Just received the following invite from Barbara Marx Hubbard, a friend and leader in conscious evolution, about an upcoming teleconference.

Dearly Beloved Pioneers throughout the world,

I write to celebrate our journey:

FROM REVOLUTION TO OUR CONSCIOUS EVOLUTION

FROM INDEPENDENCE TO INTERDEPENENCE

FROM SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS TO WHOLE-ORGANISM CONSCIOUSNESS

We give thanks to be alive right NOW.

When we see our situation with evolutionary eyes, we discover that the pattern of 13.7 billion years of evolution is a deep design of creation within ourselves, guided by a Cosmic Prime Directive: Create More Intelligent Life.

We discover recurring patterns in the process: Problems are evolutionary drivers. Crises preceed transformation. Nature takes jumps through greater synergy between parts. Those patterns are evident right now. It is time for collective transformation. It is time for greater synergy between each of us and the greater whole.

In this moment, we are embodying our multi-billion year birth narrative pattern toward higher consciousness, greater freedom and more complex order. We are learning from nature’s pattern of selecting for what cooperates best.

Then let us therefore dedicate this July 4th 2011 to learning from and following nature’s fabulous design. This is the evolutionary way to “cross the gap” from Here – with breakdowns that can destroy life to There – breakthroughs that can evolve life.

As founders in the United States created the Declaration of Independence in 1776, let us, as peoples of Earth, now envision and commit to creating a global Declaration of Interdependence.

Let us envision celebrating such a Declaration on Dec. 22, 2012 as part of a planetary Birth Day – a day inaugurating a new era in human evolution. I invite you to join me in activating this vision for a global multi-media event featuring heads of state and citizens from every country, broadcasting in as many languages and cultures as possible. They will all unify in signing this Declaration to mark a new era.

Let us also at that time dedicate the first Planetary Peace Room to be as sophisticated as our war rooms: to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working in the world. Let every people and community have their own Peace Room locally, to connect globally.

Through these acts, let us celebrate together human genius, creativity, compassion, and innovation. Let us fulfill our deepest heart’s desire to give our unique gifts for the good of the whole family of Earth life and beyond.

Let us commit our life, our fortunes and our sacred honor to build on the greatness of our forbearers to BE THAT KIND OF LEADERSHIP NOW. If you resonate with this vision and this evolutionary call, we invite you to participate in our global team, which moves into a new phase of development with the Agents of Conscious Evolution Training starting July 26th (early registration discount ends tomorrow).

Find out more here.

With love from your evolutionary sister,

Barbara Marx Hubbard

Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE) Training with Barbara Marx Hubbard begins next Tuesday, April 19th.  It’s a 3-month advanced training that will support participants in being catalysts for consciously evolving a brighter future.

The training is for those who are called to lead the change, work for the greater good, and facilitate transformation within their communities.

The ACE Training goes beyond personal transformation and is about taking the years of transformational, self-help and spiritual work you’ve done and putting it into the larger context of “we” - to serve a larger calling for humanity catalyzing and accelerating a worldwide paradigm shift.

The ACE Training is the culmination of Barbara Marx Hubbard’s life’s work. She’s now 81 years young and her mission is very clear: she’s gathering a global wake-up team with the audacious mission to consciously evolve humanity to its next stage – and you’re invited to join her and other pioneering souls to help usher in this better, brighter new world. Click here to sign up now.

There has been an extraordinary response to this offering – men and women from countries around the world are saying YES to giving their greatest gifts in service to a new way of being and a co-creative society built on wide-scale cooperation, innovation, sustainability and peace.

So if you’re feeling resonance with Barbara’s vision and the opportunity to be a change and facilitation leader of these emerging shifts in partnership with The Shift Network, Steve Dinan and Barbara, you are warmly invited to join them for on this exciting journey.

Visit the Agents of Conscious Evolution (ACE) Training webpage for all the details.

