6 Practical Ways to Change the World For the Better

by Harleena Singh  -

I’ve often heard that there are many ways to change the world, but the question is – who will change it and why? Moreover, what’s wrong with the world as it is?

I know this question will come up in the minds of many people. Am I right?

Well, all I can say is that the world can be a better place, and if it can, then why not try for it – isn’t it? I mean a world without or with as few problems as possible. Some would still be least bothered to read this post because it’s about the world and not them.

That’s where they first need to change their way of thinking. As far as you’re living in the world, its problems are yours and you’re responsible for them in some way or the other.

Every individual needs to be concerned with the problems of the world, take initiative, and actively participate to solve them.

In reality, we’re so engrossed in our own lives and tuned to the world that everything appears to be normal and reasonable to us. We’ve become habituated to the problems that we face and have adjusted ourselves to things that we think we cannot change.

You might say that if you’ve opted to reconcile then why do I’ve a problem with that.

Well, that’s exactly the problem. Why should you reconcile and give up your right for a better life?

You need to reconsider your assumption that you cannot change the things and your world. In fact, the truth is that you’ve all the power to change your life and the life of others. The only thing you need to do is believe in yourself, and in the cause.

But first, let’s try to understand our world better.

“Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think.” --Yoko Ono

Why Do We Need to Change The World

If you look back in the past, you’d realize that the world had been plagued with problems umpteen number of times, but some or the other kind of change bailed it out.

There have been revolutions and renaissances to make the world a better place to live in, and remarkably, people like you brought them about.

Likewise, you too can find ways to change the world. However, most of you need to be convinced that the world needs a change.

I’ve listed out six major problems in the world, and I think each one of you is affected by at least one of the problems in your daily life.

As you read each problem, think if you’re affected by it and would you like it to be changed or resolved:

• Discrimination, racism, and lack of tolerance

• Increasing hatred, violence, and war

• Environment and natural resources degradation

• Epidemic of lifestyle diseases

• Poverty and decreased quality of life

• Abuse and crime against women

Our world is suffering from the above-mentioned problems and it’s not limited to just a handful of these. There are hosts of other problems that make it difficult for us to live happily and peacefully.

Now, don’t you think these are reasons enough to wake up?

If you agreed with any of these problems, then are you doing anything to resolve it – if not, then why not?

I realize that people living in the developed countries have less firsthand experience about most of these problems, and this could be a cause for their lack of involvement.

But I know of many of my friends living in the US and Europe who actively advocate and make efforts to bring a good change in the world.

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” --Mahatma Gandhi

How to Change The World and Resolve Our Problems

What I’m getting at is that if we don’t force ourselves to solve our own problems, then who will?

Politicians? Government?

Yes, sure they can do a lot if they’ve the will, but those might just be the macroscopic solutions.

You can’t depend on them for your daily life harassment, problems, and sufferings. You need to take control of your own life.

As mentioned in the quote by Mahatma Gandhi, you need to “be the change” yourself that you wish to see in the world.

The change in the world starts with YOU!

If each person becomes responsible enough and takes steps to bring about a change, would it take long for the world to change? I don’t think so – do you?

Do you know that even one person can make a difference? Yes, YOU alone are enough and can make a huge difference.

MUST READ: It Only Takes One Person To Make A Difference

There are many real life examples from around the world of people making a difference in the world all alone.

You can also do that if you follow these 6 ways.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -- Nelson Mandela

6 Ways to Change the World

It’s all about you. The change begins with you. You change yourself, you change your life, and so you help change the world. I’ve shortlisted six ways in which you can bring about change, and I’ve put them together into an acronym – I call it a SIMPLE change approach.

S – Change of Self-concept

I – Change of Intentions

M – Change of Mind

P – Change of Personality

L – Change of Lifestyle

E – Change of Emotions

It’s really simple, isn’t it?

“In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” --Jimi Hendrix

• 1. Change Your Self-concept

Here, by self-concept I mean your beliefs and perceptions.

