, “How can I stay alive?” to have any time to think about the question “How should I live?” But as billions of people have been raised out of poverty, and, particularly in the Western world, living standards have improved, more

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3 – Cooperation

We’ve been taught that evolution is a cruel and vicious struggle in which only the ruthless survive. But if you look a little more closely, the natural world is teeming with cooperation. Not only that, but from single celled organisms right the way through to human civilisation, the scale of cooperation has been steadily increasing.

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EARLY VOICES OF CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION — CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

“The patterns of cultural and social practice that we’ve inherited and adopted without examination or question are the patterns that have come to threaten our planet and repress human potential.” New article on Conscious Evolution The phrase and its associated values and ethos actually first appeared in the public conversation well over a century ago.

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