In The Great Turning, From Empire to Earth Community, author David Korten hits on the rarely discussed conflict facing Humankind in the 21st Century, the struggle between the forces of materialism and the forces of spirituality. Although David does not define it as such, he expresses it in his excellent analysis of the Five Orders of Human Consciousness.
These Five Orders move from a Culture of Empire to a Culture of Earth Community, beginning with Magical Consciousness and Imperial Consciousness and advancing to Socialized Consciousness and Cultural Consciousness and to the highest Fifth Order, Spiritual Consciousness. Korten holds that whatever stage of human consciousness dominates the 21st Century, it will ultimately determine whether we survive as a species or not.
Author David Korten is a former Harvard Business School professor and later a career U.S. Foreign Service Officer with an expertice in community economic development. After working in Third World Countries for 25 years, David now writes to continue his work with a penetrating critique of global corporate capitalism and he offers alternatives that are respectful of local control, sustainable and realistic. Seeking just economic development has been David Korten's life's passion.
David is not known as a spiritual writer, but his writing has always had a powerful underlying spiritual message as he understands that radical social change is not possible without the transformational power of spirituality. This is the unique perspective in the writing of the economist and social critic David Korten.
To David Korten, the real issue at hand is not that the world is in need of radical social change, but by what method are we to bring about such much needed radical social change.
David Korten is a powerful prophetic writer who induces in the the reader a hunger for a more just, sustainable and compassionate world. After reading David Korten's The Great Turning, it is hard not to become a social activist for an Earth Community of genuine participatory democracy, justice and peace.
In summary, David Korten is a relatively unknown author when compared to the world renowned social critics Francis Fukuyama and Samuel P. Huntington. I would love to see them meet in a debate on PBS television. I think David would shockingly slay the theories of the Goliaths of Empire and elevate the spiritual and social consciousness of the viewer.
What about it David, can you make this happen?
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