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En excerpt from the book chapter: Economy “By allowing all beings to receive everything they need, to offer all they can, to become all they are, we can prompt human, social, and environmental regeneration and set up a dynamic of authentic mutual enrichment. With the objective of being, all the system changes from competition and scarcity […]

An excerpt from the book chapter: Being as the New Paradigm “This idea of making inner development the center and goal of societies and politics has already been expressed in different ways. From a spiritual point of view, the Bahá’i religion considers development an organic process in which “the spiritual is expressed and carried out […]

“I propose throughout this book a marriage of wisdom and science. Scientific knowledge per se cannot determine what we should strive for, the values we should hold, and the desirable direction of our societies’ evolution. Hence we have lost our ways in the blind pursuit of economic and technological development as ends in themselves. We need wisdom to guide our […]

An excerpt from the book: “How would a more spiritually advanced civilization be governed? I personally believe it would be based on the simple insight that all our problems come from within us, from our minds and hearts, and can be solved by us. That is why such a civilization would partner with evolution and […]

An excerpt from the book: “Political leaders play a critical role in the evolution of our societies’ values through their example and how they guide our imagination, direct our attention, and frame the debate. Like institutions, they can harness the worst or the best of people to conquer and hold on to power. “Here and […]