2050 Looking Backward — How We Saved the World

At age 96, I look back on life with gratitude — privileged to play a part in events that

turned human society from an increasingly destructive path to one that ultimately

sparked the next evolutionary leap for humanity.

In the past century, our country was a beacon of hope — a shining example of what was

possible when a nation ceased bowing to kings, popes, and dictators, and instead

encouraged each citizen to learn, grow, and reach their potential to create and

contribute their unique gifts. It worked so well that our nation became a world leader in

knowledge, technology, leadership, financial prowess, and the advance of human

potential.

However, we began to discover that these gifts also had a shadow side. While they

could be used to nourish, create, and uplift in a way that benefited all, they could also

be used to consume, control, exploit, and dominate others — and the planetary

environment itself.

I was dismayed and saddened to note that as a society, we seemed to increasingly take

the latter path. Despite our noble aspirations, society was becoming more fractious and

uncivil — and more unequal. In view of our potential, our ever-mounting knowledge,

wealth, and technical prowess, a life of abundance, security and opportunity could be

available to all. Yet the gap between the “haves” and “have nots” steadily widened, while

mounting ecological problems threatened our very existence.

And it was not that we were unaware. Around the globe, thousands upon thousands of

NGOs were at work on a multitude of issues and challenges. Though there were

important individual “wins” for people and planet, the overall needle of progress seemed

unable to keep pace the with threats and challenges. I wondered why this should be so.

My breakthrough came out of a convergence of insight from several domains:

evolutionary science, quantum physics, and explorations in the philosophy of human

psychology and spirituality:

• At the transition-point between geological eras, the existing order begins to

break down in preparation for a shift to the next paradigm. [Evolutionary

cosmologist Brian Swimme]

• Current thought in the physical sciences highlights the field-like nature of

fundamental reality, and the primacy of conscious observation in the way such

fields manifest as an experienced reality.

• The principle in wave dynamics that multiple fields, when coherent and

coupled, have power that increases exponentially with the addition of each new

component. Such brings a deeper understanding of spiritual practices that have

been performed for millennia— prayer, chants, dance, and other ritual and

ceremony.

Up until now, we tended to look at the various social and ecological challenges as

something that we needed to fix “out there”. In reality, the “fix” (or better, the shift)

needed to begin with something “in here”. We needed an expanded understanding of

our place the cosmos and our true potential and the opportunities that it makes

possible.

Armed with the above perspective, I realized that we as a species and society were at

an inflection-point — poised either to continue on a downward path or to make an

evolutionary leap in consciousness. The nature of that leap? Unlike other species that

operate by a hive-mind, humans had always been independent lone agents who

collaborate by agreement or by force. The myth of the “self made man” was widely

embraced, even if unconsciously, predisposing a tendency to compete rather than

collaborate.

Yet even so, it was common in the culture to think of a larger spirit or force that may

animate groups of people, causing them to function as though the whole were more

than the sum of the individuals. Intuitively we began to sense this, as captured in

metaphors such as “catch my vibes”, “we’re on the same wavelength”, “we are in sync”.

Quaint as these sentiments may have been, I found that in quantum field theory, there

was actual science behind this. And that understanding made it possible to work with

more proactively in this domain.

I found a private research foundation in California that had been studying autonomic

“coherence” and its effect on physical and psychological well-being. They settled upon

heart-rate variability (“HRV”) as an objective biofeedback measure of the same, and

they produced a portable and affordable device that individuals could use in daily

practice.

I theorized that such a phenomenon, good for the individual, would not only extend to a

group, but exponentially more so, since collectively coherent fields exhibit an amplifying

effect. As an example, one of the early advisors to the above foundation noted that

small Silicon Valley companies tend to be more innovative and dynamic than larger

institutions due to the greater probability of falling into psychic coherence among

smaller groups of people.

Based on the prior research, we developed a system that could monitor and provide

feedback to groups of up to 24 persons. As we worked with such groups in a range of

contexts both public and private, we noted a marked increase in creative thought, novel

insight, and alternative understandings. Moreover, in the vein of the quantum observer

effect, some experiences began to broach into the realm of the “paranormal”. One

participant quipped that it was like “prayer on steroids”.

