Conscious Evolution includes a truly excellent series of relatively short videos by Rob Cobbold intertwining evolution, psychology, sociology and spirituality. They are readily accessible to newcomers to these ideas, and the approach aligns remarkably well with the overall ethos and purpose of this site.
Part of the “Manifesto” (by John Stewart) on the website:
A new phase in the evolution of life on earth has begun
In this new phase evolution will be driven intentionally, by humanity. The evolutionary worldview that emerges from an understanding of our role in the new phase has the potential to transform the nature of human existence.
At present humanity is lost. We don’t know what we are doing here. We are without a worldview that can point to our place and purpose in the universe and that can also withstand rational scrutiny.
But this difficult period is coming to an end. The emergence of the new evolutionary worldview is beginning to lift us out of the abyss. The new worldview has a unique capacity to reveal who we are and what we should be doing with our lives. It relies solely on scientific knowledge and reason to identify our critical role in future evolution. The evolutionary worldview can unite us in a great common enterprise, and provide meaning and purpose for human existence.
At the heart of the evolutionary worldview is the fact that evolution has a trajectory – it heads in a particular direction. However, evolution on Earth will not advance beyond a certain point unless it is driven consciously and intentionally. If this transition to conscious evolution does not occur, evolution on this planet will stall, and humanity will not contribute positively to the future evolution of life in the universe—we will be a failed evolutionary experiment.
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From Rob’s LinkedIn profile:
Robert Cobbold is a change strategist, philosopher and public speaker who has delivered transformative educational experiences to over 40,000 students and educators worldwide.
Director of business development at kindness social network Earfh.com
Program Manager of a nationwide environmental education program at Green Schools Project.
Part of a celebrity-led campaign Farms Not Factories which reached over 130M people, and the civic communication platform WHIP.
Set up my own business teaching bridge to young people in London called SLAM!
Worked as a private tutor for top London tutoring agencies, including stints in India, China and around the UK.
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
THE WEB OF MEANING
Published on: 29 Mar 22 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Jeremy Lent
FLOURISHING AS AN INTEGRATED ORGANISM
Published on: 13 Jan 22 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Jeremy Lent
WHAT DOES LIFE WANT?
Published on: 18 Dec 21 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
PROSOCIAL WORLD
Published on: 25 Oct 21 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
AN EVOLUTIONARY TRANSITION IS COMING – ARE YOU READY?
Published on: 27 Sep 21 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
EYE OF THE STORM
Published on: 12 Mar 21 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Gary Horvitz
Individual vs Collective Responsibilities for Conscious Evolution
Published on: 27 Jan 21 in Conscious Evolution – YouTube
by Conscious Evolution
WHAT IS AN EVOLUTIONARY?
Published on: 10 Dec 20 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Carter Phipps
CAN EVOLUTION BE CONSCIOUS?
Published on: 21 Nov 20 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
THE VIEW FROM COMPLEXITY
Published on: 20 Oct 20 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Hanzi Freinacht
LET’S CALL THE WHOLE THING OFF
Published on: 23 Sep 20 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
Conscious Evolution Podcast 05 – Conscious Evolution
Published on: 11 Sep 20 in Conscious Evolution – YouTube
by Conscious Evolution
Conscious Evolution Podcast 04 – Transcendence
Published on: 28 Aug 20 in Conscious Evolution – YouTube
by Conscious Evolution
Conscious Evolution Podcast 03 – Creativity
Published on: 27 Aug 20 in Conscious Evolution – YouTube
by Conscious Evolution
Conscious Evolution Podcast 02 – Cooperation
Published on: 27 Aug 20 in Conscious Evolution – YouTube
by Conscious Evolution
Conscious Evolution Podcast 01 – Meaning
Published on: 27 Aug 20 in Conscious Evolution – YouTube
by Conscious Evolution
Creativity is an evolutionary process
Published on: 20 Aug 20 in Conscious Evolution – YouTube
by Conscious Evolution
The mental health crisis is a crisis of meaning
Published on: 20 Aug 20 in Conscious Evolution – YouTube
by Conscious Evolution
THE POWER IS OURS
Published on: 28 May 20 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by John Bunzl
WHAT HUMANS COULD BE
Published on: 16 Apr 20 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
THE BIG PICTURE
Published on: 27 Mar 20 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by KW Jamieson
UNFOLDING OUR FUTURE
Published on: 4 Feb 20 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by KW Jamieson
WORLDVIEWS, REALITY AND DESIGN
Published on: 4 Dec 19 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
LEAPING INTO POSSIBILITY
Published on: 2 Jul 19 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
EVOLVING THE FUTURE
Published on: 18 Jun 19 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Joe Brewer
WHERE DOES MONEY COME FROM?
