A Great Leader has passed. A Great Feminine Co-Creator reborn again and again through what she called Regenopause a woman who was getting newer every day and never got older has left our world. A Great evolutionary has passed. A great light has gone out in the manifest universe. A great sun has set. A new sun must now rise ~Marc Gafni (Barbara Marx Hubbard-December 22, 1929 April 10, 2019)

Barbara Marx Hubbard, the Global Ambassador for the Conscious Evolution Movement, had passed away. Barbara has been called the voice for conscious evolution of our time by Deepak Chopra.

As an author, speaker, and co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution believes that humanity now, as never before, is on the threshold of a quantum leap. If we can integrate newly new scientific, social, and spiritual capacities, we could transform ourselves to move beyond our current global crises to a magnificent future. Barbara is the subject of a biography by author Neale Donald Walsch, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of YOU.

Barbara was a futurist prolific author, visionary, social innovator, evolutionary thinker, and educator. She is the co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She is credited with the concepts of The Synergy Engine and the birthing of humanity. Barbara is also the producer and narrator of the award-winning documentary series entitled Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together.

Barbara Marx Hubbard also has the distinction of being the first woman to be nominated for the Vice Presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket. Shes also co-chaired several Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. She has been the recipient of several awards including the first Peacebuilder Award by the Peace Alliance in Washington, DC.

On August 10, 2013, OMTimes Magazine had the privilege to have Barbara Marx Hubbard in an exclusive interview

Eleven Best Quotes from Barbara Marx Hubbard

On April 3rd, 2019, Barbara woke herself up with a swollen and painful right knee. She interviewed for Unity radio to promote her upcoming program, The Eleventh Hour.

In the afternoon, she went to a local physicians clinic. Incapable to adequately diagnose and treat the knee at the clinic, she was referred to the Emergency Room. Later in the day, she was admitted into the hospital. ON April 4th, a tap was performed to relieve pain by reducing and removing fluid that was accumulating in the knee joint. Barbara moved from the ER to the Orthopedic treatment area of MCR. She participated on a call from her hospital bed for her shared project with Humanitys Team, the Evolutionary Ambassador Academy until 7:30 in the evening.

On April 6th, upon checking her knee injury, the nurses found the situation had worsened, the MD, Dr. began seeking approval for her to be taken to the operating room to have the knee thoroughly disinfected. The surgery happened, and Barbara remained stable.

On April 7th, Barbaras condition turned to the worse overnight. Barbara was determined to be in a critical state with indications of additional complications. She had not responded to attempts to wake she remained under close watch by hospital staff, friends and family. The next day, April 8th, as Barbaras condition continues to worsen, her family felt she was preparing to leave. Visitors were welcome for brief visits until 5 pm when the family arrived, for family time alone.

On the 9th of April, Barbaras family continued to hold vigil over her in the ICU at Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, CO. Her local community since 2016 at Sunrise Ranch, nestled in the foothills of Loveland, remained in prayerful attendance.

If you would like information about Beloved Barbaras medical condition, please go here: https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/barbaramarxhubbard

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BARBARA MARX HUBBARD: The Voice of Conscious Evolution

Barbara Marx Hubbard Dec. 22, 1929 - Apr. 10, 2019

founder of The Foundation for Conscious Evolution, hasauthored nine books, a social innovator, speaker and teacher of many thousand students on the theme of the New Evolutionary Story and The Sacred Journey of the Conscious Evolutionary.

She helped introduce the worldview of conscious evolution into the world, calling this an epic evolutionary shift from Homo sapiens sapiens toward Homo universalis, a new human and a new world.

She was the co-Chair of The Center for Integral Wisdom as well of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. Together these two sister organizations are working to develop a Great Library of books, including teachings and works that evolve the source code of our culture. They co-created the first Church of Evolutionary Love to enhance the evolution of love in the world, available every Saturday from 9- 10 Pacific Time.

She was a co-founder of the World Future Society, the Association for

Global New Thought, The Club of Budapest, the Evolutionary Leaders, and is co-chair of The Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency on the Democratic ticket proposing an Office for the Future to map, track, connect and communicate what is working and a Peace Room as sophisticated as a war room in the office of the vice presidency.

In the early 80s she was an active Soviet-American Citizen Diplomat, working with Rama Vernon to hold Soviet-American Citizen conferences in Moscow and in Washington D.C. using the SYNCON conference format.

In the 1970s she formed the Committee for the Future in Washington D.C. and she co-invented the SYNCON PROCESS developing a new social process moving towarda more synergistic democracy to seek common goals and match needs with resources The SYNCONS were held, with many different types of groups, including gang leaders from Los Angeles, space scientists from Huntsville, and students at Southern Illinois University to examine a new global goal to build new worlds on Earth, new worlds in Space, new worlds in the Human Mind.

