Scientific and technological progress, particularly in the last few decades, reflects the influence of new knowledge systems and notions of reality that are forcing us to gradually discard some of our most cherished religious and epistemic concepts while reviving some long forgotten myths and traditions. The evidence that we are part of a very complex and probably densely populated universe shows that we must reorganise our institutions and change our frames of reference in order to move on to the next evolutionary level as a planetary species, related to the Cosmos at large.
