| Both the structure of meaning systems and the velocity with which ideas are transmitted can accelerate a clash of beliefs and threaten peace and security. In ways that have surprised many, we live in more polarized times where a higher evolutionary synthesis is gestating but has not reached critical mass. We live in an era when objectification of nature has resulted in a perilous threat to our sustainability and when the objectification of belief threatens to draw us into brutal cycles of terror and counter-terror. How do emerging ideas in cosmology and consciousness give us hope that we will be supported in our quest for global healing? James will articulate a coherent vision of a more universally peaceful and compassionate human emerging out of evolution's irreversible cauldron. |