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The Momentous Leap Series- Thriveable Transformation in the 21st Century: Day 2
Good morning. Looking for some hope and inspiration? Then read on. If you read Day 1 ( and hundreds of you did), then thanks for your very positive feedback, and please enjoy this next short installment.
Yesterday I began this 48-part series on thriveable transformation in the 21st Century, with the preface to my latest book, 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.
Today we start the first of five sections contained in:
PART 1. THE MOMENTOUS LEAP — WHAT, WHY, WHERE?
Momentous Leaps are Us
We, humans, are the product of several momentous leaps in evolution. Many of our fellow living creatures on earth have barely evolved for hundreds of millions of years. For example, in 1938 a natural history curator in South Africa called Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer realized that a fish she was examining should not have existed. The fish belonged to a group that was thought to have gone extinct 65 million…