“Statesmen should be aware of the present elemental process of transition from the biosphere to the noosphere… The historic process is changing dramatically before our eyes… Mankind taken as a whole is becoming a powerful geological force. Humanity’s mind and work face the problem of reconstructing the biosphere in the interests of freely thinking mankind as a single entity. This new state of the world we are approaching without noticing it is the ‘Noosphere.’” Vladimir I. Vernadsky
The Group of Seven (G-7) – the seven most industrialized nations of the world – was covertly formed in 1973. Once the Cold War was over, in 1991, the G-7 went public, marking the triumph of capitalism and monetary politics as the dominating ideology of the New World Order. Following the transformation of the G-7 into the G-8, with the Russian finance minister joining those of Japan, Germany, USA, Canada France, Italy and the UK in setting global policy, the G-7 then spawned, but a few years ago, the G-20, the Group of 20 most affluent nations in the world.
More than just setting economic policies, the G-20 also deals with issues of poverty and global warming. The debacle of Copenhagen last December demonstrated the inability of the United Nations (and G-20) to overcome national and corporate interests to deal objectively with truly critical global issues. This tragic failure was due to a lack of understanding that the global crisis is actually a whole system crisis of the human spirit. By ignoring the spiritual dimension of human reality and continuing to reduce everything to matters of economics, the world will only spiral into greater and greater catastrophe. The G-20 perpetuates this perspective of failure. We are at a point in time when the spiritual dimension must become paramount in issues of decision making.
Unless there is a world leadership committed in its decision making process to spiritual principles higher than monetary politics and to the realization that the planet is a whole system, and that, therefore, all decisions for the global good must be made on that basis, the human species will forfeit its future. The fact is, we are undergoing an evolutionary shift into the noosphere and are on the verge of becoming planetary citizens operating in a field of cosmic intelligence. We must think and act accordingly!
The WorldShift 20 represents a critical step toward activating a leadership willing to explore and implement principles based on spiritual-humanistic values and a comprehension of the Earth as a single unified system. The elementary principles of a post- or meta-nationalistic thinking – planetary whole system design science – must be defined in light of the geological transition from the biosphere to the noosphere, and of the inexorable path of cosmic evolution, which is toward ever-greater states of conscious unification. Only with such a perspective can we hope to deal constructively and creatively with the truly global crisis that confronts us.