A quick note that each session will be rebroadcast at 10 am Pacific on Thursdays for participants who are in time zones that prevent them from participating in the live classes. ACE scholarship slots are available to those who are called but whose finances may not allow them to participate with a priority for youth and leaders in the developing world. If this is you or you know someone you feel strongly should be part of the course, please suggest they apply for a scholarship.

Whether you choose to participate in the training or simply continue living your deepest calling, thank you for playing part of this global transformational movement!

Barbara Marx Hubbard is a dear friend and visionary whose work I have admired for years. Here she writes on her vision for humanity. She will be one of the outstanding faculty participating in the next Prophets Conference in Palm Springs, CA from April 25th through March 1st, 2011. I invite you to join me there. This will be a great opportunity for the New Paradigm Digest community to meet up for the first time. I will be posting additional writings from Conference faculty during the next few months leading up to the start of the Conference.

Humanity is facing unprecedented, evolutionary changes. Out of the famous Mayan prophecy has come the indication that we are facing the end of this world as we know it and the beginning of the new world by 2012. This date corresponds to environmental and social predictions of breakdowns and breakthroughs now widely known. Let’s assume there is some validity in these prophecies. What vision of the future, of the new world, might we see so that we can place our attention upon this vision as a strange attractor to carry us through this critical transition?

The Evolution of Consciousness

We notice that crisis precede transformation. Problems are evolutionary drivers. Intensifying pressure leads either to devolution and extinction or evolution and transformation. This is one reason that 2012 might be earthshaking and shocking to some. Furthermore, we see that evolution creates radical newness. Life out of prelife, human life out of animal life. Is it possible that from our species, a new human and a new humanity are now emerging? We can see the sequence from Homo habilis, Homo erectus, Homo Neanderthal, Homo sapiens, to Homo sapiens sapiens. Why should it stop with us? Is it possible that a new species has been gestating in the womb of self-consciousness through the great avatars, mystics, and visionaries for thousands of years, and that now, due the crisis, this new human is being born in millions of us? It has been predicted as Homo progressivus (Teilhard de Chardin), Gnostic Human (Sri Aurobindo), Homo sapiens, sapiens, sapiens (Peter Russell), Homo noeticus (John White), Homo universalist (my own favourite name). It is possible that the basic shift point in this prophecy is the emergence of the “universal human,”  by whatever name it is called, as a “new norm.” Perhaps we will reach critical mass for this human by 2012.

The fact is we see ourselves coming to the end of the viability and even survivability of ourselves in our current stage of self-centered self-consciousness. We are becoming “ego mutants,” as Alan Lithman calls current leadership, gaining powers we used to attribute to gods while we remain in the same state of consciousness as our ancestors.

If we imagine ourselves only a few years in the future, even by 2012, providing we do not destroy ourselves first, we see the outlines of a vastly enhanced humanity, applying the growing edge of human consciousness, capacities, and evolutionary technologies to life-affirming goals, resulting in a quantum transformation of the human species itself.

How Do We Get Ready For 2012?

Realize that the higher self, the inner voice, is you. Bring your projections home as your own developmental potential. Ask that deeper self to take dominion within your personality selves, and shift your identity from your ego to your essence. This is the key step to being born as a more universal human. Then, find life purpose. Ask to know what you are born to do. Follow the compass of joy. Seek out those who affirm the highest in you. Where two or more are gathered in the name of that highest dimension or your being there, “I Am”  is in your midst. Everyone is needed. Everyone is called. The greatest blessing any one of us can have is to say “yes” to the dormant potential within us. Reach out to those who attract you, and connect with as many others doing the same as you possibly can.

Buckminster Fuller has called Barbara Marx Hubbard “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution.

At this powerful event in Palm Springs, California, taking place on the land of the ancient Agua Caliente Cahuilla Indians, you will learn of the changing planetary cycle and how it could impact you; the disclosure of alien visitation; and the Native American prophetic teachings. Bringing together researchers, visionaries, and indigenous perspectives, THE PROPHETS CONFERENCE PALM SPRINGS 2013: DAY 1 will be a combination of conference presentations, social gatherings, ceremony, and in depth experiential workshops with like minded individuals that will help us navigate the critical time we live in, imagine the world we want to see manifest and help co-create it.

