Speaking

Building on decades of experience, below is an illustrative menu of ten different speaking themes. These talks can be combined in different ways to fit the interests of diverse audiences. Use the contact form to request more details.

AN ILLUSTRATIVE MENU OF TALKS

1) UNDERSTANDING OUR WORLD IN GREAT TRANSITION: When everything changes all at once: Making sense of humanity’s pivotal moment. Climate chaos, mass migrations, species extinctions, economic upheavals—these aren’t isolated crises but symptoms of a planetary transition. This talk reveals the hidden pattern connecting today’s critical breakdowns and promising breakthroughs. Discover three distinct pathways emerging from current conditions, why an “evolutionary wall” may arrive sooner than expected, and what forces—both visible and subtle—could catalyze humanity’s greatest leap forward. Essential discovery for anyone seeking clarity amid unprecedented change.

2) THREE PATHWAYS: HUMANITY AT THE CROSSROADS: Authoritarian Control, Ruinous Collapse, or Leap Forward—Which future will we choose? The next two decades will profoundly impact humanity’s trajectory for centuries. This talk unveils three futures already taking shape: 1) AI-powered authoritarianism promising order through absolute control; 2) Extreme breakdown into a survivalist world with fortress mentalities; and 3)  an evolutionary leap forward with AI coordination supporting the rise of regenerative communities, green energy, and flourishing innovation. All three futures are visible and present in today’s world but which will become dominant in the next two decades will depend on our choices.

3) THE 2040s: HUMANITY’S MOST DECISIVE DECADE: Why the next 15 years will establish our primary pathway ahead. Multiple system breakdowns converging. Planetary boundaries crossed. Social contracts shattered. AI is exploding. This talk presents compelling evidence that the a crescendo of choice will be made by the 2040s that will decide humanity’s path through an evolutionary bottleneck unlike any in our history. Learn why the next 15 years represents such a decisive time for choosing transformation over collapse, what specific tipping points we’re approaching, and how unprecedented suffering might paradoxically catalyze our collective awakening and positive change. A must for strategic thinkers and change agents.

4) A NEW SUPERPOWER IS RISING—CITIZEN VOICE MOVEMENTS: A new planetary force is emerging from the electronic connection of people.  In the US, roughly 95 percent of people carry the future in their hands—with mobile phones that have the untapped potential to support unprecedented levels of human connection in response to crisis conditions. This talk explores the revolutionary potential of citizen movements, electronic democracy, and collective intelligence. Cities, states, regions, and nations now have “wisdom networks’ that can empower unprecedented communication and support “Electronic Town Meetings” at every level. A movement for conscious democracy produced by an enormous wave of citizens consensus building is already emerging and has the potential to bend the curve of our pathway ahead. Pushed by fierce necessity and pulled by unprecedented opportunity, will we step e in our maturity and communicate our way into an evolutionary leap forward? Will we rise to the challenge of moving through an evolutionary bottleneck and making a collective leap forward into a regenerative future?

5) FOUR STORIES THAT ILLUMINATE OUR FUTURE: Explore stories that tell ourselves about who we are and where we are going. Data tells us what’s happening; stories reveal what it means. This talk weaves together four profound narratives that unlock deep understanding of our moment: 1) Humanity Is Growing Up, 2) Our Global Brain Is Waking Up, 3) Humanity is Going Through a Great Initiation, and 4) Humanity is On an Evolutionary Roller Coaster. Each story carries transformative insights about what is happening, who we’re becoming, and where we’re headed.  Stories can offer wisdom to transform the complexity of our times into simple and powerful insights that make sense of the journey we are on

6) EIGHT UPLIFTS FOR A REGENERATIVE FUTURE: Explore the soaring potentials that, together, can empower a great leap forward for humanity.  This talk identifies eight transformative capacities emerging simultaneously: 1) AI Alignment with a regenerative future; 2) Embracing the original wisdom of aliveness, 3) Activating the powerful mirror of personal and social consciousness; 4) Mobilizing the power of electronic communication; 5) Rising int our collective maturity; 6) Choosing deep reconciliation to heal divisions; 7) Building ecovillages and new forms of community, and 8) Choosing sacred simplicity. Learn how these uplifting forces create an unstoppable synergy when combined, why they’re appearing now, and how to activate them in your life and community.

7) AI’S EDUCATION AND HUMANITY’S DESTINY: From digital childhood to planetary partnership. The relationships of humans with AI I have reached a crossroads more swiftly than imagined. How AI is instructed, guided, and used in the next few years will have an enormous impact on its   emergence as a “superintelligent system.” Will it be taught to prioritize business profits and military power – and perhaps become humanity’s destroyer? Will it be guided to prioritize the health and well-being of the Earth—and become humanity’s partner building a flourishing future? This talk explores three AI trajectories: 1) autonomous systems beyond human control, 2) authoritarian tools of total surveillance, and 3) aligned intelligence supporting regenerative civilization. Discover why AI’s “adolescence” ends in this decade, and how conscious alignment could create unprecedented human-machine collaboration for planetary healing.

8) REDISCOVERING THE LIVING UNIVERSE: Science and spirituality are converging with a profound regard for the universe as a living system. For more than 100,000 years, all the ancient cultures around the Earth carried the wisdom that aliveness was everywhere in the world . Then, for the last few hundred years, the materialistic and mechanistic mindset of the industrial era has pushed aside our intimate relationship with aliveness replaced it with the thinking mindset of early science which views our world as comprised of dead matter and empty space. This shallow view of deadness is beginning to evolve, and we are recovering the wisdom of aliveness in new ways. With the support of AI and breakthrough technologies in science, humanity’s original wisdom of aliveness is returning, and our universe increasingly being viewed and explored as a unified, regenerative, living system. This talk explores compelling evidence from the frontiers of physics, cosmology, and consciousness research (including my own experience), to recover the original wisdom of aliveness and support a leap forward in humanity’s evolution, both personal and planetary.

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9) THE BIG PICTURE: REALITY, IDENTITY, JOURNEY: Three questions that change everything: Where are we? Who are we? Where are we going? These eternal questions are receiving revolutionary new answers. First, this foundational talk reveals how science is developing a new understanding of reality and how we live in a living universe that is a regenerative system emerging continuously. Second, our understanding human identity is expanding from being confined within human bodies and biological brins to understanding we are inseparable from the regenerative universe and have a vastly larger and enduring presence beyond our biological bodies. Third, our understanding of the human journey is growing tremendously—from regarding ourselves as only biological bodies on a voyage of material consumption and accomplishment to seeing ourselves as Beings arising from the cosmic aliveness on the vastly larger journey of learning to live in our living universe.  This three-fold understanding provides a vital context for making sense of other deep transformations underway.

10) VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY: The empowering wisdom of conscious restraint. Simplicity does not mean isn’t regression to poverty but progression to wisdom—recognizing that true wealth lies in health, relationship, purpose, beauty, and time, not in mountains of stuff. Simplicity is prerequisite for sustainability. Eight billion humans cannot live with the consumption patterns of the affluent without destroying Earth. Living simply, we are not sacrificing happiness for survival—we’re discovering a happier way to survive. In this talk we explore how simplicity has been a theme in spirituality through history and howe pioneering regenerative lifestyles are claiming simplicity for the future could unlock humanity’s next evolutionary leap.