1993
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“Awakening Earth” presents a sweeping vision of the unfolding of humanity’s culture and consciousness from prehistoric times through the pivotal times of the present and then into the deep future, many centuries ahead. Published in 1993, this pioneering work examines how humanity has developed through distinct historical epochs, each characterized by its own perceptual paradigm, social structures, and relationship with the natural world. The book traces our species’ journey from awakening hunter-gatherers, and then through the agricultural revolution, the industrial revolution, and the still emerging communication revolution. Each of these coherent patterns rather than random changes. Drawing from diverse fields including psychology, cosmology, systems theory, and spiritual traditions, it explores how an emerging revolution could further transform our deepest sense of identity and evolutionary journey within the larger cosmic story. Written at a crucial time when humanity faces unprecedented planetary challenges, “Awakening Earth” offers both a diagnostic framework for understanding our current crisis and a hopeful vision of humanity’s potential to awaken to our role as conscious participants in the universe’s continuing evolution. This visionary work calls us to embrace our potential as a species capable of conscious evolution. By recognizing that we stand at a threshold moment where choices made now will reverberate for millennia, the book challenges us to rise to our evolutionary potential as conscious co-creators of a regenerative planetary civilization and to align with the deeper intelligence of life itself.