Where are we now?
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Is our current state of affairs part of a ‘design’ or a random set of reactions to our environment and times?
We know we need to change but what is human change?
We know we need to do different, but can this be learned?
Is there any one single view about this?
At this point of time in history we find ourselves in an impending global crisis and that must surely be a given. We were not to know in the euphoria of the advent of the motorized car that it would contribute to global warming, nor could we foresee the effect of the industrial revolution that foretold the intense pollution we witness in cities around the world.
We did not know.
But we know now. We are living in an age of consequences. Do we really believe that hydraulic fracturing, whilst it may provide short term energy benefits, will be without serious consequences? Do we really believe that mirrors in space will mitigate the impacts of climate change?
Our over-eagerness to feed upon the riches of the Earth’s resources is being tempered today by the knowledge of the consequences that our actions have wrought upon the planet. What we do now, we do so knowingly, conscious as we are of the consequences.
These are obvious examples.
As we write this letter, a new level of degeneration is taking place in human behavior and the world community is discussing what response it is appropriate to make. Chemical weapons are being used. It is hard enough to bear to watch the images - but what are we really looking at? Whilst the discussion mostly centers around what to do, the complexity of response becomes ever more contorted as we lose sight of what is in front of our eyes.
As we discuss the solutions, we are in danger of doing exactly what Einstein warned against – trying to solve our problems at the same level we were at when we created them.
This project is about change – the human side of change.
Many people are already openly thinking of the human part in change and what an alignment to change might mean. Knowing we cannot do more of the same is an ‘evolutionary’ point in time acknowledged.
This is a new starting point for change.
The premise of this work on human change is simple: if we are able to just reside in, witness, stay immersed in ‘what is’ the case and not try to change it according to our views and opinions, we will find the necessary responses to the challenges of our times. The starting point of a new change is inside what is the case, inside the evolution story. To just see ‘what is’ is the first step in change - it centers us in evolutionary emergence.
It is that simple. And it is that difficult.
The Human Change Project demonstrates a coherent and integrated approach to accurately identifying the challenges we face, that understands these challenges within the scope and context of evolution and that engages the whole human person in elevating to a place where change in the inner and outer worlds becomes a real possibility.
Gone is the convenient distinction between ourselves ‘in here’ and what is happening in the world ‘out there’. What we see globally is a reflection of what we have become. The inner human and the external world are not so separate, as we have tended to think. We are all, consciously or not, either contributing to the detriment of our state of affairs or contributing to a new age of illumination - there is no more middle ground, no more time.
We are the human change and a living part of the future - if we care to be.
To do nothing is to abdicate our human evolutionary responsibility.
~ Michael Shewchuk and Richard Bowell co-founders
