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The Magical Universe: Answering the Call of Climate Change for Personal and Global Transformation
Climate The End of the World or a New Beginning?
Climate Change is a scary issue. So scary that most of us are overwhelmed by it. But what if Climate Change is the Universe’s way to wake us up and introduce us to its magic?
The evidence for this magic abounds in the Universe Story from the big bang onward. Every time the Universe Story was about to end the Universe conjured up its magic to keep the story alive and moving forward.
We are at another crossroads now and Universe is calling us to participate.
Bruce McGraw is a professor of philosophy, mythology and religious studies and has spent over 30 years studying and integrating the great philosophical and spiritual wisdom of humanity and applying it to our troubled times today.
In this book you will learn about a new view of evolution that combines the meaning and purpose inherent in the fundamentalists’ views of creation with the scientific rigor of the modern perspective.
You will witness the miracles that are an integral part of the universe story. For example, you will learn
Something came from Nothing If the Universe wasn’t so fine-tuned, we wouldn’t be here today. Life miraculously evolved from non-life Self-consciousness emerged from the consciousness that pervades the universe.Many people believe this evolutionary adventure ended with humans, but that is wrong. We will study the six stages that human consciousness is developing through as we become a new evolved species on this planet.
Once we have fully grasped this new worldview and experienced its magic, we will then apply that knowledge to the three great questions of life.
1. Who Am I?
2. Where Did I come from?
3. What is my purpose?
Read this book and take a journey into the heart of your soul and discover how you personally fit into this new cosmic story. By doing this you can save yourself and possibly the planet.
So scroll up and begin reading about this magical journey into the heart of the universe using Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature.
Climate Change is a scary issue. So scary that most of us are overwhelmed by it. But what if Climate Change is the Universe’s way to wake us up and introduce us to its magic?
The evidence for this magic abounds in the Universe Story from the big bang onward. Every time the Universe Story was about to end the Universe conjured up its magic to keep the story alive and moving forward.
We are at another crossroads now and Universe is calling us to participate.
Bruce McGraw is a professor of philosophy, mythology and religious studies and has spent over 30 years studying and integrating the great philosophical and spiritual wisdom of humanity and applying it to our troubled times today.
In this book you will learn about a new view of evolution that combines the meaning and purpose inherent in the fundamentalists’ views of creation with the scientific rigor of the modern perspective.
You will witness the miracles that are an integral part of the universe story. For example, you will learn
Something came from Nothing If the Universe wasn’t so fine-tuned, we wouldn’t be here today. Life miraculously evolved from non-life Self-consciousness emerged from the consciousness that pervades the universe.Many people believe this evolutionary adventure ended with humans, but that is wrong. We will study the six stages that human consciousness is developing through as we become a new evolved species on this planet.
Once we have fully grasped this new worldview and experienced its magic, we will then apply that knowledge to the three great questions of life.
1. Who Am I?
2. Where Did I come from?
3. What is my purpose?
Read this book and take a journey into the heart of your soul and discover how you personally fit into this new cosmic story. By doing this you can save yourself and possibly the planet.
So scroll up and begin reading about this magical journey into the heart of the universe using Amazon’s “Look Inside” feature.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 15, 2022
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August 13, 2022
Another ambitious attempt to “solve” climate change. As we are experiencing with record temperatures, drought and wildfires, on this tinderbox planet climate change is well into its swing. The trajectory is on course for the predictions of the recently departed James Lovelock et al. Lovelock urged us to enjoy what was left of our lives as he saw 2028 as a cutoff point for when climate change will have truly hit the fan.
I became aware of this little book through McGraw’s Medium articles, he references philosophy that interests me such as Nietzsche, Plato and Buddhism. He is also a theology scholar so the goal here is to create a new myth that can sort the human predicament, change our attitudes and have us on path to a sustainable civilisation. He understands the climate science and highlights the numerous tipping points that we have passed or soon look to pass as we descend further into climate chaos.
