Lifeshifts to Worldshifts — Future Human Alchemy

We all have dreams — frequently they also include dreams of a better future for ourselves and others. We also have nightmares — about what could go wrong, sometimes in the worst possible way. Our subconscious and conscious minds prepare us for possible futures and hopefully steer us toward better versions of those futures. Living systems are anticipatory by nature. In many ways, we already instinctively know what better looks like, even if we find it hard to articulate or realize.

“Optimism is a strategy for creating a better future” — Noam Chomsky

“We are at that stage where the real work of humanity begins. This is the time where we partner Creation in the recreation of ourselves, in the restoration of the biosphere, and in the assuming of a culture of kindness where we live daily life in such a way as to be reconnected and charged and intelligenced by the source of our reality so as to become liberated in our inventiveness and engaged in our world and tasks.”

Author and Cultural Philosopher, Jean Houston, Personal Communication

I sometimes dream of a world powered by renewable energy, where all human beings thrive in flourishing habitats; where businesses operate in a circular economy that regenerates natural capital, without a particle of waste, led by enlightened leaders whose goal is to maximize the thriving of all stakeholders.