DESIGN ME A PLANET

DESIGN ME A PLANET

SUMMER ACADEMY 23 JULY TO 06 AUGUST 2011 STEYRERMÜHL AUSTRIA

FIRST INTEGRAL WORLD SUMMIT 30 JULY 2011 VIENNA

CIVILIZATION OF FUTURES AND FUTURES OF CIVILIZATIONS

HOW TO DESIGN A PLANET FOR THE THIRD MILLENIUM ?

WHAT KIND OF PLANET DO WE WANT?

A MEGALOPOLIS OR/AND A GREEN PLANET?mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">

AN ARTISTIC PLANET OR/AND A NETWORKED PLANET?

YOU DECIDE!

KEY QUESTIONS : mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">WHAT ? WHY ? WHEN ? WHERE ? WHO ? HOW ?mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">

font-family:Chalkboard;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">FOUR MAIN THEMATICS

WEEK 1

FUTURE STUDIES AND HISTORICAL ANALYSIS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurology

INFORMATION SOCIETY AND KNOWLEDGE FUTURES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_society

WEEK 2
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND BIOMIMICRY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development

CULTURAL CREATIVES AND INTEGRAL APPROACHES
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Creatives

mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">AN EXAMPLE : FUTURE STUDIES

mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">WHAT ? Concepts, approaches, methods, limits…

mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">WHY ? Uses of future studies to critique the present, anticipate risks and alternatives, co-create preferable worlds or …

mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">WHEN ? History of future studies, main developments, present and future...

mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">WHERE ? Which countries, regions have been using future studies ?

mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">WHO ? Future studies: Important people, organisations, universities

mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">HOW ? Applications to anticipate, design, implement preferred future ?

HOW TO APPLY ? mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">WHO CAN APPLY ?
font-family:Chalkboard;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">We are looking for experts,
geniuses, visionaries and anyone interested in contributing to planetary
transformation and co-creating the world of the future, who are able to learn
and to cooperate together....56.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard"">

VERY EASY TO DO ! Just write and submit a one page bio. YOU WILL RECEIVE A RAPID RESPONSE!

TO APPLY : mso-bidi-font-size:56.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">michel@saloff.frmso-ansi-language:EN-US"">

YOU ARE ALSO INVITE TO SPEAK !

CALL FOR PAPERS : SEND A PROPOSAL CONTAINING ONE PAGE AND 10 SLIDES IN ENGLISH

IF YOU ARE SELECTED : YOU WILL BE INVITED TO DEVELOP A PAPER OF UP TO 50 PAGES AND 30 SLIDES IN ANY LANGUAGE OF THE CHOSEN CONFERENCE
LANGUAGES (WITH A SYNTHESIS UP TO 10 PAGES AND 30 SLIDES IN ENGLISH)

LANGUAGES ACCEPTED / 8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard"">ENGLISH / FRENCH / GERMAN

PUBLICATION PROJECT

A BOOK COULD BE PUBLISHED WITH THE BEST CONTRIBUTIONS UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF CARINE DARTIGUEPEYROU, JENNIFER GIDLEY AND MICHEL
SALOFF COSTE

THE TYPICAL WEEK MIX

BALANCE BETWEEN SCIENCE, ART, PHILOSOPHY, SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL AND SPIRITUAL PRACTICE

SELECTION OF GUEST LECTURESyes""> WELL PREPARED AND ORGANIZED IN ADVANCE

OPEN SPACE FOR CREATIVE PRESENTATIONS EMERGING FROM THE CONTEXT AND PARTICIPANTS

SPACE AND TIME TO EXPRESS FEELING AND EMOTIONS

TIME OF RELAXATION, MEDITATION AND FREEDOM

BODY WORK : DANCE, YOGA, TREKKING

EVENINGS IN THE CULTURAL CENTER :

CONCERTS AND SPECTACLE BY THE « KOSMIC TROUBADOURS »

MOVIES AND IMPORTANT GUEST SPEAKERS

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RESTAURANT

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Lunch in the conference center : 10 to 20 €