By changing these, you change your self-identity and self-perspective, and change what you think about yourself.

Start thinking about yourself in positive terms, and use positive affirmations to believe that you’re strong enough to lead a better life.

If you change the way you think about yourself, you’ll change the way you think about the world.

Change Tip 

Feel good about yourself and see the world with the same pair of eyes, then you’ll probably never think of discriminating people, nor of indulging in acts or thoughts of racism.

• 2. Change Your Intentions

Intentions are the roots of your thoughts and actions.

If your intentions are good and helpful, your thoughts and actions will be accordingly good and helpful too. You’d then most likely not abuse anybody, nor commit crime against anyone.

“Never intentionally hurt others in any way” – this resolution will create a big impact and reduce the suffering in the world. With the positive change in your beliefs and perceptions, you’ll be more likely to have positive intentions that breed positivity.

Change Tip 

Always have good intentions, as the resulting actions and behavior are thoughtful and controlled, and they bring more power and value to whatever you say or do.

• 3. Change Your Mind

I’ve written about the mind. It is responsible for your way of thinking, attitude, and outlook of life.

Once you change your mind in a positive way, you change your attitude of tolerance, discrimination, quality of life, and other aspects in favorable ways.

Tolerance is an attitude of the mind that implies non-judgmental acceptance of different lifestyles or beliefs.

Yes, tolerance is about recognizing and respecting the fact there are people of different cultures, religions, and races, and it’s okay accepting them as part of your world.

If you accept others, discrimination ends.

Change Tip 

Control and educate your mind to be happy and successful. You thereby increase your quality of life to satisfactory levels.

• 4. Change Your Personality

By personality, I mean the personal characteristics or qualities of a person.

If you’re devoted to a good cause and determined to carry it out, you’ll undoubtedly change the world for the better.

Your perseverance and hard work will bring you closer to success, and help you overcome poverty or other miseries of life, if they exist.

It were the positive and strong personal qualities of Mahatma Gandhi that brought a change in him. Not only did his course of life change, but he was able to bring about a change in the world too.

Change Tip 

Be courageous and bring about a change. Be determined to seek justice, and be dedicated to making the world a better place to live in for the entire human race.

DON’T MISS: 4 Personal Qualities That Can Make You Successful

• 5. Change Your Lifestyle

Your lifestyle is your way of living. Your health and the earth’s condition depend on the kind of lifestyle you adopt in your life.

You need to educate yourself on the effects and repercussions of your lifestyle.

Think whether what you eat, wear, and use – cause damage to yourself or your surrounding environment.

Living a faulty lifestyle can lead to the misuse and extinction of the earth’s natural resources like water, forests, and increase toxicity as well.

Instead, you need to adopt an eco-active lifestyle and make efforts to save the resources.

Be careful of what you shop, reuse and recycle. Be less dependent on material comforts that use earth’s resources and produce toxic waste or pollution, and thus reduce your carbon footprint.

Be aware that your unhealthy lifestyle consisting of lack of good food, exercise, and proper routine can make you suffer from lifestyle diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and stress.

Change Tip 

Choose a lifestyle that keeps you mentally and physically healthy as well as upkeeps the natural resources and environment of the world.

• 6. Change Your Emotions

Love is the strongest emotion that unites people in the world. Spread love through your words and actions.

If you’re kind and caring, you’ll develop gratitude and generosity towards others. As a result, there will be less hatred or other negative feelings wherever you go.

Activities based on love and harmony creates peace between people, communities, and countries. This overcomes aggression and violence, besides avoiding war.

Love is the cure of all problems. If you love yourself, you’ll love others; if you love others, you’ll love and accept their ways. And if you’re tolerant, then there will be peace all over.

Do something nice for somebody every day. Laugh, smile, be happy and remain thankful – you spread positive energy and emotions that way.

Change Tip 

Donate to charity, volunteer to help others in any big or small way, and engage yourself in random acts of kindness. You’ll be surprised to see the difference you can make to other peoples’ lives and the world this way.

