Marc Luyckx Ghisi

Marc Luyckx Ghisi

Marc Luyckx Ghisi was born 20 April 1942 in Louvain, Belgium. He lives with his wife Isabelle near Brussels. Initially, he studied mathematics, philosophy and theology (Ph.D.) and became a Catholic priest. He presented a doctorate in Rome (Pontifical Oriental Institute), in Russian and Greek theology, on Nikolai Berdyaev’s early writings in Russian, since his discovery of Marxism until his conversion to orthodoxy" (Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome). After his marriage, he was for ten years (1990-1999), member of the Forward Studies Unit of the European Commission, created by Jacques Delors, where he focused on the meaning of European integration and created the program The soul of Europe.[1][2] He had the opportunity to travel a lot and meet worldwide government officials and advisors in Europe, the U.S., China, Japan, or in India. Some were aware of the shift of civilization in which we are engaged globally, but these visionaries were a minority.

In the Forward Studies Unit he invited many thinkers such as US sociologist Paul H. Ray (cultural creatives), Edgar Morin (a leading French philosopher of the paradigm shift), Hazel Henderson (author of numerous books on the win-win economy and the new green sustainable economy), Rinaldo Brutoco (CEO of World Business Academy), Avon Mattison[3] (founder of Pathways to Peace), Harlan Cleveland, (President of the World Academy of Art and Science), Prof. Ziauddin Sardar. He also organized a symposium on Civilizations and Governance [4] in the European Commission in May 1998.

He has helped to create new educational structures. He was Dean of the Cotrugli Business School[5] in Zagreb and Belgrade (2005-2009). For 8 years he has also been a member of the Auroville International Advisory Council[6] in South India. He is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, a member of the Club of Rome-EU,[7] a member of the World Futures Studies Federation and is Honorary President of Eurotas, European Transpersonal Association.[8]

Individual work

Change of Civilization

Humanity is undergoing a rapid and profound change of civilization as modern rationality, patriarchal values, and industrial capitalism are no longer able to formulate a satisfactory answer to the problem of our collective survival and of our environmental, social and demographic problems at the beginning of this twenty-first century.

Civil society is already changing in silence...

Indeed, the current approaches are already outdated because they no longer make sense for a growing number of citizens. Global civil society is already looking elsewhere, even if the authorities are struggling to convince them that « there is no alternative ». Some are already experiencing a deep re-enchantment, a body - heart - soul reconciliation. This group represents 25% of European and U.S. citizens called cultural creatives. And in this group, 66% are women. This means that women are leading the change in silence. It also seems that the same cultural changes are happening around the world: inside the Muslim world (Ziauddin Sardar), in China (Nicanor Perlas), and in South America (Leonardo Boff). These on-going changes are affecting the deepest aspects of our lives like the man-woman relationship, the definition of the sacred and of the truth, the status of reason and science, but also the definition of consciousness, of time, space, matter and happiness.

The engine of change

There are few debates about this change. Everything happens in silence. We distinguish five levels of change,[9] but this change is like an iceberg. There is only one level which is visible, the political one. Level 5: We experience a political credibility gap, almost everywhere. And we see also new political paradigms coming up like the EU as a new paradigm of non-violence between States. However, there are four deeper levels of change that are rarely discussed in the media. Level 4: The Fourth level is this shift to a post-industrial intangible economy, which is a new non-violent economy of sharing and gift. Level 3: The third level is the shift to a trans-modern vision of life. We are silently shifting to a completely new vision of reality, where consciousness becomes more important than matter and enables matter. Level 2: The second level is the end of the patriarchal values, because our global civilization is not able to go towards a sustainable world with those values of command control and conquest (CCC). So we need to add new values of care, reconnection, solidarity and respect. Level 1: And at the deepest level we find the engine of change of civilization. We change civilization because Humanity has already refused the possibility of a mass suicide, and Humanity’s collective subconscious is already reprograming our values of death into values of life. This shift towards values of life is the powerful motor of this civilization shift.

The tool change: the vision of consciousness

According to Willis Harman [10] in the late Middle Ages, the civilization shifted to the Renaissance because Copernicus proposed a new way of conceiving the Earth and the sky. Similarly today, the culture shift is happening around a new definition of consciousness and matter. We are leaving metaphysics "M1", which says that matter exists and that consciousness emanates from matter and we are already in a new metaphysics "M3" who discovers that consciousness is first and allows the emergence of matter. This conceptual earthquake, completely transforms the scientific method itself. And the "new science" that is born, is increasingly similar to the latest developments in quantum physics. Harman considers that this trans-modern science resembles the vision of Humanity’s Perennial Wisdom. Opposition between science and philosophy seems to disappear.

