Are We Ready To Move Into The Wisdom Revolution?

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“The level of transformation required now is inconceivable without a change of consciousness and a new planetary culture,” says Daniel Pinchbeck in How Soon is Now: From Personal Initiation to Global Transformation. “But we may be on the cusp of a wisdom revolution — and it could happen quickly. As the futurist Peter Russell points out, revolutions in human culture unfold in exponentially shorter time frames. The Agricultural Revolution started eight to ten thousand years ago, leading to the development of a surplus which was necessary for the growth of cities, and a complex, differentiated social system. The Industrial Revolution took around five hundred years, with its roots going back to the Middle Ages. The Information Revolution — the linking of the planetary community together through networks of data and communication — has happened within a half-century or so.”

Russell goes on to elaborate on what he calls the Wisdom Revolution by pointing out the exponential growth of human information technologies and how it is rapidly moving us toward a time “when all human knowledge will be instantly available to anyone on the planet, in any medium.” Because we are all connected to this “emerging global mind,” we are approaching “a qualitative shift, first, from information to knowledge and then from knowledge to wisdom.”