Awakening of Humanity
- Rick Bonetti
- 1 day ago
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In January 2024, Light on Light Press published a free, downloadable e-book, Awakening of Humanity: the Dawning of a New Earth and Unitive Age, written by Doug King, Kurt Johnson, PhD, and Jude Currivan, PhD, with a Spotlight by Robert Atkinson, PhD.
An overview of the concepts presented in the book can be found in the Awakening Humanity January 17, 2024 interview with Doug King and Jude Currivan
The book is a short 57-pages that proposes a "Universal Holomevement as the Unitative Narative." The Preface says: "This book offers a unitive reframing of the foundational elements, worldviews, and deeper ontological aspects of reality for understanding the universe as a true superorganism. Integrating theological, cosmological, philosophical, universal wisdom traditions, and interspiritual perspectives, the authors arrive at a universal identity of humanity consistent with our individual and collective roles within the wholeness-in-motion of the entire creation as an invitation that this will lead to further dialogue and exploration in our re-membering who we really are and who we can evolve to become."
The book starts with an Introduction by each of the authors and then uses 8 VENN diagrams to illustrate the key points:
The Holomevement is an innately relation narrative. The Explicate order focuses on the diversity role and functions. The Implicate order includes identity, source, and is unified/integrated.
The Holomovement as narrative is unfolding and informing. Our Universe began and continues with a universal informing process. Forms or things evolved into greater complexity, and the inherent fine-tuning of the holomovement organized into what we know as our Universe, our planetary home Gaia, and eventually our human ancestors and ourselves.
The Holomovent as narrative is enfolding and trans-forming. The evolution of human consciousness relates to an enfolding process. The evolution of consciousness has been moving through history from earlier separation paradigms toward more and more integrated and interconnected paradigms. This enfolding movement is directionally oriented toward the Implicate order.
The Holomovement as a narrative uses spiral dynamics to inform and transform. Spiral model traces the evolution of worldviews, which we can refer to as internal forms. These worldviews begin in the First Tier as separated and distinct identities among diverse cultures. The movement of consciousness into the Second Tier reveals these worldviews as part of one narrative, meaning they each become a necessary part of the whole. This wholistic approach to human identity models an enfolding process, as we now discuss in more detail.
The concept of 'becoming" identifies the explicate order with form and the implicate order as formless.
Steven J. Gould, saw science and religion as two separate and non-related fields.
The Science/Religion discussion, as outlined by Gould. evolved into a discussion of Science and Spirituality. This paradigm opens the door for discussion of universal values common to both fields of study, as well as a common desire for a Pro-Social approach to activism.
The Holomovement blueprint addresses the role and function of narratives, whether scientific, like the Holomovement, or related to wisdom narratives, Indigenous narratives, etc. This trans-narrative approach detaches from identification with specific narratives or religious forms and points to our universal and interconnected identity as it relates to the Implicate order of our common source.
The book concludes that: "the convergence of scientific breakthroughs with universal wisdom teachings and traditions as outlined herein is offering increasingly compelling evidence, supporting an emergent cosmological framework and a unitive narrative to inform and potentially underpin the ongoing conversations and explorations."
I recommend that you add this short book to your reading list.
I was initially somewhat confused when reading Doug King's website, Presence: A Global Conversation for a New Earth. as it lists books written by Max R. King (Doug's father) that don't seem compatible with Integral theology. It was helpful for me to listen to Tripp Fuller's podcast interview of Doug King.
By way of background, Doug King's father, Max R. King (1930-2923), was an author, scholar, and Bible teacher. Max was the founder of the school of thought known as "transmillennialism." He pioneered a field of theology that he termed "covenant eschatology," which most call full preterism.
In 1971, Max King published The Spirit of Prophecy, creating a stir in his conservative Church of Christ denomination and bringing the field of covenant eschatology to the forefront of biblical theology. He was also the author of The Cross and the Parousia of Christ: The Two Dimensions of One Age-Changing Eschaton (1987) and Irrevocable: Paul's Radical Vision in Romans 9-11, and Why Christianity Can't Handle It (2019).
In 1989, Max expanded this work by founding a series of annual Presence conferences and publishing the Presence Journal, leading to the formation of Presence as a 501 (c) nonprofit organization that "contributes to the developmental evolution of individual and collective spiritual consciousness."
Since 2010, Doug King has been the President of Presence, leading this growing network to engage emergent, integral, and interspiritual organizations and idea leaders in shared goals for the common good.
Links to some earlier Rogue Valley Voice blog posts:
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