Richard Buckminster “Bucky” Fuller (July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist. Fuller published more than 30 books, inventing and popularizing terms such as “Spaceship Earth”, ephemeralization, and synergetic. He also developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, the best known of which is the geodesic dome. Carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their resemblance to geodesic spheres. For more on Bucky, visit bfi.org.

Before he passed on, Bucky told the world “There is no doubt in my mind that Barbara Marx Hubbard – who helped introduce the concept of futurism to society – is the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.” For almost 3 decades since, Barbara has written books including Conscious Evolution and keynoted symposiums and other gatherings around the world. Her tireless passion and efforts to catalyze and empower individuals and organizations to be co-creators of Bucky’s a vision of a world that works for everyone will reach its highest expression to date when from November 8-January 31, 2012, Barbara hosts The Agents of Conscious Evolution Training on The Shift Network.

If you or anyone you know is currently either wanting to or actively working toward helping humanity shift the paradigm and desire support or want to plug into a community of like minded souls, this training may be worth considering. I invite you to join me and my life partner, Jamie Jackson in preparing to celebrate Barbara’s vision for a planetary Birth Day, December 22, 2012. To date, over 49,000 people have said yes to Barbara’s vision and over 1500 have trained to be part of a global team of conscious collaborators.

As Barbara says, “We have within us extraordinary creative potentials that have yet to be massively unleashed, leading to wide-scale cooperation, innovation, sustainability and peace. The solutions are available; it is only the human software that needs an upgrade. Barbara and her guests will train you in the skills necessary to catalyze transformation within yourself and others. It will prepare you to play your perfect role in the Birth 2012 events next year. And it will connect you with a global community of change leaders who are here to light the way forward.

The ACE Training is designed to awaken your full creative potential, empower you in your “vocation of destiny,” give you a template for joyful co-creation, and provide a path for manifesting your heart’s desires.

And it will help you find your authentic leadership in the collective shift now underway.

To review a complete description of the course, click here.

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

We are shifting from a profit-taking economy to a gift economy, from an economy of “how can I take the most?” to “how can I best give of my gifts?” This future, in which the anxiety of “making a living” no longer drives us, will arise out of the transformation in the human sense of self that is gathering today. But it is NOT ONLY A FUTURE. We can live it now too. ~Charles Eisenstein

Charles Eisenstein is an inspiring writer, speaker, and the author of The Ascent of Humanity which may be the most important book of our time and explores the history and future of civilization from a unique perspective, the evolution of the human sense of self. His articulation of our conscious evolution is as clear and visionary as any I have encountered. If you visit his site, you can order his 600 page visionary work sells for $25 on Amazon and you can read it for free or donate whatever you are moved to give, a reflection of the gift economy in action.

To give you a sense of what the book covers, here are the Chapter and Section headings:

Chapter I: The Triumph of Technology

Gee Whiz—The Future!
Utopia Postponed
The Addiction to Control
From Separation to Boredom
From Affluence to Anxiety

Chapter II: The Origins of Separation

The Biological Origins of Self
Fire and Stone
Labeling the World
Mathematics and Measure
Keeping Time
Images of Images
The Marvelous Piraha
Cultivation and Culture
The Machine
Religion and Ritual
The Playful Universe

Chapter III: The Way of the World

The Scientific Method
My Personal Age of Reason
Masters of the Universe
The Quest for Certainty
Reducing Reality
The Ghost in the Machine
The Origin of Life
Alone in the Universe

Chapter IV: Money and Property

The Realm of Me and Mine
Alone in a Crowd
The Anonymous Power
Social Capital
Cultural Capital
Natural Capital
Spiritual Capital
Time, Money, and The Good
The Economics of Other
Interest and Self-Interest
The Crisis of Capital

Chapter V: The World under Control

The Total Depravity of Man
The Winners and the Losers
Life and Death
Yes and No
The Pressure to Break Free
Molding Minds
The Great Indoors
Life under Contract
The War on Germs
The War on Suffering
Life in a Playpen

Chapter VI: The Crumbling of Certainty

The End of Objectivity
Truth without Certainty
Order without Design
The Nature of Purpose
The Purpose of Nature
Life without a Replicator
The Community of Life
The Genetic Plenum
Chapter VII: The Age of Reunion
The Convergence of Crises
The Currency of Cooperation
The Restorative Economy
The Age of Water
Technologies of Reunion
Work and Art United
Back to Play
The Medicine of Interbeingness
The Spirit of the Gift
Storyteller Consciousness
In Love with the World

Chapter VIII: Self and Cosmos

Human Nature Restored
The Fall
The Perinatal Matrix
The Gaian Birthing
Eulogy and Redemption
At Play Beside The Tower

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!

Awakening the Impulse to Evolve–The Birth of Evolutionary Spirituality

This outstanding free teleseminar series begins Thursday and over the next three months, you’ll have a unique opportunity to engage with eighteen of today’s most inspired spiritual evolutionaries in a dynamic inquiry into what it means to consciously participate in the evolution of ourselves, our culture and our world.

Evolutionaries like Brian Swimme, Michael Beckwith, Jean Houston, Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Michael Dowd, Andrew Cohen, Peter Russell, Elisabet Sahtouris, Craig Hamilton, Duane Elgin, Connie Barlow, Claire Zammit, Ken Wilber and more.

Each week, we’ll gather online and by conference call to explore the burning questions facing all of us who aspire to live an authentic, evolutionary spiritual life in our increasingly chaotic, fast-paced world.

Among Questions to be explored:

* How does the insight that we are evolving creatures living in an evolving universe change our understanding of the spiritual path?

* How can we “evolutionize” our lives by awakening our minds and hearts to the evolutionary impulse at the heart of the Cosmos?

* What does it mean to live a life of passionate evolutionary engagement that integrates our deep longing for spiritual transformation and our desire to improve the world?

* How can we come together with other evolutionaries to begin to create microcosms of evolutionary culture?

* How can we engage our spiritual practice not just as a path to personal growth but as a contribution to the further evolution of humanity, life, and consciousness?

I hope you’ll join me on this exciting free series.

Click here to learn more and activate your free registration

P.S.- If you can’t attend the series live, please make sure you register so you can receive links to download the audios and listen at your convenience.