Humanity's evolution

"This education only makes you capable of memorizing. That education will make you capable of more clarity...It will not encourage repetition, parroting. It will encourage inventiveness...
Education should not be competitive...Somebody is not good at mathematics and you call him mediocre. And he may be good at carpentry, but nobody looks at that. Somebody is not good at literature and you call her stupid - and she will be good at music, at dance. A real education will help people to find their life where they can be fully alive...This world can be such a great, intelligent world if a child is allowed to be himself or herself, helped, supported in every way, and nobody interferes"

-Osho, "Intelligence"

"Think of what has occurred already in this millennium. During the Middle Ages we lived in a simple world of good and evil, defined by the churchmen. But during the Renaissance we broke free. We knew there had to be more to man's situation in the universe than the churchmen knew, and we wanted the full story.
We then sent science out to discover our true nature, but when this effort didn't provide the answers we needed right away, we decided to settle in, and turned out modern work ethic into a preoccupation that secularized reality and squeezed the mystery out of the world. But now, we can see the truth of that preoccupation. We can see that the real reason we spent five centuries creating material supports for human life was to set the stage for something else, a way of life that returns the mystery to existence.
That is what the information now returning from the scientific method indicates: mankind is on this planet to continuously evolve...the human race will first experience a period of intense introspection. We'll grasp how beautiful and spiritual the natural world really is. We'll see trees and rivers and mountains as temples of great power to be held in reverence and awe. We'll demand an end to any economic activity that threatens this treasure...
This will be the first great shift that will occur...which will be a dramatic movement of individuals from one occupation to another -- because when people begin to receive clear intuitions of who they really are and what they're supposed to be doing, they very often discover they're in the wrong job and they have to jump to another type of work in order to continue to grow...
The rest of us, meanwhile, will be following our own intuitions within our chosen occupations and wishing we had even more of this free time...We will be entering the stage of getting paid for evolving freely and offering our unique truth to others...If everyone were participating then we would be giving and receiving constantly and this interaction with others, this exchange of information, would become everyone's new work, our new economic orientation"

James Redfield, "The Celestine Prophecy"