Though the shift took many years, we found there was a broader spill-over effect from

such groups of practice. Rather than the former tendency to view others as competitors

to be wary of, participants began to appreciate their need for each other as allies in the

grander ongoing unfoldment of the cosmos. Working together, we began to discover

new possibilities that the ancients could only dream of.

Historically, religions often conceptualized life as a struggle, for which one might be

rewarded with an afterlife in some sort of heaven (though it was never clear what such

an existence might consist of).

Yet we eventually awoke to the realization that “Heaven” was never a preexistent

destination — a place to get to. It is something we are empowered to create, given the

abilities and potential each are gifted with.

Though I am too old at this point to play a significant role in our advancing future, I am

grateful for what part I could play in shifting our collective consciousness from fear and

competition to one of hope, curiosity, and a desire to discover and further advance our

expanding role in the Cosmos. Where will it lead? It’s a mystery, but that is what makes

it an adventure!

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February 20, 2024

What Took Root in the Rubble (revision)

Back then, before The Event, most of us recognized that things were unraveling, and that they were probably going to get worse before they got better. Many doubted that there ever would be a “better.” But a handful of us were determined that we could not only make the depths of the “worse” not so unbearably deep, we could shape the “better” world that would come afterward. We started to practice for that “better” world, even as other things plunged toward catastrophe.

Part of what made this possible was a diversity of new spiritual movements, inviting people toward lives that were more richly imbued with purpose and gratitude. One of those movements was something I’d tried to get started, an idea called Novasutras. While the basic premise was appealing — people co-creating a community of practice, with shared festivals and rituals, based in an ecospirituality that embraced science and change — its early growth was far from promising. The Novasutras community waxed and waned, sometimes thriving with daily online congregations, sometimes surviving only tenuously with a handful of meditators gathering once a week, until the climate-fueled catastrophe we’ve all come to simply call “The Event.” While The Event only directly impacted a few million of us, it sent ripples of change out around the world.

As a few local Novasutras adherents came together in the immediate aftermath of The Event, we vowed to support one another in spiritual practice and camaraderie while doing the important mutual aid work that the wider community of survivors required. In the rubble of those first hours and days, we found one another, meditated together, and then moved with shared purpose, setting up one of the city’s critically-needed impromptu mutual aid centers. We made nourishing meals for refugees and rescue workers. We offered care to the injured and solace to the grieving. We assembled a safe space for gatherings, so that people could make plans and set priorities as a community. Ubuntu permeated our actions, and the word became an intrinsic part of our conversations.

The Novasutras crisis responders offered frequent spiritual practices alongside our care work. I was among a team that offered guided nature-reconnection meditation sessions to groups of survivors and responders starting just a couple days after The Event, providing a half-hour or so of quiet respite when the demands of the crisis allowed. We also provided spiritual grounding in keeping with the cycles of nature: Connecting the Corners practice for a few minutes every dawn and dusk, and larger community meditation gatherings at each phase of the moon. We made sure these were open and welcoming spaces for people regardless of their beliefs or backgrounds, emphasizing our shared humanity and connection to all life on Earth.

About a month after The Event was the mid-season Cross-Quarter. Our Novasutras community helped arrange a day-long Festival of Renewal, with a lovely ritual co-creating an altar to honor those who lost their lives, then transitioning into celebration of the promise of a better tomorrow. We shared music, games, a special feast, and as much beauty as we could create together amidst the ruins. Our Festival evoked reminders of the power of Life to bring vibrant new growth to scarred earth and bare ground. I facilitated a session where diverse, intergenerational teams were invited to create posters capturing their visions of a better future for the community. The results of this joyful and inventive process were hung around our shared gathering spaces as colorful reminders of our shared hopes. 

Those vision posters inspired many conversations and further ideas, which in turn became the seeds of new resiliency projects as rebuilding began in the following months. A few of those posters are still on display at the community center in the heart of one of our restoration projects, potent reminders of the human capacity for hope and inspiration even in dire circumstances. Many of the survivors, now leaders and elders at the community center, still speak about the power of doing hopeful work together during those dark days. Some believe that if we had not taken the time for community visions, we would have gone back to the worst of the practices that created the disaster in the first place. Instead, a more vibrant, compassionate, and equitable community grew from that disturbed soil, and true transformation took root. 