Diner in the cultural center : 15 to 30 €

Breaks include in the price of the conference

LOCATION OF THE SUMMER UNIVERSITY CULTURAL CENTERmso-bidi-font-size:40.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">
CONTACT FOR RESERVATION AND INFORMATIONmso-ansi-language:EN-US"">
Sonja
Aigner Telefon: .: +43 (0)76133951 Mobil: +43 (0)6642405978 Fax: +43
(0)76138834
CULTURAL
CENTER OF STEYRERMÜHL

Österreichisches Papiermachermuseum Laakirchen Steyrermühl Museumsplatz 14662 Steyrermühl

INITIATORS FOUNDERS FACILITATORS

CHAIR OF THE HONORARY AND STRATEGIC ORIENTATION COMMITTEE
Ervin LASZLO Philosopher of science, systems theorist, integral theorist. He
has published about 75 books and over 400 papers, and is editor of World
Futures: The Journal of General Evolution.

DIRECTOR OF GLOBAL COORDINATION FACILITATION AND ACADEMIC ORIENTATION

Michel SALOFF COSTE Author and researcher in the field of futures studies and the integral approach. Initiator and founder of Integral University in Paris and
the Club of Budapest in France.

DIRECTOR OF THE ACADEMIC BOARDfont-family:Chalkboard;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">

Jennifer GIDLEY, PhD, President World Futures Studies Federation. Principal researcher, Planetary Futures ; Research Fellow, Global Cities Research Institute; RMIT
University, Melbourne, Australia

DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTRIAN CULTURAL AND OPERATIONAL PLATEFORM

Sonja Aigner

Telefon: .: +43 (0)76133951 Mobil: +43 (0)6642405978 Fax: +43 (0)76138834
Österreichisches Papiermachermuseum Laakirchen
SteyrermühlMuseumsplatz 14662 Steyrermühl

PARTNERS : CLUB OF BUDAPEST, WORLD SHIFT ALLIANCE, UNIVERSITE INTEGRALE, PLANETARY FUTURES, FONDATION TUCK, CULTURAL CENTER OF STEYRERMÜHL, THE NATURAL STEPS,
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SOME MAINS GUEST SPEAKERS10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:56.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard""> AND PROSPECTIVE GUEST SPEAKERSfont-family:Chalkboard"">

Stefan Blachfellner is founder and Managing Director of INDABA Corporate Consulting e.U., Managing Editor of JeDEM – eJournal of
e-Democracy and Open Government mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">http://www.jedem.orgmso-ansi-language:EN-US"">, and Consulting Managing Editor of the international
peer-reviewed "tripleC - Cognition, Communication, Co-Operation" Open
Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society mso-bidi-font-size:56.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">http://www.triple-c.atmso-ansi-language:EN-US"">. He is an active supporter of the Open Access
Movement with the newly established node mso-bidi-font-size:56.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">http://www.indaba-publishing.orgmso-ansi-language:EN-US"">. In 2004 - 2006 he supported the development of the
strategic focus "ICT&S - Information and Communication Technologies
& Society" at the University of Salzburg as the Center Manager. Since
1999 he is a successful business coach and consultant in the areas of
organizational development, corporate communication, knowledge management, strategic
management and business excellence with broad experience in Fortune TOP 500
industries, and the service sector as well as in public administration and
cultural and educational organizations working internationally, from Europe to
China. Graduate at the University of Salzburg he studied Communication,
Management Psychology and Social Psychology and Economic History and Social
History. 2007 he started his Doctoral Studies in Philosophy. He is currently lecturer and thesis
supervisor at the Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences and the Danube
University Krems in Austria. He is an active member in several international
scientific communities dedicated to systems science and research, knowledge
management, and social and technological innovations. He is one of the
co-founders and active ambassadors of the Change the Game Initiative http://www.changethegame.org
for Leadership, Innovation, and Ethics. Members of this Initiative want to
share, create and innovate theories, methods and practice in management and
leadership towards new paradigms in economic logic & value creation,
sustainable organizational designs & strategies, and sustainable designs of
information & communication technologies, products & services, and
emerging future markets.

