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Future Perfect.

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If the impenetrability of the future makes you anxious too, it’s not surprising. Hormonally, it is the exact same recipe as excitement, and biochemically, you could never tell the two apart. In the humming cylinder of a CT scanner, waiting for bad news, or about to accept the award for “artist  of the year”— the same cascade. As we learn to sit with it, this profound unknowability, and understand the provocations of our overactive human mind, we come to see our nature and what we are capable of: anything.

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Lessons in the Future from 1906

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The more we try to control the future by pinning it down using our well-worn concepts, the more blindsided we will be as the future keeps manifesting the new into reality. In contrast, when we enter into the future with our imaginations, rather than trying to predict it or bend it to our will, we seek a balance between channeling that which wants to be born into the world and using our agency to actively shape this new creation towards the good.

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Is Consciousness Evolving?

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A more realistic take on the so-called “evolution” of consciousness: an increase in discernment and sensitivity, largely driven forward by young people. It’s obvious why young people see and experience bias and discrimination at a level of nuance many in older generations cannot: they aren’t habituated yet.

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