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While
drawn from and dedicated to the evolutionary vision of Sri Aurobindo and
Mother (with appropriate references throughout the writing), this work
attempts to contemporise and apply that vision in present realities. The
emerging premises, perspectives and proposals of this 'Evolutionary Agenda'
are not merely a re-quoting of that vision but an attempt to build from
it, risking to explore and develop the real-time relevance and implications
of its living and evolving nature. For surely, the work and the experiment
and adventure to which these visionaries invited us did not stop in 1950
or 1973. In this spirit, 'An Evolutionary Agenda' is not simply directed
toward the inner-oriented 'spiritual' seeker but bridges to address the
outer-oriented empiricist and activist.
Aurovilian author
The author was an Auroville resident from 1969
to1990, receiving the name 'Savitra' from the Mother in May, 1971. His
Auroville resume includes helping pioneer the first school; writing
the first AV documentary study and book; and initiating liaison with
the USA that led to such things as: establishing a status for the township
at the UN, the first foundation grant funding for the initial reforestation
programme in 1973, and the creation of the original Soviet-America-India
'Peacetrees' exchange in 1988. He presently lives his native country,
USA, in Ashland, Oregon.
Address of author is savitra@earthlink.net .
Order details
ISBN# 1883991544, number of pages 221. Website
address for publisher White Cloud Press is www.whitecloudpress.com
where all relevant contact info is posted. Amazon.com is in the process
of listing the book as well
Endorsements
As an evolutionary explorer, I encounter every
now and then another kindred person on the same path who possesses a
brilliance and deep understanding of our evolutionary potential. Alan
Sasha Lithman (Savitra) is such a person. I highly recommend his Evolutionary
Agenda to all those who feel the emergent potential of humanity arising
in their hearts, and who long to be more effective in their actions
in the world.
Barbara Marx Hubbard, President, Foundation for
Conscious Evolution; author of Emergence and Conscious Evolution
The author writes from a deep place of community
experience, respect for tradition and cultural criticism. He leads us
into our authentic work as a species today--that of truly moving from
our current unsustainable lifestyles to sustainable ones. Applying ancient
spiritual wisdom to today's science in very practical ways, the author
has the courage to call for, among other things, a "post-monetary"
economy. He addresses the fears and the ideologies that feed on them
that prevent our growing up.
This is a radical book, a compassionate book, and an altogether needed
book calling all of us to "evolutionary activism." Good News
indeed for our troubled times!
Matthew Fox, President, University of Creation Spirituality;
author, The Reinvention of Work, Creativity: Where the Divine and the
Human Meet and Original Blessing
Here is a passionate, bold, thought-provoking
new vision for the future -- a pioneering book that bridges the chasm
between spiritual and material, inner and outer, seeker and activist,
scientist and mystic, in what the author calls "an applied evolutionary
research". Raising critical evolutionary questions while at the
same time proposing evolutionary approaches to resolve them, Lithman
takes us beyond ordinary historical timeframes, categories, and planning
processes, retraining our perspective to the larger, more integral scope
of an Evolutionary Agenda. Filled with great feeling, insight, and metaphysical
wit, this daring thought experiment helps us make sense of who we are
and what we can become.
Michael Murphy, author, The Future of the Body,
Golf in the Kingdom; founder, Esalen Institute
An Evolutionary Agenda provides an original
and visionary map to the territory of the future, a timely yet timeless
guide to the ultimate journey, the adventure of consciousness. Lithman's
strong intellectual and spiritual grounding presents an "outside
the box" view of the core of what's possible in turbulent times,
indeed, the transformation of humanity on the planet. Venturing beyond
the conventional, Lithman engages the evolutionary process in ways that
speak to the extraordinary capacities for creative change we possess
as human beings, allowing us to recognize the integral part we plays
in the universal scheme of things as custodians of what he calls Evolutionary
Power. Remarkable for its vision and scope, this book breaks new and
important ground.
Michael Toms Co-Founder, New Dimensions Radio;
author, A Time for Choices, co-author, True Work
Table of Contents
One - Introduction: The Evolution of Consciousness
- Placing the Evolutionary Fine Print Up-Front
- An Applied Evolutionary Research
Two - The DNA of Consciousness
- Evolution and Revolution
- The Denial of Matter
- A Sleight of Mind
- Involution-Evolution
- It takes One to know One
Three - The Acceleration and Mutation
of
- ConsciousnessEvolutionary Stress and Estrus
- The Birth of Ego, Pain, and the Denial-Reflex
to Contract
Four - Bridging
from Egoic to Holistic Evolution
- The Egoic Era:Life's First Evolutionary
Cycle
- Core Healing: Changing our Genetic Psychology
- Evolutionary Triage, Healing as both Goal
and Process
- A Psychology of Matter, A Physics of Mind
- Gravity as Bias, Gravity as Grace
- Love as the Healer, Love as the Bridge
Five - The Turning Point: Forging Our
Missing Links Forward
- Evolving a New Nomenclature for Human Evolution
- The Emergence of a Post-Human Being from
the Egoic Eggshell
- A New Perception and Application of "Survival
of the Fittest"
- The Responsibility of Power
- Distinguishing Evolutionary Goals, Means
and Mutational Timeframes
- Evolution's Grand Conspiracy: Delivering
Delight of Being
Six - Phased Metamorphosis: A Trans-Human
Approach to the Third Millennium
- Goals, Expectations and Scope for a Millennial
Agenda
- Evolutionizing Time
- Trans-Human Agendas: Metamorphosing
from Myth to Matter
- Homo Transitionalis
- Homo Polaris
- Homo Holisticus
- Psyche Materialis
Seven - Evolutionizing Humanity for
the 21st Century
- The Evolutionary Art of Conscious Choice
- Moving from Homo Egoicus to Homo Transitionalis
- Towards a more Integral, Trans-Human Sustainability
- Diversity as the Evolutionary Path to Unity
- Understanding with the Body
Eight - Towards a Post-Monetary Society
- The Mesmerism of Money
- The Origins and Evolution of Money
- The Contradictions of Communism and
Capitalism
- The Karma of Carte Blanche Capitalism
- Competing Ourselves out of Existence
- Reclaiming Our True Net Worth
- A Graduated Trans-Species Shift from Dollars
to Sense
Nine - Evolutionary Activism
- The Responsibility of Oneness
- Cutting to the Evolutionary Chase
- Getting Our Act Together: Strategies
for the 21st Century
- Investing in the 21st Century: A New
World Stock Exchange
- Transforming Our Media: Learning to
Communicate with Our Future
Ten - Open-ended Conclusions
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