People are ready to engage in new dialogue and embrace innovative societal structures founded on tolerance, compassion, universal connectedness, and a belief in working toward the greater common good. All that is needed are people and institutions to prominently promote these values and beliefs, instead of holding back or deliberately distorting them.

We are all in this together. How can we move the greatest number of people forward to a more awakened state of being? How can we instill universal spiritual principles, such as compassion and forgiveness, as the supportive framework guiding how we make individual and collective choices?

Such principles can then take a greater role in healing society and freeing up enormous personal and collective energies to co-create a global society based on these greater unifying principles underlying all our great diversity.

Coordinated social expression and actions will need to be grounded in communities, both virtual, as well as geographic ones. In addition to this, we will need to consciously develop new types of leaders, elected and non-elected. New types of leaders must meet very high standards of personal integrity, ethics, and intelligence; be in close alignment with spiritual ideals but not advocates of any one religion; demonstrate a solid commitment to participatory democracy; and support economic, political, and social policy that is in accord with new paradigm, positive future principles.

The choice is ours: work to create a positive, compassionate, and enlightened future, or not – and suffer the consequences.

So let's take a closer look at where there is a social basis for this in our population so that we can gain a broader perspective and more in-depth exposition of some strategies for change.