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American Visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard
We are excited to announce the upcoming premier of a documentary called American Visionary about our beloved CIW Co-Chair Barbara Marx Hubbard and her life's work at Illuminate Film Festival, where she will also receive a special award. Enjoy the Trailer here: Also, watch the epilogue to American Visionary that Barbara recorded very recently, where she talks about the new phase of her life that has just started. She says that in this new life phase, in her quest for what we can do to shift this world from devolution to evolution, she isn't working alone any longer. She has joined Dr. Marc [...]
Dr. Zachary Stein: Idea Seed Banks, the “Nous Arc,” and the “Great Library”
What do we need to give “our children” so they can prosper and grow into their highest potential—even though we don’t know what kind of challenges they will face in their lives? That’s the real question underlying this beautiful talk by our Academic Director Zak Stein. Watch and listen to this fascinating thought experiment: What would be a “seed bank” of ideas that—if preserved—would allow us to recreate civilization from the ground up, in case humanity survived some sort of an apocalypse? Playing off of Noah’s Arc, Zak calls it the “Nous Arc.” Engaging in this thought experiment a bunch of [...]
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Video on Responding to Existential Risk by Dr. Marc Gafni
Humanity is facing extinction level crises in not one but in multiple and distinct sectors. That alone could throw us into a personal crisis of overwhelming dimensions—without even beginning to take into account the many crucial personal existential challenges most of us face in our own lives. How can we possibly look seriously into the face of global existential risk, manifest as extinction level threats and be motivated and energized into the joy of our lives? That is the question that Marc addresses in this very moving video. How does Existential Risk become the catalyst to profound joy and awakening into the Outrageous Love [...]