He lists various interesting facts about the big bang, planet formation, the evolution of life etc and then frames them as miracles. Human consciousness is then presented as some sort of universal intention. He attributes a much greater amount of anthropomorphic language to these processes than Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis ever did.
On a surface level this might be convincing but then when we consider the size of the universe and potential other universes, various adaptions that were necessary to get us to this point have likely been cut off earlier many times over. It reminded me of Derren Brown’s gambling experiment where we follow a miraculous run of successful bets and then later discover this was the one successful case and none of the many failures had been shown to us.
Also isn’t it just another form of anthropocentrism to see ourselves as some culmination of the magical universe’s will? The logic is very similar to creation myths in which we have been created in a god’s image and given the keys to the kingdom. Many would assert that this kind of thinking has been a key factor in taking us to the precipice.
I also felt it was a bit of a straw man argument to suggest that materialists believe that the processes have seen us become a rational mind cut off from the body. Most determinists would see body and mind as inextricably linked and accept us to be at least as emotional an animal as rational.
As for the universe being magical, a more pessimistic reading could just as well suggest that this is a senseless universe where we travel towards entropy as trillions of sentient lives suffer needlessly.
As I said this is a highly ambitious project that would rely on a revolutionary shift in the attitudes of of millions in order to take root. It’s not quite clear what anyone is meant to do to achieve this either, presumably to just see ourselves as magical beings birthed by a magical universe and then we accordingly change behaviour?
He leaves us with a second reference to an early bottleneck in the evolution of life when food was running scarce and lifeforms instead began to photosynthesise, thriving from the sun’s energy. Is this what he wants for humans? For us to shelve our plans of consuming ever more and instead learn to photosynthesise? Realistically that is the requisite level of magic that is needed with eight billion (and rising) rapacious apes in situ.
I became aware of this little book through McGraw’s Medium articles, he references philosophy that interests me such as Nietzsche, Plato and Buddhism. He is also a theology scholar so the goal here is to create a new myth that can sort the human predicament, change our attitudes and have us on path to a sustainable civilisation. He understands the climate science and highlights the numerous tipping points that we have passed or soon look to pass as we descend further into climate chaos.
He lists various interesting facts about the big bang, planet formation, the evolution of life etc and then frames them as miracles. Human consciousness is then presented as some sort of universal intention. He attributes a much greater amount of anthropomorphic language to these processes than Lovelock’s Gaia hypothesis ever did.
On a surface level this might be convincing but then when we consider the size of the universe and potential other universes, various adaptions that were necessary to get us to this point have likely been cut off earlier many times over. It reminded me of Derren Brown’s gambling experiment where we follow a miraculous run of successful bets and then later discover this was the one successful case and none of the many failures had been shown to us.
Also isn’t it just another form of anthropocentrism to see ourselves as some culmination of the magical universe’s will? The logic is very similar to creation myths in which we have been created in a god’s image and given the keys to the kingdom. Many would assert that this kind of thinking has been a key factor in taking us to the precipice.
I also felt it was a bit of a straw man argument to suggest that materialists believe that the processes have seen us become a rational mind cut off from the body. Most determinists would see body and mind as inextricably linked and accept us to be at least as emotional an animal as rational.
As for the universe being magical, a more pessimistic reading could just as well suggest that this is a senseless universe where we travel towards entropy as trillions of sentient lives suffer needlessly.
As I said this is a highly ambitious project that would rely on a revolutionary shift in the attitudes of of millions in order to take root. It’s not quite clear what anyone is meant to do to achieve this either, presumably to just see ourselves as magical beings birthed by a magical universe and then we accordingly change behaviour?
He leaves us with a second reference to an early bottleneck in the evolution of life when food was running scarce and lifeforms instead began to photosynthesise, thriving from the sun’s energy. Is this what he wants for humans? For us to shelve our plans of consuming ever more and instead learn to photosynthesise? Realistically that is the requisite level of magic that is needed with eight billion (and rising) rapacious apes in situ.
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