When the urgent crisis subsided, and it was time to rebuild, the themes of agaya and ubuntu served as guiding principles for realizing many elements of the visions captured in those posters. The planting of trees, and establishment of neighborhood permaculture gardens and community centers, became sacred acts, suffused with reverence and intentions that the future be more resilient and loving than the past. When choices had to be made about places that should be abandoned, the whole community found wisdom and comfort by abiding in agaya, helping Nature to heal those places that were no longer safe for people to live and work.

And as the reconstruction continued, many survivors found themselves called into sacred activism, taking to the streets and speaking up in the halls of power. Together, we rose up to stop the insanity of intensifying fossil fuel production that would otherwise send even more communities through the hell from which we had just emerged. Many in the community aligned to support our activism, recognizing that for every person engaged in nonviolent direct action, several more were needed to support us before, during, and after actions. 

The Event, and the communities inspired by Novasutras and other ecospiritual groups around the world, catalyzed a groundswell of activism that transformed the politics and economics of the world in the years that followed. We became a chorus of voices for the better world so many hearts desired. Our prodigious marches and more creative nonviolent direct actions were like a song of transformation sung by a chorus so loud and large that not even the most detached leaders could ignore it. Many were allured by the beauty of the visions that these activists were calling into being with more harmony than dissonance. But even those who sought to maintain their power in the status quo soon realized they were being pushed out of the way of this burgeoning new reality, and resigned themselves to the inevitability of change.

What began as a disaster, fueled by climate disruption, emerged as one of the places where the better future most of us wanted became a lived reality. When we reflect on the world today, it is hard to believe how many of the transformative ideas came from a handful of survivors, sitting around a table, dreaming of the world they wished could be. We rediscovered our collective power to create that future. We remembered our human adaptations for working in community. We taught and learned from one another about ways to remain resilient, healing our grief and becoming even stronger together. As I look back over the quarter-century since The Event, I am honored to have been one of so many participating in the deep transformation of the ways that humans interact with one another and the more-than-human world. Thank you for allowing me to reminisce about the ways that The Event opened so much space for positive change.

1 I’ve been deliberately non-specific about The Event, other than an expectation of a sudden, large-scale, climate-driven regional catastrophe like a hurricane, flood, or wildfire. Feel free to picture whichever of these seems most likely to affect your own life, and imagine the setting accordingly. My descriptions of what happened after The Event were inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s 2009 book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster.

Dear Humanity,

It is hard to believe that just a quarter of a century ago we were swimming in the murky depths of “us against them;” where different was bad, and where the “diversity that distinguishes us” was our identity.

Fortunately, hidden within the deeply drawn lines of divisiveness was the opportunity for great change, and from the deepest adversity arose the greatest potential to advance; that potential hidden within a simple truth – the undeniable fact that we are all human.

Awareness of that truth began slowly, but as the sameness that connects us became more evident, a natural unity began to emerge. Instead of every day being eclipsed by the shadow of our differences, a natural commonality began to illuminate our existence. The truth that we all bleed… that we all breathe …that we all can experience the oneness of love, naturally revealed the indisputable fact that we are one human family that is eight-billion strong – that strength not arithmetic but exponential.

That strength eventually transformed the fallacy of “us against them” into the foundational epiphany that there is only “us.” An epiphany that not only became the template for solving all of humanity’s problems, but also the basis for recognizing the beauty of our diversity – that diversity a living testimony to the palette of the Creator.

Most importantly, the overwhelming joy from the knowledge of who we are, created the harmonious existence that is today January 1st, 2050.

So as we continue to soar upwards into the undeniable truth of our shared humanity, Happy New Year 2050 to all eight billion of our united human family!

Time flies but we soar!

Seth Adamson

P.S. Did I mention that the initiatory point in this revolutionary transformation has been traced back to an essay contest?

