This book explains why great change is simmering in all facets of our civilization, from economics and politics to science and spirituality. In science, interdependence is now seen as central to understanding organization and change at all levels form chemical networks and living cells to ecosystems, cities and economies. Goerner explains this profound rethinking moving across modern science from anthropology to physics. The author then weaves current realities and new scientific insights into a fascinating vision of history and science progressing through upheavals and rebirths up to the present day. Humankind, too, is bound into the processes of this web world, and Goerner describes the already visible signs of an emerging Integral Society in which head, heart and soul need no longer be at odds.
Integral society has the potential to build a more sustainable and peaceful civilization.
Yet, all great change comes as a result of pressure and the author warns that our present social and economic systems are already becoming unstable. Dr. Goerner's book is fascinating and amazing in scope. This is the current human condition, socially and scientifically, laid out for all to see. Jane Jacobs, Economist, Urban anthropologist I am personally impressed by the quality of this book. It has the potential to be important.