1. Sidney Lanier, The Sovereign Person: A Soul’s Call to Conscious Evolution (Santa Barbara, CA: Foundation for Conscious Evolution, 2010).
1. Jonas Salk, Anatomy of Reality: Merging of Intuition and Reason (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983).
2. Eric Chaisson, The Life Era: Cosmic Selection and Conscious Evolution (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1989).
3. Eric Chaisson, “Our Cosmic Heritage,” ZYGON 23, no. 4 (December 1988).
4. Paul Hawken, Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming (New York: Viking Penguin, 2007).
5. Ferris Jabr, “How Does a Caterpillar Turn into a Butterfly?” Scientific American, August 10, 2012, www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=caterpillar-butterfly-metamorphosis-explainer.
6. Duane Elgin with Coleen LeDrew, Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging Paradigm, http://duaneelgin.com/global-consciousness-change-emerging-paradigm (accessed May 22, 2014). Collaborating organizations: the Fetzer Institute, the Institute of Noetic Sciences, the Brande Foundation, the California Institute of Integral Studies, the State of the World Forum (Millennium Project, 1997).
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8. Paul H. Ray, The Potential for a New, Emerging Culture in the U.S.: Report on the 2008 American Values Survey, chapter 2, “The Cultural Creatives” (Boise, ID: Wisdom University, 2008), www.wisdomuniversity.org/CCsReport2008SurveyV3.pdf (accessed October 3, 2014).
9. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, new edition, 1987).
10. Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: Harper & Row, 1975).
11. Abraham H. Maslow, Toward a Psychology of Being. 2nd ed. (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1982); Abraham H. Maslow, The Further Reaches of Human Nature (New York: Penguin/Arkana, 1993); Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (New York: Washington Square Press, 1985); and Robert Assagioli, Psychosynthesis: A Manual of Principles and Techniques (New York: Viking Press, 1971).
1. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940).
1. Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Evolutionary Journey: A Personal Guide to a Positive Future (San Francisco: Evolutionary Press, 1982).
2. Stanislav Grof, The Adventure of Self-Discovery: Dimensions of Consciousness and New Perspectives in Psychotherapy and Inner Exploration (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988).
3. Daniel C. Matt, God and the Big Bang: Discovering the Harmony between Science and Spirituality (Woodstock, VT: Jewish Lights Publishing, 1996).
4. Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry, The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992).
5. Krafft A. Ehricke, “Extraterrestrial Imperative,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, November 1971.
6. Riane Eisler, The Chalice and the Blade (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1987).
7. Michael Grosso, Frontiers of the Soul (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1992).
8. Gregory Stock, Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993).
9. Duane Elgin, Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1993).
1. Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (New York: Penguin, 1991).
2. Eric Chaisson, The Life Era: Cosmic Selection and Conscious Evolution (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1989).
3. John Randolph Price, The Planetary Commission (Austin, TX: Quartus Foundation for Spiritual Research, 1984).
4. Peter Russell, The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap (Palo Alto, CA: Global Brain, 1995).
5. United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, “World Population Prospects: The 2012 Revision” (press release), June 13, 2013.
6. Rupert Sheldrake, A New Science of Life: The Hypothesis of Formative Causation (Los Angeles: J. P. Tarcher, 1981).
7. Peter Russell, The White Hole in Time: Our Future Evolution and the Meaning of Now (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992).
8. Jan Smuts, Holism and Evolution (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1973).
9. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man (New York: HarperCollins, 1975).
10. David B. Ellis, Creating Your Future: A Guide to Long-Range Visioning (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998).
11. Kenneth Cox, “A Futurist Perspective for Space,” PowerPoint presentation, 2001, http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceFuturist.pdf (accessed October 3, 2014).
1. Eric Chaisson, “Our Cosmic Heritage,” ZYGON 23, no. 4 (December 1988).
2. Beatrice Bruteau, “Symbiotic Cosmos,” The Roll: Newsletter of the Schola Contemplationis, December 1993.
3. Timothy Leary, Info-Psychology (A Re-Vision of Exo-Psychology): A Manual on the Use of the Human Nervous System According to the Instructions of the Manufacturers (Las Vegas: New Falcon Press, 1989).
