Primed for the Times—are you ready for Change?

 “If the first generations that assimilated Darwin's thought were concerned with the origin of species, our own is concerned in an unprecedented way with the extinction of species and, above all, with the threat of extinction that faces the human species. During the 1850s, while Darwin was concluding The Origin of Species, the rate of extinction is believed to have been one every five years. Today, the rate of extinction is estimated at one every nine minutes.…to say that a thing is difficult to imagine is not to say that it is impossible. The current moment merely throws the under-valorized role of imagination within religion into newly stark relief. A problem that religion may well make worse may yet be one that cannot be solved without religion. The challenge, though posed by science, is artistic as much as it is theological, a breakthrough of the imagination in the service of religion (emphasis added), in the service of the human species, in the service of life itself. We would be fools to predict such a breakthrough but worse fools not to hope for it.” Jack Miles, “GLOBAL REQUIEM: THE APOCALYPTIC MOMENT IN RELIGION, SCIENCE, AND ART” http://www.crosscurrents.org/milesrequiem.htm, http://www.secondenlightenment.org/SERVICE%20TO%20RELIGION.pdf

The Primed Times It is in the nature of evolution to prime time for change. The change required isn’t always obvious; yet, in time the need for change may become very obvious —these times are characterized by the obvious need for change, perhaps as in no time before. The more change is put off, the more permanent and consequential damages of delayed change become.

How might the crises of these times be characterized? They are characterized in the happenings of global implosions, in ecologies, in economies and in failed social (moral) relationships—all of which essentially connect to each other. The deficits in one area compound the deficits in the other areas; the collective consequences imposed on nature and potentially on humankind are wholesale disappearances, what is a “Collapse Syndrome”. http://www.ars.usda.gov/News/docs.htm?docid=15572

“Thinking” is original sin but also original grace. [Google: method of evolution: cogitata perficiendo, cogitando sic perfecta) Thinking, in the exploitation of nature (original sin), is bringing humankind and Earth-life to the brink of irretrievable collapse; but ironically, it is thinking and change that might return humankind from the brink. If radical changes are not forthcoming, our fate may be that of the disappearing honeybees. http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/build-global-economy-christian-humanism-pope-says

Ecologists, economists and theologians are alienated from each other in the hubris of their cultured absolutisms (ideologies); as a result, collective thinking is disjointed from reality and in denial of humankind’s radical, self-induced, self-injury and -destruction.

Ready for Primed Time? After 75 years studying the case for change of worldview, from staticism and centrism to transformation and acentrism, I am compelled to go public. www.justifiedliving.gather.com, www.secondenlightenment.org, www.evolution101.org These websites provide resource materials for self-study and change from the self-injury of past absolutisms to an informed sense of nature, self and moral relationships —what religions are (should be) about. http://ncronline.org/news/justice/business-educators-meet-focus-ignatian-values