The panelists discuss creativity, coherence and wholeness. They speak of a need to change from a competitive to a compassionate society, and talk about consciousness as a potential for the whole universe.
The participants speak of a new way of thinking of the nature and organization of all living systems, of the creativity inherent in chaos, and of a non-linear world that contains multiple views.
The speakers talk about the Buddhist theory of knowledge in comparison to modern cognitive science, and the groundless nature of reality. What we perceive is not something that is just “out there,” but rather there is an interdependent relationship between the knower and the unknown.
The participants talk about art and entropy, reincarnation and the morphogenetic field. They talk of the shift in physics and biology toward the idea of a living earth, and what the third world has to offer us.
The panelists discuss ecological sustainability in a critical decade, the existential fear of change, the role of creativity in a new perception of reality, and the patterns that connect.