Megatrend Two

Serafin D. Talisayon

Professor, Technology Management CenterUniversity of the Philippines

Director for R&DCCLFI.Philippines

Changing Security Doctrines

State’s viewpoint � People’s viewpoint

Military/physical � Military/physical +

trend

trend

Development Paradigm Shifts

GNP (doing) � Human Development Index (being)Economic Development � Sustainable Development (Economic

+ Social + Ecological)Dominance over nature � Harmony/interrelatedness with nature

Development Paradigm Shifts

GNP (doing) � Human Development Index (being)Economic Development � Sustainable Development (Economic

+ Social + Ecological)Dominance over nature � Harmony/interrelatedness with nature

Awakening to Emotionaland other Intelligences

Intelligence: Verbal & Quantitative (IQ) � Multiple incl EQLeft brain � Whole brain

Technical Skills � Technical Skills + Values/Attitudes

Scientific Paradigms

Empirical � Empirical + Phenomenological (Reflective-Interactive) + Transpersonal

Robert ThurmanOn science’ reductionism

The “modern Western character complex is connected with a peculiar

Robert Thurman

complex is connected with a peculiar perception of all things – including psychic and mental things – as ultimately reducible to quantifiable material entities. This is what gives it its ‘outwardness’.”

– Robert Thurman

Towards Consensual Corroborationof Experiental Data in Science

Transpersonal psychology is moving towards consensual corroboration of experiential data. Examples:

• NDE research: comparison of reports of patients who spontaneously revived after clinical death.

• Studies in lucid dreaming, remote viewing and effects of • Studies in lucid dreaming, remote viewing and effects of hallucinogens: simultaneous consensual experience of alternative realities (e.g. works of Carlos Castaneda)

• Zen meditation: comparison of kensho experiences (a PhD dissertation at Asian Social Institute)

• Cases of “mutual dreaming” (Stanford University Sleep Research Center)

• Communication between people while performing OBE or out-of-body experience

Towards Consensual Corroborationof Experiental Data in Science

Suggestions of William Braud and Rosemarie Anderson, of the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology:

• Use of various internal modes of sensing: bodily awareness, intuition or inner knowingness, emotion/feelings and aesthetic sensing in addition to the emotion/feelings and aesthetic sensing in addition to the intellectual mode;

• Research by an “integral research team” composed of members specializing in each of the above;

• Validate in terms of “coherence” among the above;

• “Sympathetic resonance” between researcher and readers.

Their hypotheses: pluralistic ontology and pluralistic epistemology

Corporate Paradigm Shift

Physical and financial capital � Intellectual capitalReporting: Financial � Financial + “colorized” (BSC, etc.)

Corporate Paradigms

“Whereas at one time the decisive factor of production was the land, and later capital, today the decisive factor is increasingly man decisive factor is increasingly man himself, that is, his knowledge.”

-- Pope John Paul II

Physical and financial capital � Intellectual capital

Paradigm Shift in Production

“Smokestack” industries are going out…

…and knowledge or “learning organizations” are coming in.

Tangible/physical assets � Intangible/knowledge assetsTechnology: material � Informational, behavioral, biotech

Financial capital � Financial + social capital

Shifts in Organizational Structure

Pyramidal/hierarchical � Flat/egalitarian � Networks

Modalities of International Conflicts

Ideological/political � Cultural/religiousMilitary/territorial (win-lose) � Trade/technological (win-win)Sources: “Peace and Conflict 2003” by Monty G. Marshall and Ted Robert Gurr and “The Clash of Civilizations” by

Samuel P. Huntington. Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993 72(3):22-28

Modalities of International Conflicts

“The most important wars of the 21st century will be fought no longer on the physical battlefield, but in corporate boardrooms, laboratories, stock exchanges, classrooms, and stock exchanges, classrooms, and shop floors.”

– former President Fidel V. Ramos

Ideological/political � Cultural/religiousMilitary/territorial (win-lose) � Trade/technological (win-win)Sources: “Peace and Conflict 2003” by Monty G. Marshall and Ted Robert Gurr and “The Clash of Civilizations” by

Samuel P. Huntington. Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993 72(3):22-28

Modalities of International Conflicts

Ideological/political � Cultural/religiousMilitary/territorial (win-lose) � Trade/technological (win-win)Sources: “Peace and Conflict 2003” by Monty G. Marshall and Ted Robert Gurr and “The Clash of Civilizations” by

Samuel P. Huntington. Foreign Affairs, Summer 1993 72(3):22-28

Christian Concepts of God

Male � Male + FemaleTranscendent � Transcendent + Incarnate + Immanent

Fall/redemption spirituality � Creation spirituality

security of state and territory � security of the

empirical � empirical + reflective-interactive +

transpersonal

object � object-subject

war for territories �

cyberwarfare, trade and

cultural warfare

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Megatrend Two

IQ � EQ/SQ

logic � logic + feelings

+ art + dance + music

economic development � sustainable

development (economic + sociocultural

+ institutional + ecological)

security of state and territory � security of the

people (health, livelihood, culture)

tangible physical capital � intangible

intellectual and social capital

God-concepts: male � male + female

Transcendent � transcendent +

personal + immanent

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Megatrend Two

Outer/material Inner/spiritual

Masculine/conflict Feminine/harmony

Economic SocioculturalEconomic Sociocultural

Thinking Feeling

Atomistic

Fragmented

Integral

Wholeness

Object

Mechanistic/hard

Subject

Organic/soft

Naming Megatrend Two

Inner,

Consciousness

Outer,

Form

Ken Wilber’s framework:

Individualphysics, material

objects, empiricism, behavior

Group

culture, worldview, collective unconscious, Oversoul, archetypes

Naming Megatrend Two

yang yinactive passivemale femalemale femalefire waterday/sun night/moonhard/hot soft/coldexternal internalconflict harmony