"With the start of the third millennium, we live at a time of vast changes – changes seemingly so epochal that they may well dwarf those experienced in earlier eras."
~Howard Gardner, PhD, Five Minds For the Future

At critical junctures throughout human history, societies have been required to reinvent themselves. Our current times have led scholars across many disciplines to believe we are at one of those crossroads. Cultural historian Thomas Berry wrote, "The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human." University of Earth is an EcoSpiritual wisdom school, with the central mission of participating in the process of reinventing ourselves, promoting the reinvention of the four central pillars of society: education, politics, economics, and religion, and bringing in the Age of Aquarius.

"A true university would teach peace and community by example, for it would awaken all within its purview
to the joy and meaning of being part of the universe, indeed a thinking and praising part of the universe."
~ Mathew Fox, PhD

When universities were first created in the 12th century, their original meaning was to find one's place in the universe. In the early 1900's, Maria Montessori suggested that all education must first orient the students to this place. In To Educate the Human Potential, Montessori wrote, "Only when the child is able to identify its own center with the center of the universe does education really begin." In contrast, Pulitzer Prize winning cultural anthropologist and psychologist Ernest Becker said, "Today our universities breed competition, separateness, hate, war; we may call them whatever we will – 'hatcheries,' 'uni-nurseries' - but not universities. That institution has not yet dawned in any land on this planet."

Thomas Berry described our educational system and its universities as consumer factories, preparing and training our youth to take their role as the ultimate consumer. "Our educational institutions need to see their purpose not as training personnel for exploiting the Earth but as guiding students toward an intimate relationship with the Earth." Berry continues, "...the university has a special place because it teaches all those professions that control the human endeavor."

"I discern two legitimate reasons for undertaking new educational practices. The first is that current practices are not working.
The second reason is that conditions in the world are changing significantly ...certain goals, capacities, and practices
might no longer be indicated, or might even come to be seen as counterproductive."

"I believe that current formal education still prepares students primarily for the world of the past,
rather than for possible worlds of the future.”
~ Howard Gardner, PhD, Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons

Here at U of Earth, it is our goal to help prepare students for "possible worlds of the future," the coming Golden Age. In the spirit of the original meaning and purpose of the university, U of Earth exists to help people find their place in our Sacred Living Universe, fulfilling their soul purpose and create a world that works for all, where the human community, the natural world and the divine worlds go forward as one sacred community.