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Two Curves: Collapse and Regeneration
by Lynnaea Lumbard
Reduced from: https://newstories.org/collapse-and-regeneration/
A couple of months ago, I received an email from Jenn Meilleur, our soon to be new Executive Director at NewStories. She was curious about an article she had received on Deep Adaptation or “adapting to likely collapse”.
Her question galvanized an outpouring of my thoughts which had been percolating for months on Collapse and Regeneration. This has become the emergent theme of NewStories work.
For years now, NewStories has used the Two Loops map of a world in transition. The first loop represents the rise and fall trajectory of our established civilization, based on worldviews and values which emerged in the 1700s Scientific Revolution. We talk about this curve as peaked and being in decline.
The second curve shows a birth cycle of emerging civilization, based on upgraded beliefs and values which offer a more integrated, workable model for Earthly relationships on all levels.
Initially it curves down too. This natural before new ideas and values systems gain strength and become a new blueprint, a new paradigm, widely accepted.
The Berkana Institute, NewStories and others developed this map 20 years ago. Quickly, a new element was added…
