With the Holotopia in Brief book produced and the Holotopia website up and running, the Holotopia initiative has been launched. My thirty years-long hero's journey has been completed. A new and different life is about to begin. What comes next? How will the Holotopia initiative continue to unfold? I think Fredrik and I did a …
Holotopia
We are the first generation of our species that has the privilege, the opportunity, and the burden of responsibility to engage in the process of our own evolution. We are indeed chosen people. We now have the knowledge available to us and we have the power of human and social potential that is required to …
How to Shift a Paradigm
The horrible fact is that democracy, and capitalism, will not solve those problems. We do need a fundamental paradigm shift in the area of governance. – Jørgen Randers Before I offer you an answer to this question, let me sum up briefly why we have to refocus our efforts from solving problems to shifting the …
Let’s Ignite the Holotopia Dialog
Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; where knowledge is free; where the world has not been broken up into fragments of narrow domestic walls; where words come out from the depth of truth; where timeless striving stretches its arms toward perfection; where the clear stream of reason has not …
Let’s Institute a Transdisciplinary Academy
The post explores the urgent need for innovative solutions to tackle global challenges, particularly climate change, through the establishment of transdisciplinary science. The author recounts their 30-year journey creating the knowledge federation prototype, which fosters collective meaning-making. This framework emphasizes a holistic approach, integrating diverse perspectives to address complex societal issues while promoting awareness and critical examination of prevailing thought patterns.
Transdisciplinarity Is a Way to Change Course
The human race is hurtling towards disaster. It is absolutely essential to find a way to change course. – Aurelio Peccei The word course in this report's title is a reference to Peccei's call to action. He issued it in the opening lines of a brief book titled One Hundred Pages for the Future. The …
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Knowledge Federation as Ecosophy
An ecosophy…integrates the efforts of…a team comprising not only scientists from an extreme variety of disciplines, but also students of politics and active policy-makers. – Arne Næss If you've seen this blog's About article, you'll know (that Russell and Einstein told us) that we have to learn to think in a new way. That's what …
We M U S T Learn to Think in a New Way
In spite of great productivity in particulars, dogmatic rigidity prevailed in matters of principle: In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction. – …
Real Sustainability
"If The Club of Rome has any merit", Aurelio Peccei liked to point out, "it is that of having been the first to rebel against the suicidal ignorance of the human condition.” Now—a half-century after The Club of Rome issued their warning—"sustainability" is a buzzword; does this mean that "suicidal ignorance" is of no concern, …
Noah and the Elephant
When our human and global condition is seen for what it is, we have but one urgent task to attend to: We must empower our next generation, our students and children, to create a different world. The aim of the Holotopia initiative is to help us achieve that. This teaser trailer will give you an …
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