You are missing the most important thinker of our time, Brian Thomas Swimme. He says, "Our revolution in thinking dwarfs Copernicus’s announcement that the Earth travels around the Sun." It's the lineage from Teilhard to Thomas Berry that makes us a human family, all interconnected, and not the rugged individualists climbing over one another that we have been. Also, he is very charismatic. Here's my Swimme playlist from Substacks I've done that he's significant in: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/s/brian-thomas-swimme
Thanks for sharing all those book recommendations, Paul! I would add two more to that list:
- Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan: This concept of development (for individuals as well as for the collective of humankind) is spreading hope, as it suggests that more and more individuals are developing to the integral stage where all those different aspects you list as features of the New Enlightenment are integrated to form a „better whole“.
- Finding Radical Wholeness by Ken Wilber: This is building on the Spiral Dynamics concept and expanding it by evaluating the current status of development, the implications that follow from this status and providing hints how to further develop.
You are missing the most important thinker of our time, Brian Thomas Swimme. He says, "Our revolution in thinking dwarfs Copernicus’s announcement that the Earth travels around the Sun." It's the lineage from Teilhard to Thomas Berry that makes us a human family, all interconnected, and not the rugged individualists climbing over one another that we have been. Also, he is very charismatic. Here's my Swimme playlist from Substacks I've done that he's significant in: https://suzannetaylor.substack.com/s/brian-thomas-swimme
Thanks Sue. The initial list was not comprehensive and I have been adding to it. I will also check out Brian's thinking and how it might fit.
Thanks for sharing all those book recommendations, Paul! I would add two more to that list:
- Spiral Dynamics by Don Beck and Christopher Cowan: This concept of development (for individuals as well as for the collective of humankind) is spreading hope, as it suggests that more and more individuals are developing to the integral stage where all those different aspects you list as features of the New Enlightenment are integrated to form a „better whole“.
- Finding Radical Wholeness by Ken Wilber: This is building on the Spiral Dynamics concept and expanding it by evaluating the current status of development, the implications that follow from this status and providing hints how to further develop.