The document discusses how religions and beliefs have evolved over time based on changing human survival conditions and social developments. It argues that early hunter-gatherer societies developed shamanism while early settlements led to goddess worship. Urbanization around 3000 BC led to the rise of kingdoms, trade, conflicts and the need for higher-level belief systems. It then examines the major world religions that emerged between 1000 BC to 600 AD and their philosophical underpinnings. The document advocates for an evolution of human consciousness towards greater empathy, cooperation and sustainability in light of modern challenges facing the planet.

1. http://2100.org Thierry Gaudin Religions : from history to foresight

2. Do you see triangles ? By Kanizsa (Trieste)

3. We have not chosen our beliefs We give our agreement to the tale of the planet Don Miguel Ruiz, nagual

4. Look at religions through ethology : 1-beliefs are built by human mind 2-they are inspired by survival conditions, that change 3-practices are selected through darwinian processes.

5. Hunters-gatherers: chamanism 1-the man of knowledge : the chaman 2-the initiatic trip, the second birth 3-the places and processes of communication with spirits Memory bird

6. settlement (-8500) : The goddesses Çatal Hüyük

7. Urban developments (-3000) Selection of seeds Surplus markets accounting metrology writing schools check courts calculus caravans : taming of the camel and the horse (-3000)

8. Mesopotamia : Gilgamesh

9. Likely scenario : -3000, camel and horse are domesticated massive urban development : trade is developing caravans <- predators (from central asia…) protectors -> kingdoms Trade + conflicts -> Guiles, deceits Zarathustra : an upper level is needed where truth is to be claimed

10. Daevas Ahuras Vedic India (~1000-1700BC) : knowledge and power

11. Ahura Mazda Zarathustra (~700 ~1700 BC) : merging knowledge and power

12. Knowledge Daevas Power Ahuras Life ~1700 ? BC Zoroastrian

13. Persia Achemenid (7°-3° BC) Ahura Mazda : Solar divinity Forces of life and light Ormuzd Daevas-> Daïmon Ahriman

14. Knowledge : Devas Power : Ahuras life Post vedic India Brahmanic

15. The three functions in India Spirituality (Brahma) creative destruction (Shiva) Protection of life (Vishnu)

16. The Sadus

17. 6th century BC, century of the spirit : Confucius, Lao Tseu Buddha Pythagore Greek philosophy startpoint Milet and Ephese Synagog and Torah ? Distinction between what is and what is not (Parmenide)

18. 5th century BC ; 12th century AD From faith to institutions Mani (216-276) St Augustin (354-430) Muhammad (570-632) Christ (0-33)

19. 12th century : a love story Alberoni : l’innamoramento, native state Christianism Judaism Islam Al Andaluz Alonso X Averroes Maimonides Ibn Arabi : Man is the pupil of God

20. R ûmi Ibn Arabi

21. Institutional reaction : 1099 : Pope Innocent III : first inquisitorial procedure against heretics : « Vergentis Insenium » 1132 : Inquisition becomes the dominicans mission 1248 : Montsegur stake 15 May 1252, Innocent IV : Bull « ad extirpanda » Institutional creation : the european universities Bologna, Paris, Oxford

22. The centuries of the spirit : 15°BC : Zarathustra ? 6° BC : Lao Tseu, Confucius, Bouddha, presocratics 3° AD : gnostics 12° AD : Al andaluz 18°-21° AD : the enlightenments -> the planet Similar messages : Zarathustra claims for truth Socrates too ; he drinks the poison Christ chases merchants out of the temple : crucified Mani : all religions say the same thing -> racked Muhammad chases merchants out of Mecca Galileo : « eppur si muove » ; Giordano Bruno executed

23. Terrestre : Vasco de Gama XIVe Maritime : Christophe Colomb XIVe Navigateur portugais ligue hanséatique XIIIe s. route de la soie Les mondialisations successives L’atlas de Cantino1502 : seulement 10 ans après Christophe Colomb

24. Let the memory speak First stop

25. Printing and protestantism Gutenberg, 1468

26. Valladolid controversy Bartolomé Las Casas 1550

27. Industrial revolution Scottish enlightenment Knowledge spread out by printing

28. Industrial revolution 1750-1980 in Europe Steel, cement Combustion Taylorism Microbiology

29. Masters and owners of Nature (Descartes)

30. Cartesian philosophy of knowledge Subject Object Industrial revolution : Scientism

31. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon Cognitive industrialisation A machine to see everything A furtive power cameras in the streets

32. Industrialisation To marriage in Moon sect

33. In 1953, Martin Heidegger, in an engineering school, talks « Die frage der teknik » : 1- the essence of technology is nothing technical 2- the essence of technology is the being itself 3- the essence of « modern » technology is the ge-stell In the most extreme danger also grows salvation Inhabit earth as a poet (Hölderlin)

34. After the memory speach The third millenium

35. Cognitive revolution 1980-2180 Polymers Electricity Optronics Bio-ecology Converging

36. By land Vasco de Gama XIVe By sea : digital : Internet hanseatic league XIIIe The silk road Globalisation since -3000 Cantino’s atlas 1502 : only 10 years after Christopher Columbus Christopher Columbus 1492

