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Marion Institute
Since its inception in 1992, the
Marion Institute has probed age-old questions: who are we and where do
we come from? We have held many conferences and workshops with
numerous internationally renowned guest speakers who have shared
with the Marion community their views and insights based on
their life’s work.
The Marion Institute has been guided by a
powerful hunch that things are not at all what they seem to be.
The received wisdom about where we came from, how we got here,
what we know and don’t know, may be significantly different
from what we have been taught to suppose. These hunches have
been stimulated by the unprecedented increase in human knowledge
over the last one hundred and fifty years in general, and over the
last fifty or so years in particular. In all fields, from
archeology and anthropology to history, biology, astronomy,
medicine, geology, climatology, and physics, to mention a few,
our understanding of the world is in a rapidly changing state.
It is the Marion Institute’s view that
knowledge about our past, our origins, and our place in the
universe has been profoundly forgotten, or distorted and
obscured over centuries, even millennia. Much of this forgotten
knowledge is coming to light today.
The Metahistory Dialogue is the Marion
Institute’s first formal attempt, through this website, to
reach out to a larger audience and share our thoughts and ideas
about metahistory. “Metahistory” literally means “beyond
history”. The term is meant to signify a deeper human
knowledge and wisdom that lies beyond our conventional and
habitual view of who we are and where we come from. But while
metahistory’s purpose may sound lofty and esoteric, we believe
it is fundamental to our lives. Many of us believe that humanity
is on a collision course toward civilizational and biological
disaster. The resolution of the world’s woes today may well
depend upon our ability to make a “mid-course
correction” about ourselves and our relationship to Earth.
What follows is the Marion Institute’s
initial attempt to create an interactive inquiry into the core
concerns of metahistory. We hope you find our website
provocative and inspiring, and we encourage your participation.
The site will be regularly updated, introducing articles from
scholars, independent investigators and researchers as well as
photographs, drawings, recommended books, anecdotes, and
shared experiences.
We invite you to take a good look and join us
in this collaborative adventure. Inquiring into our true purpose as
a uniquely endowed species is an adventure in which we seek a
new orientation to our story, a way of viewing life that will
preserve its sacred value for all.
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