Are you ready for the 21st Century?
The following terms are frequently used by those who are thinking about, writing about, discussing, and planning for the 21st Century and the Third Millennium. How many are familiar to you?
Print out and complete. (NB This survey is intended to promote discussion only - it is not a definitive guide to 21st century ideas or terminology.)
Term |
Never heard of it | Heard of it | Familiar with it |
| Chaos Theory | . | . | . |
| Deep Ecology | . | . | . |
| Gaia Theory | . | . | . |
| Holographic Model | . | . | . |
| Implicate Order | . | . | . |
| Morphogenesis | . | . | . |
| Complementary Therapies | . | . | . |
| Subtle Energy | . | . | . |
| Synergy | . | . | . |
| Systems Theory | . | . | . |
| Transpersonal | . | . | .. |
| 100th Monkey Effect | . | . | . |
| Attractors | . | . | . |
| Butterfly Effect | . | . | . |
| Co-creation | . | . | . |
| Ecoliteracy | . | . | . |
| Multiple Intelligences | . | . | . |
| Cosmogenesis | . | . | . |
| Global Brain | . | . | . |
| Holistic | . | . | . |
| Perennial Philosophies | . | . | . |
| Six Degrees of Separation | . | . | . |
| Paradigm or Meme | . | . | . |
| Synchronicity | . | . | . |
| Transcendence | . | . | . |
| Emotional Intelligence | . | . | . |
| Spiritual Literacy | . | . | . |
| Bio-ethics | . | . | . |
| Third Millennium | . | . | . |
| Ethical Investment | . | . | . |
| Higher Sense Perception | . | . | . |
| Indigenous Peoples | . | . | . |
| Meta-cognition | . | . | . |
| Constructivist Postmodernism | . | . | . |
| Reconciliation | . | . | . |
| Spiritual Emergence | . | . | . |
| Wisdom | . | . | . |
SCORE |
0 x | 1 x | 2 x |
TOTAL |
____ + ____ = ____ | ||
TOTAL |
|
| < 5 | Go back to 19th Century |
| < 10 | Go back to 20th Century |
| > 20 | You have noticed some changes |
| > 30 | Welcome to the 21st Century |
> 40 |
You a 21st Century thinker |
> 50 |
You are a leader of the times! |
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