Published on: 10 Jun 19 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
THREE LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Published on: 25 May 19 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by KW Jamieson
THE ORGANIC PIONEERS
Published on: 13 May 19 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by KW Jamieson
EVOLUTION’S ARROW
Published on: 20 Dec 18 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by John Stewart
THE MEANING OF LIFE
Published on: 11 Dec 18 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
STOP COMPARING YOURSELF TO OTHERS
Published on: 31 Aug 18 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
WHEN CULTURES HAVE SEX
Published on: 18 Sep 17 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
NICE GUYS FINISH FIRST
Published on: 31 Jul 17 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
FREE YOURSELF FROM YOUR PROGRAMMING
Published on: 30 Jan 17 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
AS IS THE MICROCOSM, SO IS THE MACROCOSM.
Published on: 21 Jan 17 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
KEEP YOUR MIND OPEN AND YOUR ENEMIES’ OPENER
Published on: 28 Nov 16 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
US AND THEM
Published on: 14 Oct 16 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
WAR ON EGO
Published on: 24 Jan 15 in Conscious Evolution – Website
by Robert Cobbold
Spider web at dawn by jeremy lentDuring mystical experience, certain characteristics – such as sensations of timelessness, paradoxicality and oneness – may be understood as expected phenomena from the flood
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Fields of barley by jeremy lentA long time ago in the district of Song lived a farmer. His wife and sons worried about him because he was not, as they
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Autopoesis by jeremy lentThe story of life’s deep purpose begins, ironically, with death. A certain kind of death: the ‘heat death’ that scientists tell us is the likely ultimate fate
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A mosaic medallion that graces the Jordan Hall of Science at the University of Notre Dame: “Nothing in Biology makes sense except in light of evolution.” by david sloan wilsonDarwin’s
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BY ROBERT COBBOLD“This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebushes, giraffes, and humans.”The famous line from
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BY GARY HORVITZThe state of gnosis is defined as total awareness, a direct and often sudden expanded experience of hyper-clarity, wholeness, of truth beyond any conceptual understanding. Gnosis is an intense and total immersion
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It is as if man had been suddenly appointed managing director of the biggest business of all, the business of evolution—appointed without being asked if he wanted it, and without
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BY DAVID SLOAN WILSON, MEL ANDREWS, MAXIMUS THALERIf you had a conventional biological education, then you were taught that evolution is not a conscious process. Giraffes that stretch to reach
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This is not a Schelling simulation. by hanzi freinachtIn our days, there is a lot of talk about chaos and complexity. And it’s not just buzz and academic fashion—as some
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White nationalists attack riot police in central London. by robert cobboldOne of the hallmarks of evolutionary thinking is the ability to see past seemingly intractable differences towards a higher-level integration.
