About the Study
The initiative is a three-year grant funded study. It is being led by Wendy Ellyatt and David Lorimer.
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Over the three years it will aim to:
- Examine the foundational assumptions of all the major sciences and religions in light of contemporary knowledge and understanding
- Challenge the adequacy of the philosophy of scientific materialism (scientism) as an exclusive basis for serving the emergent needs of the future, especially given the current understanding of a universal web of Interbeing.
- Explore the impact of language on the formation of worldviews
- Incorporate the knowledge, cosmovision and traditional wisdom of Indigenous Science
- Examine the implications of non-locality, a sentient world, diverse intelligences and non-material communication across species
- Explore the role and impact of transcendent, transformational, holotropic and shamanic realities and practices on human worldviews and values integration, including the relationship between the mundane and the numinous
- Question current definitions of natural and unnatural realities and how these may have restricted contemporary human progress
- Explore the nature of social and group intelligence and presencing – and what this tells us about the nature of the collective field
- Explore the impact on human flourishing of worldviews that deny the value and importance of intuition/inner wisdom and access to other ways of knowing
- Explore the core practices and experiences that have been seen to most effectively impact worldviews towards a more unitive perspective
- Determine the values and principles that support the promotion of a Unitive Worldview and Narrative and that optimise human capacities and potential across all cultures
- Work with others to better understand what is necessary to both witness and heal the wounds and restrictions of the past on a global level
- Seek to share its findings with a global audience
"When I consider the kind of human beings we in the dominant culture need to become to live in a post-colonial
context and navigate the Anthropocene, I realize our work is not only to support Indigenous-led efforts to revitalize and protect their languages, which is absolutely critical, but also to transform our own tongues into languages of belonging
and kinship by learning to bend, circumvent, liberate, and stretch language that currently objectifies nature until we
become speakers of languages that affirm a living universe. No doubt, this is a long-arc cultural transformation
strategy, but one I think is necessary."
The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis
Osprey Orielle Lake
context and navigate the Anthropocene, I realize our work is not only to support Indigenous-led efforts to revitalize and protect their languages, which is absolutely critical, but also to transform our own tongues into languages of belonging
and kinship by learning to bend, circumvent, liberate, and stretch language that currently objectifies nature until we
become speakers of languages that affirm a living universe. No doubt, this is a long-arc cultural transformation
strategy, but one I think is necessary."
The Story is in Our Bones: How Worldviews and Climate Justice Can Remake a World in Crisis
Osprey Orielle Lake