Jennifer GIDLEYmso-ansi-language:EN-AU"">, is the elected President of the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) a global scholarly futures organization that was
founded in Paris in 1973. http://www.wfsf.org/
Jennifer has researched and published widely in educational and youth futures,
and global socio-cultural change including two books and dozens of academic
papers. She also serves on the
editorial boards of several academic journals. mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">http://researchbank.rmit.edu.au/list/author_id/1311658/mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">

Working globally, she creates networks between futures studies, integral studies, global studies and postformal pedagogies. As a
result of her wide-ranging experience she has an international profile as a
keynote speaker and facilitator.mso-bidi-font-size:56.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard;mso-ansi-language:EN-US""> mso-ansi-language:EN-US"">http://www.rmit.edu.au/staff/jennifergidleymso-ansi-language:EN-US"">

Alexandre Rojey, has been working for many years at IFP, a large R&D organization in France,
where he has been Director for Sustainable Development, coordinating activities related to global
climate change, long term energy supply and environment protection. Previously
he was in charge of natural gas activities and has initiated new developments
in the area of natural gas processing. He has been also chairman of CEDIGAZ, an
international association in the area of natural gasyes""> and chairman of the ECRIN Club "Alternative energies"
for the promotion of links between research and industry. He has written a book
entitled « Energy and climate- How to achieve a
successful energy transition » published by Wiley. He is presently active
within the Tuck Foundation, which is dealing in the area of Energy and
Sustainable Development, where he is leading a think tank entitled; Based upon
the work done within this think tank, he has written a new book entitled
« The future at stake – A sustainable complexity », to be published
soon.

Michel Saloff-Coste's research focuses on the paradigm shift within the information society that he
himself defines as a 'Creation-Communication Society. Michel Saloff Coste is
recognized in Europe America and Asia as being a vanguard artist, integral and
global futurist, business advisors and entrepreneurs. As keynote speaker he
have spoke this last twenty yeards in front of more than 10 000 managers of the
most important company in the world. He is a change catalyst working with
individuals, corporations and government to create “fast insights into alternative
futures”. Michel Saloff-Coste, consultant in management strategy and
communication, got involved in more fundamental research on these topics as he
directed a multidisciplinary workshop on societal change, from 1985 to 1987, at
the Ministry of Research in France. In 1991, he joined as Senior consultant and
research director the Bossard Consulting Group, a top leading European
consultancy firm, which is now Capgemini. In 1993 he created his own research
and consultancy firm MSC ET ASSOCIES Management Strategy Communication
specialising in global governance, sustainable development and information
society. Between 1997 and 2005 Michel launched and developed a venture capital
firm, Newcap Invest. In 1993, he is initiator and founder of the Club of Budapest
in France : an international non-profit organisation dedicated to encouraging
people to discuss complex global issues. Michel Saloff-Coste has taught
vanguard management in HEC Paris since 1990. As a contemporary artist Michel
has explored a wide variety of mediums: painting, photography, video and music.
His work has been exhibited and collected by many private galleries and
individuals but also leading art institutions such as the Museun of Modern Art
in Paris, Centre George Pompidou. '

Marc Tirel, knack for human relations and interest in innovation enhancing human value led Marc
Tirel to conduct state of the art missions over 15 years for the Schneider
Electric group: as head of commercial networks, « ERP » project director,
security, intranet. He spent 5 years in Asia, South America and Northern
Europe. From 2000 to 2004, Marc was responsable for bold"">eLearning within the Group, applying an innovative and efficient
participative management approach, initiating and developing different projects
(open source) throughout 40 countries. Co-founder of bold"">Savoirs Pour Tous (Knowledge For All), a company that offers
an innovative training program, Marc has developped the belief that it is not
only possible but necessary to manage company evolution in a new way. A
founding member of the association Les
Explorateurs du WEB (WEB
Explorers), Marc is convinced that present « web 2.0 » trends will play a major
role for companies that make a rapid switch. Marc joined In Principo in
2006, specialized on creating and animating « Collaborative
& Organic Dynamics » For the last 2 years he has focused on the
economic crisis and on free /complementary currencies as a way to create more
socio-economic resilience. Marc
Tirel’s holistic Lectures includesmso-bidi-font-size:20.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard"">

yes""> Collaborative & Organic Dynamics ; Epidemiology, systemics, memetics ; Spiral Dynamics; Open & Complementary Currencies ;
Social & economical resilience ; Creativity & Innovation

