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.

Each culture is grounded on the relationship it sees between what the Ancient Greeks called Theos, Anthropos and Cosmos (God, the human being, and the world we live in). In modernity, God was declared to be dead, religion was discredited in official culture, and science was promoted to take its place. Human beings themselves were nothing but biological machines, and they inhabited an empty universe devoid of intrinsic meaning.

In the new era, religion makes a partial comeback, but is soon superseded by direct spiritual contact. Humans are spiritual beings inhabiting a body that is in effect a biological holographic image of the self. And the universe is discovered to be full of life, with countless inhabited planets at varying levels of spiritual development – some of whom come here to see us.

In modernity the world, the cosmos, was regarded as a flat horizontal 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.

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.