The Office for the future

In the last six years of Barbara’s life — which were filled with energy and activism that would make a twenty-year-old blush — her primary collaboration was with The Center for Integral Wisdom. Barbara considered Dr. Marc Gafni, founder of the Center, to be her primary evolutionary partner in terms of thought. Using a term from one of their forthcoming books, she proudly spoke of Marc as her “whole mate” - her partner in shared vision and activism for the sake of evolution.  Barbara and Marc communicated several times a day for many years, around multiple initiatives both in terms of writing, study, and activism.

Marc and Barbara worked closely with their colleague and dear friend Dr. Zachary Stein who is the co-president of the Center for Integral Wisdom and the Office for the Future, where he has been in intellectual leadership with Dr. Gafni since 2013. When Barbara passed entrepreneur and social visionary Stephanie Valcke together with her husband came together with Dr. Gafni, Dr. Kristina Kincaid and Dr. Stein to envision the creation of an Office for the Future. The Office for the Future arises at time between worlds and a time between stories. We stand poised between unimaginable utopia or dystopia. The mission of the Office for the Future– similar to the mission of Da Vinci and his cohorts in the renaissance –is to articulate a a political and social vision of the new human and the humanity, based on first principles and first values, that can take us through this 11^th hour of human history.

The Office for the Future is now being enacted as an umbrella initiative under which the key activist projects of The Center for Integral Wisdom together with the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, the Homo Amor Project, the Eros Project, One Mountain Many Paths, and the Outrageous Love Project and Festival, the Unique Self Institute and more, are being initiated.

At the core of the mission and vision of the Office for the Future is the writing of a Great Library, in written and media form, which participates in evolving the source code of consciousness and culture. The Office for the Future further recognize the urgent need to activate a new information ecology. The information ecology must be rooted in a new shared story of human value as the matrix for the emergence of a New Human, and a New Humanity. It is only a New Story of the Possible Human and the Possible Humanity that has ever changed history and evolved culture and consciousness.