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Emergence Disturbs the Concept of Linearity
When Bayo Akomolafe was a child he prayed to God for a "faith-o-meter" -- some
kind of tool that would measure his worthiness and assure him of his place in
heaven. "Of course I didn't get my prayer answered," he says. "But I got
something better than an answer, I got bewildered, and I am in a state of
bewilderment now." An academic, poet and philosopher, Bayo Akomolafe has
dedicated his life to mediating between the spiritual and the scientific. Raised
as a Christian in the hyper-religious Nigerian capital of Lagos, he studied
Psychology and then while researching for his PhD spent 7 years lecturing at
Nigeria's Covenant University. In 2016, he co-founded The Emergence Network, an
alliance of people, initiatives and communities using art, research and ritual
to reframe some of the world's interlocking social and environmental problems."
