Social and Cultural Transformation

Included here is the evolution and transformation of society as a whole. This comes about through the influence of the totality of individuals and communities, groups and movements within that society as a whole.

Such transformation is difficult to achieve, because the center of gravity of such societies is almost always at a very low, exoteric, non-gnostic, level. In the West it is based on religion and secular modernity. In non-Western countries it is almost always religious, generally fundamentalist, interwoven with folk superstitions, and occaisonal esoteric insights from authentic indigenous mystics (village holy men in Russia, Sufis in the Molsem world, yogis in India, etc).

Even more than communities, groups and movements, social and cultural transformation will always lag behind individual transformation, because of the even greater inertia and lesser consciousness in the larger collectivity. Nevertheless there does seem to be something of a revolution of consciousness occurring, especially in the Western world, which can for the sake of convenience be called Postmaterialism