Futurist Jeremy Rifkin writes about the deep tectonic changes in our civilization. At first glance this seems just a article on economic and political evolution that can restore balance in our environment. Having almost finished his tome, The Empathic Civilization, I realize that what he describes here is a great example of Divine Love and Mind at work, hurrying along our spiritual evolution (what Mary Baker Eddy calls “the gradations of human belief.”)

Listen to what Rifkin writes in Odewire, “news for intelligent optimists.” (Link at the bottom of this post): “The great economic revolutions in history occur when new communications technologies converge with new energy systems. New energy regimes make possible the creation of more interdependent economic activity and expanded commercial exchange and facilitate more dense and inclusive social relationships. The accompanying communications revolutions become the means to organize and manage the temporal and spatial dynamics that arise from new ­energy systems.

“The Internet revolution and emerging renewable energies (are) about to merge to create a powerful infrastructure for a Third Industrial Revolution (TIR) that will change the world.”

Read the full article on Odewire, “Viva la revolution!”