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"I feel it is important for our future to make knowledge about the "technologies of the sacred" available on a large scale through mass media and create support systems for those who have spontaneous transformative experiences." (Grof in Laszlo, Grof, and Russell, 199: 62).

"We are rapidly moving from a divided and fragmented world to a unified global village. And the unlimited access we now have to the archetypal domain of the collective unconscious seems to be an important part of this process. I hope and believe that this will provide a basis for a universal religion of the future. My idea of such a religion is that it would provide a supportive context for spiritual experiences and means of facilitating them--'technologies of the sacred'--but would have no interest and investment in dictating which of the many archetypal frameworks an individual should choose as an entry into the realm of the transcendental space." (Grof in Laszlo, Grof, and Russell, 1999: 44-5)."

What we need today is a formulation contemporary terms that is comprehensible to ordinary people and relates to life today.(Russell in Laszlo, Grof, and Russell, 1999: 36)

What is needed is a completely new model of reality, one that includes consciousness as a fundamental aspect....(Russell in Laszlo, Grof, and Russell, 1999: 31-2)

I do not know if MW will insert my username, but it is Jack. My comment is that I follow the late Douglas Engelbart in his quest to co-evolve human systems and the tool systems they use. What he was saying was accurate in 1968 when he demonstrated the internet and something like MS Office, but, today, tool systems have vastly outpaced social systems, to some benefit, but also to enormous harm. So, in my quest to eo-evolve knowledge gardens - a term given to simplify Engelbart's ensemble of ideas including networked improvement communities. We now use the term Knowing Gardens simply because it conveys the active sense of what knowledge gardening is all about. My interest lies in OSS platforms of that kind in schools where it can have immediate benefit, but also to greater society by federation of all epistemic communities which can meet the federations requirements of safety and security. Our game is about truth seeking, not truth itself. Truth for one individuals is not necessarily that for another, but organizing vast numbers of heterogeneous world views and their evidence-based justification is clearly on our radar, but, to do so, we must find ways to tame otherwise wicked, uncivil conversations.