Emerging Wisdom Culture

In association with Wisdom University and the Institute on Emerging Wisdom Culture , Dr. Paul H. Ray, is conducting a major new study on America's Cultural Creatives. The findings of the study will be released in the Summer of 2008. This work is being done in conjunction with similar studies in France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Italy, and Japan on the Cultural Creatives, who are emerging as a global social, economic and political phenomenon. The implications of this emerging wave of cultural creativity are as profound as the consequences of global warming are imminent. What we will discover in this emerging cultural group are the values that we need to undergird our next phase of human development as we move into an intensely ecological phase of our history. The findings of these studies will support a documentary film produced by Taylor Thomson, a Canadian film producer, on how this emerging group supports our capacity to deal creatively with the global challenges confronting us, especially global warming. Paul Ray and Dr. Jim Garrison are writing a book designed to summarize the current research, support the themes of the documentary film, and explore the historical and cultural implications of the new values represented by the Cultural Creatives. Finally, in partnership with Wisdom University, the State of the World Forum will convene a major international conference in Washington, D.C. November 9-14, 2009. The conference will be open to the interested public and influence leaders from around the world and will profile those innovators whose social and technical developments, if implemented, could effectively deal with many of our global crises. At the heart of the Forum will be a global solutions wiki being developed in partnership with scientists worldwide. The combination of new research findings, a documentary film, a book and an international conference will allow for a statement to the world public concerning both the critical nature of the crises confronting the world, exemplified most urgently by global warming, and the extraordinary hope for the future, represented by the emergence of millions of people and organizations worldwide embracing a new value proposition supportive of a positive vision of the future. They are the heart of the new global coalition that must be built.

 

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