Building the Institutions of the Future: a Conversation with Jim Garrison

This first contribution to the Integral Transpersonal Journal is the transcript of a conversation held in June 2015 at Pettenasco (Novara) during the “Feeding the Soul” International Festival organized by the Integral Transpersonal Institute in collaboration with EUROTAS. The core of the conversation with Jim Garrison concerns the identification of the nature of what philosopher Ortega Y Gasset has defined “the mission of our time”, and how to take part in it fully. In the conversation several angles of this mission are explored: the gap between inner powers and outer powers (R. Assagioli; A. Korzybski) and the importance of filling this ontological gap as well as the challenge that the nature of this mission presents to the young generations (creating the institutions of the future) the necessary qualities to do one’s part (integrity, responsibility, authenticity, commitment), the worldviews to overcome in order to build a new human civilization (capitalism, patriarchy, conventional religions), the call to education for a new form of humanity and the decisive role of hyper-complexity and the importance of taking the resolution of being our future and to discover the personal myth which is guiding our lives. KEYWORDS Inner powers, outer progression, hyper-complexity, technology, ontological deficit, mission of our time, generations, business, project, paradigm, capitalism, Abrahamic religions, patriarchy, revolution, cosmic consciousness, Gaia, structure, future, courage, commitment, responsibility, authenticity, context, integrity, hyper-complexity, impact, personal myth.