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A New Human Story empowers us to co-create a Healthy Sustainable Future
Historically, our Present Human Story has guided us towards success, but accidentally, also towards destruction. We overtly strive to create success for individuals, businesses, and societies, yet too often, we do so by covertly exploiting 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 has already initiated the Sixth Great Extinction on Earth.
Consequently, we succeed brilliantly with one hand,
while we unintentionally cause our destruction with the other.
This “success + destruction” approach — where humans succeed, while destroying our life-support systems— reveals the fatal flaw embedded in our Present Human Story.
Obviously, a New Human Story is necessary for us to both succeed and survive. This New Story will 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 that enable us to live will we finally create a healthy sustainable future.
▶ 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 value and serve the health and sustainability of all six levels of reality by following our New Human Story. Fortunately, this New Story introduces an answer on how we can finally co-create a healthy sustainable future.
I’m Tom Bougsty, Ph.D., a psychologist who has been contemplating these challenges on how to develop healthy sustainable living since the first Earth Day in 1970. I realized then that we need our personal realities to accurately reflect reality as a whole. Only then can we act in harmony with reality, so we can both thrive and survive.
Everything on this website — the five steps listed below, my books, and the HumanityStream+ presentations — grew out of my contemplation over 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 benefit the whole.
A Practical Path Forward: Five Steps to a New Human Story
Step 1 — Watch the Foundational Video. The above video integrates our New Human Story on how to live ethically 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 essential Spiritual nature with your everyday Human nature. We then increasingly become Spiritual Human Beings who co-create 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 life, identify goals, and develop healthy daily practices to enliven ourselves as healthy individuals. Read more →
Step 4 — Develop our Social Nature. Expand our personal healthy living into social healthy living with family, community, and society. Read more →
Step 5 — Explore Videos and Presentations. Discover additional materials on brain development, consciousness, healing, ethics, and the evolution of 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
In addition, approximately ten different publishers have contacted me to reprint my Healthy Sustainable Living: A Vision for the Future of Humanity book. Yet, my evolving efforts to help save ourselves from ourselves, while we still can, 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 practices for living. As you apply the New Human Story in your own life, I’d love to hear how it unfolds for you — please share your feedback, questions, and experiences.
Finally, we have the opportunity and the integrative vision to successfully confront the greatest challenge facing humanity: how to co-create a healthy sustainable future.
Integrating your Human and Spiritual Natures. The following Meditations help you ground in Oneness with your Spiritual nature, so you can more responsibly guide your Human actions toward a healthy sustainable future. Read more →
Developing 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 our individual healthy living. Historically, these twelve dimensions of health have seemed too complex to consider and then integrate to develop optimal human living. To solve this problem, I have developed a Healthy Living Wheel of Life that includes and integrates these 12 dimensions that contribute to a healthy human being. Consequently, we can finally create a comprehensive picture of human health that maximizes the integration of the major dimensions of life that contribute to an individual’s optimal functioning. Like a wheel, we can include the hub, the spokes, and the rim, so we roll smoothly and comfortably through life, using all the major dimensions that contribute to a healthy sustainable personal life.
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.
The Healthy Living Questionnaire enables you to systematically assess your functioning in each of the 12 dimensions of healthy living, then set personal goals, and finally, choose healthy actions to create your best personal life. In these ways, you can create a personal map on how to live the best life that you can choose.
Simply, click “Begin the Healthy Living Questionnaire” to open the questionnaire. Then click “Next >>” to begin, and use the Next and Previous buttons at the bottom of each questionnaire screen. Please record your answers to the questions for your records because they are no longer sent to you automatically.
You can explore these ideas in greater depth by reading Chapter 1 of Transform the World into a Healthy and Sustainable Future. It further describes how to interpret and continue building on your results, as well as how to identify your ultimate purposes in life and how to consciously contribute to your living legacy. Read more →
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