We’re already weaving our new world

It's showing up as our old world unravels.

It’s obvious that our current world is crumbling and unraveling in so many ways. However, it’s vital to know that while that’s happening, our new world is developing and emerging. Creating the world we want requires us to activate a life-aligned vision and energize a new cultural story as the old one crumbles and unravels because, as Iain McGilchrist says, "The kind of attention we pay to the world changes the world we pay attention to".

I previously published an e-book Hiding In Plain Sight: Evidence of Our Life-Aligned, Regenerative Culture Emerging, which contains more than 200 specific examples of actual on-the-ground, life-aligned, regenerative projects, programs, movements, and initiatives that are already happening.

Below I’m sharing some new examples that embody the principle of being in harmony with Life, in "right relationship" with all beings in a culture of respect for the well-being of all. They show the socio-economic cultural transformation and paradigm shift that’s increasingly gathering steam “below the radar” of mainstream news.

New examples keep popping up because that’s how life works, right? Life is continually creating, and we all have a part in determining which way this story will go.

As Buckminster Fuller  famously said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Here are a few examples of people building new models:

Unhustle®: “Redefine success without sacrifice. . . . You’ve done the hustle. Now it’s time for something real, sustainable, and soul-aligned.

"Unhustle® is a global movement, methodology, and mindset shift for ambitious humans ready to redefine success—without burning out, selling out, or abandoning their ambition. . .

"To live life on one’s own terms is no small feat. It requires, first and foremost, the courage to diverge from the well-trodden path.”

Unconditional Men is about “The Masculinity Reckoning—Redefining Strength, Connection, and Leadership. . . A New Leadership Paradigm Begins Within: Why Balancing Masculine & Feminine Energies Is the Future of Leadership.”

He says, “At the heart of Unconditional Men is a vision for leadership grounded in wholeness, emotional depth, and authenticity — not dominance or outdated ideals. Integrated masculinity is about embracing all parts of the self. It’s not about rejecting masculinity, but redefining it — with presence, care, and the courage to serve something greater. . . .

“True leadership integrates our full humanity: strength and vulnerability, clarity and compassion, action and presence. We believe in evolving beyond rigid masculine norms into a space where everyone can lead with embodied wisdom and purpose.”

The Mysterial Woman “guides women through a groundbreaking and proven developmental pathway to heal both their individual and collective traumas, unlocking the next level of innate potential.”

She says, “What we’re seeing on the world stage—the violence, division, exploitation, lying, greed, and dominance—is the Shadow Masculine in what looks like ascendance. But I don’t see it that way . . . To me, this is the cracking apart. The death throes of an outdated paradigm. . . .

“What’s breaking down is the old story of control and separation—Where productivity is prized over presence, dominance over nature is mistaken for progress . . . Emotions are suppressed in favor of efficiency, power is hoarded rather than shared, and success is measured by how much you can do rather than how deeply you can be. . . .

“And what’s breaking through is a deeper intelligence that’s been long suppressed.”

Bioregional Finance for Planetary Regeneration is “a collective supporting bioregions to design, create, capitalize, implement, and evolve Bioregional Financing Facilities that connect financial resources and regenerators for connecting the flows of capital to the flows of life. . .

“The ecological crisis requires urgent, large-scale regeneration of the biosphere rooted in ecological integrity and cultural revitalization. This is possible if we ensure financial resources flow to the many small groups all over the world doing the critical work of on-the-ground regeneration—acting in a coordinated, synergistic way. . .

“We envision nothing less than the creation of a new layer in the global financial architecture of Bioregional Financing Facilities (BFF’s) that enable both flow and organization. It is our work to ensure that every bioregion on Earth gets a BFF to support its transition to a regenerative economy—so that finance can serve life.”

Their book is Bioregional Financing Facilities: Reimagining Finance to Regenerate Our Planet. 

Re-imagining how to scale social innovations: “Scaling is a buzzword . . . but often it causes more harm than good. . . . when we look closely, most dominant models of scale come from Western, market-based paradigms. The assumption is often bigger = better. . .

"Dominant models of scaling prioritize: metrics over meaning, speed over stewardship, reach over relationships. . . . We need a different story about scaling . . .  grassroots innovators are re-imagining scaling on their own terms . . .

"Scaling is an emergent, relational process . . . that honors autonomy, cultural identity, and community well-being. This is a powerful shift in perspective . . . that challenges the logic of replication and efficiency, and instead uplifts scaling as a relational, cultural, and deeply contextual process.”

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos: HeartMath Institute, John Fullerton at Capital Institute, and Otto Scharmer of the Presencing Institute at MIT’s U-School for Transformation have each convened gatherings to explore creating islands of coherence based on Nobel Prize-winning chemist Ilya Prigogine’s quote: “When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.”

We are at, and in, the change of an era,  deep into the process of transformation. We’re in the chrysalis. Our internal as well as external structures and systems are breaking up, breaking down, and breaking open. This is allowing new life to appear.

These challenging times are not just a speed bump. It’s becoming a whole new road, and we build the road as we travel because the path that brought us here goes no further.

Cultural butterflies, anyone?