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A New Human Story is needed to co-create a Healthy Sustainable Future
Historically, our Present Human Story has guided us towards success, but unfortunately, also towards destruction. We overtly strive to create success for individuals, businesses, and societies, yet too often, covertly exploit others in our Species, the resources of the Planet, Evolutionary processes, and our Spiritual oneness with all reality. Tragically, the exploitation of these deeper life-support systems contributes to the Sixth Great Extinction on Earth.
Consequently, we succeed brilliantly with what we value, while we often cause destruction with what we fail to value.
This “success + destruction” approach — where humans succeed, and simultaneously destroy our life-support systems— reveals the fatal flaw hidden in our Present Human Story.
Consequently, if we intend to succeed and survive, we need a New Human Story. This New Story needs to value and protect all six levels of our life-support systems: Individual, Social, Species, Planet, Evolution, and Spiritual. Only when we care for and live in integrity with all six levels of reality that support our lives will we be able to create a healthy sustainable future.
▶ Step 1 – Start Here: Watch the Foundational Video – “We Can Finally Co-create a Healthy Sustainable Future”
This video introduces a choice: 1) We continue the success + destruction approach of our Present Human Story that tragically leads to our demise; or 2) We learn to serve the health and sustainability of all six levels of reality with our New Human Story. Fortunately, this New Story introduces how we can finally co-create a healthy sustainable future.
I’m Tom Bougsty, Ph.D., a psychologist who, since the first Earth Day in 1970, has contemplated how to develop healthy sustainable living. I realized that we need our personal realities and actions to work in integrity with reality as a whole. Only then, can we both thrive and survive.
Everything on this website — the five steps listed below, my books, and the HumanityStream+ presentations — grew out of my contemplations about these issues during the last 50+ years. Finally, and hopefully not too late, I have organized my understandings and proposed solutions, so we can responsibly co-create a healthy sustainable future that benefits us, as we simultaneously benefit all that supports us.
A Practical Path Forward: Five Steps to a New Human Story
Step 1 — Watch the Foundational Video above. This comprehensive video introduces the New Human Story. It describes how we can live in harmony with the six levels of reality, so we can finally co-create a Healthy Sustainable Future.
Step 2 — Integrate our Human and Spiritual Natures. Meditations help us harmonize our innate Spiritual nature with our everyday Human nature. Then as Spiritual Human Beings, we naturally awaken to benefit the whole. Read more →
Step 3 — Develop Healthy Living as an Individual. We use the Healthy Living Wheel of Life and the Healthy Living Questionnaire to assess our current functioning, identify goals, and develop healthy daily practices, so we contribute optimally as healthy individuals. Read more →
Step 4 — Develop Healthy Living in our Social Nature. Expand our personal healthy living into social healthy living, so we benefit our family, business, community, and society. Read more →
Step 5 — Explore Videos and Presentations. Discover additional materials that describe brain development, consciousness, healing, ethics, and the evolution of the six levels of reality. Read more →
As a complement to these five steps, read my two books: Transform the World into a Healthy and Sustainable Future and Healthy Sustainable Living: A Vision for the Future of Humanity.
What Readers Are Saying
About Transform the World into a Healthy and Sustainable Future:
“This deeply intelligent book is wonderfully comprehensive and helpful. It combines scientific understanding of our evolved human nature with a profound exploration of our spiritual possibilities. And it applies these insights to personal practice and public policy in order to address what is frankly an emergency for both our species and this planet. Clearly written and vast in scope, this is a beautiful book.”— Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Resilience and Buddha’s Brain
“Breathtaking in its scope … and thrilling in its vision. This book becomes a lifetime companion — a friend and a guide for humanity’s journey to adulthood.”— John Steiner, Bridge Alliance co-founder
“I am thrilled with the brilliant scholarship of this … powerfully original … and profoundly insightful, relevant, and timely book.”— James O’Dea, author of Cultivating Peace
“If you are going to read one practical book about how to up level your identity by including all of its facets in an integrated sustainable whole—read Tom” – Dr. Marc Gafni, author Your Unique Self and President of Center for Integral Wisdom and Evolutionary Church.
About Healthy Sustainable Living: A Vision for the Future of Humanity
Approximately ten different publishers have contacted me to reprint or make a film based on this book. Nevertheless, my efforts to continue to evolve new methods—to save ourselves from ourselves—has prevented me from following through with these offers.
Join the Conversation
Healthy Sustainable Living is meant not only as a body of ideas, but as actual practices for living. As you apply the New Human Story in your life, I’d love to hear how it unfolds for you — please share your feedback and experiences.
Finally, we have the opportunity with this comprehensive vision and methodology to successfully confront the greatest challenge facing humanity: “How do we co-create a healthy sustainable future?”
Step 2 – Integrate our Human and Spiritual Natures.
The Meditations help ground us in our Spiritual nature, so we can then responsibly take Human actions that help create a healthy sustainable future. Read more →
Step 3 – Develop Healthy Living as an Individual.
The Healthy Living Wheel of Life. Initially, we need to examine the 12 dimensions of human life that contribute to individual healthy living. These twelve dimensions need integrated to develop our optimal lives. To accomplish this, I created the Healthy Living Wheel of Life that includes all these capacities, so we can increasingly act as healthy human beings. At the center of the wheel is the hub of our Spiritual nature that connects the ten spokes of our Human behaviors to the rim of the wheel, so we Ethically co-create with the rest of reality. Read more →
The Healthy Living Questionnaire then enables us to systematically evaluate our functioning in each of the 12 dimensions. First, we can assess our present functioning in each of the 12 dimensions, then choose our personal goals for each area, and finally, specify constructive actions to optimize our personal functioning. In these ways, we can finally include and integrate the complexity of our lives to optimize our personal healthy functioning. Read more →
The Healthy Living Questionnaire then enables us to systematically evaluate our functioning in each of the 12 dimensions. First, we can assess our present functioning in each dimension, then choose personal goals in each area, and finally, select constructive actions to actually achieve those goals. In these ways, we can finally integrate the complexity of our lives to best serve ourselves and reality simultaneously.
You can explore these ideas in greater depth by reading Chapter 1 in Transform the World into a Healthy and Sustainable Future. It describes how to interpret and continue building on your results, as you serve your ultimate purposes in life and create a living legacy. Read more →
Step 4 – Develop Healthy Living in our Social Nature.