BY JOHN BUNZL With the world in the grip of Covid-19 and a deepening economic slump, pundits are again asking whether capitalism as we know it has come to an end. The same was asked in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis. But as sure as night follows day, the world soon got […]

BY SCOTT BARRY KAUFMAN “Perhaps human nature has been sold short….”—Abraham Maslow Toward the end of his life, the humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow was developing new insights into self-actualization – and envisioning an even higher motivation, which he called transcendence. He referred to his theory as “Theory Z“.* To Maslow, “transcenders” are regularly motivated by values and

BY KW JAMIESON Picture a pile of sand, with a steady stream of grains pouring onto it from above. For a long while it will grow, building a largely stable structure, but one which is periodically punctuated by small sand slides rippling down the dune. Eventually, as more sand is added, it will reach a

BY KW JAMIESON The chaos all around us is the result of a war of worldviews. The tectonic plates of perspective are shifting, causing shockwaves across our global human system. The ‘mechanistic’ lens of scientific materialism, encapsulated in capitalism, is gradually losing acolytes while its ancient adversary – the ‘creationist’ lens of the Abrahamic monotheisms

by daniel christian wahl Humanity has achieved incredible advances in the differentiation of consciousness … differentiation has produced science, technology, and the unprecedented power of mankind to build up and to destroy its environment.But the complexity consists of integration as well as differentiation. The task of the next decades and centuries is to realize this

by jon freeman It is 40 years since the Futurist magazine published Prof. Clare W. Graves’ article titled “Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap,” which contained predictions for our future that have proved remarkably prescient. The conditions that Graves anticipated are those we now experience. Graves’ theory regards human development as an adaptive process in which

Patterns always build on what came before. This is true for patterns of culture as well. by joe brewer The world is getting to be pretty f*cked up now and something needs to be done about it. Humanity is heading toward a future that nobody wants because the cultural systems we are living within have become

It sounds like the kind of question a primary school child would ask, almost too simple to be of any importance: “The government creates it, probably the central bank, quantitative easing, isn’t it called?” Money, as ubiquitous as water, seeps into just about every part of our lives and yet most of us don’t know

by kw jamieson In the 1920’s quantum science brought the mystic spiritualist and the classic scientist within touching distance of one another, in terms of their respective interpretations of consciousness. However, the latter could never accept the former while operating within the narrow confines of the Newtonian-Cartesian framework. Many scientists and psychologists have since closed

by kw jamieson The many social and political movements which radically shook up Western society in the post-World War II period, particularly in the US during the 1960’s, sowed the seeds of the global cultural crisis we are currently experiencing. By driving an agenda which was resolutely anti-war, pro-civil rights and ecologically friendly, countless campaigns