Humans developed a new culture and now live in 5 mega-cities, struggling every day for the precious resources they need to survive. The remains of Shard Zero still are spreading its Plague, twisting and re-shaping Earth and its nature, sometimes in the course of centuries and sometimes in a matter of hours. WorldShift is set thousands of years later, when our civilization is no more than a fading myth. Shard Zero hit Earth and that was the end of our civilization. When we finally realized the object is moving on a collision course with our planet, it was too late. There was no time for reaction, and all attempts to study the anomaly remained futile. Their parents, who were the war generation, have largely been unable to recalibrate for the energetic change. The object, called ‘Shard Zero’ by the scientists, possessed some kind of a deadly aura, spreading mysterious ‘plague’ of cosmic scale around itself, twisting and disrupting the very nature of space and life. The teenagers and young people who were around during the Harmonic Convergence of 1987, who heard of it and maybe even followed its happening, were some of the first wave to tune into the shift of the new energies. Īuthor Shashi Tharoor argues that an Earth Anthem sung by people across the world can inspire planetary consciousness and global citizenship among people.In the 21st century, shortly after the colonization of our Solar System had begun, a huge dark object appeared beyond the orbit of Pluto. Steven Kull writes that while nation states are reluctant to work cooperatively, individuals seem more willing. Bummel describes planetary consciousness as integral, insofar as it does not conflict with other levels of social identity, but instead is a holistic perspective on humanity and the planet as a whole. He believes that these inventions will lead to a second Renaissance and global democracy, just as the Gutenberg press in 1439 led to the first Renaissance, the Age of Enlightenment, and Nation states. He specifically cites the invention of the Internet and the mobile phones as key technological achievements of the 20th century which brought humans into more continuous interconnected communication. Kumar claims that these technological advancements have turned the whole planet into an interdependent economic, political and communication community.

Concept Īdvocacy for the idea of planetary consciousness is based on the technological advancements made by the mankind in the fields of transport and telecommunications during the 20th century and in the first decade of the 21st century. Īndreas Bummel, CEO of the Committee for a Democratic UN, says, 'The first step into the direction of a world parliament would be the establishment of a Parliamentary Assembly at the United Nations'. We are evolving out of the nationally based industrial societies that were created at the dawn of the first industrial revolution, and heading toward an interconnected, information-based social, economic, and cultural system that straddles the globe. We are on the threshold of a new stage of social, spiritual, and cultural evolution, a stage that is as different from the stage of the earlier decades of this century as the grasslands were from the caves, and settled villages from life in nomadic tribes. In the closing years of the twentieth century, we have reached a crucial juncture in our history. In September 2001, Ervin László and the Dalai Lama wrote an essay titled 'Manifesto on Planetary Consciousness', which was adopted at a meeting at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest. Democratic globalization advocate Abhay Kumar points to the International Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board of directors election in 2000, which were conducted globally, as the first example of global democracy. Key planetary consciousness events of the 20th century include the creation of the League of Nations, the signing of Kellogg-Briand Pact, the creation of the United Nations, and the creation of the Bretton Woods system. In his 1906 book American Character, author Brander Matthews mentions the idea of a 'league of nations' and a 'planetary consciousness', believing it would be created by American politicians in the coming centuries.

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