World Goodwill Newsletter 2022 #3
In Search of a New Culture
This year’s World Goodwill Seminar was a celebration of the countless opportunities faced today by groups across the planet, across nations, and across fields and disciplines as they strive to participate in a great transformation of our global culture during this transitory phase in our planetary life. The fluidity of change, no doubt introduces difficulty and discomfort. Nevertheless, it also serves to “soften” mental rigidity and existing structures, thus priming the soil of human experience for new approaches and for new adventures.
Hailing from diverse backgrounds, the seminar speakers examined the question of “a new culture” from numerous angles, creating what we hope is, a wholesome approach to this most vibrant issue.
This Newsletter seeks to inspire further research and prompt creative thought around the theme and, hopefully, encourage right action in a spirit of Goodwill. §
The Light of Love
In Sufi spiritual practice, meditation rituals are consecrated to the invocation of the “Beautiful Divine Names”. Among the homogeneous set of 99 Names, two have always fascinated me: Light (An-Nour) and Love (Al-Wadoud).
Read MoreA New Culture, a New Civilisation: Building the Bridge between the Evolutionary Plan and the Human Response
Approaching the theme of a New Culture, capable of generating a new human civilisation, has become decisive today, marking a turning point in the course of human affairs and the life of the Planet. This New Culture is actually the restoration of an ancient Culture, coming from the Ancient Wisdom from which Humanity has progressively moved away.
Read MoreCreativity – a Pathway to Connection and Wholeness
The life force that flows through us is, by its nature, boundlessly creative and we are each given the extraordinary gift of being able to bring this creative flow into manifestation in an infinite variety of forms.
Read MoreMoment of Truth. Regenerative Economics: New Ways of Seeing, Thinking, Being, Leading and Managing For the 21st Century
Neoclassical economics (which guides most economic decision making today) is grounded in Newtonian physics, but while physics has been updated by the advances of our scientific understanding, the “patches” made to neoclassical economics do not deal with its flawed foundational assumptions.
Read MoreHow an Emergent Unitive Narrative Can Heal our Past and Transform our Future
Our worldview of separation in many ways has driven a world of suffering, whereas a wholeworld-view of unified reality and its unity expressed in diversity supports a world where peace is a natural outcome rather than conflict, where justice and fairness and inclusion are natural outcomes and behaviors.
Read MoreOn Radical Imagination
Imagination can be examined through its creative faculty or its psychological notions but its function as a social or sociological force, namely how the imagination shapes society and conversely, how society shapes our imaginations, is a most fascinating approach.
Read MoreThe Creative Experience
Creativity is defined as the ability to transcend traditional ideas, rules or patterns, and to create meaningful new ideas, forms, methods, as originality or imagination. It is currently the buzzword in offices or on campuses, in academic courses and in arts institution boardrooms, and at the root of scientific studies, beautiful artworks, trips to Mars, and Hollywood blockbusters!
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