The concept of evolution is often described as a collection of chaos, infinite random events, varied choices and catalytic couplings.

In her 1998 book, Conscious Evolution, futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard posed an intriguing question: What if, after nearly 14 billion years of unconscious evolution, evolution now becomes self-aware?

Conscious evolution involves intentionally making choices rather than leaving things to chance, says Hubbard. Self-awareness would present infinite possibilities, allowing humanity to harness evolution and direct its future expressions.

Such ideas made Conscious Evolution a groundbreaking futurist manual. Hubbard became one of the worlds leading experts on evolutionary thought and action. Her belief is people can initiate positive, global change by working collectively and selflessly for the greater good.

Recently, Hubbard released a revised and updated edition, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential.

In it, she explores how the planet can transition from its destructive, polluting, overpopulating phase to a system that fulfills its collective potential. She outlines her vision for The New Story of Creation, emphasizing opportunities presented by crisis and change. The remainder of the book is organized in three parts: A New Worldview, The Social Potential Movement and The Great Awakening.

For billions of years, nature has been evolving through five mass extinctions, but no species was ever aware of it, she explains. Now, we are aware that we are facing the sixth mass extinction and that humanity has some role to play in this crisis. We are affecting our own evolution by everything we do -- the food we eat, the cars we drive, the number of babies we have, the energy we use, etc. We have entered the first age of conscious evolution.

Hubbard hopes her updated edition will be used as a guide in times that present a species-wide opportunity to radically reimagine humanitys future.

(The New Story) is the newly discovered universal evolutionary story based on the recent discovery of cosmogenesis, the scientifically based awareness that the universe has been, is now and will ever be evolving -- and so are we, Hubbard explains. It is also obvious that nature is like an evolutionary spiral. It takes jumps toward higher consciousness, freedom and order through forming new whole systems. We are being connected to one another as one living system -- the next whole system jump.

In her work, Hubbard builds upon and merges ideas from a variety of fields and disciplines. Her goal is to map peaks of social creativity and projects that move us toward a positive future, launching a social potential movement in a self-actualizing society.

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