“O BRAVE NEW WORLD”:
THE WHOLE-WORLD RENAISSANCE OF NOW

”The New Philosophy casts all in doubt”—John Donne

Just as the Renaissance of 1400-1700 was an era of revolutionary thought, so is ours today, yet even more radically so.

Just as the former Renaissance rebirthed ancient ideas from a previous Golden Age (“the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome”), so does our current renaissance revive insights, even more ancient, from primordial shamanic cultures: not from the agrarian warrior epoch of the blade (to borrow imagery from Riane Eisler), but from the matrilineal epoch of the chalice. . . .


(A brave beginning, to be continued after further reading, beginning with Duane Elgin’s new book: The Living Universe, 2009, as well as many books by Erwin Laszlo, and L. Robert Keck’s Sacred Quest: The Evolution and Future of the Human Soul, 2000)

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