Here comes our new world! Part 3

Signs of our new world birthing and emerging with new life.

Context:

This is the same context I wrote in Part 1 and Part 2 of this series. If you read this in one of those posts, you could skip to the new examples below.

When I was pregnant, my water broke and initiated my labor process. My pregnancy was “breaking down” and was definitely ending. From another viewpoint, I was breaking open because new life—my son—was entering this world, and IT WAS TIME!

As I see it, collectively and culturally we’re in a similar process. We’re pregnant, and we’re breaking down and breaking open because we’re birthing and our new world is emerging. IT’S TIME!

And, it’s a shift in our consciousness, not just in our physical/material experience.

Below are six more signs of that shift I’ve come across recently. They’re not as specific as the examples I included in my e-book Hiding In Plain Sight: Evidence of Our Life-Aligned, Regenerative Culture Emerging.

These are signs at the metalevel--what I see as the energetic architecture and infrastructure necessary for us to birth and midwife our new world into being.

New examples:

1) Beyond Profit & Collapse: Why We Built an MBA to Cultivate Joy, Play, and Abundance, from LIFT Economy:

“Our deepest reason for creating the Next Economy MBA is . . . cultivating the vibrant community and collective momentum essential for a fundamental cultural shift towards an economy that truly nurtures life. . . here's the revelation: this isn't a call to austerity or endless struggle. We believe that actualizing this new reality means less stress, less screen time, and more joy and play in our lives. It means remembering that humanity hasn't even scratched the surface of the abundance, joy, connection, peace, and reliable prosperity possible for all beings.” (Emphasis mine)

2) Truth After the End of Progress,

" . . . Perhaps what we are witnessing is not merely political blindness, but the collapse of a particular way of knowing. (Emphasis mine) For decades, both policymakers and economists have operated [with] . . . a shared belief that progress and growth could always extend the horizon of control. (Emphasis mine) In this view, the future was open, rational, and manageable. . . .

“. . . the waters of reality no longer obey our projections. Truth in the age of collapse will not emerge from better equations, but from a rediscovery of humility, solidarity, and moral imagination — the capacity to stay with uncertainty and still care for the world.” (Emphasis mine)

3) Governance Futures

". . . A network of individuals with a diverse set of expertise, experience, and backgrounds who are exploring how healthy forms of governance can better serve the well-being of people and the planet, aided by a healthy relationship with technology, now and into the future. . . .

"We are dedicated to exploring new and innovative ways for communities to make informed, collective decisions that support stronger and healthier governance systems.” (Emphasis mine)

4) The Shadow of the Hero Archetype

“For men ready to reclaim the path of their soul . . . the resurgence of a generative masculinity that's rooted in connection rather than separation. One that protects the larger web of life, rather than destroys it . . . A masculinity that works in partnership rather than domination (Emphasis mine) . . . The mythopoetic path offers a map: a way to reclaim your inner life, rekindle passion & purpose, and surrender into your soul’s calling. Rooted in story, ritual, and archetypal wisdom, this lineage is an invitation into a deeper life.”

5) Pathways to Scale: Growing Beyond Growth, Tatiana Fraser.

“What if scaling wasn’t about getting bigger—but about going deeper, connecting wider, and resonating longer?"

“. . . beyond the dominant paradigm (where “more and faster” equals success) toward alternative pathways to scale where relationship, story, culture, and care are the lift. . .

". . . what if we begin somewhere else . . . and ask instead:

• What’s already working to support life, and how do we support that?

• Where are the portals and pathways that are opening?

• What if we pause replication and walk new directions grounded in place, culture, and relationship?

“This shift matters because impact often roots before it rises. When we only measure what’s visible (reach, revenue, replication), we can miss the underground work—the anchoring, weaving, seeding, and remembering—that makes transformation possible and durable.

“This framework gives language and legitimacy to what your body already knows."

Read the publication here.

6) The Pedagogy of Urgency, Perspectiva

“. . . urgency is the mother of both relevance and possibility, and there is no substitute for a time-sensitive existential threat that you can’t fake. This sense of urgency is why hundreds of entrepreneurs, philosophers and theologians now mingle in Ukraine in knowledge-sharing networks to discuss new ideas that promise to shape society in desired ways . . .

“. . . A country under siege cannot rely on educational institutions that served authoritarian structures from the past and were designed to uphold industrial-age stability. (Emphasis mine) . . . survival itself depends on rapid collective learning and the emergence of new social forms capable of action. The artificial boundaries between disciplines, between theory and practice, between personal and political transformation, become untenable in such a context . . .”

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These are all examples of Life continually creating and expressing itself.

We’re in a time of breaking the spell of our old narratives, stories and structures that we’ve created (often unconsciously) over millennia and that have held us “locked in place”. It’s a time of shifting our consciousness and opening to new life.

It is not, and can’t be:

• linear,

• planned,

• designed,

• organized,

• implemented,

• managed, and

• controlled.

It is about moving:

from productivity, performance, and perfection

to authenticity, alignment, and aliveness.

This shift is about seeing, acknowledging, appreciating, and applying a new (to us) paradigm, with its new narratives, principles, structures, and stories, in our culture and lives. No small thing! This is a birth, and not a small transformation!

This Part 3 is the last one of this three-part series. However, I know these examples are just the tip of the iceberg. New ones show up on almost a daily basis and I'll continue to gather and publish them.

I’d love to hear about others you’re aware of! Please hit reply and let me know.