Follow the Map: Review and Overview
The emergence! See the photo and caption in Part A for the hopeful metaphorical meaning in this.
The Golden Room, A Golden Civilization: Four Steps toward Saving the World
Here is the outline of this series of related posts:
- Step One Recognize we need a new consciousness
- Step Two Strive toward the tipping point of 10%
- Step Three, Part A Follow the Map: Image, Metaphor and Introduction
- Step Three, Part B Follow the Map: Review and Overview
- Step Three, Part C-1 Follow the Map: Story and Sketch
- Step Three, Part C-2 Follow the Map: Structural Details
- Step Four Tools to help us get there
This is Step Three, Part B, Review and Overview. Please see Step Three, Part A that gave an Image, Metaphor and Introduction to this step.
Review of Steps One and Two:
The goal is to save the world and create what my brother George Kinder is calling the Golden Civilization, a society that can live sustainably with freedom and sufficiency, justice and peace for all.
Step One toward that goal is to identify what is needed to overcome the many obstacles in its way. That step was summed up succinctly by Gus Speth, who wrote, “Many of our deepest thinkers and many of those most familiar with the scale of the challenges we face have concluded that the transitions required can be achieved only in the context of what I will call the rise of a new consciousness.”
In other words, the path to a Golden Civilization starts in the Golden Room. The Golden Room is our truest self, our heart’s core. We live increasingly in, from and for the Golden Room as we move to higher levels of consciousness and deeper spiritual states. It is the place within us where we find the intuition, insight and creative connections we need in order to fulfill our individual callings and solve seemingly impossible local or global problems.
The Golden Room is also the place where we find our oneness with all. Universal empathy and unconditional compassion grow out of the sense of oneness. Empathy and compassion lead to support for the changes that saving the world requires. Imagine how seeing our oneness and having compassion for all would change the way our society looks at climate change or economic inequality or war, no matter how far from our back yard it was happening.
We do not need to raise the consciousness of a majority to have oneness become the dominant perspective. Step Two in this series showed that we need a committed minority of only 10% that sees the world from a new, higher level of consciousness in order to make the transitions required.
The first thing we need in order to implement solutions to the problems threatening the world is the higher consciousness that can both produce those solutions and engender sufficient political support to enact them. (See the story at the end of this post for a practical example of this.)
Overview of Step Three:
So how can we move 10% of the population to that higher level of consciousness as quickly and directly as possible?