She has worked closely with Catholic sisters to bring forth her view of the evolutionary approach to the New Testament, recorded in her book The Evolutionary Testament: The Promise will be Kept. She is advocating the rise of Evolutionary Women and Evolutionary Men joining genius to evolve each other and the world.Born in 1929 she has five children, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.

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During the final week of Barbaras life we were planning a special retreat with her at Hummingbird, a community founded on the principles and practices of co-creation and conscious evolution. She enthusiastically invited her students to join her at a place that she loved dearly to take the next evolutionary step together.

Now, as we Carry the Torch Forward, we invite all who have been inspired and impacted by Barbaras brilliance, passion, and dedication to gather in honor and celebration of the legacy of The Mother of Conscious Evolution.

August 29th September 2nd, 2019

In the pristine landscape of towering pines, meandering creek, and the majestic Sangre de Cristo Mountains of northern New Mexico, we will co-create a resonant field that will raise our consciousness to a higher frequency and allow each of us to dive deeply into the silence and power of our beings. We will tap into the mysterious field of all possibilities to discover how the impulse of evolution is guiding us in the fulfillment of our personal and collective journeys. Our time together will include a series of experiential processes, guided inquiries and discussions, solo time in nature, silence and ceremony.

As change agents and social pioneers, we will be stepping into a sanctuary that continues to cultivate a frequency of deep resonance and healing. It is here that we will take our next evolutionary step toward the birth of a Universal Humanity.

There are many of us scattered around the face of the Earth with a mysterious sense of the future, and a profound attraction for the evolution of ourselves and our world. We are a future-oriented family of humanity who have a sense that we are going through a birth to the next stage of our evolution. Barbara Marx Hubbard

Victory is Assured to All Those Whose Consciousness is Shifting.

It is the direction of evolution. It is the Intention of Creation, the drive of the

Life Force the Implicate Order unfolding. Everyone is called to their posts,

for the hour of your birth is at hand. You can have absolute faith

in the results of what you are now undertaking.

Code 52, taken from 52 Codes for Conscious Self Evolution

by Barbara Marx Hubbard, co-created with Carolyn Anderson.

Schedule

The program will begin with dinner on Thursday, August 29th and will conclude with lunch on Monday, September 2nd. Please contact before making plane reservations, so we can share recommendations to support your ease of travel.

Price

The full cost of this gathering is $895, including all meals, indoor accommodations, and program. Early Bird Special:$825 if paid in fullby July 1.

If you camp, the full cost is $770. Early Bird Special:$720 if paid in fullby July 1.

A limited number of partial scholarships are available.

Payment

A non-refundable deposit of $100 will hold your reservation until Friday, August 9, when full payment is due. Space is limited to 30 participants, so reserve early to hold your place! Register now.

Contact

For additional information: or carolyn@livingcocreation.com.

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Barbara Marx Hubbard was an author and public speaker who devoted her life to exploring a better future for humankind.

Through her observations of the planets ills, such as climate change and warfare, she saw an opportunity for a shift in collective human consciousness.

Her activities as a futurist a term usually used to describe those who systematically attempt to predict possible, probable and preferable futures for the world led to a prolific writing career and even inspired her to run for high office.

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Marx Hubbard was born in New York City just before the financial crisis of 1930. She was the first daughter, out of four children, of Irene and Louis Marx, a successful toymaker.

Because of her fathers business, Marx Hubbard had as many toys as she could have wished for but, when she was just 13, the death of her mother would leave a profound mark. She realised from an early age that more toys cannot make us happy. She said it was one of the most important lessons of her life.

Following the conclusion of the Second World War, Marx Hubbard studied political science and attended Pariss La Sorbonne University for a year. It was there she would meet her first husband, Earl Hubbard, outside a restaurant. She asked him to share the bottle of wine she was having on her own. He told her: I am an artist seeking a new image of man commensurate with our powers to shape the future.

She finished her studies at a womens liberal arts college in Pennsylvania, where she graduated with the highest honours. After college, she moved to Connecticut to start a family with her husband, and they had five children together.

While living in the Constitution State, she spent years writing and editing books about consciousness along with her husband, who was an artist and also a futurist.

In 1965, Hubbard Marx came across Jonas Salks writings about the future of humanity. She would send a letter to the inventor of the polio vaccine and it changed her life. Salk, who allegedly told her she had stated his vision better than he ever could have, arranged to meet her and this encounter empowered her to go to Washington to spread her message on the evolution of human consciousness.

She divorced her husband and started to write on her own. It was in Washington that she started her career as a motivational speaker who believed that when enough good people realise how prevalent they are, their synergy will evolve human culture quickly.

She is said to have founded, or at the very least coined the term for, conscious evolution, a movement imagining a new story for the evolution of our species with us becoming conscious participants of our evolutive path. She began giving talks, teleseminars and courses in the US.

