“The eyes of the future are looking back at us
…praying for us to see beyond our own time.”
Terry Tempest Williams
An audacious way to think about the future.
“Ambitious, timely, and inspiring.”
Scott Russell Sanders
This unusual book provides a compelling vision of what the future could look like. Nye calls for no less than a transformation of consciousness, and he shows how it can happen. His holistic vision of education and growth, fostered throughout the lifespan, can liberate us from conventional thinking and an unsustainable status quo. He also takes up transformations that can occur in agriculture and the economy, with examples that are already working on a small scale. The book provides not a blueprint but numerous points of departure for stimulating discussion and active research.
“Christopher Nye recalls Einstein’s assertion that we can’t solve problems with the same kind of thinking we used in creating them. What then are new ways of thinking? What kind of economy do we imagine for the future? What could be our relation to each other and to Nature? And what about farming and education? This book offers thoughts on what it would mean to fashion what the author calls a New Civilization.”
George K. Russell, Founding Editor of Orion Magazine
“Chris Nye's vision contains the wisdom of an elder — in the revered spiritual sense of the term. He sustains our hope for a more just and beautiful world. This text, with its refusal to view idealism and pragmatism as mutually exclusive, presents a compelling road map for civilizational healing and the rebirth of a culture attuned to the deepest desires of the human heart.”
Philip Francis, Executive Director, Seguinland Institute
“Beyond Tomorrow is an audacious undertaking, but it is delivered with a prescriptive clarity and grace that ultimately assures readers that we shall prevail.”
Jed Horowitz, editor and reporter for Reuters (retired)