There is growing evidence today that a new species is emerging on Earth with characteristics quite different from Homo sapiens sapiens, so-called wise, wise human. For instance, without giving the new species a name, the last paragraph of Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, being enthusiastically promoted by Oprah Winfrey, is “A new species is arising on the planet. It is arising now, and you are it!”

In a similar fashion, in the Zorba the Buddha discourses given in January 1979, Osho simply called the new species Homo novus, no longer split, living with a peaceful and healthy both-and consciousness, in contrast to the egoic, conflict-ridden, either-or way of thinking that has dominated human affairs for thousands of years.

In a letter published in the December-February 2005/2006 issue of the What is Enlightenment? magazine, Barbara Marx Hubbard, founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and the Evolutionary Edge, went much further, suggesting these names for our emerging species: Homo universalis, Homo noeticus, Homo spiritus, and Homo sapiens sapiens sapiens.

Another possible name for our emerging species is Homo divinus, in recognition of the fact that it was not only Jesus of Nazareth who was both human and divine; all of us are divine human beings. Despite what we are taught in religion, science, and business today, none of us is separate from the Divine, Nature, or each other for a single instant of our lives. We are all one. Our collective destiny is dependent on us all working harmoniously together with a common vision.

The essence of the great transformation of consciousness taking place today, as the vision page shows, is the realization that both human phylogeny and ontogeny are conceived in Paradise, in mystical union with all there is, then move out into the manifest world of form, eventually returning to Paradise at the end of time in the Eternal Now, a notion made famous by Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now.

The purpose of this evolving web site is to gather together, in one place, an integral synthesis of the different ways in which people and institututions are experiencing this radical transformation of culture and consciousness. This means that sometimes it is necessary to make some changes to these various visions so that they all fit together as a coherent whole.

To assist with the awakening of Homo divinus, we need quite different types of institution from those created by Homo sapiens. To this end, the Paragonian Foundation consists of four elements, the Paragonian Fellowship, University, Business Academy, and Publications addressing the spiritual, educational, economic, and communicational needs of the emerging Paragonian Society, the name we could give to the eschatological civilization that could emerge following the death of Western civilization, which dominates the world today through the global economy.

Paragonian derives from the Greek words para, ‘beyond’, and agon, ‘contest’ or ‘conflict’, which we see in the English words agony, until the 17th century meaning ‘mental stress’, and antagonist, ‘a person that one struggles against’. So paragonian means ‘beyond conflict and suffering’, a healthy, liberated, and awakened way of being that we can realize when we live consciously in Love in union with the Divine in the overall context of Consciousness.

The work of the Foundation is being guided by the fundamental design principle of the Universe, called the Principle of Unity: Wholeness is the union of all opposites. This is an irrefutable universal truth known to Lao Tzu, traditionally considered the author of the Taoist classic, Tao Te Ching, Shankaracharya, the founder of Advaita, and Heraclitus, the pre-Socratic mystical philosopher of change. The words health and whole, together with holy, have a common Germanic root: heil. So to be healthy, both as individuals and as a society, is to be whole, fully integrated in body, mind, and spirit.

The remainder of this introductory page briefly describes the four constituents of the Paragonian Foundation, as we envisage them today. You are most welcome to explore the other pages, which are steadily expanding as evolution becomes ever more conscious of itself.

The overall purpose of the Paragonian Fellowship is to help stimulate the spiritual renaissance taking place today, giving it a common focus. The essence of this rebirth is that the monotheistic religions regard God as other, attempting to deny that our immanent divine Essence is Love. This is a revolution that is emerging primarily through intuitive, feminine energies, arising from the grass roots. However, this Awakening-of-Love movement lacks cohesion and a common vision. So we are seeking to create a network of networks that can generate the synergy we need to create a miracle. For synergy arises through new relationships that are formed, apparently out of nothing.

The overall purpose of the Paragonian University is to complete the scientific revolution that has been taking place during the past few decades, just as Newton’s Principia completed the Copernican revolution. Using our self-reflective Intelligence, we shall be engaged in awakening to ourselves, rebuilding the last 5,000 years of human learning on the Truth within the overall context of Consciousness. The university is so named because university, like universe, has a Latin root meaning ‘turned into one whole’. But universities today are deeply fragmented, very far from living up to their name, falling far short of the wisdom that the young are desperately crying out for.

With the emerging spiritual renaissance and scientific revolution as prerequisites, the principal goal of the Paragonian Business Academy is to cocreate an economic revolution, recognizing that our health and well-being as a species is dependent on us all working harmoniously together with a common vision, free of the divisiveness of pathogenic monetary systems. By recognizing that in Reality we are all one, with no borders either within us or between us, we shall be engaged in cocreating a life-enhancing, ecologically sustainable economy called the Sharing Economy.

Paul Hague, the founder of Paragonian Publications has so far written three books on our rapidly changing society, available for download here. The first was The Paragonian Manifesto: Revealing the Coherent Light of Consciousness, intended as a holistic, spiritual replacement for The Communist Manifesto. Wholeness: The Union of All Opposites is a scholarly work describing both-and integral relational logic (IRL), the gnostic foundation and metaphysical framework for the unified relationships theory (URT), a coherent body of knowledge that describes all the forces in the Universe—both physical and psychospiritual—within a single, all-encompassing framework. Thirdly, Healing the Mind in Wholeness: A Brief History of Me desribes how Life has healed Paul’s shattered, fragmented, and split mind in Wholeness. Some articles are also available for downloading.