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A New Human Story is needed to co-create a Healthy Sustainable Future
We Can Finally Co-create a Healthy Sustainable Future. Our Present Human Story brings us remarkable successes, while unsuspectingly, often causing damages to our life-support systems that can tragically contribute to the Sixth Great Extinction on Earth. A New Human Story, one that values all six levels of reality that support our lives, reveals how we can both thrive and survive.
We succeed brilliantly with what we value,
but 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.
▶ Start Here: Watch the Foundational Video – “We Can Finally Co-create a Healthy Sustainable Future”
This video introduces a life-or-death choice: 1) We continue the success + destruction approach inherent in our Present Human Story; or 2) We learn to serve the health and sustainability of all six levels of reality valued by our New Human Story. Fortunately, this New Story introduces our crucial opportunity to 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 and compares it to our Present 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. Begin the Meditations →
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 optimally function as healthy individuals. See the Wheel and the Questionnairre →
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. See the Twelve Steps to Co-create Healthy Sustainable Living; then the Interview with Stephen Dynako that summarizes the 12 Steps →
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. Watch them here →
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
Interest from multiple publishers has been strong to reprint or make a film on the book, but my limited time has been spent developing new methods to help save ourselves from ourselves. while we still can.
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. See Meditations →
Step 3 – Develop Healthy Living as an Individual.
Healthy Living Model – The Wheel of Life. Health is fundamental to life. Yet, it is complex and consists of at least 12 dimensions of life. These dimensions include:physical, psychological, family, social, cultural, vocational, economic, political, recreational, environmental, spiritual, and ethical health. All these dimensions need to function separately, coordinate in interdependent relationships, and balance in oneness to progressively generate healthy living.
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. See the Wheel and the Questionnairre →
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.
Step 4 – Develop Healthy Living in our Social Nature.
Explore the “Twelve Steps to Co-create Healthy Sustainable Living” plus an Interview with Stephen Dynako that summarizes the 12 Steps
The interview initially introduces the 12 steps that need developed and integrated to create a healthy sustainable, societal life.
The following 12-Step methodology introduces a comprehensive blueprint on how to help create an increasingly healthy sustainable future. Considering that we face multiple life-threatening crises in the world, we have limited time to successfully transform our values. Therefore, I want to share my life’s work with you, so we can mutually co-create a healthy and sustainable future.