37. Internet penetration 2010 world 28,7% Au 74,8 Fr 68,9 Sp 62,6 It 51,7 Fi 85,3 D 79,1 UK 82,5 Port 48,1 Swe 92,5 Isl 97,6 Nl 88,6 Be 77,8 Ir 65,8 Dk 86,1 India 6,9 Pakistan 10,4 Kazakhstan 34,3 Indonesia 12,3 Thaïland 26,3 China 31,6 Vietnam 27,1 Singapour 77,8 Malaisia 64,6 Taiwan 70,1 Japan 78,2 Hong-Kong 68,8 Korea 81,1 Venezuela 34,2 Mexico 27,2 Brazil 37,8 Peru 27,0 Argentina 64,4 Chile 50,0 Canada 77,7 USA 77,3 Algeria 13,6 Egypt 21,2 South Africa 10,8 Tunisia 34,0 Morocco 33,0 Source : internetworldstats.com In 2025, more than 75% on the whole planet. Polycultural Internet. Telecom operators challenging banks… Se 55,9 Sk 74,3 Sv 64,8 Bo 31,2 Ro 35,5 Po 58,4 Cz 65,5 Ru 42,8 Gr 43,2 Hu 61,8 Cr 50 Mn 44,1 Ma 51 Li 59,3 Es 75,1 La 67,8 Al 43,5

38. Babel is back Basic : 600 words Author : 6000 Language : 60000 words X 6700 languages Techno : 6 Millions items Unicode : 65536 signs Intelligence at all levels : Global and regional Management illusion : 400 words to control the world Biological diversity : 6 to 30 Millions

39. The time barrier We are not living in an information society, but in a « disinformation society » Classical economics assumed that actors were perfectly informed lucid and watchful. The basic assumption being false, the theory is not valid any more Desorientation is everywhere : Hyperchoice (Toffler), cognitive overload… and what about Gramsci’s cultural hegemony ? Magritte The therapist

40. Mind your brain…

41. Children drawings (Bade Wurtemberg) TV : less than 1 hour a day TV : more than 3 hours a day

42. Diversity of beliefs

43. The world seen by Huntington

44. Kali The hidden divinity of economy : Creative destruction (Schumpeter) mobilises trillions of $ and requires human sacrifices

45. Destruction of Kali’s temple Excess of creative destruction turns to destructive destruction

46. Cloud The three functions (Dumezil) nowadays Creative destruction (capitalism) Protection of life (ecology)

47. The key question of foresight, which will be even more present in the coming decades, is the disruption of the equilibrium between nature and human species. The greenhouse effect, the reduction of biodiversity, the exhaustion of sea resources and the destruction of tropical rainforests impose behaviours opposite to the current watchwords of productivity, consumption and competition. If the Internet is intended to work as a planetary nervous system, is it able to become the base of a global consciousness of the whole human species, enough to reverse the regulations of its behaviours ?

48. Anxious care for Mother Earth : Rio summit 92

49. « Mother earth » (Gaïa, Lovelock) Female divinity : humanity survival depends on the planet Toci Ixquic Coatlicue Ehuacueye Cuerauaperi Peuame Mam Seen From space

50. Cognitive revolution Biological model : recognition Living being Living being Enter the future

51. Empathy, observed at neural level steps over the barrier between species (Lorentz, Lestel) New « Valladolid controversy » : have animals a soul, and other living beings too? Empathy would be also the basis of collective beings : tribes, firms, NGO’s… and now virtual communities

52. Charles Darwin thinking path Beginning of life, 3,4 Billion years RNAs, the messengers 0,8 billion years : polycellulars appear mutual recognition, cooperation and specialisation

53. Nature’s information inventions : The nervous system Music, danse, speech Vision Internet, global nervous system

54. The roots of the past :Tibernitus garden We are not made of matter Matter flows through our bodies ; identity stays Identity is made of communication processes Apoptosis : cellular suicide by lack of communication

55. Monet’s nymphéas Human beings are the follow up of the evolution of consciousness Consciousness raised from elementary to global, From the cell to the plant, then to the animal, then to humans… And soon to the whole biosphere

56. Earth seen from the sky The « struggle for life » vision (Spencer) shows only a small part of life, natural pruning. The essence of life is made of cooperation, symbiosis of cells, individuals, organisations, species This cooperation is made of information exchange flows, recognition and anticipation. It is the rise of consciousness.

57. « cosmic speculation garden » Spencer’s vision, the « struggle for life » inspired economic and political thinking since the industrial revolution (real politics, competitivity…) Facing the limits of the planet, maintaining this vision would lead to collapse (Jared Diamond) Thus, evolution of consciousness needs a great step forward

58. Declining : Rising : From heteronomia to autonomia : the values De Waal Simondon Cyrulnik Domination Conquest Performance Empathy Individuation Resilience Authors :

59. 2 missions in the scealed dome. From 26 september 1991 to 26 september 1993. From march to september 1994 Biosphere 2 : Noah’s (Utanapisti) arch of the third millenium

60. How many different species for a stable ecosystem?

61. To Homo Sapiens Foresight for 21st century From Homo Coca-colensis

62. http://2100. org Thanks for your attention Time has come To dream another future