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The central theme of this website is that, given the ‘perfect storm’ of existential threats that could confront humanity during rest of the 21^st Century, it will be like no other period in recorded human history. If we are to avoid a series of catastrophes, each potentially being a holocaust of innocent suffering on an unimaginable scale, sooner or later humankind will need to undergo a spiritual renaissance.

Human beings can rise to their best when most threatened. But, as each nation or religious group vies for power or to maximise its share of the Earth’s ever diminishing resources, many of the direst threats could fatally divide us; and, divided, we most certainly will fall. Only an inspiring vision of how the full potential of human life on this Earth could be for each of us as part of global civilization can unite us and help to ensure that human life flourishes on an Earth itself still flourishing with abundant life.

Such a vision of human potential will require a spiritual revolution that will necessarily be both humanistic and ecological. To put it bluntly, when catastrophe threatens there will be no personal, loving God to save us. Only human intelligence, love and compassion and a willingness to unite can do that.

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