Barbara
Marx Hubbard is one of the most influential visionary leaders
and voices of the conscious evolution movement -- "a shift for
evolution by chance towards evolution by choice." She is co-founder
and chair of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution and has worked
with many progressive organizations and networks, including The
Shift Network, the Evolutionary Leaders Group, Association for
Global New Thought and the World Future Society. In 1984 she was
considered as the Vice Presidential candidate on the Democratic
ticket, calling for the implementation of a national "Peace Room"
-- as opposed to a "War Room" -- to map out, connect and share
the efforts in America and around the world that are effectively
working to build peace within communities and between nations.
During the 80s she co-chaired a number of summits, working to
build peace between the United States and the Soviet Union. Since
then she has written five books that have inspired and empowered
generations of activists and dreamers of a better world. Perhaps,
her best known work is the 1998 book, Conscious Evolution: Awakening
the Power of Our Social Potential, helped to present the ideas
of the conscious evolution movement, which asserts that we now
have the ability and the technological, medical, psychological
and spiritual tools to consciously choose which direction humanity’s
future will take and how we will evolve as a species. This movement
asserts that we have the choice to move forward through cooperation
and co-creation or to move toward self-destruction by choosing
a path of separation and competition. As humanity consciously
evolves, we help guide the evolution of the universe as well.
