The Emerging Worldview section explores the worldview now taking shape — one influenced by new scientific insights, shifting cultural patterns, and evolving understandings of relationship, interdependence, and meaning.
This section examines how today’s changes fit within the long arc of worldview evolution, and what they reveal about the future we’re entering.
At the Dawn of an Emerging Worldview
Based on a More Interconnected View of Reality
Science is revealing that there’s more to reality than what we can discern though our senses. From quantum physics to ecology, we’re beginning to grasp that everything is interconnected in ways that defy old assumptions.
The world we thought we knew—discrete, mechanical, predictable—is giving way to a new view of reality that’s more fluid, relational, dynamic, and interconnected than we once knew.
What You Can Expect to Find
This section explores how worldviews have evolved throughout time and how the one we’re in now may unfold. You’ll find topics related to:
- the catalysts that propel societies toward changing their worldviews
- how science and technology are forming the cornerstones for the emerging view of reality
- how this new, emerging worldview, is being facilitated by social unrest and the growing discomfort with dogmatic religions
- how new interpretations of God are unfolding
How to Explore This Section
As with all the sections on this website, articles throughout this section can be read in any order. The goal is simply to open doors to the discovery of how our world is changing, and to the realization that we’re currently in the process of pioneering a new future, very different from the one we’ve known.
Featured Articles
Three Perspectives on Evolution and Spirituality
Evolutionary spirituality, a new spirituality geared for today’s world, is emerging from the confluence of multiple perspectives. This article features three major thinkers contributing to
Evolutionary Spirituality: An Emerging Model for Today’s World
As our understanding of the universe expands, many people sense that inherited spiritual frameworks no longer match the world we now inhabit. Evolutionary spirituality offers
Food for Thought
It is entirely possible that behind the perception of our senses, worlds are hidden of which we are unaware.
Small Things We Can Do
- Free your mind of preconceived assumptions through a practice of daily meditation.
- Think of one assumption you inherited from any domain (religion, politics, culture, etiquette), and ask if it still applies in today’s world.
- Read a short article each week on a science topic dealing with new views of reality.
- Follow a researcher or thinker working at the intersection of science, technology, religion, and philosophy.
Resources...
Research on religious diversity and shifting spiritual landscapes.
A research organization focused on studying the nature of reality and the interconnection of all things.
An educational center that seeks to integrate religion, science, and technology for the purpose of religious renewal and convergence.
Charts the societal effects of new scientific discoveries from the early Greeks through today.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
More Articles
Three Perspectives on Evolution and Spirituality
Evolutionary spirituality, a new spirituality geared for today’s world, is emerging from the confluence of multiple perspectives. This article features three major thinkers contributing to this emergence — Sri Aurobindo, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Ken Wilber.
Evolutionary Spirituality: An Emerging Model for Today’s World
As our understanding of the universe expands, many people sense that inherited spiritual frameworks no longer match the world we now inhabit. Evolutionary spirituality offers an emerging way of seeing — one that honors ancient wisdom while embracing a dynamic, science based view of reality.
A New View of Reality Is Taking Shape
Across the world, a quiet but profound shift is underway. Advances in science, philosophy, ecology, and contemplative practice are reshaping how we understand reality — and, in turn, how we understand ourselves.