Characteristics of self-organizing systems with emergent properties
The Internet and the idea of a global brain
Individual vs. collective shift
Does everybody have to shift or just a smaller subset? If a smaller subset is it a quantity, percentage, specific type of people, or some other subset of humanity?
Model from individual development: maturation of the human species (e.g. from self-centeredness to cooperation)
Shift in shared myth or shared value system, e.g. from progress to sustainability, from autonomy to connectedness
The role of capitalism in the environmental crisis
The role of the American empire in the environmental crisis
Healing, the metaphor of earth immune system
Corporate and state media and the manufacture of consent
Revolution, Occupy, and ongoing global protests
Buddhist view of individual awakening applied to collective
Dalai Lama on secular ethic, universal responsibility
Google searches
Collective consciousness
Collective consciousness revolution
Global Mind
Self-organizing
Wikipedia articles
Global Brain
Noosphere (esp. “See also” section)
Wisdom of Crowds
Ecological self
Second superpower
Alter-globalization
Teilhard de Chardin
Collective Intelligence (esp. “See also” section)
False consciousnesses
Anima Mundi
Cosmic Consciousness
Authors
Global Culture Shift
Thomas Berry
Joanna Macy
David Korten
Paul Hawken
Ray and Anderson
Bill Plotkin
Michael Lerner
Evolution of consciousness – Biology/Cognitive Science
Charles Darwin
Merlin Donald
John Searle
Gregory Bateson
Duane Elgin
Maturana/Varela
Evolution of consciousness – Spiritual/Mystical
Teilhard de Chardin
Jose Arguelles
Political/Economic emphasis
Noam Chomsky
Immanuel Wallerstein
Karl Marx
David Graeber
David DeGraw
Richard Smith (Capitalism and the destruction of life on Earth)
Climate change emphasis
Bill McKibben
Al Gore
Commons movement
Eleanor Ostrom
James Quilligan
Buddhist view
David Loy
Dalai Lama
Poets and visionaries
Wendell Berry
Gary Snyder
William Blake
David Abram
Sociology
Emile Durkheim
Karl Mannheim
Jacques Ellul
Walter Lippmann
Marshall McLuhan
Robert McChesney
Sociology – Topics
Collective conscience/consciousness
Sociology of knowledge
Public opinion
Public relations
Propaganda
Ideology
Manufacture of consent
Mass media
Advertising
Working toward a shared planetary consciousness that heals the Earth