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“What alone can regenerate us? Envisionment of what is perfect.” Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is in trouble. The difficulty when saying this is no one is able to adequately say what the trouble is. Duane Elgin in his book, Promise Ahead, offers extremely disturbing symptoms, he calls ‘adversity trends’. Will we ‘crash’ or will we ‘bounce’?

The answer will be determined by our assessment: Is the Earth dying, or is a radical shift in consciousness occurring? Every indication is that we have more power than we have maturity. Technology has developed way beyond our capacity for evaluation (viz. our values are inadequate)! We are dangerous!

Nietzsche was one who saw this coming; he said that we are more than ‘rule keepers’; we are the creators of value. We are called upon to envision the perfect and give style to life. “The grand style consists in contempt for trivial and brief beauty; it is a sense for that which is rare and lasts long.”

The Grand Style asked of us is made possible by the Grand Politic. Our problem today is that we lack the political will to give style to life. We settle too quickly for the trivial and brief . . . who among us will commit to envisioning the perfect?

Ecstatic reason is required, as well as, technical reason; thinking only on the surface of things is not adequate. We need to ‘ground’ our consciousness in Being; ‘Intentions’ need to be based on ‘intentionality’, which requires integral thinking.

Technology is neither our problem, nor our answer; we must be grounded within an integral community. Grounding our consciousness awakens and liberates forces that propel us into a new realm, forces that undertake bold deeds. An integral community is the opposite of alienation and fragmentation; it is the dynamic in which all people can live to capacity and creativity.

What alone can regenerate us? Envisionment of what is perfect (whole). When we realize that we are all one-within-the-One, we will have created “an enabling, unified understanding” by which the ruinous forces will be overcome. Mastery of Nature and her transformation will have been realized for a greater perfection in the earthly existence itself.

“What alone can regenerate us? Envisionment of what is perfect.” Friedrich Nietzsche

The world is in trouble. The difficulty when saying this is no one is able to adequately say what the trouble is. Duane Elgin in his book, Promise Ahead, offers extremely disturbing symptoms, he calls ‘adversity trends’. Will we ‘crash’ or will we ‘bounce’?

The answer will be determined by our assessment: Is the Earth dying, or is a radical shift in consciousness occurring? Every indication is that we have more power than we have maturity. Technology has developed way beyond our capacity for evaluation (viz. our values are inadequate)! We are dangerous!

Nietzsche was one who saw this coming; he said that we are more than ‘rule keepers’; we are the creators of value. We are called upon to envision the perfect and give style to life. “The grand style consists in contempt for trivial and brief beauty; it is a sense for that which is rare and lasts long.”

The Grand Style asked of us is made possible by the Grand Politic. Our problem today is that we lack the political will to give style to life. We settle too quickly for the trivial and brief . . . who among us will commit to envisioning the perfect?

Ecstatic reason is required, as well as, technical reason; thinking only on the surface of things is not adequate. We need to ‘ground’ our consciousness in Being; ‘Intentions’ need to be based on ‘intentionality’, which requires integral thinking.

Technology is neither our problem, nor our answer; we must be grounded within an integral community. Grounding our consciousness awakens and liberates forces that propel us into a new realm, forces that undertake bold deeds. An integral community is the opposite of alienation and fragmentation; it is the dynamic in which all people can live to capacity and creativity.

What alone can regenerate us? Envisionment of what is perfect (whole). When we realize that we are all one-within-the-One, we will have created “an enabling, unified understanding” by which the ruinous forces will be overcome. Mastery of Nature and her transformation will have been realized for a greater perfection in the earthly existence itself.