The Possible Human

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“The world is going to change so fast that people and governments will not be prepared to be stewards of change. What will save them is teaching-learning communities… The only way to have a possible society… is to develop the possible human at the same time.” — Margaret Mead

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“Why am I so neglected in your theories of the universe? Why am I given such a contingent place in the scheme of things? Why does the creation myth by which everything is explained in Western culture — evolution through time — put me in, if at all, at a late stage and such a little space, inside human skulls and skins? What do your theories of matter, their mathematical formulations, their astronomical calculations, your very notions of reality say to my actuality and its main concerns with living on earth and the puzzles of love and beauty, of justice and right action, of breeding and sickening? Why do philosophical cosmologies afford scant nourishment to the interiority, imagination, sensuousness, and suffering that these same cosmologies declare to be my domain?

I want cosmological help, a therapeutic cosmology; cosmotherapy. Psychotherapy can never accomplish its tasks with the soul since the world view in which psychotherapy works is fundamentally limited by cosmologies that declare the soul to be inferior, whether these cosmologies be materialistic, monotheistic, evolutional, or…