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BY JOHN BUNZL With the world in the grip of Covid-19 and a deepening economic slump, pundits are again asking whether capitalism as we know it has come to an
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BY SCOTT BARRY KAUFMAN“Perhaps human nature has been sold short….”—Abraham MaslowToward the end of his life, the humanistic psychologist Abraham Maslow was developing new insights into self-actualization – and envisioning an even
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BY KW JAMIESONPicture a pile of sand, with a steady stream of grains pouring onto it from above. For a long while it will grow, building a largely stable structure,
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BY KW JAMIESONThe chaos all around us is the result of a war of worldviews. The tectonic plates of perspective are shifting, causing shockwaves across our global human system. The
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by daniel christian wahlHumanity has achieved incredible advances in the differentiation of consciousness … differentiation has produced science, technology, and the unprecedented power of mankind to build up and to
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by jon freemanIt is 40 years since the Futurist magazine published Prof. Clare W. Graves’ article titled “Human Nature Prepares for a Momentous Leap,” which contained predictions for our future that have
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Patterns always build on what came before. This is true for patterns of culture as well. by joe brewerThe world is getting to be pretty f*cked up now and something
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It sounds like the kind of question a primary school child would ask, almost too simple to be of any importance: “The government creates it, probably the central bank, quantitative
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by kw jamiesonIn the 1920’s quantum science brought the mystic spiritualist and the classic scientist within touching distance of one another, in terms of their respective interpretations of consciousness. However,
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by kw jamiesonThe many social and political movements which radically shook up Western society in the post-World War II period, particularly in the US during the 1960’s, sowed the seeds
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by John StewartA major evolutionary transition is beginning to unfold on earth. Individuals are emerging who are choosing to dedicate their lives to consciously advancing the evolutionary process. They see
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Q. If God is omniscient and omnipresent, what does he lack?A. LimitationNot to blaspheme, but this means that life is quite dull. Without limitations there are no aspirations, no achievements
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Part I: The Parable of The Workers in the Vineyard Rembrandt’s ‘The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard’, 1637, Oil on Panal A parable from the Bible keeps returning
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When Afro Celt Sound System burst onto the scene in 1995, there were many purists who criticised what they were trying to do. Like chilli and chocolate, the combination of
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What are the capacities our future leaders will need to envisage and build new global systems? AMA with the founder of Conscious Evolution, Robert Cobbold and Victoria Wilding in 10 minutes. Here’s the link to join https://lnkd.in/eJBk4fPM Join us for an exciting opportunity to learn more about the Higher Mind Program and speak directly to the program director Victoria Wilding.
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What are the capacities our future leaders will need to envisage and build new global systems? AMA tomorrow morning at 8am UK time. Here’s the link to join: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ask-us-anything-higher-mind-program-registration-311582941967 Join us for an exciting opportunity to learn more about the Higher Mind Program and speak directly to the program director Victoria Wilding.
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Victoria Wilding and I will be holding an AMA about the Higher Mind Initiative on Wednesday! Please feel free to join. https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ask-us-anything-higher-mind-program-registration-311582941967 Join us for an exciting opportunity to learn more about the Higher Mind Program and speak directly to the program director Victoria Wilding.
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https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/the-web-of-meaning “The meaning of something may be understood as the network of relationships it is perceived to have.” #ConsciousEvolution #Purpose Jeremy Lent Just as music is an emergent phenomenon arising between a player and listener attuning through patterns of vibrations, so meaning is an emergent phenomenon enacted by a conscious entity as it relates an experience to other experiences.
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https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/the-web-of-meaning “Just as music is an emergent phenomenon arising between a player and listener attuning through patterns of vibrations, so meaning is an emergent phenomenon enacted by a conscious entity as it relates an experience to other experiences.” Relentless insight from Jeremy Lent’s new book The Web of Meaning. #ConsciousEvolution Just as music is an emergent phenomenon arising between a
