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WORLD 1From the Big Bang to Conscious Humans
MODULE 4Toward an Holistic Paradigm
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What dynamics characterize societal transformation?
What characteristics, benefits, and consequences do you think are most associated with each of the four worldviews
presented in this module?
Which worldview is most needed vis-à-vis the current global challenges faced by humanity?
Focus Questions
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LEARNING UNIT 2Theos
LEARNING UNIT 3Logos
LEARNING UNIT 1Mythos
LEARNING UNIT 4Holos
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Understanding Our Worldviews
Image: © 2008 Regina Rowland, PhD — Layers of ComplexityReprinted with permission of author.
Source: Rowland R. 2009. Mapping the Coconstruction of Meaning. Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany
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Understanding our Paradigms
Worldviews and paradigms evolve in stages
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Change begins with YOU!YOU!
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The Dynamics of Transformation
Transformation of society occurs in phases:
• The Trigger Phase• The Accumulation Phase• The Decision-Window• The Chaos Point
Image Source: Laszlo, Ervin (2010). The Chaos Point.
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Key Characteristics:• Innovations in
technologies • More efficient
exploitation of nature
The Trigger Phase
Image Source: Laszlo, Ervin (2010). The Chaos point.
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The Accumulation Phase
Key Characteristics:• Higher levels of resource
depletion• Faster growth of populations• Increased societal complexity• Increased impact on the
carrying capacity of our planet• Increased stress on social and
geo-political climates
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http://www.populationinstitute.org/external/files/reports/from-6b-to-7b.pdf
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The Decision-Window
• When social and environmental relations change– Pressure is put on the established order– Values and worldviews are questioned– Societies become unstable
• A system can most easily be influenced to shift when in this phase– Critical mass» Including you?
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The Chaos Point• The system becomes critically unstable• The status quo becomes unsustainable • The system tips one way or the other
- Devolution - Evolution
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Devolution
• Society is resistant to change, or changes too slowly• Institutions are too rigid • Unmanageable stresses mount• Conflict and violence rise
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Evolution
• Society evolves in time toward more adaptive and flexible modes
• An improved order becomes available• Society stabilizes around a non-conflictual and
sustainable norm
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Evolutionary Insight
• Fundamental change is triggered by technological innovations
– that destabilize established structures and institutions
– that create greater connection among people and between people and the living world
• A more adaptive mindset in the bulk of the population is required
• The decider rests on the evolution of thinking, valuing and perceiving
• We can evolve toward an holistic paradigm based on systemic thinking and being
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The Four Worldviews
• Mythos
• Theos
• Logos
• Holos
Image: Copernicus's heliocentric model of the Solar SystemSource: http://www.black-holes.org/relativity1.html
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From Mythos to Theos• Mythos
– Deep knowledge of and appreciation for nature– Interrelationship with earth, creatures and cosmos – Animalistic, spiritualistic, mythic, cosmic, sacred, holistic– Time is fluid– Paleolithic food-gathering and hunting-fishing societies
• Transition– Agriculture-based Neolithic stage– Tribes to villages to cities to empires
• Theos– Male-dominated society – Socio-economic stratification – “Sky gods” displace nature– Rulers claim to be descendants of gods – Social systems of theocracy arise
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From Theos to Logos• Theocratic society
– Rule by divine fiat– As above, so below– Exemplified by ancient Egypt,
Mesopotamia, India, China, Mesoamerica
• Transition– New technologies– New values and beliefs
• Logos– Observation and reason– Understandable world– Rational discourse, reductionism– Quantitative measure– Western civilization (and later the world)Image Source: http://www.free-photos.biz/images/architecture/libraries/psalter_world_map.jpg
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The Era of Logos
• Ancient– Man is the measure of all things– Realization of human potential
is the objective– Greek city-states and the Roman Empire
• Early Christian– Western fall, Eastern rise– Divinity as source and judge– Holy Trinity– Man as God’s finest creation
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The Era of Logos
• Medieval Europe
– Medieval fiefdoms and princedoms
– Use of mechanical devices
• Seventeenth Century
– Galileo and the world as a giant mechanism
– Newton's universality of the laws of motion
– The universe as a clockwork, set in motion by a prime mover, operating according to strict laws of nature
– God as “prime mover”
Image: Cartesian VisionSource: http://www.princeton.edu/~his291/Cartesian_Vision.html
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The Era of Logos
• Church and Science– Conflict at first, then separate domains– Church as domain of “moral philosophy”– Science as domain of “natural philosophy”
• Nineteenth Century– Darwin’s theory of evolution– Objective worldview– Rationalism of René Descartes– Freedom to exploit the world
• Ideas that spread to the rest of world
Image: Ptolemy’s AstronomySource: http://mightyminerva.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/ptolemys-planets/
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TakeTake AwayAway• To overcome our current problemsTo overcome our current problems
– Cannot use the same old way of Cannot use the same old way of thinkingthinking
– Must renew our culture and Must renew our culture and consciousnessconsciousness
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Toward Holos
• The next transformation of civilizationThe next transformation of civilization– To be co-created by us, now!To be co-created by us, now!– Systemic thinking, sensing and beingSystemic thinking, sensing and being– Integration of rational and intuitiveIntegration of rational and intuitive– Embodying the patterns of natureEmbodying the patterns of nature– The next evolutionary step for humans, communities, The next evolutionary step for humans, communities,
and the living environment – taken togetherand the living environment – taken together
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