Joseph Heirling

Currents of Consciousness Joseph Heirling

In this third book, Currents of Consciousness, we explore the historical underpinnings of collective human thinking around the globe that is the chronological development of the major variations of culturally sanctioned social thinking over the ages. We sweep from paleo history to current global social cultures, focusing on the ever-changing flow of collective human consciousness over the ages, and taking us from prehistoric times to and thru ancient times, then to and thru medieval times, and finally landing us into today's modernity.

In order to keep us productively focused on the here and now flowing into our various possible tomorrows, we focused on the deep roots of the major conventional thinkings that exist today, such as today's dominant global religions, certain secular developments in Western Europe, and today's widespread Modernism. We ignore historic conventional thinkings that are extinct. That keeps us productively focused on the here-and-now flowing into our various possible tomorrows.

Of the three new schools of thought that arose in Western Europe, we find that one of them happens to be the most inimical and obstructive to our goal of refreshing planet Earth. The ism known as individualism will be far more challenging than the isms known as capitalism and science. It is entrenched in both human physiology and human culture, where it is either unmovable, or difficult to move, and has been recently fanned throughout today's collective human consciousness.