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consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/the-web-of-meaning “Life itself can be viewed as an act of cosmological love, as it stages its four billion-year-old rebellion against entropy.” A staggering and inspiring piece of writing from Jeremy Lent’s The Web of Meaning. Life Itself Advaya Emerge Scott Barry Kaufman Just as music is an emergent phenomenon arising between a player and listener attuning through patterns of vibrations,
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“To Maslow, “transcenders” are regularly motivated by values and experiences that go beyond the satisfaction of basic needs and the fulfillment of one’s unique potential. These “metamotivations” include a devotion to a calling outside oneself, a seeking of “peak experiences”, and a commitment to the values of Being, or the “B-values”, including truth, goodness, beauty, justice, meaningfulness, playfulness, aliveness, excellence,
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“The Second Law of Thermodynamics can be seen as the foundation for natural selection.” Part 1/3 of a mini series of essays from Jeremy Lent’s The Web of Meaning on #ConsciousEvolution https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/blog/what-does-life-want The story of life’s deep purpose begins, ironically, with death. A certain kind of death: the ‘heat death’ that scientists tell us is the likely ultimate fate of
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Interesting #crypto project which aligns incentives between individual and collective and mobilises communities worldwide to take action on #plastic and #climatechange. Check them out. 🏖️ $BEACH🏖️ “Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth… these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security
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Using Meta-Systemic Cognition to build new global systems – https://mailchi.mp/058861931d7a/conscious-evolution-podcast-released-wednesday-5107670
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Advaya’s exciting new course #Kinship starts next week with the brilliant Jeremy Lent alongside Center for Humans and Nature and The Dark Mountain Project. Register now with code “EvoC20” for 20% of all course fees. #consciousevolution
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What does it mean to master Presence? – https://mailchi.mp/83ab77702d39/conscious-evolution-podcast-released-wednesday-5107662
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“People are earnestly doing something they believe to be right—refusing to engage in good faith with those they disagree with—which is nevertheless leading towards a result they do not actually want…The saturation of bad faith communication throughout culture is steadily increasing, like a kind of dangerous background radiation emitted from scientifically engineered memetic weaponry.” Incredibly important read from Consilience Project
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The fissures and fractures in society are driving us apart from each other and from ourselves, at a time when unity and cooperation are more important than ever. Join Advaya for a 6-week online course exploring Kinship. Use code EvoC20 for 20% off. https://www.kinshipcourse.com/ KINSHIPANEXPLORATIONINTOBEINGTOGETHER15.3.22 – 5.5.22 Register a transformative online course exploring community, relationality & belonging in the
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What is Higher Mind? – https://mailchi.mp/3090a2505e28/conscious-evolution-podcast-released-wednesday-5107642
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Higher Mind Launch – https://mailchi.mp/d51b13e18719/conscious-evolution-podcast-released-wednesday-5059758
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Victoria Wilding, Director of Higher Mind and Robert Cobbold, Founder of Conscious Evolution are delighted to invite you to Higher Mind, a new program designed to help you develop new ways of thinking and being for the next stage of humanity’s evolution. A generation of future evolutionary leaders is emerging with powerful visions for how to transform the world for
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“The principles that apply to complex, self-organized systems in the natural world also apply to our own nature and to human culture. Consciousness is something we enact as a continual process of linkage and differentiation through billions of interconnecting neural pathways. As humans, we have the power to reshape our own attractors of consciousness through intention.” Jeremy Lent’s book The
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“Every major evolutionary step since life began on Earth was a result of increased cooperation between different types of organisms. Life is not a zero-sum game: through symbiosis, species have co-created ecosystems in which the whole is far greater than the sum of the parts. An ecosystem arises from organisms acting together in a complex interweaving of both competition and
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RT @JeremyRLent: A deep bow of respect to a great man of genius who helped shape our modern understanding of the living Earth and gave it the name of Gaia… https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/27/james-lovelock-creator-of-gaia-hypothesis-dies-on-103rd-birthday
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RT @Jaijaikho: $BEACH Earth faces plastic pollution disaster unless we take drastic action. Join $BEACH today at https://beachtoken.io/ & #DoGood with every transaction #CleanOceans #ClimateAction #BlueCarbon #BeachAction
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RT @Jaijaikho: Plastic doesn’t go away. It’s destroying our environment, killing our marine wildlife and pushing species closer to the brink of extinction. We have to take action right now. Join @beach_token to help #StopPlasticPollution in our oceans and log your actions at #BeachAction.
