Human Energy Podcast
Human Energy was founded to share a new scientific & cosmic story introducing the noosphere as a source of meaning for future generations in our globalizing world.
Today we face the unprecedented challenges of rapid social change and new technologies which, together with the scientific picture of an aimless universe, have created a crisis of orientation. Human Energy was founded by scientists, scholars, artists, and storytellers to highlight the causal conditions to our challenges and provide solutions for current and future generations. We articulate these solutions through the "Third Story" worldview (https://humanenergy.io/the-three-stories-of-the-universe/) with focus on the emerging noosphere.
We are beginning to visualize the noosphere’s formation; study its potential future scenarios as humanity takes more and more control of its future course; and explore how human beings connecting across the world may realize themselves socially and individually in its development.
Human Energy Podcast
Literature of the Noosphere for Secondary Education - Emily DeMoor - N2 Conference 2023
Presented by Emily DeMoor
N2 Conference 2023
University of California, Berkeley
Literature of the Noosphere for Secondary Education
The scientific study of the Earth’s evolution reveals cooperative and symbiotic relationships as effective strategies for major evolutionary transitions (MET). The next MET, which is already underway, is the creation of a Noosphere in which humans come together in a shared consciousness and heart. This convergence results in intersubjective relationships -- an idea that may be difficult for western cultures to embrace, due to a strong emphasis on individuality. This presentation will look at the phenomenon of intersubjectivity in literary narratives by Gary Paulson, Herman Hesse, Loren Eiseley, Paul Fleishman, and others which may be used in secondary level English Language Arts courses. In doing so, it will explore the language of collectivity, compassion, and empathic fusion - language that may assist youth in re-imagining themselves as part of nature, each other, and a larger, sentient whole; to move beyond the individual liberal subject to a participatory consciousness in which in-between spaces of relationship emerge as sites of encounter and exchange wherein boundaries between “self” and “other” are redefined. The literature featured in this presentation thus promises to help heal the alienation that results from the techno-social dilemma and discover the joy and promise of co-creating a shared consciousness towards a viable planetary future.
In alignment with the NCTE/IRA Standards for the English language Arts, through this literature students may “build an understanding of texts, of themselves, and of the cultures of the United States and the world” (#1) and of the many dimensions of human experience (#2).
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