Jean-Baptiste de Foucauldfont-family:Chalkboard"">, président de Démocratie&Spiritualité, initiateur
du Pacte civique et fondateur de Solidarité Nationale contre le Chômage, membre
d’honneur du Club de Budapest France, www. www.democratie-spiritualite.org

Thierry GaudinChalkboard"">, président de Prospective 2100, membre d’honneur du Club de
Budapest France, www.2100.org

Tristan Lecomtefont-family:Chalkboard"">, fondateur et président d’Alter Eco, membre créatif du
Club de Budapest France, http://tristanlecomte.altereco.com/

Jacques Lesournefont-family:Chalkboard""> (sous réserve), président de Futuribles, membre
d’honneur du Club de Budapest France

Bruno MarionChalkboard"">, conférencier et spécialiste de l’Asie, co-fondateur de
l’Université intégrale, www.brunomarion.com

Edgar MorinChalkboard""> (sous réserve), sociologue, membre d’Honneur du Club de Budapest
International

Jean StauneChalkboard"">, secrétaire général de l’Université interdisciplinaire de Paris,
membre créatif du Club de Budapest

Antonella Verdianifont-family:Chalkboard"">, chercheur
docteur en sciences de l’éducation, italic"">amie du Club de Budapest

ANNEX 1

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Chalkboard"">MANIFESTO ON THE SPIRIT OF

Chalkboard"">PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS

PREAMBLE: The New Requirements of Thought and Action

1. In the closing years of the 20th century, we have reached a crucial juncture in our
history. We are on the threshold
of a new stage of social, spiritual and cultural evolution, a stage that is as
different from the stage of the earlier decades of this century as the
grasslands were from the caves, and settled villages from life in nomadic
tribes. We are evolving out of the
nationally based industrial societies that were created at the dawn of the
first industrial revolution, and heading toward an interconnected,
information-based social, economic and cultural system that straddles the
globe. The path of this evolution
is not smooth: it is filled with shocks and surprises. This century has witnessed several
major shock waves, and others may come our way before long. The way we shall cope with present and
future shocks will decide our future, and the future of our children and
grandchildren.

2. The challenge we now face is the challenge of choosing our destiny. Our generation, of all the thousands of
generations before us, is called upon to decide the fate of life on this
planet. The processes we have initiated
within our lifetime and the lifetime of our fathers and grandfathers cannot
continue in the lifetime of our children and grandchildren. Whatever we do either creates the
framework for reaching a peaceful and cooperative global society and thus continuing
the grand adventure of life, spirit and consciousness on Earth, or sets the
stage for the termination of humanity's tenure on this planet.

3. The patterns of action in today's world are not encouraging. Millions of people are without work;
millions are exploited by poor wages; millions are forced into helplessness and
poverty. The gap between rich and
poor nations, and between rich and poor people within nations, is great and
still growing. Though the world
community is relieved of the specter of superpower confrontation and is
threatened by ecological collapse, the world's governments still spend a
thousand billion dollars a year on arms and the military and only a tiny
fraction of this sum on maintaining a livable environment.

4. The militarization problem, the developmental problem, the ecological problem, the
population problem, and the many problems of energy and raw materials will not
be overcome merely by reducing the number of already useless nuclear warheads,
nor by signing politically softened treaties on world trade, global warming,
biological diversity, and sustainable development.yes""> More is required today than piecemeal action and short-term
problem-solving. We need to
perceive the problems in their complex totality – and grasp them not only with
our reason and intellect, but with all the faculties of our insight and
empathy. Beyond the powers of the
rational mind, the remarkable faculties of the human spirit embrace the power
of love, of compassion, and of solidarity.yes""> We must not fail to call upon their remarkable powers when
confronting the task of initiating the embracing, multi-faceted approaches that
alone could enable us to reach the next stage in the evolution of our
sophisticated but unstable and vulnerable socio-technological communities.

5. If we maintain obsolete values and beliefs, a fragmented consciousness and a
self-centered spirit, we also maintain outdated goals and behaviors. And such behaviors by a large number of
people would block the entire transition to an interdependent yet peaceful and
cooperative global society. There
is now both a moral and a practical obligation for each of us to look beyond
the surface of events, beyond the plots and polemics of practical policies, the
sensationalistic headlines of the mass media, and the fads and fashions of
changing lifestyles and styles of work – an obligation to feel the ground swell
underneath the events and perceive the direction they are taking: to evolve the
spirit and the consciousness that could enable us to perceive the problems and
the opportunities – and to act on
them.

