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Creating the Necessary Conditions
for a Sustainable Future
Getting the Fundamentals
and Essentials Right
Lecture Presentation
Making the 21st century, the century of
mental existence and mental development. Creating the necessary conditions for a
sustainable future. Moving beyond socio-cultural differences, conflict and confrontation,
beyond environmental exploitation, degradation and destruction. Development, change and
transformation, from the inside out and from the ground up. From inside the mind and
mental existence, beginning with the individual, individual mental existence and mental
development. Understanding and managing existence and development, demands and challenges,
problems and difficulties, change and changing conditions, at the level and within the
context, of understanding and managing, in the first instance, mental existence and mental
development. From within the mind and mental existence, as reflected in individual human
experience. Establishing individually the necessary internal mental conditions, before
engaging and dealing with external conditions, others and the world around us.
Not, as
traditionally is the case, understanding and managing existence and development, from the
top down and from the outside in, in a fragmented, generalized, dissociated and
disconnected way, in the abstract. Understanding and managing them from the human-created
socio-cultural level down to the level of the natural conditions of existence, from the
social-collective, political, economic, scientific and technological level down to the
level of the individual, from understanding and managing external conditions and the world
around us, to understanding and managing internal mental conditions, mental existence and
mental development. Dividing and separating the conditions, demands and challenges of
existence and development into different issues, subject matters, disciplines, fields of
study and areas of human activity, specialization and expertise. Each defined and governed
by different, competing and conflicting assumptions, objectives, approaches and practices.
Collectively creating the ideal external, socio-cultural and physical-material conditions,
of an ordered, stable, secure and predictable world, of easy material abundance.
The
presentation is available, both in PowerPoint and in
Adobe PDF format. (When in Power Point, click the
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