E48| Shifting Civilization, with Tomas Björkman

• Different types of societal shifts
• The collective imaginary, deep history, and deep sociology
• How to understand the collective imaginary
• The Market Myth, and what the market can and can’t deliver on
• Reasons our collective sensemaking and agency have been diminished in the recent century
• The value in postmodernism and the detrimental impact of value relativism
• Value anchors, modernism, relativism and the death of God
• The market as stepping into the role of value anchor, and why we must shift this
• The shift as enabled through the development of awareness and the co-creation of new meta-narratives
• The psychological perspective on moving into these shifts
• Relationship and dialogue as facilitation mechanisms for emergence
• Stages of adult development and their relationship to collective transformation
• The transformation of Scandanivian society in the early 20th century
• The connection between personal development and societal change
• How can we become conscious co-creators of society?
• 29k.org – a non-profit open source co-created platform as an online hub of inner growth
• Slowing down and deepening into processes of being and becoming
• Integrating thinking and feeling
• Collective intelligence and what’s drawing Tomas into the future

People Referenced

Lene Rachel Andersen, Jordan Hall, John Vervaeke, Harrari, Jordan Peterson, Gérard Bouchard, Jung, Charles Taylor, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Robert Kegan, Gregg Henriques, Bayo Akomolafe

Keywords (Mostly AI Generated)

collective, world, deep, imaginary, society, anchoring, shift, market, people, talking, turbulence, worldview, humanity, called, feel, process, narrative, point, create

Tomas Björkman is a philanthropist, entrepreneur, former investment banker, philosopher, author of The Market Myth, The World We Create and co-author with Lene Rachel Andersen of The Nordic Secret. You can listen to the audiobook version of The World We Create here.

In 2016, he founded the Research Institute Perspectiva in London together with Jonathan Rowson. The aim of the institute is to inspire our political, academic and business leaders to examine real world problems with a deeper appreciation of the influence of our inner worlds.

In 2017, in partnership with the Norrsken foundation, Björkman launched the digital platform 29k.org. The platform aims to help you reconnect with yourself, like-minded people and what you value most in life.

Björkman has been a member of the Club of Rome since 2014. The Club of Rome describes itself as “an organisation of individuals who share a common concern for the future of humanity and strive to make a difference”. Björkman is also a fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science.

This article published on the Emerge platform, and adapted from a conversation on Rebel Wisdom with David Fuller, provides an overview of his perspective on many of the same points covered in this conversation.

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