What is needed is experiential validation of a new guiding image, an overarching metaphor able to serve as the basis for a new model of society and the individual.
Understanding of planetary purpose may be the major contribution that we can make to the evolutionary process.
Sophisticated observers (C. H. Waddington and Erich Jantsch) found not the War in Nature that Darwinists reported, but rather a situation in which it was not competitive ability but ability to maximize cooperation with other species that most directly contributed to an organism’s being able to function and endure as a member of a biome.
Whole system fine-tuning is needed. If the phenomena associated with biological harmony and resonance could be understood, then such large-scale systems as global banking or global food production and distribution could be more properly managed.
The distinction between living and non-living, and organic and artificial, is blurred in the electronic coral reef of human/machine symbiosis conteplated by the savants of nanotechnology.