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“The true nature of the universe is consciousness because everything is consciousness.” — Rob Scholte https://link.medium.com/OHDhghrFHhb
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“Peterson found himself as the ‘one man lightning rod for the culture war’, without the inner practices of self awareness or embodiment to help conduct that much ‘electricity’.” Insightful piece about the decline of @jordanbpeterson by @fullydavid of @WisdomRebel. @jrgames29
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Somehow we must rediscover the sacred without losing our rationality. #ConsciousEvolution
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“It is always himself that the coward abandons first. After that all betrayals come easily.” – Cormac McCarthy, The Border Trilogy @CormacMcCarthys
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RT @beach_token: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgDeuZkF0-c Faulu Productions in Kakuma Refugee Camp Wish #UNOceanConference Well @UNOceanDecade #UNOC22 #SaveOurOcean #GenOcean @FauluK
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Talk about signing your own death warrant… “The decision…is expected to allow more people to carry guns legally.” #Enough #Guns #GunControl https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61915237
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RT @MontyMerlin: Can the next generation of crypto create exponential positive impact? ❇️ From climate and biodiversity, to social and economic prosperity? DEGEN —-> REGEN 🧙♂️✨🌱 Check out my TEDx talk below 🙂 #ReFi #Crypto #Web3 #Bitcoin #Ethereum #Regeneration https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-4HW3iPtfo
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Two incredible new interviews posted to #ConsciousEvolution today: https://www.consciousevolution.co.uk/otherinterviews @JeremyRLent @lexfridman @leecronin @jim_rutt
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Maybe it’s because a degree in English Literature teaches you how to think for yourself. Maybe thinking for yourself is not great for GDP. Maybe. @Telegraph @jjpjolly @Fish_o_wick @heli_blackstone https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/mickey-mouse-degrees-worst-value-money/
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“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” – Samuel Butler #philosophy #consciousevolution
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“When Jeremy Lent gave his definition of spirituality I punched the air in joy”. One of the great generalists alive today. @JeremyRLent #ConsciousEvolution #GameB @jim_rutt https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YGsgP3uVNSRyskMb5l74P?si=WRjIlER0Qge0BHd-btj2-Q
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RT @JeremyRLent: I’m honored & delighted to announce that my book, #TheWebofMeaning, was recently awarded 2 Nautilus Book Awards: GOLD AWARD: World Cultures’ Transformational Growth and Development SILVER AWARD: Science and Cosmology It’s now available in paperback! https://www.jeremylent.com/the-web-of-meaning.html
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RT @sbkaufman: “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
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The week I spent at the @forlifeitself hub in Bergerac was absolutely idyllic. One of the participants, @karlsteyaert is running a series of three, one month residencies in the Autumn. Participant can remote work while there. See below for more info: https://lifeitself.us/embodying-collective-transformation/
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2022/may/11/fossil-fuel-carbon-bombs-climate-breakdown-oil-gas We should etch these CEOs names in stone so every future generation can see who the Holocaust perpetrators were. @Shell @exxonmobil @Gazprom
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Already two years since the first lockdown and we’ve gone straight back to ripping up the decking. https://cobboldr1.medium.com/our-little-blue-boat-1587ba0e3caf
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Excellent read by @fullydavid of @WisdomRebel about the errors of thinking which lie underneath many conspiracy theories. #ConspiracyTheories https://rebelwisdom.substack.com/p/conspiracy-criticism-and-the-case?s=r
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What are the capacities our future leaders will need to envisage and build new global systems? AMA with Robert Cobbold and Victoria Wilding in 10 minutes. Here’s the link to join: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ask-us-anything-higher-mind-program-registration-311582941967 #ConsciousEvolution @HFreinacht #Metamodernism @innerdevelopment
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Tomorrow morning at 8am UK time! https://twitter.com/EvoConscious/status/1517467036976300033
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RT @matslats: @chris_saltmarsh speaks hopefully about #GreenNewDeal, #tradeunion revival and #TechnoSolutionism. But yesterday his brand of @brightGreenLies was exposed to the light. https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/burnt-thought-provoking-study-climate-emergency-it-too-late-such-optimism @GeorgeMonbiot @JeremyRLent @DrDCWahl @MichaelEMann @labGBD @EvoConscious @SDonziger
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Conscious Evolution includes a truly excellent series of relatively short videos by Rob Cobbold intertwining evolution, psychology, sociology and spirituality. They are readily accessible to newcomers to these ideas, and the approach aligns remarkably well with the overall ethos and purpose of this site.