ABSTRACT
Can the West listen to non-western futures is the central question asked in this chapter. The strength of the West has been its ability to maintain a hegemonic relationship while naturalising its own conquest of the future. Through asymmetrical definitional, temporal, spatial and economic relationships, the West has risen to unimaginable heights. However, the inability to listen to the Other, particularly the futures of others, is leading to civilisational flatland. Deep multiculturalism that creates a gaia of cultures focused on all of our futures generations is a far more important endeavour than technocratic forecasting. Offered as alternatives are visions and epistemologies of seeing and living in the future from Tantric, Hawaiian, Islamic and Aboriginal perspectives. But it is not simply more information about the future that will lead to global transformation but planetary trauma and transcendence.
