Over the course of thousands of years, phase-changes occur in our evolution that are so big they change everything. That’s where we are now according to author Troy Wiley, who explores in his landmark book how our understanding of ourselves and how the world works has changed radically throughout history and is set once again to do so. In what he refers to as a “radically practical” exposition he writes about how we can find freedom and liberation in these challenging times--not only individually but collectively as a global society--by fully letting go of our preconceived notions and embracing the new paradigm. Since renaissance visionaries such as Copernicus and Galileo ushered in the scientific revolution, we’ve learned that it’s okay to be wrong about how we think the world works. In acknowledging our wrongness, we can reveal new facts and truths to emancipate humanity.
Through a unique compilation of eloquent nonfiction chapters interspersed with fictional Socratic dialogue, Wiley weaves together the patterns of our past to arrive at a stark realization about our current paradigm, and what’s coming next. He documents how we have evolved not only our technologies but also our empathy and worldviews which are helping us become, however painfully, one global tribe. He shows how even our human-created fictions and myths have evolved, and how once again we are being called to transcend our biggest, most fundamental fiction. Wiley analyzes how powerful economic forces are converging in a perfect storm to bring an end to our existing socio-economic paradigm. But this is a good thing according to Wiley. These monumental changes are not to be feared, but instead welcomed for the survival of our species and the healing of our planet depends on them.
Wiley points to a new abolitionist movement that is not just about abolishing slavery this time but instead is going to the root cause of all our global challenges and offering fresh new solutions to liberate us from the monetary shackles that have enslaved us for millennia. Not only is his radically practical proposal the only realistic hope of solving all of our biggest problems like climate change, war and resource depletion, it will also take us to a new level of true civilization for humanity to thrive. It will take a rEvolution of the mind for this to happen. This is the next Copernican rEvolution that’s sweeping the globe, in which we will radically change our understanding of what really makes the world go round. We will experience, perhaps quite soon, the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible--a world beyond war, poverty, hunger, debt and unnecessary human suffering.
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