Chapter 13

When we embark on this Great Turning adventure, there are no guarantees that we’ll be able to turn things far or fast enough to safeguard our civilisation, or indeed, to ensure the continued existence of conscious life on Earth. We will probably not know in our lifetimes whether we are serving as deathbed attendants to a dying world or as midwives to the next stage of human evolution. The final chapter, Strengthened by Uncertainty, acknowledges both the inescapable nature of this uncertainty and its capacity to awaken and ennoble us at this turning in our human journey.