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MEET ERNEST, PCC
STUDENT
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 “[The
PCC program] promotes the creation
of new philosophies that may help
humanity to avert disaster and create
healing...”
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A growing consensus among scientists, scholars,
and visionaries is that our world is facing an
unprecedented evolutionary challenge. The ecological,
political, and spiritual crisis of late modernity
calls for a fundamental reorientation of our civilization,
including a transformation of both our institutions
and our own consciousness. The cultural historian
Thomas Berry has called this task the "Great Work."
The Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness
program is designed to help shape the intellectual,
moral, and spiritual leadership necessary for
meeting this historic challenge. Faculty draw
upon some of the most powerful ideas and impulses
of the world's philosophical, scientific, and
religious traditions. In this way, they have constructed
an intensive multidisciplinary course of study
that helps accelerate a student's journey to a
particular leadership role in this field. The
Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness program
supports those called to this work in three distinct
but related ways:
• The program offers students new perspectives
and paradigms with which to build a better world.
These include the emerging new cosmology as well
as cultural, psycho-spiritual, and ecosocial accounts
of who we are, where we have come from, and where
we might be heading.
• Through the program, students explore
new ways of thinking and being that are both visionary
and pragmatic. In this manner they learn to resist
the paradigm of fragmentation and reductionism
that continues to reign within the dominant culture.
• The program provides students with a
challenging yet supportive learning community.
In this community, they find their voice as leaders,
capable of understanding worldviews and assessing
their merits through a deep and broad grasp of
cultural history and contemporary critiques.
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