Einstein Said Survival Requires a "Substantially New Manner of Thinking"—Are We Getting There?

Einstein 1921 by F Schmutzer The atomic bomb changed the world in 1945. Physicist Albert Einstein, a devoted pacifist, was barely involved at all, but recognized that the problem of human and ecological destruction it delivered placed on humans the demand to move to new thinking, to greater consciousness. He saw the delusional nature of the kind of thinking that created nuclear power. He called it “a kind of prison.” He believed that by expanding our circle of compassion to include nature and all creatures we could get out of prison. The problems nuclear power created would require a “substantially new manner of thinking” from that which sought to create nuclear power.

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The Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable

The opening page of my upcoming book, From Egos to Eden: Our Heroic Journey to Keep Earth Livable, quotes physicist Albert Einstein (1875-1959) as saying that we need a substantially new manner of thinking in order to see ourselves as part of the whole of Nature and the Universe. When we doubt that our species is capable of this tall order, it is because we have not yet come to believe how great a change happens to us when we move into larger topographies of consciousness.

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