The Cultural Creatives, How 50 Million People are Changing the World is a guidebook to the transformation happening in our worlds today. The book is full of amazing stories of transformation, the shifts individuals are experience, their between periods and processes of return. I especially resonated with Elizabet Sahtouris’s story. There are many more of these journeys of transformation in the book.
Here’s one of my favorite excerpts from the book.
Economic historian Karl Polanyi titled one of the best books on the emergence of the modern, urbanized, industrialized world The Great Transformation. It is a good name for our time as well. The evidence says that we are entering a period that will require transformation – fundamental structural changes in how we live and work, how we think about ourselves, and how we conduct our politics, economics, and technologies. If we can go through those changes as well, or well enough, humanity will be able to live on this planet without destroying the environment, and our children’s children will have a future worth living.
Achieving this end will mean not just traveling in the great transition period but negotiating our way through it….
If you haven’t read The Cultural Creatives I highly recommend this book. While I was reading it I felt as strong sense of community with the cultural creatives profiled and the ideas shared. I realized that many of us are waking up to a new integration of living and being in a more authentic and wiser culture.
The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million People Are Changing the World
November 2, 2007
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