Reflective Living-Systems Paradigm

Discussion

"Duane Elgin ... suggested, on the basis of another independent world-wide survey, the emergence of a new paradigm and global consciousness change. In his Millennium Project Report (1997), Elgin provides many indicators that suggest the new emerging worldview which he calls a reflective/living-systems paradigm. He derives his claims from a comprehensive overview of many cultural transformation and paradigm publications by eminent scientists and world leaders as well as the empirical evidence of world statistics on global ecological awareness, main behavioural trends, emerging social values and sustainable ways of living. He also cites much interesting research on world web technology which he claims has the revolutionary capacity to connect and awaken humanity to larger evolutionary possibilities by creating a global awareness (to the same effect as the printing press progressed the oral culture of medieval ages to revolutionise and create the world commerce of modernity). Many of Elgin’s claims have been also based on the World Values Survey5, run by Ronald Inglehart (1977)."

(http://www.integral-review.org/issues/vol_9_no_2_ateljevic_visions_of_transmodernity.pdf)