4. Bruce Lipton, The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2007).
5. Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (Lakeville, CT: International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Co., 1958).
1. Richard Elliott Friedman, The Disappearance of God: A Divine Mystery (New York: Little, Brown and Co., 1995).
2. Theodore B. Roszak, The Voice of the Earth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992).
3. Erich Jantsch, Design for Evolution: Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human Systems (New York: George Braziller, 1975).
4. Hazel Henderson, Building a Win-Win World: Life Beyond Global Economics (San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996); Elisabet Sahtouris, “The Biology of Globalization,” Perspectives on Business and Global Change 2, no. 3 (September 1997), www.worldbusiness.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/pro997es.pdf (accessed October 3, 2014).
5. Jerome Clayton Glenn, Future Mind: Artificial Intelligence — Merging the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st Century (Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1989).
6. Nassim Haramein, conversation with author, 2007.
1. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 30th anniv. ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006).
2. Howard Bloom, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995).
3. Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust (New York: Vintage Books/Random House, 1997).
4. Bloom, The Lucifer Principle.
5. John Shelby Spong, Liberating the Gospels (New York: HarperCollins, 1996).
6. Ilia Delio, The Emergent Christ: Exploring the Meaning of Catholic in an Evolutionary Universe (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2011); and Ilia Delio, Christ in Evolution (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008).
7. Theodore B. Roszak, The Voice of the Earth (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992).
8. Ken Wilber, A Brief History of Everything (Boston and London: Shambhala, 1996).
9. Arthur Schlesinger, The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society (New York: Norton, 1993).
10. Ervin Laszlo, The Chaos Point 2012 and Beyond: Appointment with Destiny (Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads, 2012).
11. Paul Hawken, The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability (New York: HarperBusiness, 1993).
12. George Soros, “The Capitalist Threat,” Atlantic Monthly, February 1997.
13. Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity: Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics (Lakeville, CT: International Non-Aristotelian Library Publishing Co., 1958).
14. David L. Cooperrider, Appreciative Management and Leadership: The Power of Positive Thinking and Action in Organizations (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990).
1. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (New York: HarperCollins, 2008).
2. John Geirland, “Go with the Flow,” Wired, September 1996, http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/4.09/czik_pr.html.
3. Sidney Lanier, The Sovereign Person: A Soul’s Call to Conscious Evolution (Santa Barbara, CA: Foundation for Conscious Evolution, 2010).
4. Professor A. Harris Stone, personal correspondence with author, 1997.
5. Deepak Chopra, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams (San Rafael, CA: Amber-Allen/New World Library, 1994).
1. M. Mitchell Waldrop, “The Trillion-Dollar Vision of Dee Hock,” Fast Company, October/November 1996, www.fastcompany.com/27333/trillion-dollar-vision-dee-hock.
2. Ilya Prigogine, “A Chemist Told How Life Could Defy Physics Laws,” New York Times, October 12, 1977.
3. Marilyn Ferguson, The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in Our Time (New York: Jeremy Tarcher/Putnam, 1987).
1. David L. Cooperrider, “Appreciative Inquiry: A Constructive Approach to Organizational Development and Change,” Research in Organizational Change and Development, vol. I (Greenwich, CT: J.A.I. Press, 1987).
2. Alvin Toffler, Future Shock (New York: Random House, 1984); and Alvin Toffler, The Third Wave (New York: Bantam, 1991).
3. Carolyn Anderson with Katharine Roske, The Co-Creator’s Handbook: An Experiential Guide for Discovering Your Life’s Purpose and Building a Co-Creative Society (Penn Valley, CA: Global Family, 2001).
4. Paul Ray, PhD, quoted in “Same Planet, Different Worlds: How Cultural Creatives Are Transcending Alienation and Isolation to Bring Forward the Practical Wisdom of Conscious Living — An Interview with Social Scientist Paul Ray, PhD,” Kindred, September 15, 2013, www.kindredcommunity.com/2013/09/same-planet-different-worlds-how-cultural-creatives-are-bringing-forward-the-practical-wisdom-of-conscious-living.
