The Momentous Leap Series- Day 5: Why This Leap Matters- A Blast from the Past Describing a Leap into the Future

Good morning. Looking for some hope and inspiration? Then read on. If you read Day 1, 2, 3, and/or 4(and thousands of you did), then thanks for your very positive feedback- please enjoy this next short installment.

Day 5 is part of a 48-part series on thriveable transformation in the 21st Century, excerpted from: “The Momentous Leap- Thriveable Transformation in the 21st Century: Healing Ourselves, Healing our Planet”. The book contains 9 Parts- Parts 1–7 have five “episodes” each, while Parts 8 and 9 have seven and six “episodes” respectively. If you are in North America, you can get your copy of the book here.

Preface- Added 24 February 2023: The 1960s and 1970s were groundbreaking decades in the western world. After the Great Depression and WW2, the 1950s saw the beginnings of the disintegration of the traditional way of life in most western countries, which had been held together by colonialism and religion. Science, technology, innovation, and progress led to the questioning of the foundations of society as a new generation of baby boomers came of age.

By the 1960s the civil rights movement, feminism, atheism, existentialism, and the implementation of the new UN Charter brought a wave of optimism that…