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By 1984 she was an influential public speaker. This led her to a brief encounter with mainstream politics ahead of the US elections that year as she sought to become the Democratic vice-presidential candidate. At the partys national convention in San Francisco where almost 4,000 district representatives had gathered to nominate candidates for the presidency and vice-presidency more than 200 delegates nominated her.

In her bid to earn the delegates votes, she gave a speech calling for the creation of an Office for the Future and also a Peace Room in the White House, in order to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working in the United States and the world. Lawyer Geraldine Ferraro, the first women to run for vice president, ultimately received the Democraticnomination.

A 2016 documentary on her life, American Visionary: The Story of Barbara Marx, detailed her Birth 2012 campaign, an ambitious initiative looking to create a Global Birth Day by connecting 100 million people over a webcast, who would join through silence or meditation, to foster the emergence of a sustainable planetary civilisation, in contrast to what she perceived was a negative panic about the end of the world.

The publicity from this event led to many more public engagements, where she continued her quest to inspire people to reimagine a better world.

Last month, Marx Hubbard, who had lived at the Sunrise Ranch, a spiritual retreat in Loveland, Colorado, was hospitalised for a knee injury and died a few days later surrounded by her family. Her memorial was streamed on YouTube for her thousands of followers.

Barbara Marx Hubbard, futurist, author and public speaker, born 22 December 1929, died 10 April 2019

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What Christ and all the great beings came to earth to reveal is, Were one, were whole, were good, were universal, she said, an insight that came with the message Go tell the story, Barbara.

Her eldest son, Wade, died in 2008, and her longtime partner, Sidney Lanier, died in 2013. She is survived by a son, Lloyd; three daughters, Woodleigh Hubbard, Suzanne Hubbard and Alexandra Morton; two sisters, Jacqueline Barnett and Patricia Ellsberg; a brother, Louis Marx Jr.; a half brother, Curtis Marx; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Though many of Ms. Hubbards ideas were somewhat esoteric, one that she expressed in the 1984 address to the Democratic National Convention involved a very practical rebranding.

Eighty percent of our scientific and technological genius is focused on killing, she said.

We must bring together the genius now focused in the War Room in a Peace Room in the White House, she continued. Its purpose will be to defeat the real enemies of humanity: hunger, disease, illiteracy, poverty and war.

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The following obituary was written by her grandson, Peter Hubbard:

Barbara Marx Hubbard 89, noted futurist thinker and popularizer of Conscious Evolution, passed away on the evening of April 10, 2019, in Loveland, CO, surrounded by her family, after a brief illness. Influenced by Catholic theologian Teilhard de Chardin and dismayed by the misuse of humanitys extraordinary technology, Hubbard sought to promote a spiritual interpretation of evolution. She saw humanitys purpose as to fulfill our creative potential and collectively evolve toward a divine potential, which she envisioned as becoming a universal species.

Buckminster Fuller said of Hubbard: 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. In 2012, the New York Times described Hubbard as a beatific presence with a mantle of white hair who quoted Jesus, Buckminster Fuller, the Jesuit philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the current pope, Benedict XVI. NYT Columnist Ross Douthat said of Hubbard, I suspect that the religious trends that a figure like Hubbard embodies which lead further away from core Christian ideas without shaking off the Christian influence entirelymay be more important to the future of American religion than the more familiar post-1960s story that the press has been telling.

Born December 22, 1929, in New York City, Hubbard was the eldest child of toy maker Louis Marx, founder of Louis Marx Toys, the worlds largest toy company in the middle 20th century, and hailed as the Toy King of America. After attending Dalton and Rye Country Day schools, she graduated Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College. While studying abroad at the Sorbonne in November 1949, she met artist and painter Earl Hubbard at a Parisienne caf. They married on January 3, 1951, in New York City at St. Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. After two decades of intellectual collaboration that saw them become leaders in the pro-space movement, they separated in 1973.

In the 1970s Hubbard formed the Committee for the Future in Washington D.C. and she co-invented the SYNCON PROCESS developing a new social process moving toward a more synergistic democracy to seek common goals and match needs with resources The SYNCONS were held, with many different types of groups, including gang leaders from Los Angeles, space scientists from Huntsville, and students at Southern Illinois University to examine a new global goal to build new worlds on Earth, new worlds in Space, new worlds in the Human Mind.

In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency on the Democratic ticket proposing an Office for the Future to map, track, connect and communicate what is working and a Peace Room as sophisticated as a war room in the office of the vice presidency. She delivered a speech on the convention floor.In the early 80s she was an active Soviet-American Citizen Diplomat, working with Rama Vernon to hold Soviet-American Citizen conferences in Moscow and in Washington D.C. using the SYNCON conference format.Hubbards books include The Hunger of Eve, Conscious Evolution, and Emergence.

