5 Cathwor Progress Vs Retrogress Week 5

Authentic Development -for CATHWOR

INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT - From FRAGMENTATION to WHOLENESS - The SPIRIT SHINING in All Dimensions of LIFE

MOST CRITICAL MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME 1. Ecological Crisis 2. Armed Conflicts and Wars 3. Worsening Poverty 4. Social Injustices & Human Rights Violations 6. Exponential Growth of Human Population

INTEGRAL WORLVIEW No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created them. We must learn to see the world anew. -Albert Einstein Complex reality requires complex thought

Shift in Paradigm/Worldview/Perspective: – From Flat-land Thinking to >> Multi- Dimensional Thinking – From Web of Life & General Systems theory to >> Nested Beings and Holons

Shift in: Paradigm Worldview Perspective

Authentic Development -for CATHWOR

GROWTH & MATURATION

GROWTH AND MATURATION 1. Cells (biology) 2. Universe (cosmos) 3. Social Development (society)

GROWTH AND MATURATION

• Cells (biology) • Universe (cosmos) • Social Development (society)

1.a MITOSIS –Cell Division

1.b MIEOSIS –Cell Union & Differentiation

GROWTH AND MATURATION • Cells (biology)

• Universe (cosmos) • Social Development (society)

2.a Evolution of our Known Universe

Black Matter 95% of Space

2.b Young Stars (red/blue light belt)

grow around Old Stars (fading yellow light belt)

GROWTH AND MATURATION • Cells (biology) • Universe (cosmos)

• Social Development (society)

…YOU are a child of the UNIVERSE No less than the skies and the trees You have a right to be here… Desiderata

Development as: MATURATION -

GROWTH IN GREATER COMPLEXITY • Multiplication • Differentiation

• Integration of parts and whole • Interior and exterior growth

3. Stages of Social Development STAGES

WORLDVIEW

A. FORAGING - Hunting and gathering society

Archaic - Instinctual

B. AGRICULTURAL - Horticultural and Agrarian

Magic - Spirit-in-nature

C. INDUSTRIAL -Modern, Science, Technology,

Rational - Reason, logic

D. KNOWLEDGE - Information Age, Globalization

Existential - Experiential

ENTROPY: The Reverse of Growth • There are limits to growth • Entropy (death) is natural • The reverse of Entropy is the Flourishing of Life If development or growth leads to exceedingly massive ecological destruction and extinction of species, it serves the forces of entropy rather than life.

MOST CRITICAL MODERN WORLD PROBLEMS & CHALLENGES OF OUR TIME 1. Ecological Crisis 2. Armed Conflicts and Wars 3. Worsening Poverty 4. Social Injustices & Human Rights Violations 6. Exponential Growth of Human Population

INTEGRAL WORLVIEW No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created them. We must learn to see the world anew. -Albert Einstein Complex reality requires complex thought

INTEGRAL DEVELOPMENT - From FRAGMENTATION to WHOLENESS - The SPIRIT SHINING in All Dimensions of LIFE