We live in an age of unprecedented change. For most of our early history there was not a great amount of change in a single lifetime. A son or daughter could expect to live a life much like their parents and grandparents. That is no longer true.  The old ways of the past no longer answer the questions of the day as the have in the past.

We now live in a global society, so whatever we do can affect the entire planet. In the past our violence has tended to only have a local impact, but now we have the tools that could end human life altogether. At the same time we have made enormous leaps forward in our understanding of the world we live in and how we function as individuals and as societies.

The question that drove the writing of this book was, "What do we really need to do to get beyond using the violence we perpetrate on each other so as to live full and compassionate lives". Victor MacGill has been working on this book now for 15 years and finally it is very near to being published. 
Victor discovered the science of chaos and complexity and found a holistic way of seeing the world that made sense for the modern world and provided the framework for investigating the roots of human violence.

The book is divided into five sections:

The first section looks at the issue of violence, particularly from an evolutionary perspective.

The second section examines at the principles and concepts of complexity.

The third section looks at human psychology from a complexity perspective.

The fourth section explores some other ideas and theories, such as Ken Wilber and the Integral vision, Spiral Dynamics and the Adaptive Cycle.

The fifth section looks at various epochs of history from a complexity perspective. This puts history into perspective and suggests pathways for the future.

The sixth section focuses on our present situation and some possible futures,

The seventh section brings the whole book together to create a vision for the future working towards living from compassion.