In 2011, Conversations with God author Neal Donald Walschwrote the biography, The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of YOU. She was the subject of the recent documentary film American Visionary.In recent years she worked closely with Catholic sisters to bring forth her view of the evolutionary approach to the New Testament.She is a co-founder of the World Future Society, the Association for Global New Thought, The Club of Budapest, the Evolutionary Leaders, and is co-chair of The Foundation for Conscious Evolution.

Barbara Marx Hubbard is survived by four children: Suzanne Hubbard, a tapestry artist, Woodleigh Hubbard, an artist and illustrator; Alexandra Morton, a marine biologist and environmental activist, and Lloyd Hubbard, retired USAF Lt. Colonel. Her eldest son, Wade Hubbard, a musician, preceded her. She has 8 grandchildren: Danielle Hubbard, Peter L. Hubbard, Jarrett Morton, Renee Brown, Clio Morton, Savannah Hubbard, Liam Hubbard, and Tegan Hubbard. She is survived by her sibling financier Louis Marx, Jr.; artist Jacqueline Barnett; social-change activist Patricia Ellsberg, wife of Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg; and Curtis Marx, a computer scientist. Her longtime partner, Sidney Lanier, passed in 2013.

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In the 1920s,Edward Bernays, the so-called father of public relations, wrote several influential books outlining the principles of successful propaganda. In his book by that title, Bernaysarguedthat the mind of the peopleis made up for it bythose persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion and know how to skillfully supply the public with inherited prejudices and verbal formulas.

Bernays comments come to mind in the current climate of hostility and intolerance being directed against individuals pejoratively dubbed by the vaccine lobby as anti-vaxxers. The dumbed-down propaganda being plastered across the mainstream media on an almost daily basis would have the public believe that anyone who questionsanyaspect of vaccination is ignorant, selfish or both. However, there is a glaring flaw with this logic. The incontrovertible factwhich the legislators, regulators, reporters and citizens who are participating in mass tarring and feathering are not honest enough to admitis that many of the people classified as anti-vaxxers are actually ex-vaxxers whose dutiful adherence to current vaccine policies led to serious vaccine injury in themselves or a loved one.

Parental compliance with the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDCs) heavy-duty vaccine requirements for infants is often the catalyst for the injuries that start families down the path of becoming ex-vaxxers.

Vaccine coverage in the United States is high. In their first three years,over 99%of American children receive some vaccines. By the governments indirect admission, however, vaccine-related adverse events are also commonwith fewer than 1% of vaccine injuries ever gettingreported.

Parental compliance with the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDCs) heavy-duty vaccine requirements forinfantsis often the catalyst for the injuries that start families down the path of becoming ex-vaxxers. In one tragic case, a parent who followed doctors orders lost her six-week-old infant girl 12 hours after the child received eight vaccines; medical experts conclusion that vaccination was thecause of deathprompted a different valuation of risks and benefits with a subsequent child. There aremany othersuch stories. Moreover, when individuals who suffer nonfatal vaccine injuries stick to the standard vaccination regimen, research shows that they often experienceeven more severe injuriesthe next time around.

In the U.S., vaccines have been liability-free since 1986and evidence suggests that vaccine safety hasdeterioratedsignificantly as a result. The only current recourse for the vaccine-injured is to file a petition with the stingy and slow-moving National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP). Although the NVICP has paid out over$4 billionin taxpayer-funded compensation, it denies far more petitions than it awards. The family of the six-week-old described in the preceding paragraph eventually received NVICP compensation, but not before the program expended considerable effort to leave the cause of death unexplained. And, literally adding insult to injury, the maximum payout for any vaccine-related death is only$250,000.

The chair of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee has stated, Congress is getting paid tonothold pharma accountable.

When people or their loved ones are vaccine-injured, many begin to unravel the unscrupulous world of pharmaceutical influence on our media, government agency leaders and lawmakers. Connecting the dots is a horrifying and enlightening experience, exposing facts to which the general public generally remains oblivious. These revelations weigh heavily when someone makes the decision to permanently change into an ex-vaxxer.

Why would the peoples elected representatives (and the officials they appoint) propagate smears,promote censorshipand ignore the testimonials of the many families that have experienced devastating vaccine injuries?

Why would officialdom ignore the escalating fiscal implications of vaccine injuries, which are imposing a staggering financial burden onhouseholdsandtaxpayers?

Why do the media increasingly advocate for theeliminationof informed consent and vaccine choice?

One of the inescapable answers has to do with the overt and covert influence of pharmaceutical industry funding on those who shape vaccine policy and public opinion.

