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The Evolutionary Outrider: 
The Impact of the Human Agent on Evolution
by David Loye

"There must be a shift in focus from learning only of how our planet and our species over the past have come to be, to how we can now -- here in the present, fervently attuned to the future -- much more rapidly evolve."

David Loye

The Evolutionary Outrider:  has just been published by Praeger Books in the U.S. and Adamantine Press in England. Edited by David Loye, this is a book of chapters by leading scientists who are trying to find ways to build a better world. The theme in common is how do we go beyond the old "survival of the fittest" and "selfish gene" kind of Darwinian theory to build a theory of evolution in tune with the best rather than the worst in us? How do we build a theory of evolution that helps us change our lives for the better? How can our species -- which is rapidly becoming another endangered species -- more quickly evolve? Eisler's chapter "Conscious Evolution: Cultural Transformation and Human Agency" looks at the next step for her development of cultural transformation theory. This is her development of Relational Dynamics -- a new way of understanding all kinds of relationships. In terms of the partnership and dominator models, she explores:

• social and economic relations
• systems relations
• tehnological relations
• gender and childrearing relations
• motivational relations

Loye's chapter "Evolutionary Action Theory: A Brief Outline" is the first statement of his new action-oriented theory of evolution that goes to the core of the problem of evolution from the viewpoint of the activist. What is holding us back? The dominator paradigm. How does it do this? Through its specific human agents, the "gatekeepers" throughout our society who control what gets published, put on the air, or put into effect in our lives. How do we prevail against them? Loye outlines specific tactics and strategies involving:

• creative transcendence
• creative transformation
• moral action

Other chapters are by general evolution theorist Ervin Laszlo, physicist Fritjof Capra, biophysicist Mae-Wan Ho, brain scientist Karl Pribram, creativity researcher Alfonso Montuori, energy healer Maria Sagi, sociologist Raymond Bradley, evolutionary philosophers Mauro Ceruti and Telmo Pievani, chaos theorist Ralph Abraham, economic theorist Hazel Henderson, and sociologist Paul Ray, author of the new "Cultural Creatives" national survey. This survey shows that -- rather than being a small minority -- already one out of every four Americans is resonating to the values of the partnership movement.
 

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