Thank goodness for the year 2024, the year of the Wood Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac, the year everyone finally realized we were more alike than we were different.

Attracting Business to Ethical Companies

By Mark Campbell

It is 1 Jan 2050 and I just got news that Exxon has gone into receivership. It is a sad day for many workers but almost all of them will be able to find meaningful work in a few weeks at companies that take much better care of their employees. I know this because almost all businesses take very good care of their employees and the environment these days. It is not like anyone is policing what they do but they just don’t get any business unless they are transparent and ethically responsible. It is surreal to think that I was a big part of creating the app that changed everything.

It started out as a way to list ethically and socially conscious businesses and products so that a group of us who were ethically and environmentally conscious could feel good about where we were spending our money. But when word spread, other people began to want access to this list. We decided to make it into a business and soon had over a million customers worldwide since our original group spanned the globe as well. As the customers grew the requests for different functions increased as well. We soon had so many features that an AI was added to simplify the interface.

I stare out the window in the passenger seat as the driverless car slows to a perfect stop in the parking lot of my local grocer. “How has this place been doing Jeeves?”. You get to personalize your own AI and I always liked the name Jeeves.

“If you are asking how this grocer is doing along the measures you have chosen then I would have to say very good. There is one pending grievance from an employee but it is relatively benign and I am still paying close attention. I have done a quick check on all of their suppliers and they are rating very high as well, especially in regards to fair trade. This grocer and ninety -eight percent of its suppliers are all rated high in radical transparency.”

Radical transparency was an important feature of the app since it gave prominence to the companies and products that told you everything about themselves, from how they sourced their materials to how much each employee was paid including all of the executives. If a company rated high in radical transparency they were featured regularly on the app while their membership fees were drastically reduced. The only other way to be featured highly on the app was to score high on the measures that mattered to the user. The user could change what was measured at any time.

We started with small companies first who quickly adopted the demands of radical transparency in exchange for the prominence it gained them on our network. Soon, more and more people started buying our customers’ products and doing business with them since radical transparency helped to quickly build trust in their products and services. As more and more companies signed on it became apparent that being on our network was helping them to gain a significant business advantage, especially when we introduced Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) stickers

The stickers we provided to the member companies have microscopic RFID tags built into them so that shoppers can locate products in the store and services on the map and read about them in our database. The global effect scale allows you to see how your purchasing habits are affecting the world and what the eventual benefits will be if those habits continue. The price of the stickers varies with the profit margin of the company, their ethical scores, and most of all their rating on the radical transparency scale. A struggling start-up that rated high in ethics and radical transparency would pay next to nothing to buy stickers from us while a larger company would pay much more.

As larger companies began to lose market share, many of them applied to become part of our network. Although we accepted some of them as members, only a few were willing to meet the minimum requirements of radical transparency. About half of those accepted companies worked diligently to improve their scores even though their stickers still cost hundreds of times what they cost the smaller companies. Over time, many of these larger, more progressive companies, were able to establish themselves as trusted entities as the more stubborn corporations wasted billions on advertising and lobbying.

Eventually, one by one, these larger companies began to fail. This included multinational banks and oil corporations as peer-to-peer financing and alternative energy companies received the bulk of new investments. Ironically, many of these same companies began to spend billions of dollars with our company and other ethical consultants in an effort to salvage what they could. These efforts came much too late however and only ended up accelerating the growth and spread of ethical consultants and our customer base on a global scale. Within fifteen years ninety percent of all service companies and producers had adopted radical transparency and ethical measures. The world had been changed forever as companies were forced to take much better care of their employees and only ethically responsible products sold regularly from store shelves.

As I enter the store Jeeves’s voice sounds in my earpiece. “The organic oatmeal has been moved to the third aisle near the southwest corner. There is also a new organic protein bar that fits nicely with your list of ideal ingredients and rates very highly in both grams of protein per bar and your global effect scale.”

“Excellent Jeeves hit me with the top two global effects of the protein bar.”