At the government level, senior Senators openlyadmitthat drug companies have too much influence in Washington, with big pharma spendingmore than any other industryon lobbying and campaign contributions. For example, the pharmaceutical industry poured an estimated$100 millioninto the 2016 elections, rewarding politicians on both sides of the aisle with its largesse. The chair of a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) committee hasstated, Congress is getting paid tonothold pharma accountable [emphasis added].

studies show that medical journal advertising generates the highest return on investment of all promotional strategies employed by pharmaceutical companies.

Not content to just influence legislators, the pharmaceutical industry puts equallyhigh valueon print advertising directed at doctorsthe all-important gatekeepers between drug companies and patients. In fact, studies show that medical journal advertising generates thehighest return on investmentof all promotional strategies employed by pharmaceutical companies.

Covering all bases, pharmaceutical companies also advertise vaccines and other drugs directly to U.S. consumers. The U.S. is one of onlytwo countriesin the world (along with New Zealand) that permits this type of direct-to-consumer pandering. Drug company spending on television and print advertising in the U.S. rose to $5.2 billion in 2016a60% increaseover 2012with untold additional amounts spent on digital and social media advertising. Astoundingly, pharmaceutical companies even get a tax break for these marketing expenditures, a corporate deduction that costs taxpayersbillionsannually.

The media benefit handsomely from the steady infusion of pharma advertising dollars. Four networks (CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox) receivedtwo-thirdsof the TV ad monies spent on top-selling drugs in 2015, with the Prevnar 13 vaccine representing the eighth most-advertised pharmaceutical product that year. Under these bought-media circumstances, it is somewhat astonishing that a few media outlets were willing to concede that drug money coursing through the veins of Congressdirectly contributedto the opioid crisis. So far, however, no reporters have been willing to connect similar dots between drug money and unsafe vaccines.

What the WHO failed to mention, however, is the preponderant role of commercial interestsand especially pharmaceutical industry interestsin shaping its goals and strategies.

Pharmaceutical industry influence makes itself felt not just domestically but also globally, and this has led to a corresponding amping-up of rhetoric against anti-vaxxers around the world. In early 2019, theWorld Health Organization(WHO) hyperbolically declared reluctance or refusal to vaccinate to be one of ten major global health threats. What the WHO failed to mention, however, is the preponderant role of commercial interestsand especiallypharmaceutical industryinterestsin shaping its goals and strategies.

Back in 2009, sleight of hand by WHO scientists rebranded the swine flu from a perfectly ordinary flu into a dangerous pandemic. This maneuver successfully generatedbillionsin profits for vaccine and anti-flu drug manufacturers; however, the vaccine in question (Pandemrix) caused cases ofnarcolepsymany inyoung peopleto surge all over Europe tonearly four times higherthan prevaccine levels. In all likelihood, the parents of the narcolepsy-afflicted youth joined the ranks of ex-vaxxers. A researcher looking back on the Pandemrix fiasco recentlystated:

If vaccine regulators were serious about safety, the entire vaccine fleet would have been grounded following the Pandemrix narcolepsy disaster, to check for the same mechanism of failure in other vaccines. But nothing of that sort happened.

If consumers want to learn about the potential risks of widely used FDA-approved drugs, they canwith a little legworkfind detailed information on hundreds of drugs on the FDAs website. Forazithromycin, for example, the FDA links to studies showing that the antibiotic increases risks of cancer relapse and cardiovascular problems. A link forfentanylclearly warns of the potential for life-threatening harm from accidental exposure and deadly risks to both children and adults. Although it can be an uphill battle to get drugs taken off the market, the ongoing pressure of lawsuits has succeeded in removing some egregious offenders such as Vioxxand Merck, Vioxxs manufacturer, has been forced to pay outbillionsin settlements.

In contrast, consumers who go to the FDA website for risk information about vaccines (classified as biologics rather than drugs) will search almost in vain, finding sparse information for onlyfour vaccines. One of the four is Gardasilalso manufactured by Merck, and one of the most notoriously dangerous vaccines ever rushed onto the market. While the FDA cautiouslystatesthat concerns have been raised about reports of deaths occurring in individuals after receiving Gardasil, the agency asserts that there was not a common pattern to the deaths that would suggest they were caused by the vaccine. The 2018 book,The HPV Vaccine on Trial, contradicts this benign narrative and describes how Gardasil has caused thousands of perfectly healthy young women and men to suddenly lose energy, become wheelchair-bound, or even die while Merck continues to enjoy soaring revenues.

For government and the media to dismiss these and other accounts of serious vaccine injuries as insignificantwhile falsely labeling injured individuals and their advocates as irresponsible anti-vaxxersis both shameful and insulting.After revealing how the mainstream narrative about Gardasil is riddled with discrepancies and half-truths, the authors ofThe HPV Vaccine on Trialissued a call for greater civility. Noting that marginalization and bullying of the vaccine-injured destroys civil public discourse and discourages scientific inquiry, they pointed out that we urgently need both.

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Barbara Marx Hubbard has been called the voice for conscious evolution by Deepak Chopra. She is the subject of Neale Donald Walschs book The Mother of Invention. And many would agree she is the global ambassador for conscious change.

At her heart, Barbara Marx Hubbard is a visionary, a social innovator. She is an evolutionary thinker who believes that global change happens when we work collectively and selflessly for the greater good. She realizes that the lessons of evolution teach us that problems are evolutionary drivers, and crises precede transformation, giving a new way of seeing and responding to our global situation.

As a prolific author and educator, Barbara has written seven books on social and planetary evolution. She has produced, hosted, and contributed to countless documentaries seen by millions of people around the world. In conjunction with the Shift Network, Barbara co-produced the worldwide Birth 2012 multi-media event that was seen as a historic turning point in exposing the social, spiritual, scientific, and technological potential in humanity.

In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, calling for a Peace Room to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working in America and the world. She also co-chaired a number of Soviet-American Citizen Summits, introducing a new concept called SYNCON to foster synergistic convergence with opposing groups. In addition she co-founded the World Future Society, and the Association for Global New Thought.

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November 2015

Humanity is facing a radically new situation. We are threatening life on this Earth by our own actions and simultaneously, we are gaining capacities to evolve life, personally, socially, spiritually and scientifically to a new threshold of existence itself.

At this tipping point between devolution and conscious evolution Marc Gafni serves as an evolutionary pioneer, writer, scholar, author, teacher, friend. He has tapped into the impulse of evolution. Into the direction of the life force itself.

This Impulse, as he sees it, is a divine impulse of Eros. As Marc puts it: The Universe is a Love Story. It has expressed itself for 13.8 billion years as allurement or Eros, forming ever more complex whole systems by attraction: quark with quark, electron with electron, cell with cell, human with human all the way up and all the way down, to the threshold of connecting us in greater cooperation and synergyor breaking down into further destruction.

Marc comes forth and continues the lineage of evolutionary geniuses such as Teilhard de Chardin, Sri Aurobindo, Buckminster Fuller and Jonas Salk, the first teachers that inspired me in the 1960s and guided me to respond to my fundamental life questions.

In 1945 when the US dropped the atomic bombs on Japan, I was fifteen years old. Shocked by the horror of this destruction I had asked a series of questions which have dominated my life: What is the meaning of all this new power that is good? Where is modern civilization going that we want to go? What are images of the future equal to our potential? I realized we were gaining powers we used to attribute to our gods. If we continued to use these powers in self-centered consciousness we would destroy the world but if we changed in consciousness we could evolve the world. I found that no one knew the meaning of our new scientific, technological, industrial power that was good. The powers were so new.

Gradually I found responses. First for me came Teilhard de Chardin, in his seminal work The Phenomenon of Man. He discovered the evolutionary Impulse of Creation, or God, as the direction of evolution to higher consciousness, freedom and order. That Impulse evolved through more complexity and consciousness, through greater loveaiming he predicted (written before the Internet) toward the noosphere, the thinking layer of Earth, becoming the planetary media and nervous system, about to get its collective eyes, awakening a planetary experience of love.

Then I found Sri Aurobindo, the great Eastern evolutionary sage in his masterwork The Life Divine. He traced the evolutionary impulse through all of existence, identifying the evolving human as the Gnostic human, capable of incarnating the supramental genius of evolution itself as a new being, a new humanity.

Then Buckminster Fuller, the great cosmic architect and engineer taught us that we now have the resources technology and know-how to make the world work for all without taking it away for anyone.

Then I discovered the work of Jonas Salk: the advocate of meta-biology seeking to discover the design of nature to guide us forward as conscious evolutionaries.

These great teachers as well as others in the 1960s opened the way toward the new worldview of conscious evolution, leading toward a new human we might call Homo universalis, one who embodies the spiritual, social and scientific and technological genius of humanity on this Earth and eventually in the cosmos beyond our planet.

This intense period of evolution from the 1960s through the present has brought us to the threshold of devolution or evolutionwithout evolutionary leadership and vision coming forth from any existing system.

Into this precarious field of uncertainty Marc Gafni is serving as one of our very best guides, teachers and participants in conscious evolution. He has a unique and vital key to the next stage of evolution.

Marc is a continuation of the lineage of Sri Aurobindo, Teilhard de Chardin and Buckminster Fuller. He holds that lineage in the impulse of his being and his thinking. He began as the Hebrew wisdom expression of this impulse but has now moved beyond to the place of Homo universalis, a universal human.

It is the incarnation of Eros and evolutionary impulse in what Marc calls Unique Self, leading toward Evolutionary Unique Self in his teaching and master work: Your Unique Self: The Radical Path to Personal Enlightenment, foreword by Ken Wilber, Integral Publishers, 2012.

The Unique Self is an expression of the irreducibly beautiful impulse of creation incarnated uniquely in each one of us as we learn to express our full potential and purpose toward more life, more love, more creativity.

He sees this Unique Self expressing outrageous love. As he puts it, The only response to outrageous pain, is outrageous love, That is evolutionary love. Because evolution is awesomely outrageousthat is, from no thing at all has come everything that was, is, and is now becoming!

I first met Marc during an interview several years ago. I did not know him or his work. However, as we began our conversation, point after point came forth until I realized he embodies evolution. Its not just a good idea. It is who he is in person. It is who he calls us all to become. We are in potential, the evolutionary impulse becoming conscious as what Marc calls, Unique Selves in each of us. Even more we are what Marc calls Evolutionary Unique Selves, potentially fully accessing, expressing, incarnating the impulse of creation itself as our own vocations of destiny.

This meeting served as a deep affirmation of my own life quest for the meaning of our power that is good, and has been a blessing, since at 85, I seem to becoming newer every day! My meeting with him energized me. It enlivened me, reversing, in my experience, certain physical symptoms of decline. It renewed my experience of life with full vitality and renewed purpose. I know that Marc has had similar effect on scores and scores of people over the years. That is a gift and a cross to bear.

Marc has made the powerful decision, which I applaud, to teach as a friend, a holder of wisdom and not as a classic spiritual teacher. Marc utterly rejects the mantle of authority and neither wants or claims any sort of authority over anyone. Marc is about empowering people. He tried for a time to teach within some version of spiritual teacher model because he thought it might be a beautiful form to hold people. But in the end his sense of peoples need to be empowered brought him to reject any notion of the old model and to seek a new empowered model of teacher and student which is rooted in a combination of friendship, respect, transmission and the ability to move between different relationships with full autonomy and power. Anyone who has the opportunity to study him will receive great gifts. He is one of the best teachers alive today.

As an evolutionary reader of Talmudic texts Marc describes in his masterful scholarly work, Radical Kabbalah, the world view in Hasidism which he termed nondual humanism or alternatively acosmic humanism. There is no existence independent of divinityIt is an incarnation theology that affirms the identity of the human and the divine, the dignity of desire, the affirmation of the supra-rational and the explicit democratization of enlightenment.

This describes for us brilliantly the basis of evolutionary spirituality. It is our intention to work together with others under the context of Evolutionary Spirituality to offer our contribution to vision and direction into social, political, spiritual life through books, teachings, collaboration, and by helping to connect co-creators world-wide to help make the shift from devolution toward evolution in time.

But all of this is really the tip of the iceberg. What is no less important is who Marc Gafni the person is. Here I think is his greatest gift and revelation. I have spoken and worked with literally dozens of people who work with him every day for the last years. These are people without agendas or baggage or ulterior motives. What they all share is what I have experienced myself. There is a sense of impeccability in Marcs ethics and caring. In every encounter with him he is right there with you and you feel just how much he cares. You can feel his heart and the goodness that comes from him. It would be easy for an undiscerning person to write Marc off as charming or charismatic. But this is to miss the essence of his Eros. He is truly a lover in his core. For all of us who know him well, we know that he holds within himself outrageous pain together with outrageous love.

The word radical integrity comes to mind in describing Marc. I have seen him both at moment of intense triumph and intense challenge and pain. In all of them he remains the same person. His heart is open in laughter and tears and the depth of his love. He does not fit into ordinary categories. His love is so large that people either recognize it or misunderstand it. Marc has learned over the years to become aware of his own potency and to hold it with care.

He does not love any one person exclusively. He loves, in alive and caring ways, literally dozens of people. He loves as a great friend, pouring time and energy and caring into the details of peoples lives. He gets deeply excited in meeting a cab driver and might talk to him for and hour even as he wants to honor every waiter and waitress. Perhaps his most poignant daily practice that he shares with his circle of colleagues and friends is do not accept service from someone whose name you do not know. For Marc it is more than knowing their name; it is about an intense personal I-thou recognition of what he called the irreducible dignity of every individual. Marc has lived through outrageous pain. He has responded with outrageous love. He has responded by giving us a vision of what he calls, The Universe: A Love Story. Marcs most important work is in front of him.

I am joining with many of his colleagues in demanding with love that Marc turn his gifts to writing. I and many others will write with him. There is, in his words, a new source code changing our culture which needs to be written. It will not be written by one person but rather, as Marc and our colleague Daniel Schmachtenberger likes to say, much like quantum physics, it will be written by a group of collaborators who all contribute their Unique Self. Marc is committed to the Integral framework which Ken Wilber has developed as the core framework for the source code conversation core. He seeks together with so many of us to take the next step to participate in the evolution of love.

With his books Your Unique Self, Self and Soul Prints Marc has changed the conversation around personal identity, soul work and enlightenment. With his book Mystery of Love he has changed the conversation around Eros. With his two volumes on Radical Kabbalah he has given us a vision of Nondual Humanism. With his forthcoming book on Integral Religion and Tears he is changing the conversation around ritual, prayer, the second person of God, and sacred text. With his most important work I believe yet before him, forthcoming books on Recovery, Eros, Pleasure, Meta Theory, Outrageous Love, Universe: A Love story, and more, we can look for some important and precious gifts in the future. He is a force of nature with a very kind heart. I am convinced that he is one of the key philosophers, visionaries of our generation.

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Barbara Marx Hubbard about Marc Gafni | Marc Gafni

Lynne Twist is a co-founder of The Pachamama Alliance, and founder of The Soul of Money Institute. She has dedicated herself to alleviating poverty and hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability.

In 1995, a group of people, including John Perkins, and Bill and Lynne Twist, answered a call from the Amazon rainforest and Mother Earth herself. At the invitation of leaders of the Achuar indigenous people of Ecuador, they traveled to their Amazon home to learn more about this imminent call their hearts yearned for an answer. The Achuar shared with them the urgent threat to their lands and culture, their vision for self-determination, and a request for allies from the North who would change the dream of the modern world by shifting its culture of over-consumption to a culture that honors and sustains life.

This group committed to a partnership with the Achuar, and, upon their return to the United States, co-founded The Pachamama Alliance to carry this commitment out.

To date, Lynne is a Pachamama Alliance board member and fundraiser. She also leads journeys into the Amazon rainforest through the organizations Pachamama Journeys program.

From working with Mother Teresa in Calcutta to the refugee camps in Ethiopia and the threatened rainforests of the Amazon, Lynnes on-the-ground work has brought her a deep understanding of the social tapestry of the world and the historical landscape of the times we are living in. Her 40+ years of global work are testament to her commitment to alleviating poverty and hunger and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability.

Her journey has led to features in over 10 films, including: The Shift (Michael Goorjian, 2010), Crude Impact (James Jandak Wood, 2006) and Women of Wisdom and Power (Lili Fournier, 2000) and Money & Life (Katie Teague).

In addition, she has been interviewed by dozens of media outlets including The Huffington Post, Mehmet Oz Radio, Oprah and Friends Radio, NPR, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle and PBS.

A sought-after speaker, Lynne travels the world giving keynote presentations and workshops for conferences including: United Nations Beijing Womens Conference, Nobel Womens Conference on Sexual Violence, State of the World Forum Conference, Alliance for a New Humanity Conference with Deepak Chopra, Synthesis Dialogues with His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Governors Conference on California Women, among others.

In addition, she has co-presented and shared the stage with some of todays most influential thought leaders including: Angeles Arrien, Marianne Williamson, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, F.W. de Klerk, Stephen Covey, Riane Eisler, Deepak Chopra, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jane Goodall, Jean Houston, Roshi Joan Halifax and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.Watch Lynnes talk at TEDx WallStreet

In 2003, Lynne founded The Soul of Money Institute. The Institute is a center for exploring and sharing the best practices, theories, and attitudes that enable people to relate to money and the money culture with greater freedom, power, and effectiveness.

Lynnes book, The Soul of Money, is a wise and inspiring exploration of the connection between money and leading a fulfilling life. This compelling and fundamentally liberating book shows us that examining our attitudes toward money how we earn it, spend it, invest it, and give it awaycan offer surprising insight into our lives, our values and the essence of prosperity. Through moving stories and practical principles, Lynne demonstrates how we can replace feelings of scarcity and guilt with experiences of sufficiency and freedom.

In this book and its audio CD workshop, Unleashing the Soul of Money, Lynne shares from her own life and work a journey illuminated by remarkable encounters with the richest and poorest people on earth, from the famous (Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama) to the anonymous but unforgettable heroes of everyday life.

Lynne has also contributed chapters to more than ten books, including:

She has also written numerous articles for RSF Quarterly, Fetzer Institute, Noetic Sciences Quarterly, and YES! Magazine, among others.

Lynnes ideas help transform our perspective on abundance, gratitude, generosity, and what is enough. Her work is based upon the following principles:

Through The Soul of Money Institute, Lynne has worked with over 100,000 people in 50 countries in board retreats, workshops, keynote presentations and one-on-one coaching in the arenas of fundraising with integrity, conscious philanthropy, strategic visioning and having a healthy relationship with money, when you make it, spend it, donate it or invest it.

Lynnes Soul of Money Institute clients cover a wide variety of profit, social profit (nonprofit) and educational institutions including: Nobel Womens Initiative, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Charles Schwab, United Way, The Red Cross, Amnesty International, Sierra Club, Women Presidents Organization, Young Presidents Organization, Entrepreneurs Organization, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), The Stanford Business School, MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard University.

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