Barbara Marx Hubbard, was voted by the members and visitors of Universe Spirit as our September Philosopher Artist of the month.
Barbara Marx Hubbard is an author, public speaker, social innovator and President of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She has initiated an on-line educational process called Gateway to Conscious Evolution offering a new developmental path toward the next stage of human evolution, now reaching over 1000 people. She is creating a new vehicle: The Communion of Pioneering Souls to connect with the large group of evolving humans now arising in every culture, field and tradition. She is developing a new series of videos entitled "Humanity Ascending: A New Way Through Together," her Legacy Project, which provides a comprehensive and dramatic presentation of the processes of conscious evolution, self and social. She is a member of the Jonas Salk Foundation’s Epoch B group, working to understand and catalyze the actions needed to navigate this quantum change in time to avoid the global collapses foreseen. She is also working on the synthesis of the principles and practices of New Thought and Conscious Evolution. She is a founder and member of the Santa Barbara Conscious Evolution Community.
A graduate of Bryn Mawr College with a B.A, cum laude in Political Science, Dr. Hubbard studied at La Sorbonne and L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques in Paris during her Junior Year. In the 1960's she published one of the first newsletters on evolutionary transformation called The Center Letter in collaboration with Abraham H. Maslow, founder of Humanistic Psychology. She worked closely with Dr. Jonas Salk and was one of the original contributors to the Salk Institute.
In the 70's she co-founded The Committee for the Future in Washington D.C., which developed the New Worlds Educational and Training Center based on her work. She co-produced 25 SYNCON conferences to bring together people from every field and function to seek common goals and match needs and resources in the light of the growing edge potentials of humanity. In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency of the United States on the Democratic ticket, proposing a Peace Room in the White
House and throughout the world to scan for, map, connect, and communicate what is working. She was one of the original directors of the Center for Soviet American Dialogue and served as a citizen diplomat during the late 80's. She has been instrumental in the founding of many important organizations and initiatives including the World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision in Action, the Foundation for the Future, the Association for Global New Thought, the Society for the Universal Human, The Alliance for the Advancement of Conscious Evolution and the co-founder of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She was awarded the first Doctorate in Conscious Evolution by Emerson Institute.
Her books include,
- Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential,
- Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence,
- The Evolutionary Journey, The Hunger of Eve and Revelation.
Barbara Marx Hubbard Receives First "Peacebuilder Award"
The Peace Alliance is honored to present our first "Peacebuilder Award" to Barbara Marx Hubbard, who over a period of .....years -- as both a social and spiritual visionary and political participant -- has embodied the highest American yearning and willingness to create a world at peace.
We honor the peacebuilders who have paved the way. Having persevered despite all resistance to change, they are beacons of light who show the rest of us what is possible and empower each one of us to be a peacebuilder in our own right.
The mission of the Peace Alliance is to harness the consciousness of peace as a broad-scale social and political force. We honor all efforts, past and present, which have contributed to that vision.
For more information on the Peace Conference in Washington , DC on September 11 go to Marianne Williamson's website (marianne.com) and scroll down to the middle of the home page. You will see The Third Annual Department of Peace Conference. Click on the image of the Department of Peace conference and it will take you to the conference information.
Barbara Marx Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award
The Association for Global New Thought is presenting a unique award at its 2006 annual conference to one of its founding members, Barbara Marx Hubbard.
Recently celebrating her 75th year, our own Barbara Marx Hubbard, pioneer in conscious evolution, will share deeply the fruits of a forty year journey in self and social evolution. Barbara has guided us to place ourselves on the Map of Self and Social Evolution and predicts we will come to a beautiful finale with a new sacrament for cocreators; The Sacrament of Coordination for those who seek to fully embody the Self. For a lifetime of unwavering commitment and fearless conviction, we honor this soul as our dear friend and as a great heroine of our times.
This year’s conference will be the Association for Global New Thought's seventh Awakened World conference and takes place at La Quinta Resort (near Palm Springs): October 3-7, 2005. It’s theme... "Walk of Sacred Action: A Living Pilgrimage."
For more information on Barbara Marx Hubbard and her philosophy you can visit the following links:
- http://www.evolve.org/
- http://www.evolve.org/pub/doc/evolve_what_is_ce.html
- http://www.evolve.org/pub/doc/bmh_lithman_intvw04.html
To buy books and tapes by Barbara visit: http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/