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WORLD 1From the Big Bang to Conscious Humans
MODULE 3Discovering Evolutionary Patterns in
Socio-Cultural Systems
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What is the influence of language on the development of personal and group identity and culture?
Can you recognize the multiple and diverse voices within yourself and how they create your complex identity (your sense of “Self”)? Are these voices in
harmony or in conflict with one another?
What can you do to creativelyevolve your consciousness?
Focus Questions
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LEARNING UNIT 2Community Consciousness – From Tribal to Global Community
LEARNING UNIT 3Humans as Co-Creators and Active Participants in the Evolutionary Process
LEARNING UNIT 1Identity and Culture as Emergent Phenomena Mediated by Language
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LEARNING UNIT 1Identity and Culture as Emergent Phenomena Mediated by Language
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"Man is one of the singing kind, only the notes refer to ideas.”
- Wilhelm Von Humboldt,Founder of Linguistics
Source: hthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
How does a child learn language?And what does language acquisition mean for our evolution as humans?
Source: http://www.parentingcoordinationcentral.com/pg29.cfm
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Identity, Culture and Meaning
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LEARNING UNIT 2From Tribal Consciousness to Global Community Consciousness
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Source: http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0008-tools-and-the-stone-age.php
Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/4837592/Stone-Age-phrasebook-developed-by-scientists-studying-oldest-words.html
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting
Hadza, Tanzania, total population 1000
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadza_people
Epoch 1: Small GroupsTribal ConsciousnessHunter & GatherersSpirituality: Animism, Shamanism
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Source: http://www.kidspast.com/world-history/0022-agricultural-revolution.php
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution
Epoch 2: City-StatesEthnic ConsciousnessSpirituality: Mythic epics
Source: http://www.tslr.net/2007/11/catal-huyuk-and-semi-grid-pattern.html
Katal Huyuk, Turkey, 7500 BC
Neolithic grindstone for processing grains
Mormon Church
Hui people, ethnic group in China
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hui_people
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance (above) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution (below)
Epoch 3: Nation-StatesNationalist ConsciousnessRational, EgocentricSpirituality: mythically grounded in religions such as Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
Source: http://allahcentric.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/book-review-of-nationalism-and-modernism-by-anthony-smith/
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukrainian-nationalism-1920.jpg
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001–present)
Source: http://www.oneglobalcommunity.com/
Epoch 4: Global CommunityEco-Consciousness, Unity Consciousness, Transrational
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Egyptian_revolution
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution
Global Village Sustainability Principles
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LEARNING UNIT 3Humans as Co-Creators and Active Participants in the Evolutionary Process
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-3-DEVELOP
DAILY PRACTICES
-4- CHANGE
YOUR BEHAVIOR
-5- ENGAGE
WITH OTHERS
-1-EDUCATE YOURSELF
EVOLVE YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS
AND BECOME WHOLE
-2- INCREASE
YOUR LEVEL OF
AWARENESS
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The Power of Creativity
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Planetary consciousness is knowing, as well as feeling, the vital interdependence and essential oneness of humankind. It is the conscious adoption of the ethic and ethos that this entails. Its evolution is the basic imperative of human survival on this planet.
~Manifesto on Planetary Consciousness, adopted by the Club of
Budapest.