1. World I
Module VI
TOWARDS THE THIRD MILLENIUM
Prof. Francisco De Paula

2. VI. TOWARDS THE THIRD
MILLENIUM
A GlobalShift Movement
And I saw a new sky and a new land, because the first sky and the first land had
passed and the sea no longer existed. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem,
descend from heaven on God’s behalf, clad like a bride who becomes embellished for
the husband. And I heard a great voice from the throne that said: Here is the dwelling
of God among men. He will abide with them and they will be his peoples, and God
himself will be with them and he will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and
death shall no longer exist and there will be no more lament nor pain because the
earliest things will have come to pass.
SAINT JOHN THE APOSTOLE
Apocalypse

3. Evolution of the Neurological Attributes
• GENERALLY SPEAKING, self-consciousness, insecurity,
theology, authority, affiliation and subordination
constitute the immense links in the evolution of the
neurological attributes and manifestations in the era of
the Homo sapiens.
• Throughout civilization, they constructed humanity’s
religious, political and social culture, uniform in the
depths of their configuration and so diverse in their ways
of manifesting, like the needs characteristic to the historic
and environmental pressures of their survival.

4. A unified explanation of the Human
Phenomenon
• Given its complexity, this phenomenon
has only been revised from the
standpoint of a historical reduction of
the evolution of man’s mind and the
effects and circumstances of his
insecurity.
• For we are conscious of the self-
consciousness of our civilization
(universal consciousness), the context
of the culture of our insecurity will no
longer be the only element to
determine the future life of our
species.
• The clear state of thought we have
reached in relation to the responsibility
implied in the newly acquired human
possibility of choosing other
alternatives in the future, will bring us
the optimum path to our historical
options.

5. Panorama for Humanity in the Next
Century
• We could proceed to imagine a feasible religious, political,
social and economic panorama for humanity in the 21st
century in its “non-subordination” version, simultaneous to the
possible emergence of a State that will respect the rights of
individuals and of the community.
• Our culture incapable of believing in discussing and
developing the best human qualities, suffers from a tragic
distortion of information.
• “How good must a society be for human nature to accept it?”
–asked the psychologist Abraham Maslow. The revolution of
sustainability must be, above all, a social transformation that
expresses and nurtures the better part of human nature and
its worst side. Many people have recognized this need and
opportunity”. (Donella H. Meadows).

6. Planet as a Whole
• This idea was well expressed
by John G. Stoessinger in his
book Why Do Nations Go to
War?:
• The main challenge for this
generation will be to prevent
the advent of a great war.
Precisely now, when we have
the power to destroy the earth,
it is also when we have the
need to perceive the planet as
a whole.
• Compassion and global
conscience will be our greatest
hopes in this new awakening

7. Ecumenical Integrator
• We may also speculate that
there may be an
“ecumenical integrator”
arising as a global
movement of universal co-
habitation between different
human beings: an integrator
free of man’s moral utopia
and the denigration
precondition of the “realism”
–Hobbesian or Machiavellic-
surrounding the “human
condition”.

8. Supranationalistic Democratic Social
Movement
• In the field of politics, the global movement of universal co-habitation
could be consistent with the advent of a new religious era, where the
possibility of developing a new supranationalistic democratic social
movement would be particularity notable. Directly proportional to the
advancement of non-subordination, this social movement could
evolve toward the adoption of a new kind of pluralistic participation
within the framework of a constitutional legality.
• This tendency would lead to the gradual desconcentration of the
administration of power in the different ways in which security
income and deference are manifested. It would finally reduce the
need for large and unproductive investments and organized systems
that use violence –police and military forces- as well as the
authorized and monopolized practices regarding joint economic
speculation of the elite-government and the inherited systems of
irrational affiliation in political activities that legitimize authority
without a consensus.

9. Economic Culture
• The non-subordinate attribution of
material privileges, and the
systematic and democratic guarding
of its administration would permit the
permanent eradication of the
inordinate and absurd differences in
the distribution of income that we see
today.
• The sum of society’s savings made of
many individual’s capital-, would be
substituted by a democratic
management governed by its actual
owners on the basis of the
proportional participation of each
one’s contributions. In this way, the
speculative concentration, cost and
accumulation of society’s money
would become limited.

10. Conscious Humanism
• The notable economic and political differences between men
would progressively and irreversibly tend to be reduced
without having to turn neither to the extreme formulas of the
Marxist expropriation of the means of production nor to the
relentless liberalism of capitalist concentration in the
administration of privileges and wealth.
• Humanity would be grounded on an increasingly
homogeneous order.
• And the artificial differences in our socially stratified culture
would only be marked by the natural demands of a functional
division of labor, whereby the daily need for a democratic
participation could finally create the bonds that are natural to
human solidarity and harmony to ensure pacific co-habitation.

11. Transformation of Man and Society
• A transformation of man and
society would lead to the global
and relatively sovereign
integration of regional
communities.
• These communities would
progressively unify the legal
criteria of international law into a
code of conduct which reflects a
democratic and universal
conscience.

12. Man’s Intelligent Solution
• Science and technology could come up with either man’s intelligent solution
to many of the problems of our condition or to our finally and actually very
possible risk of extinction.
• Research in neuroscience and genetics will be especially relevant in the
future. They could lead man and his intelligence to a new state of education,
conscience and conduct which could liberate him of the biologic
determinism of his evolution, granting him the ultimate liberty of his own
transcendence.
• True leadership will emanate from the individual and collective conscious
intelligence of our social and international communities.
• “In a world in which changes are necessary and wanted but where
dominating institutions resist it, responsibility only falls upon the individual”.
(Robert. C. Johannsen).
• In the 21st century authoritative leadership –such as States, media and
corporations- will not be the agents that will solve the evils which afflict our
civilization.
• The man of today does indeed have an intelligent solution, based on non-
subordination, at hand to solve the problems of his time.

13. Audacity
• Since the ultimate frontier of self-Knowledge is the
phenomenon of the evolution of our own intelligence, and
consequently, of our brain, audacity could only be frustrated
by the cognitive and epistemological limitations inherent in the
brain that studies the brain.
• Since evolution has reached the end of a horizon of billions of
years, it may give human intelligence the responsibility of its
future survival. Responsibility, would find itself alone in the
infinite path of time, conscious of its self-consciousness and
evolution, to continue without respite toward the creation of
man’s universal spirit.

14. The Adventures of self-discovery
• The rapidly processing convergence
between the new science and the
mystical traditions of perennial
philosophy offers an exciting
perspective of a future
comprehensive worldview that will
heal the gap between scientific
research and spiritual quest.
• Such an encompassing new
paradigm could become an important
catalyst in the evolution of
consciousness that seems to be a
critical condition for the survival of life
in this planet.