Here’s a list of things you can do to change your world.

“It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.” --Vivienne Westwood

Can you remain positive, have good intentions, control your mind, be determined, live the right way, and be loving and helpful?

Well, this is in fact the crux of the SIMPLE ways to change the world, and it could be your contribution for the betterment of the world.

Remember that you as an individual are the units or building blocks of the community, society, country and the world. If the units or blocks change, the whole picture changes.

Positive change is never easy. It’s like flowing against the stream. But once you change, you find that it was worth the effort – it brings you more comfort and happiness.

After going through this post on making an attempt to change the world, are you courageous enough to take the initiative? Wouldn’t you like to be a part of a better world, and do something about it? So, let’s join hands to make this world a better place, for you, me, and everyone else. 

“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.” --Margaret Mead

Do you believe you can make a difference to the world? How do you think you can contribute to the betterment of the world? What are the other ways to change the world that you would suggest?

About Author: Harleena Singh is a positive thinker and a freelance writer. She loves to write inspiring and thought provoking posts on self-improvement, family, relationships, health, and other aspects of life. She's not another personal development guru, but just an average person with great life experiences. She's also a blogger, who loves to share her blogging knowledge and experiences. Network with her on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+.

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The Quantum Heart of Humanity and the New Earth Meme

by Tomas of New Earth Project -

A meme is “an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme

“Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks to the very essence of being human. When you want to give high praise to someone we say, “Yu, u Nobuntu”; he or she has Ubuntu. This means that they are generous, hospitable, friendly, caring and compassionate.  

They share what they have. It also means that my humanity is caught up, is inextricably bound up, in theirs. We belong in a bundle of life. We say, “a person is a person through other people.” I am human because I belong, I participate, and I share.  

A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good; for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes with knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed or treated as if they were less than who they are.”  --Desmond Tutu from his book No Future without Forgiveness, 2009

This is a clear understanding of what it means to live in community with others and an increasing number of humans on the planet today agree with this. 

Moreover, many are now looking for ways to bring this into their daily reality and no longer want to engage with societal structures that stand in blatant contradiction to this meme.

The Quantum Heart

The quantum human heart is experienced by the individual person as the zero point field of existence. Without this personal experience of the singularity of existence, the quantum human heart is a mere concept. 

The world of concepts is left behind when the experience of singularity as the ground of being dawns in the individual’s inner perception.

The New Earth Meme

This means that all of the activities on the part of millions of individuals across the planet to join together within the New Earth meme need to be anchored by each of us in our own singularity experience.

The state that accompanies our awareness of the one being that we all are is free of all accumulated beliefs, preferences and cherished concepts. When we are grounded in this state, which is a state that exists prior to the arising of consciousness, we are in every moment without attachment to our previous experiences. 

This gives us the ability to be completely present with clear perception in the now moment, which is our only point of power.

The New Earth meme is thus the natural way to relate to all others, whom we recognize as our intimate kin within the grand family of humanity. Many of us also naturally perceive all other living beings, irrespective of their species, as being one with us.

The New Earth meme carries the potential for unlimited connectivity with all aspects of life on Earth and throughout all of existence. All human qualities such as love, compassion, understanding, service to others, excellence, integrity, sovereignty, etc., are aspects of this meme.

Sovereignty

Absolute sovereignty is the foundation of all other human qualities within this meme.

Once we realize existentially (not merely mentally and intellectually) that we alone are — and that there is no “other” that we can look to for truth and that each of us can only find our true identity by putting the light of our awareness on itself/ourself — then we merge with the source of our power, the heart of existence. 

This heart, which is the ultimate dimension, the supreme space and the light of truth is directly accessed within the quantum human heart of each individual, which is a quality of the quantum field.

Before this realization we are in a state of consciousness that is dependent on some outside factor that we believe has an absolute existence independent and separate from our own. 

Seen from this point of view we can understand that the New Earth meme is not a sociological or socio-cultural phenomenon but rather arises as the natural behavior of those who have realized their primordial identity within the heart of existence.