The European Union is a New Political and Economic Paradigm

The surprising news is that the European Union’s project best fits into this change of civilization.[11] But this message is not (yet) politically accepted.

A new political paradigm of non-violence between states

The Founding Fathers of Europe, perhaps without knowing it, created the first realization of a new political paradigm of non- violence between States. Modernity had already made a huge progress in establishing the rule of law, which secures non- violence towards citizens. The EU extends this non- violence to relations between States (Members of the Union). This completely changes our foreign policy, the role of our armed forces and our defence and security policy, etc.

The intangible economy is post-capitalist, social and sustainable

In 1993, the European Commission published a White Paper on « Growth, Competitiveness, employment: The challenges of the 21st century[12]». The Forward Studies Unit coordinated this study. It was announcing a shift to a post-industrial information society and was proposing very daring reforms in taxation, education, and of the European development model itself. This vision proposed by Jacques Delors himself, has been politely refused by the EU governments, in the European Council of December 1993. In 2000, seven years later, the Portuguese government proposed the EU leaders to launch the "Lisbon Strategy" aimed at bringing the EU in the new "knowledge society". Portuguese Prime Minister António Guterres, and Prof Maria Joao Rodrigues warned the EU Heads of State that this new strategy was a new economic paradigm.[13] This “paradigm shift” concept has been politely refused.[14] Nonetheless, knowledge is like love, the more you share it, the more you receive it. The knowledge economy is an economy of gift and sharing that modifies the basic axioms of the capitalist and communist industrial logic. It is post-capitalist (Peter Drucker),[15] because the means of production are no longer the factory, but the humans who create knowledge. Drucker’s post-capitalist approach is not yet well accepted. And so, in this new system, the financial capital suddenly becomes less important than the people, hence post-capitalism. Indeed, the new CEO must respect the body, mind and soul of its people otherwise, they could go elsewhere. The EU is thus entering - in silence- in a new "post- capitalist" society of giving and sharing. This new economy is potentially much more social and totally environmentally friendly since it is based on a concept of qualitative growth.

The soul of Europe

The soul of Europe is this silent political and economic transformation into a less violent society. And this progression inspires the world in silence. The European project contains the seeds of a new paradigm of global Governance, which is more sustainable, equitable and wise. The soul of Europe leads to a new type of wise governance. This is what citizens are subconsciously hoping from the European Union.

Publications

In English

The knowledge society: a breakthrough toward genuine Sustainability, Arunachala Press, Stonehill foundation Publishing, Cochin, India, 2008. Open Source on blog: www.vision2020.canalblog.com

European Visions for the knowledge Age: A Quest for New Horizons in the Information Society

Marc Luyckx Ghisi: « A win-Win strategy for the European Union in the Knowledge Society » in Paul Kidd, Ed., Cheshire Henbury, Macclesfield, UK, 2007

In French

Au-delà de la modernité du patriarcat et du capitalisme : la société réenchantée. L’Harmattan, Paris, 2001. (Available on his blog: http://vision2020.canalblog.com)

Surgissement d’un nouveau monde : valeurs, visions, économie, politique, tout change… L’Harmattan, Paris, 2013.

In Italian

La società della conoscenza: valori visioni, economia, politica,... tutto sta cambiando. Editions (électronique) E-Bookizzati, Torino, 2011. http://www.ebookizzati.it/ebook-marc-luyckx-ghisi-idaut30.html

References

  1. ↑ http://www.soulofeurope.org
  2. ↑ http://www.asoulforeurope.eu
  3. ↑ http://www.pathwaystopeace.org/who/directors.html
  4. ↑ http://www.wnrf.org/cms/govern.shtml
  5. ↑ http://www.cotrugli.eu
  6. ↑ http://www.auroville.org/organisation/aurovillefoundation_IAC.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.clubofrome.eu
  8. ↑ http://www.eurotas.org
  9. ↑ Marc Luyckx Ghisi, The Knowledge society: a breakthrough towards genuine sustainability, Open source on www.vision2020.canalblog.com
  10. ↑ Willis HARMAN, Global Mind Change: the promise of the 21st century, Berret & Koelher, San Francisco, 1998. Chap. 2
  11. ↑ Jeremy RIFKIN : The European Dream : when Europe’s vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American Dream , 2004, Tarcher
  12. ↑ Office For Official Publications of the European Communities L 2985 Luxembourg. ISBN 92-826-7000-7
  13. ↑ Maria Joao Rodrigues: The New Knowledge economy in Europe, E. Elgar, 2002; The Portuguese Document from the presidency, page 276
  14. ↑ Maria Joao Rodrigues: The New Knowledge economy in Europe, E. Elgar, 2002; The Portuguese Document from the presidency, page 297
  15. ↑ Post-capitalist society, Peter Drucker, Harper Business, New York, 1993

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