More Praise for Birth 2012 and Beyond and for Barbara Marx Hubbard
Success in building a sustainable world is impossible without the kind of inspired heart-focused vision that Barbara provides in this important book.
Alisa Gravitz, executive director of Green America
Imagine bringing together the worlds most conscious innovators into a single campaign of personal and global transformation. What new possibilities might be unleashed? This book by our beloved visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard and her team of transformational leaders shows you how to think way out of the boxexactly what we now need!
Chip Conley, founder of Joie de Vivre Hotels and author of Emotional Equations
Barbara Marx Hubbard is a true pioneer of evolutionary spirituality. Long before the rest of us, she awakened to the impulse of evolution and became tangibly transformed by it. Her life is a compelling story of a relentless and passionate commitment to a new conception of what it means to be human in a cosmos that is awakening to itself. Birth 2012 and Beyond is a powerful introduction to her lifes message and mission.
Andrew Cohen, founder of EnlightenNext, author of Evolutionary Enlightenment
Barbara Marx Hubbard is one of the crucial pioneers in the movement toward conscious evolution. Her ideas are powerful, transformative, and necessary. This present work continues her mission of awakening and inspiring people to become cocreative partners with Gaia, bringing Buckminster Fullers design science approach into the twenty-first century.
Daniel Pinchbeck, founder of Evolver.net
Barbara Marx Hubbard perfectly explains the new era of humanity that starts on December 22, 2012! This book is sure to be a big hit.
don Miguel Ruiz, New York Times bestselling author of The Four Agreements
Birth 2012 and Beyond envisions a future to embrace with love rather than face with fear. It offers individual and collective tools for giving birth to what is most beautiful in ourselves and in the world around us. Barbara Marx Hubbard is our undisputed planetary midwife.
Marianne Williamson, New York Times #1 bestselling author
When I saw our precious planet from space, I recognized that we must shift our consciousness and culture before we destroy our fragile home. This inspired and visionary book offers profound wisdom for how to make the shift in time.
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut, founder of Institute of Noetic Sciences
There is no doubt in my mind that Barbara Marx Hubbardwho helped introduce the concept of futurism to societyis the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced.
Buckminster Fuller
Barbara is a true visionary, demonstrating by her words and actions her commitment to a sustainable future.
John Denver
Renowned as a futurist, Barbara Marx Hubbard also plants her feet firmly in today.
Gene Roddenberry
Also by Barbara Marx Hubbard
BOOKS
Emergence:
The Shift from Ego to Essence
52 Codes for Conscious Self Evolution:
A Process of Metamorphosis to Realize
Our Full Potential Self (with CD)
Conscious Evolution:
Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential
The Revelation:
A Message of Hope for the New Millennium
The Hunger of Eve:
One Womans Odyssey Toward the Future
The Evolutionary Journey:
A Personal Guide to a Positive Future
The Evolutionary Communion:
The Sacred Way of Conscious Evolution (guidebook with CD)
DVDs
Our Story
Visions of a Universal Humanity
What is Conscious Evolution?
WEBSITES
http://Evolve.org
http://Birth2012.com
Shift Books
http://shiftmovement.com
Copyright 2012
By Barbara Marx Hubbard
Cover design by Stevee Postman http://www.stevee.com
Interior design by Diane Rigoli http://www.rigolicreative.com
The essay entitled The Bond, copyright 2012 by Lynne McTaggart is used with permission of the author. All rights reserved.
All rights reserved. This book is protected by copyright. No part of it may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without written permission from the author.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011943613
ISBN: 978-0-9848407-0-0
Hubbard, Barbara Marx, 1929-
Birth 2012 and beyond : humanitys great shift to the
age of conscious evolution / Barbara Marx Hubbard;
with the Welcoming Committee.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN 2011943613
ISBN 978-0-9848407-0-0
1. Social evolution. 2. Social ethics. 3. Social
participation. I. Title.
HM626.H825 2012 303.4
QBI12-600027
First printing March 2012
Printed in the United States of America on recycled paper.
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Foreword: Birthing a New Era
By Stephen Dinan, CEO and founder, The Shift Network
Every so often, humanitys evolution accelerates to the point that it becomes visible to all: think of the early spread of Buddhism, the flowering of democracy in ancient Athens, the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Reformation, the founding of the American republicand more recently, the Civil Rights Movement and the Arab Spring, to name a few.
At the heart of these times of accelerated change are astounding geniuses and inspired pioneers. We love to celebrate these icons, but the flowering of a new era of human possibility never rests upon the work of a single individual.
Individual leadership is crucial, but real change flows from a collective wave of new consciousness that is networked and interconnecteda vast interweaving of simmering passions, fresh ideas, new memes, and bold visions that emerge when the time is truly right. As such an evolutionary wave grows, the pioneers encourage each other to go beyond what theyve inherited from preceding generations. They experiment with new ways of being, new ways of seeing, new possibilities for living. They seek patterns that express more of our full human potentialpolitically, socially, and artistically.
Sometimes, of course, things gets messy. If leaders of a particular emergence are met with resistance from the status quo, the urgency in the push toward the new can result in impatience, stridence, and even violence. Yet at the core is love: love for humanity, love for what we may still become, love for justice and freedom, love for the creative process of evolution itself.
The birthing of a new consciousness whose time has truly come cannot be halted, in the same sense that the gestation and delivery of a baby cannot be reversed; its birth is a one-way journey . Similarly, the birth of a new era may face titanic challenges and, often, apparent defeats. But the end result is the arrival of something fundamentally new.
At such moments in history, the true potency and glory of the human race shines through. We are revealed as creatures with enormous capacity for goodness, creativity, and generosity. We are able to remember, once again, that we can forge a better society, one that shines with beauty, radiates truth, and encourages us toward a barely intuited future.
We are at such a crucial point of evolution right now, but this time its on an unprecedented planetary scale. Previous evolutions have taken place in a single culture and only gradually spread their influence. But today, with 24/7 media and the Internet, our global heart increasingly now beats as one. Protests can spread immediately through news feeds, Facebook, and Twitter; ideas and visions can propagate at the speed of light. We easily travel and intermingle with each other both physically and in our minds. Our consciousness has become global in a way that humanity has never before experienced. As Barbara Marx Hubbard would put it, the noosphere is getting its collective eyes. And this new reality of instant global communication opens the door for the possibility of a global renaissancea great Birth of a new era of human culture.
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