Executive Summary

We have a problem — a really BIG problem!

We live in an unwise and unsustainable world. Our world is the product of countless generations of leadership who have eschewed the higher universal wisdom and purpose of sustainability (the reasons for this neglect are widely covered in many other parts of this website, so it will not be discussed in this summery).

This website uses the term Light & Life as a signature phrase for a planetary approach to the kind of universal wisdom and sustainability needed to overcome the grave mistakes of the past and present.

Wisdom is related to wholes and wholeness, while intelligence is often related to a narrow sense of relevance applied to achieving narrow short-term goals. We need civilizational systems where the intelligence in and of the system is bound by and directed by wisdom, the kind of wisdom that is focused on long term sustainability for the benefit of everyone.

A divided civilization that lives under the constant threat of war and destruction does not logically make any plans for the distant future — it operates in a defacto survival mode, using narrow self-centred intelligence that promotes narrow, short-term and unsustainable goals. This is not healthy for a civilization’s longevity. Our civilization, as we currently cultivate it, lives for the present and the past, and does not worry about the future generations. It can be summed up in one word: unsustainable.

A wise civilization will cultivate the continual improvement of its collective mental capacity and direct its thoughts more and more into the future — it operates in a cooperative an mutually agreed to sustainable mode, using broad intelligence that promotes all-inclusive, long-term and sustainable goals. This can ensure a civilization’s longevity and indefinite survival. It aims to create a stable civilization on a clean planet, where the balance of man and nature can be maintained for unlimited time. Where people live for the future, and expect great things from it. Where people are constantly occupied with making the world a better place to live in. It can be summed up in one word: sustainable.

It's time for a Planetary Transformation

We need a Planetary Transformation that will propel us out of this:

UNSUSTAINABLE mode guided by: Deception > Greed > Division > War

and into this:

SUSTAINABLE mode guided by: Sustainability > Wisdom > Intelligence > Modeling

5 points to cover:

• Overview of Light and Life
• Identification of a main problem or proposition (timeline), the lateness as well as the overall imbalance
• Analysis of a problem or proposition, with supporting facts and figures (overview of each L&L category and its problem)
  Race and Biology
  Family
  Culture
  Language & Education
  Religion
  Ethics
  Governance
  Science & Technology
  Economy & Finance
  Personal Spiritual Growth
  
• Possible solutions and their justifications
• Clearly defined conclusions

Most forms of efficiency depend on narrow intelligence promoting narrow, short-term goals. This is not healthy for the world or our civilization’s longevity.

Normally, it is not considered effective - or realistic or even possible - to engage with "the whole" or even take it into account. From the perspective of narrow, short-term goals and the narrow intelligence that effectively pursues those goals, thinking of the whole is just too big, and definitely inconvenient.

Consensus process that seeks to take into account all concerns, needs and potential consequences involved in a decision naturally takes a lot of time. But it usually addresses factors that would come back to haunt the group later, if they weren't dealt with, so its defenders consider it wiser or more effective, from a long-term perspective.

EFFICIENCY

The idea of efficiency has a narrow boundary and wide boundary lens from which it can be viewed. 

Efficiency usually entails getting rid of “unnecessary things” - steps in a process, redundant functions, non-essential expenses and people, and so on. But the holistic concept of RESILIENCE often requires the presence of exactly those things to be there. If you have at hand several sources of or resources for a vital function (like energy or food or communication), then if one of them goes down, you can call on another one.

If efficient just-in-time production makes it unnecessary to keep a warehouse full of parts for your assembly line, it saves your company a lot of money and manpower. But if the supply line for a part breaks, your whole assembly line stops.

If a new technology makes a process much more convenient but opens up new avenues for hack attacks, then we can and should ask if that is really more efficient in the long run.

True efficiency entails “the optimum engagement of all aspects of a whole for the long term well being of the whole”.

So we’re talking about trying to rally and invest all relevant entities, relationships, resources, elements, capacities, qualities, and dynamics of wholeness (like synergy and vitality) - and even disturbances, waste, and excess - in the ongoing healthy co-creativity of the whole. It’s pretty obvious that doesn’t come near to describing how we usually try to get more with less. But it points us in the right direction.

We tend to think about narrowly defined problems that affect specific people or situations, using specific metrics to demonstrate certain direct effects. It’s easier to “make progress” on narrowly defined “virtuous goals” than it is to take into account the long term well being of the whole.

CRIMINALITY