Our guest in this episode is Joe Brewer, Executive Director at the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution. Joe is a complexity researcher, cognitive scientist, and evangelist for regenerative culture design. We invited him onto the show because we felt that our ideas about adult development, rites of passage, and overcoming the chasm of nihilism strongly resonated with his thinking and work on cultural evolution. This interview turned out to be very dense and we talked about complex subjects, so we divided the episode in two parts.
In Part 1 we talk about what kind of education we need in order to prepare for an evolutionary transition, why even intellectuals can’t wrap their heads around climate change, and the importance of the grieving process for psychological and spiritual growth.
In This Episode Of Future Thinkers:
- How studying mathematics, physics and atmospheric sciences can lead to philosophical and esoteric inquiry
- Behaviour of clouds as a great starting point to learn about systems and complexity
- What is cultural evolution research and how it relates to complex systems theory
- The gap of perception that many people have in understanding climate change
- What is terror management theory and how we can be traumatized by our own thoughts about future
- The grieving process as a necessary path to managing planetary collapse
- Why finding something sacred to us plays a crucial role in crossing the chasm of nihilism
- The importance of going through rites of passage in order to prepare for uncertain future
- What are some new versions of rites of passage that would be relevant for young people today?
- Prototyping educational processes for global collapse - permaculture, restoration programs, train the trainers models
- How humanity can learn to lead itself through an evolutionary transition
Complete show notes with links: http://www.futurethinkers.org/90
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