TY - BOOK AU - Pinchbeck, Daniel. TI - How soon is now?: from personal initiation to global transformation / SN - 9781980289724 AV - HM 831 .P56 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - United Kingdom : PB - Watkins KW - SOCIAL ACTION KW - SOCIAL CHANGE KW - GLOBALIZATION KW - ENVIRONMENTALISM N1 - Includes index. ; Part One. Planetary initiation.--Part Two. Hard limits.--Part Three. Regenerative solutions.--Part Four. God, love and revolution.--Part Five. Post-capitalism: property, money and power N2 - "Drawing on extensive research, Daniel Pinchbeck presents a compelling argument for the need for change on a global basis. The central thesis is that humanity has unconsciously self-willed ecological catastrophe to bring about a transcendence of our current condition. We are facing an initiatory ordeal on a planetary scale. We can understand that this initiation is necessary for us to evolve from one state of being - our current level of consciousness - to the next. Overcoming outmoded ideologies, we will realize ourselves as one unified being, a planetary super-organism in a symbiotic relationship with the Earth's ecology and the entire web of life"--Publisher description ER -