Kingsley L. Dennis - The Phoenix Generation: a new era of connection, compassion, and consciousness

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To those of the Phoenix Generation
For knowing who you are & what you have to do.

To the Women of the World
For being nurturers, and for showing us the values we need as a collective humanity. For being mothers, carers, and for helping the world to be a better place.

To my MUM
Who brought me into the world, nurtured me, and who thinks everything I do is (in her words) brilliant!

About the author

Kingsley L. Dennis, PhD, is a sociologist, researcher, and writer. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books including New Consciousness for a New World, New Revolutions for a Small Planet, After the Car, and the celebrated Dawn of the Akashic Age (with Ervin Lszl). He previously worked in the Sociology Department at Lancaster University, UK, and was Research Associate at the Centre for Mobilities Research (CeMoRe) at Lancaster University. Kingsley is the author of numerous articles on social futures; technology and new media; communications; global affairs; and conscious evolution. As well as academic training, Kingsley has also lived and worked for many years overseas, and travels widely. He currently lives in Andalusia, Spain. Kingsley can be contacted via his personal website: www.kingsleydennis.com.

Also by Kingsley L. Dennis

Dawn of the Akashic Age: New Consciousness, QuantumResonance, and the Future of the World (with Ervin Lszl)

Breaking the Spell: An Exploration of Human Perception

New Revolutions for a Small Planet: How the Coming Years Will Transform Our Lives & Minds

The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution and the Battle to Control How We Think

New Consciousness for a New World: How to Thrive in Transitional Times and Participate in the Coming Spiritual Renaissance

The New Science & Spirituality Reader (ed., with Ervin Lszl)

After the Car (with Prof. John Urry)

A Note from the Author

The young people whom I refer to as being part of the Phoenix Generation may not even read this book or be reading printed books at all! Yet although this book is aboutthem it is really a book for us. It is a book concerned with under standing what is to come and also the potentials that may create the future. It is likely to be a future without any historical precedent. As I explain, the transition toward a world inhabited by the Phoenix Generation is going to be one of those flat Earth to round Earth moments. When it does arrive, we are likely to think but how could it have been otherwise! This transition over the coming decades and into what I term the quantum renaissance is not going to happen with a Big Bang event but rather with an organic unfolding. For us, we will see new generations arising into the world who will step up to become the architects of a new planetary society. In the grander evolutionary scale of things, all this will occur as if a sudden flowering, or late bloom. Yet we have to realize that for human beings to evolve through change we need to normalize and assimilate the new anomalies into a balanced perspective and worldview.

So this book is for us right now at this precise moment. It is a transition tool to enable us to work with and assist the changes confronting us and human society in general. It is a book to help us recognize the new ways and new models that are most likely to emerge over the coming decades. It is a book to allow us to recog nize that many old forms and structures are no longer conducive to a balanced and sustainable life and that we have to let them go. It is a book that affirms a new perspective on the world and how we need to integrate this into our lives without fear, apprehension or distrust. And import antly, it is a book about recognizing the hearts, minds and souls of the new beings entering our human species. So when we look into their bright, enquiring faces we can say to them Yes, we get it too... and we get you !

Then, when the sun rises on a new dawn, we can all say we witnessed the glorious new phoenix arising from the ashes... and it was good.

Kingsley L. Dennis
La Casa Roja
Andalusia

Introduction

Dear reader, traditional human power structures and their reign of darkness are about to be rendered obsolete.

Buckminster Fuller

Dear reader, let me expand upon the above opening quote by adding that this obsolescence of the old will usher in the unexpected, the unprecedented, and the spectacularly new. I am not talking about a period of rejuvenation, as this suggests a renovation of the incumbent systems. I am speaking in terms of new forms, new arrangements, new structures, new perspectives and new emerging states of being. It is about time we stopped talking about the end of things, and instead focus our energies upon creating and fulfilling our positive, potential futures.

Those readers familiar with my work will know that I have repeatedly stressed that a new paradigm is upon us. Also, that how willing, open and receptive we are to these new models, systems and values will determine how the years ahead play out for us individually and collectively. We are, quite literally, shifting from one set of C-Values: