Evolution of Consciousness in Responses to Terrorist Attacks: Towards a Transpersonal Theory of Cultural Transformation

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Evolution of Consciousness in Responses to
Terrorist Attacks:
Towards a Transpersonal Theory of
Cultural Transformation

7ConsciousnessinAttacks.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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By relinquishing the tactics of revenge and attuning our attention to this shift in cultural
consciousness, we have opportunities to perpetuate and further the emergent evolution of
consciousness (Aurobindo, 1914-1919/1996). Contrary to the view of cultural evolution based on the
inevitability of opposition (Koenigsberg, 1989; Kriesberg, 1998) and the primacy of economic or
intellectual factors (Cushman, 1995; Girard, 1996; Schellenberg, 1996), the theory of emergent
evolution allows for the manifestation of completely new forms in cultural consciousness. It
accommodates the possibility of integrated and undivided human beings. It also allows for the
possibility of a world where cultures do not automatically develop oppositions, social groups do not
marginalize each other, and violence does not usurp the essential values of the world religions.

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