A Call For Creativity And Diversity

6. A new way of thinking has become the necessary condition for responsible living and
acting. Evolving it means
fostering creativity in all people, in all parts of the world. Creativity is not a genetic but a
cultural endowment of human beings.
Culture and society change fast, while genes change slowly: no more than
one half of one percent of the human genetic endowment is likely to alter in an
entire century. Hence most of our
genes date from the stone age or before; they could help us to live in the
jungles of nature but not in the jungles of civilization. Today's economic, social and
technological environment is our own creation, and only the creativity of our
mind – our culture, spirit and consciousness – could enable us to cope with it. Genuine creativity does not remain
paralyzed when faced with unusual and unexpected problems but confronts them
openly, without prejudice.
Cultivating it is a precondition of finding our way toward a globally
interconnected society in which individuals, enterprises, states, and the whole
family of peoples and nations could live together peacefully, cooperatively,
and with mutual benefit.

7. Sustained diversity is another requirement of our age. Diversity is basic to all things in
nature and in art: a symphony cannot be made of one tone or even played by one
instrument; a painting must have many shapes and perhaps many colors; a garden
is more beautiful if it contains flowers and plants of many different
kinds. A multicellular organism
cannot survive if it is reduced to one kind of cell – even sponges evolve cells
with specialized functions. And
more complex organisms have cells and organs of a great variety, with a great
variety of mutually complementary and exquisitely co-ordinated functions. Cultural and spiritual diversity in the
human world is just as essential as diversity in nature and in art. A human community must have members
that are different from one another not only in age and sex; but also in
personality, color and creed. Only
then could its members perform the tasks that each does best, and complement
each other so that the whole formed by them could grow and evolve. The evolving global society would have
great diversity, were it not for the unwanted and undesirable uniformity introduced
through the domination of a handful of cultures and societies. Just as the diversity of nature is
threatened by cultivating only one or a few varieties of crops and husbanding
only a handful of species of animals, so the diversity of today's world is
endangered by the domination of one, or at the most a few, varieties of
cultures and civilizations.

8. The world of the 21st century will be viable only if it maintains essential
elements of the diversity that has always hallmarked cultures, creeds, economic, social and political orders
as well as of ways of life. Sustaining diversity does not mean isolating
peoples and cultures from one another: it calls for international and
intercultural contact and communication with due respect for each other’s
differences, beliefs, lifestyles and ambitions. Sustaining diversity also does
not mean preserving unequality, for equality does not reside in uniformity, but
in the recognition of the equal value and dignity of all peoples and cultures.
Creating a diverse yet equitable and intercommunicating world calls for more
than just paying lip-service to equality and just tolerating each other’s
differences. Letting others be what
they want “as long as they stay in their corner of the world”, and letting them
do what they want “as long as they
don’t do it in my backyard” are well-meaning but inadequate attitudes. As the diverse organs in a body,
diverse peoples and cultures need to work together to maintain the whole system
in which they are a part, a system that is the human community in its planetary
abode. In the last decade of the
20th century, different nations and cultures must develop the compassion and
the solidarity that could enable all of us to go beyond the stance of passive
tolerance, to actively work with and complement each other.

C. A Call for Responsibility

9. In the course of the 20th century, people in many parts of the world have become
conscious of their rights as well as of many persistent violations of
them. This development is
important, but in itself it is not enough.yes""> In the remaining years of this century we must also become
conscious of the factor without which neither rights nor other values can be
effectively safeguarded: our individual and collectivenormal""> responsibilities. We
are not likely to grow into a peaceful and cooperative human family unless we
become responsible social, economic, political, and cultural actors.