One Unifying Stream

Therefore the many streams of human consciousness that are flowing together into this one unifying stream (such as the streams of UBUNTU, conscious evolution, the Shift Network, oneness, Diksha, the One People, Fix The World Project, the New Earth Nation and so many others) are all vehicles for the arising of the New Earth meme. 

The stream of the New Earth Nation is allowing many other streams to merge together, because of its grand and all-encompassing design that was engineered for exactly this purpose.

Other streams are focusing on more specific areas of the meme, such as the Resonance Project or Ralph and Marsha Ring’s Blue Star Enterprise, to mention just two. Some conscious communities are forming that can be prototypes for others, such as the One People Community Aouchtam in Morocco that Alia and I are joining.

Millions on the planet are also individual streams of consciousness that are radiating out into their own circles of friends and relatives as teachers, healers and activists in many areas of society. 

Each of these streams as they align more and more with this meme, play an essential part in the manifestation of New Earth.

Some of these may remain relatively independent as they consolidate and mature within their own organic dynamic before they, too, in one form or another, join into the practical union with other streams.

It was my intention here to point out some of the dynamics of the manifestation of the deeper feeling tones of our planet that are forming the New Earth meme. 

One Planetary Community

We are in the process of sharpening our perception of these dynamics and thereby accelerating them. We are witnessing a non-linear, quantum progression of connectivity of that which is new in human consciousness. 

As we join together in a “communion of pioneering souls” as Barbara Marx Hubbard calls it, we are now forming the global covenant of fellowship of which Sacha Stone speaks. This is the foundation for all of humanity to join together as one planetary community. 

Yes, we are the ones we have been waiting for and we aren’t waiting any longer! We have been called to action. 

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New Earth Paradigms and Culture Minds

by Brendan D. Murphy -

"In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." —Eric Hoffer

Kuhn states in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions that the actualization of a scientific paradigm is achieved by increasing the extent of the match between its facts and its predictions, and by further articulation of the paradigm itself: “mop-up work.” 

Kuhn’s candor is enlightening as he explains that such work occupies most scientists right through their careers; it is “normal science,” an enterprise attempting to force-fit nature into the preformed conceptual boxes supplied by the already existing paradigm (the Big Bang theory comes to mind). 

New sorts of phenomena are not sought and those phenomena that won’t be squeezed into pre-existing boxes tend to not even be seen at all. Scientists generally don’t seek to invent new theories, and they don’t always tolerate the theories of other scientists.[i]

Psychologically speaking, it makes sense that scientists imprinted by the culturally dominant paradigm they are born into will expend most of their energy attempting to understand it better and elaborate on it. 

Practically speaking, this has to be done because of the chasms that exist between science’s theoretical understandings of the cosmos (from the Greek Kosmos, meaning “ordered whole”) and what the cosmos actually has to offer—and every answer yields another ten questions. 

The average scientist is busy enough trying to test and validate aspects of the preformed paradigmatic box he or she has inherited without having to worry about various anomalies that challenge the basic parameters, theoretical underpinnings, or first principles of that box. 

Hence, anomalous data, such as that which we will deliberately focus on in this book, is typically unfavorable to those scientists imprinted by a theory or model of the universe that posits that such phenomena should not even exist. 

The presumption seemingly made by many scientists—like the child who naïvely sees his parents as being god-like in their knowledge and authority—is obviously that the paradigm must be right and that there’s no point actually checking, or else why would it be the dominant paradigm? 

This, of course, creates unscientific institutionalized blind spots that do not harmonize with people whose conscious experience is not congruent with what the popular theory says they should or shouldn’t be experiencing. 

If the facts of your waking experience are not encapsulated by the theory and your experiences are being shared by millions of other people, then perhaps the theory needs some revision.

Importantly, Kuhn also stated that a paradigm defines what constitutes a valid scientific problem. 

