A month ago today, Barbara Marx Hubbard, the futurist thinker (and doer), contacted me. Yes, out of the blue. I arose one day to find an email from this amazing person telling me how much she appreciated my work. I immediately thought “what work?” The connection is not unpredictable since she is the person who coined the term “conscious evolution” and wrote the book on the subject (A few years ago me and Allan Combs started an online journal called The Journal of Conscious Evolution in an attempt to provide an outlet for this emerging view).
Naturally, I continue to be inspired by Barbara and her tireless hope for the future of the planet.
I want to share an excerpt from here book Conscious Evolution that I find particularly wonderful:
Is the convergence of our higher consciousness and expanded creativity enough to tip the scales in favor or a positive future, given the rapid escalation of problems that threaten our survival? I believe the answer is yes, because it is the nature of nature to repattern itself quickly when in conditions of extreme instability, such as we are experiencing through our environmental crisis. Although there are no certainties–we are potentialists, not optimists or pessimists–we can find a logical basis for pragmatic hope in the fabulous, unimaginable 15-billion-year journey of transformation.
Ahhh. What a wonderful thing to read. It is refreshing to know that the world has people like Barbara.