10. We human beings need more than food, water, and shelter; more even than
remunerated work, self-esteem, social acceptance.yes""> We also need something to live for: an ideal to achieve, a
responsibility to accept. Since we
are aware of the consequences of our actions, we can and must accept
responsibility for them. Such responsibility goes deeper than many of us may
think. In today's world all
people, no matter where they live and what they do, have become responsible for
their actions as

yes""> – private individuals;

yes""> – citizens of a country;

yes""> – collaborators in business and the economy;

yes""> – member of the human community;

yes""> – and persons endowed with mind and consciousness.

· As individuals, we are responsible for
seeking our interests in harmony with, and not at the expense of, the interests
and wellbeing of others; responsible for condemning and averting any form of
killing and brutality, responsible for not bringing more children into the
world than we truly need and can support, and for respecting the right to life,
development, and equal status and dignity of all the children, women, and men
who inhabit the Earth.

· As
citizens of our country12.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard"">, we are responsible for demanding that our
leaders beat swords into ploughshares and relate to other nations peacefully
and in a spirit of cooperation; that they recognize the legitimate aspirations
of all communities in the human family; and that they do not abuse sovereign
powers to manipulate people and the environment for shortsighted and selfish
ends.

· As
collaborators in business and actors in the economy, we
are responsible for ensuring that corporate objectives do not center uniquely
on profit and growth, but include a concern that products and services respond
to human needs and demands without harming people and impairing nature; that
they do not serve destructive ends and unscrupulous designs; and that they
respect the rights of all enterpreneurs and enterprises who compete fairly in
the global marketplace.

· As
members of the human communitymso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard"">, it is our responsibility to
adopt a culture of non-violence, solidarity, and economic, political and social
equality, promoting mutual understanding and respect among people and nations
whether they are like us or different, demanding that all people everywhere
should be empowered to respond to the challenges that face them with the
material as well as the spiritual resources that are required for this
unprecedented task.

· 12.0pt;font-family:Chalkboard"">And as
persons endowed with mind and consciousness, our responsibility is to
encourage comprehension and appreciation for the excellence of the human spirit
in all its manifestations, and for inspiring awe and wonder for a cosmos that
brought forth life and consciousness and holds out the possibility of its continued evolution
toward ever higher levels of insight, understanding, love, and compassion.

A Call for Planetary Consciousness

11. In most parts of the world, the real potential of human beings is sadly
underdeveloped. The way children
are raised depresses their faculties for learning and creativity; the way young
people experience the struggle for material survival results in frustration and
resentment. In adults this leads
to a variety of compensatory, addictive, and compulsive behavior. The result is the persistence of social
and political oppression, economic warfare, cultural intolerance, crime, and
disregard for the environment.
Eliminating social and economic ills and frustrations calls for
considerable socio-economic development, and that is not possible without
better education, information, and communication.yes""> These, however, are blocked by the absence of socio-economic
development, so that a vicious cycle is produced: underdevelopment creates
frustration, and frustration, giving rise to defective behaviors, blocks
development. This cycle must be
broken at its point of greatest flexibility, and that is the development of the
spirit and consciousness of human beings.
Achieving this objective does not preempt the need for socioeconomic
development with all its financial and technical resources, but calls for a
parallel mission in the spiritual field.
Unless people's spirit and consciousness evolves to the planetary
dimension, the processes that stress the globalized society/nature system will
intensify and create a shock wave that could jeopardize the entire transition
toward a peaceful and cooperative global society.yes""> This would be a setback for humanity and a danger for
everyone. Evolving human spirit
and consciousness is the first vital cause shared by the whole of the human
family.

12. In our world static stability is an illusion, the only permanence is in sustainable
change and transformation. There
is a constant need to guide the evolution of our societies so as to avoid
breakdowns and progress toward a world where all people can live in peace,
freedom and dignity. Such guidance
does not come from teachers and schools, not even from political and business
leaders, though their commitment and role are important. Essentially and crucially, it comes
from each person himself and herself.
An individual endowed with planetary consciousness recognizes his or her
role in the evolutionary process and act responsibly in light of this
perception. Each of us must start
with himself or herself to evolve his or her consciousness to this planetary
dimension; only then can we become responsible and effective agents of our
society’s change and transformation.
Planetary consciousness is the
knowing as well as the feeling of the vital interdependence and essential
oneness of humankind, and the conscious adoption of the ethics and the ethos
that this entails. Its evolution
is the new imperative of human survival on this planet.