1. David L. Cooperrider, “Appreciative Inquiry: A Constructive Approach to Organizational Development and Change,” Research in Organizational Change and Development, vol. I (Greenwich, CT: J.A.I. Press, 1987).
2. C. Otto Scharmer, Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2009); Peter Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, Joseph Jaworski, and Betty Sue Flowers, Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (New York: Crown Business, 2005).
3. Justin Rosenstein, “Do Great Things — Your Role in the Human Project,” Wisdom 2.0 speech, 2013, www.youtube.com/watch?v=mivoSvYusAU.
4. Justin Rosenstein, email correspondence with author, 2013.
5. Bharat Mitra, email correspondence with author, 2014.
6. Eleanor LeCain, with an introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Breakthrough Solutions: How to Improve Your Life and Change the World by Building on What Works (Washington, DC: New Way Press, 2011).
7. David L. Cooperrider, “Appreciative Inquiry: A Constructive Approach to Organizational Development and Change,” Research in Organizational Change and Development, vol. I (Greenwich, CT: J.A.I. Press, 1987).
8. The Millennium Project, “About Us,” n.d., www.millennium-project.org/overview.html (accessed October 3, 2014).
9. LeCain, Breakthrough Solutions.
10. Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual and Social Change (Unity Village, MO: Unity House, 2010). McLaughlin has also correlated each of the Wheel’s twelve sectors with an astrological sign and created a community ritual and meditation using the Wheel; see “Inspiring Solutions on the Wheel of Cocreation,” Center for Visionary Leadership, n.d., www.visionarylead.org/articles/wheel_cocreation.htm (accessed October 3, 2014).
1. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, The Evolving Self: A Psychology for the Third Millennium (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).
2. Carl Jung, Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1969).
3. Erich Jantsch, Design for Evolution: Self-Organization and Planning in the Life of Human Systems (New York: George Braziller, 1975).
1. David B. Ellis and Stan Lankowitz, Creating Your Future: A Guide to Long Range Visioning (Rapid City, SD: Breakthrough Enterprises, 1997); and Dave Ellis and Stan Lankowitz, Human Being: A Manual for Happiness, Health, Love, and Wealth (Rapid City, SD: Breakthrough Enterprises, 1997).
2. James Redfield, The Tenth Insight (New York: Warner Books, 1996); and James Redfield, The Celestine Vision (New York: Warner Books, 1997).
1. Ralph Abraham, Chaos, Gaia, Eros (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994).
2. Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York: Bantam, 1979).
3. Paul Taylor, email correspondence with author, 2014.
4. Michael Grosso, The Millennium Myth: Love and Death at the End of Time (Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 1995).
5. Richard Maurice Bucke, MD, Cosmic Consciousness: A Classic Investigation of the Development of Man’s Mystic Relationship to the Infinite (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969).
6. O. W. Markley, “Human Consciousness in Transformation,” Evolution and Consciousness: Human Systems in Transition, ed. Erich Jantsch and Conrad H. Waddington (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1976).
7. Hazel Henderson, The Politics of the Solar Age (Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1981).
8. Eric K. Drexler, The Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1986).
1. Ken Carey, The Third Millennium: Living in the Posthistoric World (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1995).
2. Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man (New York: HarperCollins, 1959).
3. Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of YOU (Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2011).
1. Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990).
2. Ervin Laszlo, The Whispering Pond: A Personal Guide to the Emerging Vision of Science (Rockport, MA: Element, 1996).
3. Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1992).
4. Jerome Clayton Glenn, Future Mind: Artificial Intelligence — Merging the Mystical and the Technological in the 21st Century (Washington, DC: Acropolis Books, 1989).
5. Deepak Chopra, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind (New York: Random House, 1993).
6. Eric Drexler, Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology (New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1986).
7. Ted Chu, PhD, Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential (San Rafael, CA: Origin Press, 2014), 381.
8. Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler, Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (New York: Free Press, 2012).
9. Barbara Marx Hubbard, The Evolutionary Journey: A Personal Guide to a Positive Future (San Francisco: Evolutionary Press, 1982), 93–94.