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It looks deeply at how the most important challenges ahead for the species will require not just better ideas, but new human capacities; in the end, an essential growing up as a species-a new Cultural Maturity. It is written for those inter- ested in acquiring the newly sophisticated leadership abilities that we will more and more need in all parts of our lives in times ahead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concept of Cultural Maturity makes understandable how institutional structures and beliefs that in modern times have served us well can't be the ideals and end points that we have assumed them to be. It goes on to articulate a new guiding story for our time, one able to take us equally beyond denial, cynicism, and na ve wishful thinking. This book looks deeply at the changes the concept of Cultural Maturity describes-both how they make needed new capacities possible, and how we see their beginnings in many parts of our personal and collective lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concept of Cultural Maturity is based on the ideas of Creative Systems Theory, a comprehensive framework for understanding change, purpose, and interrelationship in human systems. Creative Systems Theory describes how Cultural Maturity's changes are as, or more, significant than those that brought us modern democratic governance 250 years ago. It also argues that if the concept of Cultural Maturity is not basically correct, it is hard to imagine a healthy and vital human future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn addition to introducing the concept of \u003ci\u003eCultural Maturity, Cultural Maturity: A Guidebook for the Future\u003c\/i\u003e presents important related ideas from Creative Systems Theory. 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