Any pursuits venturing away from the confines of the paradigm therefore define themselves as being “unscientific” (and therefore the findings must be untrue) by default and—to conventional thinking—this is where most of the information contained in this book lies: the scientific wilderness or no man’s land. 

This briefly outlined “scientific” approach, needless to say, can institutionalize myopic and dogmatic gate-keeping activities that prevent novel research from occurring (or being published), ironically in the name of science if not the form, leading to a stagnation in the advancement of science to the extent that such activities succeed and prevail. 

However, history shows that such circumstances break down in the end, in line with the ultimate law of the world of form and relativity: the only constant is change.

The individuals who catalyze such breakdowns and revolutions of thought and encourage them to unfold towards what will ultimately be a state of greater order and understanding (whether they facilitate this consciously or otherwise) are what Rudhyar called civilizers (and what historian Arthur Toynbee referred to as creative minorities). 

Culture Minds

These (relatively) independent and forward-thinking minds possess a differing vision from the majority of culturally conditioned minds, aptly designated as culture minds. For clarity, culture is defined by anthropologists as a collection of learned survival strategies passed on to our young through teaching and modeling.[ii] 

The culture mind, which is essentially a reflection of the collective or group mind, is the one that imprints on and inherits a pre-existing paradigm, refines it, champions it, and, maybe above all, defends it against “attack” from unfamiliar and unexpected data—supposedly for the benefit of humankind but in truth simply as a coping mechanism, perhaps a perversion of a biological survival drive. 

Such was the role of those who decried the invention of the light bulb, the radio, the telescope, and almost every other novel and important invention through our history.

Joseph C. Pearce refers to culture as “the collective embodiment of our survival ideation,” and “a circular stalemate,”[iii] and in this sense our narrow cultural tendencies are holding us back from transcending ourselves. 

Civilizer Minds

The civilizer mind, on the other hand, is the lonely soul or minority of souls brave or silly enough to bring forth such unexpected and “ridiculous” creations as light bulbs, radios, quantum mechanics, or parapsychology, and pose the uncomfortable questions stemming from them that the culture mind’s paradigm had failed to anticipate.

What if this new phenomenon is real? What if the universe doesn’t work the precise way our paradigms led us to believe? What if more is possible? 

The civilizer will pursue a new line of inquiry in spite of its being politically incorrect or taboo, if he or she perceives that such a pursuit could benefit mankind in the long run. This will of course be done to the chagrin of the tribally oriented culture mind who perceives, however dimly, such investigation as a threat to his status and identity—his models of self and the universe. 

Eventually, when the civilizer has succeeded in gaining acceptance for his new concept or invention and it has become familiar and even commonplace, a new breed of culture mind will grow up taking this once dangerous heresy for granted as self-evident and obvious.

New Paradigms

Thus, the genius civilizer and Hermeticist Isaac Newton’s profound scientific output led to the formulation of new and unforeseen paradigms which would ultimately be inherited by culture mind minions who would dogmatically insist that those materialistic and reductionistic paradigms essentially described the Universe as it was and must necessarily be, refusing to acknowledge the validity of legitimate information that did not conform to the expectations induced by those (incomplete) paradigms. 

New data or refinements were permissible only insofar as they did not challenge the fundamental precepts of the Newtonian outlook, and thus the religion of Funda-Materialism (Fundamentalist Materialism) was born (which is ironic, since, as Newton matured he moved from a mechanistic view to an essentially “magical” one, being deeply involved in alchemical research, as well as being a Freemason and student of Biblical prophesy[iv]).

The culture mind is typically bent on maintaining the status quo at any cost, for it lacks imagination and vision enough to see a potentially better way of operating and more importantly, its identity is intimately tied to said status quo, so challenging the latter threatens the former by default. 

It might reluctantly agree to consider making some small changes, however, if a “credible” and familiar cultural authority figure can induce it into perceiving some kind of self-benefit for such an action. 

