The inner landscape opens up

At the centre of the emerging worldview is a new ‘cosmosophical’ perspective which brings together cosmology, philosophy, theology, ecology, and anthropology. It is the stabilising and orienting keel of the new culture.

Every culture is grounded on its understanding of what the Ancient Greeks called Theos, Anthropos and Cosmos (God/Source, the human being, and the world we live in). In modernity, God was declared to be dead, religion was officially discredited, and science was promoted to take its place. Human beings were seen as nothing but biological machines, inhabiting an empty universe devoid of intrinsic meaning.

The new post-material worldview encourages a return to spirituality. Religion makes a partial comeback, but is soon superseded by direct spiritual contact. Humans are seen as spiritual beings inhabiting a body that is in effect a biological hologram of the self.

In modernity the world, the cosmos, was regarded as a horizontal (metaphysically flat) landscape of pure materiality with no ‘higher’ or ‘lower’. In the new era the metaphor of a vertical dimension is reopened, reconnecting human beings through levels of spiritual advancement back to Source. From this perspective the universe is seen to be full of life, with countless inhabited planets at varying levels of spiritual development – some of whose inhabitants come here to see us.

Note: The word Cosmosophy comes from the title of a 1921 lecture series by Rudolph Steiner, who argued that the future wisdom of the human being will be the wisdom of the cosmos.