David Cigoj: New World Philosophy for You – Evolve to Thrive

Slides can be found here. Relevant website: https://newworldphilosophy.org/

Throughout history, people’s lives have been guided by a cacophony of often conflicting wisdom and religions focused on the next or afterlife. The result was persistent misery, violence, and suffering.

In our era, the standard of living is improving for many people, but this does not help much as we are utterly disoriented in the face of overwhelming and fast-growing life complexity amid the alarmingly degradating natural environment. As our number has jumped to 8 billion, living conditions have changed profoundly, but we haven’t changed accordingly.

In a time when the need for radical improvement in the quality of human thinking, functioning, and living is becoming ever more urgent, David Cigoj presents his book entitled New World Philosophy for You (NWP). NWP is based on the synthesis of fascinating knowledge created across the disciplines of social sciences. Let’s make it clear: for the radical improvement of life we need – not a new religion or ideology but a science-based philosophy.

• NWP is science-based thus reliable and trustworthy, neutral and acceptable by all.
• NWP is well structured, which enables autonomous navigation to anyone within this philosophical knowledge.
• NWP is clarifying in a world full of false assumptions and biased thinking.
• NWP tries to connect cause and effect.
• NWP is a holistic meta-theory exceeding partiality and subjectivism.
• NWP focuses on paradigmatic change.
• NWP is developmental describing the stages of individual and social development.
• NWP is elegant.
• NWP is effective as it is based on knowledge about what really works.
• NWP shares the excitement and passion for the life of consciousness development.
• NWP is based on four cornerstones: freedom and empowerment, love and responsibility.
• NWP tries to be attractive to most people and purely positive for all.
• NWP has the power to unite people.
• NWP has the power to improve and possibly even save the world.
• NWP brings hope and optimism.
• NWP should be continuously improved, which is why it is an open-source book.

Join this transformative movement and shape a thriving, responsible world. Who, if not you? When, if not now?

David Cigoj grew up in a culturally diverse region near the Slovenia-Italy border, an area shaped by the contrasts of East and West, and communism and capitalism. This intercultural backdrop sparked his lifelong curiosity about why some individuals and cultures thrive while others do not.

After earning a degree in business management, David launched a magazine that explored human creativity and wisdom, though it was soon eclipsed by the rise of the Internet. He then transitioned to journalism, contributing to the elite Saturday supplement of Slovenia’s largest newspaper, where his articles included analyses of Italian and German mentalities. His career path also led him to become an international tour guide, facilitating cultural exchanges between English-speaking tourists and various European destinations, as well as India and China.

Cigoj cultivates a wide range of interests from history to art history, economics, finance, architecture, photography and others. He loves and deeply identifies with Europe and tries to understand it at the most subtle levels.

David’s profound cross-cultural experiences culminated in a series of revelations about the evolution of consciousness, inspiring him to pursue doctoral studies in sociology with a focus on human development.

Fascinated by the transformative power of development of consciousness, he dedicated seven years to writing his book, New World Philosophy for You, which was published in the English language in April 2023. His work aims at the profound transformation of humanity by elucidating the process of the development of consciousness.