We are living in the time of a great crossroads, a critical transition between profoundly different ages. The philosophical, social, environmental and economic assumptions that have brought us to this age are found now to be no longer working. Our children’s survival requires a profound reset in our sense of living together in this world. This is both a personal and a collective transition demanding that we take, in Christopher Fry’s words, “the longest stride of soul men ever took.” Although written years ago, the following passages capture the essence of our current crossroads.

“A mood of universal destruction and renewal…has set its mark on our age. This mood makes itself felt everywhere, politically, socially, and philosophically. We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos – the right moment – for a “metamorphosis of the gods,” of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious human within us who is changing. Coming generations will have to take into account of this momentous transformation if humanity is not to destroy itself through the might of its own technology and science…So much is at stake and so much depends on the psychological constitution of the modern human.”
–Carl Jung – The Undiscovered Self

“Planetary democracy does not yet exist, but our global civilization is already preparing a place for it. It is the very Earth we inhabit, linked with Heaven above us. Only in this setting can the mutuality and the commonality of the human race be newly created, with reverence and gratitude for that which transcends each of us singly, and all of us together. The authority of a world democratic order simply cannot be built on anything else but the revitalized authority of the universe.”
–Vaclav Havel – The Spiritual Roots of Democracy

(courtesy of The Prosperos Assembly 2016 planning committee)