“The supplier hails from a relatively modest seaside neighborhood in Brazil. They devote ten percent of their profits to the cleanup of the shoreline and providing local education to reduce crime. Their efforts will contribute to a cleaner ocean and another friendly safe village in South America where you can windsurf since the light to moderate prevailing winds are perfect for your reduced capabilities.”

“Okay Jeeves, I don’t need you to tell me I am getting old but I love what those protein bar people are doing.”

It was the ability to find all the ingredients in any product from a distance that really sold people on the app but the other features weren’t bad either. I especially loved that I could turn on my personal app locator and instantly find others who were helping to change the world with their wallets. The people I met in the network so far were almost always interesting and kind.

My app pings to show me that a fellow app user just wants to chat. They are over by the organic eggs. I can hardly wait to meet them.

Synchronosophy

changing the world one miracle at a time

© Veronika Bond, February 12th 2024

Synchronosophy | ˈsɪŋkrənəsɒfi | [from Greek syn = together + khronos = time + sophia = practical wisdom] the discipline and practice of gathering personal wisdom by processing the experience of negative synchronous events.

The Birth of SoS

While trauma is hell on earth, trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

〰 Peter Levine 〰

On Valentine’s Day, 2024 we hatched the plan. Josh and I were sitting on the roof terrace of a café in Coimbra, a favourite haunt on the premises of the old university, with sweeping views over burnt-orange rooftops down to the glistening waters of the Mondego and beyond.

“You should start a school,” Josh said.

“Why would I want to start a school?” I asked.

“You know I never wanted to do that.”

“But you must!” Josh insisted.

“Because the time is now. And the world needs Synchronosophy.”

The original idea, from which the world of Synchronosophy sprouted, is more than twice as old as the School of Synchronosophy (SoS).

SoS was born as what the great trauma researcher and pioneer in trauma healing Peter Levine called a ‘gift from the gods’.

My gift was a new map of human Consciousness. It showed individual human Consciousness as a living organism ~ rather than a ‘phenomenon mysteriously produced by the brain’ ~ a theory the now outdated anthropocentric doctrine was still pushing at the time.

In my map, the living organism of human Consciousness was born with eight fully developed vital organs [now well known as: Will ~ Soul ~ Inspiration ~ Intuition ~ Imagination ~ Instinct ~ Intellect ~ Body]

It included instructions about their functions, and what we, their hosts, can do to make the most of them. Benefits include › learning from experience › transforming dysfunctional beliefs and patterns › regenerating, becoming who we truly are, doing whatever humans need to do to live an authentic, healthy, and fulfilled life.

I had no doubt that my new Map of an Anatomy of Individual Human Consciousness (MAIHC ~ the first name that came to mind) was brilliant. I fully trusted the information I had received and couldn’t wait to try it out.

What I couldn’t trust was myself. Why had I been given this information? Who was I to bring this to the world? Indeed, should I share it with the world? I didn’t have the right credentials, the right connections, the entrepreneurial knowhow, or friends in high places …

The Incubation of Synchronosophy (1999~2024)

Birth is the sudden opening of a window, …

you look out upon a miracle.

You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything.

〰 William MacNeil Dixon 〰

Instead of enjoying this moment to bask on my inner shores, in the warmth of deep appreciation, my inner ocean was raging with waves of worry, anxiety, mistrust, fears and inferiority.

What was wrong with me?!

Even my Inner Critic acknowledged that the gift I had received was revealing paths to a treasure trove of inner wisdom.

The trouble was, I didn’t feel qualified to present my brand-new map to a discerning audience, all of whom (surely) knew far more about Consciousness than I did.

Now I know that such emotions and thoughts are perfectly normal. My resistance and emotional turmoil were telling the truth! I was far from ready to present such a monumental idea to the ‘general public’, and my newborn infant-idea was ~ well, only just born.

What made me think that my newborn idea was ready to be thrown into a world dominated by beasts living in anthropocentric lairs? To be shoved under the lenses of self-appointed experts, ready to poke needles into my baby, and corrupt it faster than you can say ‘Synchronosophy’?

At this point my mothering instinct kicked in. I promised to nurture and protect this baby for as long as necessary, until she was ready to go out into the world and become whatever she was born to be. That maturing period lasted two and a half decades.

The Gift of Synchronosophy to the Symbiocene

If we do not acknowledge our collective trauma, how can we ever heal from it?

When we speak, when we share, we can change things.

Maybe even change the world.

〰 Seth King 〰

The word Symbiocene was only a teenager in 2024. New initiatives, philosophical blogs, and art projects had popped up all over the world to usher in this new era. The Symbiocene promised to deliver us from all evils of the Anthropocene, but it was up to us to speed up its arrival.

“I suggest that systemic symbiotic thinking leads to the Symbiocene, a new era that nurtures all aspects of being human in a world of other beings,” Eco-philosopher Glenn Albrecht wrote in his Invitation to the Symbiocene. (https://symbioscene.com/invitation-to-the-symbiocene/)

It seemed like a great opportunity and perfect moment to ‘become part of the solution’ and ‘be the change we want to see in the world.’

My map of Consciousness (MAIHC) is deeply rooted in systemic symbiotic thinking. The basic premise is that all expressions of human Consciousness, including the negative ones, make valuable contributions to the inner world, even if the host is not yet able to make sense of them.

Most initiatives following the call of Glenn Albrecht to invoke the Symbiocene focussed on eco-projects and environmental activism. Synchronosophy offered a unique opportunity to support and strengthen such outer work, via internal alignment and fundamental paradigm shifts.

Early experiments with MAIHC showed that every subjective negative experience can reveal personal dormant potential, and stimulate the natural process of integration and symbiogenetic growth.

(We later abandoned the name MAIHC when the acronym was adopted by the University of Alcalá for the title Master in Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare)

By the 2020s we all knew it was impossible to create a better world within the old anthropocentric paradigm. Synchronosophy gave impulses to cultivate a new ‘mindset’ in an organic and efficient way.

Theories of ‘reprogramming the mind’ were going out of fashion because of their roots in anthropocentric doctrines. Symbiocentric thinking required an entirely new way of knowing ourselves.

The School of Synchronosophy

Synchronicity happens when we align with the flow of the universe

rather than insisting the universe flow our way.

〰Akemi G 〰

My initial reluctance to found a ‘school’ turned out to be caused by negative associations with the word itself. School smacked of hierarchy, old anthropocentric power structures we needed to break.

A Eureka moment came with a little nudge from my Inner Linguist that school has a second meaning. We use it in relation to groups of fish when they swim in unison. This is what the word school means here. SoS is a school of individuals swimming towards the Symbiocene and using the fuel generated through the practice of Synchronosophy.

Although the modality can be differentiated from others, we decided not to burden this work with a ‘registered trademark’. This was an opportunity to throw off the shackles of Anthropocentric separatism within the world of therapies.

In fact, I didn’t want to nail Synchronosophy down to therapy at all! Because again, the word therapy implies that one person has a problem, and the other is the expert who helps them heal. While this may be necessary sometimes, we learned that everyone is the expert when it comes to healing their own trauma story, which is an ongoing process, confronting more and more subtle layers, from personal, to inter-generational, to historic, and eventually to collective healing.

Synchronosophy gave us tools to break the spell of trauma. Individual healing sessions, group sessions, and personal practice empower synchronosophers to not only break their personal spell, but make transformational contributions to the collective.

Healing sessions in Synchronosophy can be guided by so-called ‘Mirror Companions’ and conducted in many social settings ~ in a café, during a walk in the park, in a lunchbreak at work, a therapy room, art studio, or at the kitchen table. Every synchronosopher soon qualifies as a Mirror Companion, and we can all swap roles as needed.

The Syntopian Story of SoS

None of us are free while one of us is chained.

〰 Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Brenda Russell 〰

At the turn of 2023/24 I still had doubts whether ‘the world was ready’ for Synchronosophy. Although none of the basic principles of this method were new, they seemed ‘radical’ because the anthropocentric paradigm ~ despite all technological progress ~ was still clinging to the Cartesian materialist mindset of the 17th century.

I expected the universe to give me a clear sign. The answer came in the form of a ‘messenger’ struggling with a difficult situation. This client happened to be a quantum physicist. Explaining the concepts of Synchronosophy was a breeze.

“Of course, matter doesn’t exist. All is one. Nondualism. Everything becomes liquid under pressure, chaos theory, butterfly effect…”

Our sessions were delightful. Sharing the basics and clarifying key rules of the practice, took flight under their own steam.

“What should I do about explaining things to the other people involved?” he asked at the end of the session.

“Nothing,” I replied. “Just do the exercises I gave you and see what happens. Your work is affecting the field. Your internal changes stimulate changes in others.”

A couple of days later I received a brief email:

“A miracle! Have a lot to report; very very positive.”

This is the miracle of Synchronosophy I am talking about.

You do the inner work that needs to be done in the moment, and outer changes must follow. I’ve heard many people describe this as a ‘Miracle’. Although I am used to it by now, the moment of revelation in the individual mindshift is a wonderful surprise every time ~ always a joy and honour to witness.

Synchronosophy empowers us not only to learn from negative experience but to transform every failure or setback into fuel, to activate dormant potential, and fulfil our life’s purpose.

SoS doesn’t offer degrees or certificates. The only permission you need to follow your life’s path is the one you give yourself. In the early days, many people struggled with so much autonomy. They were uncomfortable with the high level of self-agency required for the practice of Synchronosophy.

Now every practitioner appreciates the training in self-awareness, self-responsibility, and self-acceptance, which is a natural byproduct of our work, as a great asset.

The work of SoS is spread by word of heart. As the awareness of trauma gathered momentum, more and more trauma-survivors were looking for effective modalities to heal, and live beyond mere trauma-survival. S

ynchronosophy offers a whole cabinet of instruments and powertools to not only heal the old wounds but to convert personal pain into personal power, to awaken dormant potential and sponsor the fulfilment of that potential.

At the time, other modalities were feeling their way into a similar direction, but had not yet made the connection between individual trauma and unique life-purpose. Their attention was still caught by ‘getting rid of symptoms’ in line with the dominant anthropocentric definition of ‘healing’.

Synchronosophy presented an inspired original view rooted in three ancient and verified concepts:::

› Consciousness is a living organism with 8 vital organs

›› negative experience is a portal to detect and vitalise positive potential

››› inner work is an effective method to transform the inner & outer world

The theory and tools were picked up by practitioners, therapists, and teachers who resonate with these concepts. Synchronosophy gave a massive boost to their work, while synergy blew mighty winds under our wings.

The initial ripples caused by SoS grew into waves, and then breakers, crashing the summits of anthropocentric powerbrokers, flooding their bunkers, and simultaneously offering rafts to anyone ready to jump from supremehood to kinship.

Every individual who has ever done what we call a Mirror Mindshift, has experienced a paradigm shift in relation to a personal conflict. At the same time they also have received unique tools, designed for a profound and authentic transformation of negative experience.

The tools are deceptively simple and powerful. Every Mirror Mindshift stimulates a healing process and strengthens the immune system of the living organism of Consciousness. Practitioners can use those tools from the beginning not only for themselves but to assist others.

By 2050 it is my greatest joy to watch seeds of Synchronosophy sprout everywhere. Negative experiences and conflict are inevitable. But they don’t need to escalate. Parents are helping their children transform upsetting events and find hidden treasure.

Therapists are following the sequence of Mirror Mindshifts not only with their clients but also for themselves. Teenagers support each other with mindshifting sessions to resolve experiences of bullying, being dumped by a boyfriend/girlfriend, or failing an assignment.

Our ‘Open Source’ approach has allowed Synchronosophy to grow fast and revolutionise the landscape of trauma therapy.

The future of the Symbiocene, viewed from the perspective of Synchronosophy, looks bright and full of magic. 26 years ago this vision might have been dismissed as utopian. That was the anthropocentric lens.

Synchronosophy is writing a new story. The outline of the plot for this story is syntopian. The syntopian world we are building in a symbiogenetic way is rooted in real life experience. Every story we tell is a mirror of an authentic experience in real time. It’s been growing for fifty years already, and there is no stopping it now. Through transformation of trauma, we are changing the world, one miracle at a time.