“An individual endowed with planetary consciousness recognizes his or her role in the evolutionary process and acts responsibly in light of this perception. Each of us must start with ourselves to evolve our consciousness to this planetary dimension; only then can we become responsible and effective members of society’s change and transformation. Planetary consciousness is the knowing as well as the feeling of the vital interdependence and essential oneness of humankind and the conscious adoption of the ethics and ethos that this entails. Its evolution is the basic imperative of human survival on this planet.” - Ervin Laszlo and H.H. the Dalai Lama

NextNow Collaboratory is collaborating with the Global Coherence Initiative, a science-based initiative dedicated to shifting global consciousness from instability to coherence, and observing changes in Earth’s magnetic field using advanced sensing technologies to test the hypothesis that shifts in global consciousness will also shift the geo-magnetic field to benefit the planet and all life.

Global Coherence Initiative is part of NextNow Collaboratory’s dedication to projects combining collaboration and information visualization technologies to consciously evolve our selves and our world.  NextNowNetwork co-founder Bonnie DeVarco recently wrote a blog post that beautifully illustrates this convergence, and gives context to the Global Coherence Initiative:

“Taking this back to Earth, I love to combine James Lovelock’s Gaia (Earth as a single organism) meme with those discussed above, while at the same time embracing Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose’s quantum physics model for the invisible interactions that happen in the microtubules of the brain – quantum consciousness. I suggest this is the perspective of EcoSentience – a return to seeing Earth as a quantum organism. We will soon be able to envision the pulsations of the organism and the global mind through visualization convergence in the birth to the geospatial, semantic web. Over a decade ago, visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard pointed out that our generation’s zeitgeist and potential is an era of “conscious evolution” or the “evolution of evolution.” And in recent years we have begun to use technology to aid spiritual transformation with programs that have attempt to track and ground the presence of the collective human mind in science and practice – with programs such as the Global Consciousness Project (started at Princeton and Edinburgh Universities) and HeartMath’s Global Coherence Initiative. Many more of us are beginning to coalesce our shared intention and to heed Marx Hubbard’s call. As we become more comfortable embracing transformation as a modus operandi, and global consciousness as a compelling way to perceive our world, we will find that Collective Visioning is our key to collaborative transformation and the rise of the self aware superorganism.  Now is the time to collectively look into the mirror of EcoSentience and see our conscious reflection.”

I was recently interviewed by Marty Wasserman of A Deeper Look at the Program for the Future at the Tech Museum in San Jose on the Global Coherence Initiative:

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