How Soon is Now: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation Book

For anyone interested in considering how we got into this mess and how we can get out of it, How Soon is Now? will not disappoint ... Pinchbeck is an important thinker of our time, and his is a brave and necessary book. - Dr Jason Hickel, LSE Review of Books Drawing on a huge range of resources and references, radical futurist and philosopher Daniel Pinchbeck presents a compelling argument for the need for change on a global basis - namely, that it is only when we see ourselves as one planetary tribe that this change can occur. His central thesis is that humanity has self-willed the ecological crisis in order to bring about the necessary conditions for an initiatory ordeal on a planetary scale. This collective ordeal is necessary for us to evolve from our current level of consciousness to the next. By undergoing this initiation, we realize ourselves as one unified being: a planetary super-organism in a symbiotic relationship with the Earth's ecology and the entire web of life. Covering everything from energy and agriculture to culture, politics, media and ideology, Pinchbeck's book is ultimately about the nature of the human soul and the future of our current world. He calls for an intentional, consciously designed metamorphosis of our current systems, which transform capitalist and exclusive structures into participatory, democratic and inclusive ones, based on an integration of Eastern metaphysics, social ecology and radical political thought.He calls for an intentional and consciously designed metamorphosis of our current systems, which transform capitalist and exclusive structures into participatory, democratic, and inclusive ones, based on an integration of Eastern metaphysics, social ecology, and radical political thought. How Soon is Now? gives us the context we need to understand the chaos and turbulence of our times. - StingRead More