As Joseph Chilton Pearce observes, 

“Culture is the fundamental deviancy of intellect from intelligence, and because of its massively unnatural and arbitrary, and illogical nature, it requires an equally massive energy to sustain it.”[v]

Inspection reveals that for the most part—within the context of paranormal research—that energy is the emotion known as fear, and it is usually repressed/subliminal, lurking in the background, tacitly guiding our processes of logic (and sabotaging our capacity to learn). 

Culture, as Pearce points out, feeds the ancient survival modes of our brain and keeps us locked into them.[vi] This means that information challenging the culture mind’s paradigm and sense of self evokes a fight-or-flight biological sort of response—about the lowest level of intelligence available to us. 

Having only those two ways of responding to “threatening” data is profoundly limiting to intelligence. 

It leaves one with only the option of perpetually debunking (“fighting”) information through a pseudo-intellectual veneer, or simply fleeing from the most challenging facts altogether. More intelligent responses could be forthcoming if our sense of self was not based on such flimsy ground and so easily “undermined”—expanded on, in truth—by the “unexplainable.”

Self-interest is a strong motive for the biospherically oriented culture mind, while the civilizer’s motive is typically something more transpersonal, something vaster and more far-reaching. 

The civilizer seeks to drag the possible future into the manifest present. In Rudhyar’s estimation, the steps to preparing for the role as a civilizer include “having a deep-seated dissatisfaction with the forms and institutions that the culture has built…and the development of a mind able to relentlessly question the intellectual and/or moral validity of the essential premises (paradigms) constituting the framework of the collective mentality of a society having already passed its maturity.”[vii]

Gautama the Buddha, Pythagoras, Newton, Bacon, Tesla and many researchers, mystics and occultists who will be mentioned in the following pages have been cast in the mold of the civilizer mind, pioneers and trailblazers that they are (or were). 

The consciousness of these individuals no longer imbues the familiar cultural beliefs, assumptions, values, behavioral patterns and concepts, with the importance and/or meaning they have for the average human being/culture mind. 

In some cases, Rudhyar observed, these people have actually “transferred the center of their consciousness and therefore their sense of identity from the biopsychic level to a spiritual-mental level.”[viii] 

This is exactly what we seek to facilitate here.

Creative Minds

What the creative minds are able to communicate to others in their culture “becomes a mutating ideologic seed that, sooner or later, will germinate and affect other minds.”[ix] Thus, culture is the carrier wave, as Rudhyar termed it, of civilization. The process of civilization cannot occur without cultures and culture minds to evolve and transform, to “civilize.”

 “Culture forms. Civilization transforms.”[x]

The process of transformation implies a sort of crisis (from a Greek root, meaning “to decide”), and it is indeed a crisis/decision point that humanity currently finds itself at. 

This is especially so for our dominant scientific paradigms, placed under siege and laid waste by inconvenient facts that have been swept under the proverbial rug for so long now that the rug looks as if it’s hiding a jittery woolly mammoth. 

This hulking mass now appears ready to topple over into collective awareness with an almighty crash. Our cherished materialistic-reductionist paradigms of life and consciousness are crumbling under the weight of their own obfuscations and omissions. 

Such is the saturation of inconvenient facts that perceptive scientists such as Radin can legitimately state that we are indeed making the step from Phase 1 of outright institutional denial to Phase 2 of reluctant acceptance and further, more mainstream investigation. 

This very fact signifies a philosophical crisis occurring in the hallowed halls of science, as the growing realization dawns on more and more minds that our dominant politically correct scientifically induced (and scientistically preserved) metaphysical assumptions about our existence are simply unable to cope with the questions being asked of them.

New paradigms are in the making—culture is being civilized (transformed) in a way that few generations on this Earth have ever had the opportunity to witness. 

With the capability to “nuke” or simply pollute and contaminate ourselves out of existence, there has probably not been a better time in our recorded history to embrace the dynamic of civilization and choose to consciously transform ourselves and our cultures (and by that I don’t mean throwing in with a totalitarian World Government agenda run by psychopathic unelected financial oligarchs). 