The conference brings together BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, ALBERTO VILLOLDO, ANDREW HARVEY, DANIEL PINCHBECK, FLORDEMAYO, FREDDY SILVA, GEOFF STRAY, JAMES GILLILAND, and LITTLE GRANDMOTHER and in the beautiful setting of Palm Springs, California. Following the conference will be in-depth post-conference workshops. We hope you can join us for this powerful and inspiring event.

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“Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of a New Man” by Salavador Dali

STATEMENT FROM BARBARA MARX HUBBARD

Our crisis is the birth of a cocreative universal humanity. We can see that we are outgrowing the womb of Earth-bound consciousness. We have naturally over-populated, polluted and begun to destroy our environment, before we even knew that we had an environment. We are the first species on Earth to know that we can destroy ourselves by our own actions. We are also the first to know we can evolve ourselves by our own creativity and compassion. This is the greatest wake up call that humanity has ever received. Despite the moral and spiritual teachings of all the great systems, none have been able to move humanity toward a shared awareness that we are all members of this one planetary body. The crisis of survival triggered by our planetary conditions, is having this effect.

There is timing in this planetary phase change. We are in the “chaos window,” as Ervin Laszlo puts it. We cannot go back to survive. We can only go forward. Depending on the nature of the “strange attractor” that moves us out of this disequilibrium, we will either decline rapidly in a more violent collapse…or we will converge, connect and resonate quickly enough to shift the consciousness field of Earth. We will have a more gentle birth to the next stage of human evolution.

My sense is that December 2012 is the marker for our consciousness shift on planet Earth. In my metaphor, day-by-day and minute-by-minute we are getting closer and closer to an actual real time “planetary birth experience.” This experience will open our collective eyes. We will smile our first “planetary smile.” Through own maturation to a higher consciousness we will have shared contact with life that is beyond us. We will literally be born as a very young universal species.

BARBARA MARX HUBBARD. Buckminster Fuller has called Barbara Marx Hubbard “the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” Widely regarded as his philosophical heir, Barbara is a social innovator, speaker, author, educator and leader in the new worldview of conscious evolution.

THE PURPOSE OF THE 2012 TIPPING POINT PROPHETS CONFERENCE VANCOUVER JULY 23-25, 2010 is to explore a radically different, more optimistic interpretation of the Mayan prophecy. This brings together JOSE ARGUELLES, FLORDEMAYO, ANDREW HARVEY, BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, JOHN MAJOR JENKINS, JOHN KIMMEY, JOHN PERKINS, LLYN ROBERTS, DANIEL PINCHBECK, RICHARD TARNAS, and MIGUEL ANGEL VERGARA into the beautiful setting of Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Following the conference will be in-depth post-conference workshops JULY 26-27.

2012: TIPPING POINT
The Great Transformation
The Prophets Conference Vancouver
Simon Fraser University – Burnaby Campus

Conference 23-25 JULY 2010
In-Depth Post-Conference Workshops 26-27 JULY 2010

Conference Information: www.greatmystery.org/events/vancouver2012.html
Exhibitor Information: www.greatmystery.org/events/vancouver2012register.html

Barbara Marx Hubbard is a visionary whose fascinating life and books including Conscious Evolution, inspired me and thousands around the world. Her new video, Visions of a New Humanity is a powerful antidote to the doom and gloom scenario that is the norm in most mainstream media. It is a gift to us all and a map of a an emerging consciousness that can help us through these chaotic times.

In VISIONS Barbara has brought together some of the finest minds of our time, including world renowned physicist Freeman Dyson, biologist Bruce Lipton, scholar Jean Houston and others, to share with you some of the most cutting edge future scenarios for humanity based on the latest scientific, social and spiritual realities.

Enter the field of possibility here.