The creations of civilizer minds, as opposed to culture minds, induce sociocultural transformation rather than fulfilment or what we might often refer to as the preservation of the status quo. 

Such humans are transpersonal beings, according to Rudhyar. “Space, life, God, act through them, even if they are not aware of this fact.”[xi] 

The civilization process pertains to the activity of “spirit” as spirit acts through the mind. While spirit creates, culture merely reproduces.[xii] Finally, Rudhyar tells us: “The way of transformation is what occultists call ‘The Path.’ The real civilizer is the man of relationship. He relates the as-yet-unknown to the known, the greater to the lesser.”[xiii]

This book, as the reader has no doubt gathered by now, is the kind of dangerous and subversive text that can potentially play a civilizing or transformative role—as long as one’s mind is receptive, curious, and open. 

The time is ripe for such outlandish material to be circulated en masse, because perhaps never in our known history have the masses of mankind been so beaten down, worn out, and disillusioned with the status quo (just look at the “Occupy” movement!). 

More to the point is the fact that never before have we known the collective mind to be undertaking the kind of mass awakening that now appears to be happening and gathering pace, even as I type these words.

What makes this book dangerous to the conditioned culture mind is the author’s refusal to allow his perceptions to be utterly dictated and shaped by his own culture’s customs, taboos, and metaphysical assumptions. 

This book challenges dogma, culturally ingrained assumptions and beliefs, rather than arbitrarily selecting one particular “culturized” viewpoint (say, materialism, Freudianism, or Christian fundamentalism) and espousing it at the expense of all other viewpoints merely out of fear or pride. 

Culture seizes the new ideas civilization creates and erects them into systems and truths endowed with permanent value, leading to tradition and also dogmatism. 

The civilizer “plays with” ideas and his mind “sees,” while the culture-man’s mind cogitates and endlessly argues pros and cons.[xiv] The purpose of this book is not to merely argue pros and cons but to expand one’s vision: to civilize/transform.

It is interesting to note that one cannot spell culture without cult. What is a cult best at? Rigidly and fiercely maintaining its own cognitive status quo, its ontology, in spite of any and all evidence to the contrary—indefinitely. 

Extreme data filtration and streamlining. Model fanaticism courtesy of what I dub “paradigmatic fanatics.” No cult member ever really realizes the depths of stupidity he or she, as a believer, sinks to until they leave the cult, dis-identify with its models of reality and the world, and stand on the outside looking in. 

We want to transcend the culture mind. A change in perspective (data reception and meaning creation) is a powerful thing. 

The product of any profound and positive change in perspective is transformation/civilization. At this point in our history, can we aim for anything less?

Endnotes: 

[i] See Kuhn. 

[ii] Pearce, The Biology of Transcendence, 2. 

[iii] Ibid., 3. 

[iv] See my article The Newton You Never Knew (www.globalfreedommovement.net).[v] Pearce, 125. 

[vi] Ibid., 171. 

[vii] Rudhyar, 107. 

[viii] Ibid., 34. 

[ix] Ibid., 44. 

[x] Ibid., 26.

[xi] Ibid., 66–7. 

[xii] Ibid., 180. 

[xiii] Ibid., 129. 

[xiv] Ibid., 194.

 excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality  

“What a wonderful job of collating and integrating you have done! Every person in the field of ‘paranormal’ psychology or related topics should have this book as a major reference.” –Dr. Buryl Payne 

“A masterpiece…The Grand Illusion is mind-blowing.” –Sol Luckman, author of Potentiate Your DNA. 

“You’ve written the best synthesis of modern science and esoteric science that I’ve seen in 40 years of study in that area. Brilliant!”  –Michael K. Wade

About Author: Brendan Murphy – Co founder of the Global Freedom Movement and host of GFM Radio, a leading Australian author, researcher, activist and musician. His acclaimed non-fiction epic The Grand Illusion: A Synthesis of Science and Spirituality – Book 1 is out now! 

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