To form a Synergy Circle for content/vision discussion and action steps regarding all aspects of “An Ecological Civilization” noting especially three subthemes: the implications regarding “Culture”, “Environment” and “Economics.” To build this discussion outward, from vision to action steps, through any number of appropriate working groups and subgroups.

Wholistic Design is a discipline that encompasses any methodology that focuses on the interconnected and interdependent nature of all things to inform the rules and processes of design. Models are generated on a foundation of ecocentrism which places everything that is and sustains life, at the center of the value system. Consistent with this, biomimicry is the emulation of the models, systems, and elements of nature to address complex human questions and challenges. Combining current philosophical, scientific, and energetic understandings of the universe, human-designed systems can be made to comply with the same principles as natural ones, which have the complexity and precision of billions of years of evolution.

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This Synergy Circle brings together multiple constituencies active in education and experiential activity regarding Ecospirituality and also includes a number of ongoing in-person and virtual activities. Its vision and purpose is as follows:

1. Articulating a unitive narrative which answers such questions as: What is the long journey of evolution and human history calling us toward? What is development really for? What does the current evolutionary transition require of us, facing the many existential challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss, and the suffering of the many poor and vulnerable humans?
2. Advancing education for global citizenship for inclusive planet identities, which widen our circle of compassion and care to include all present and future members of the biocommunity of life on Earth, our common home.
3. Promote social and economic policies for transformative change in the global community, and to implement sustainability and regenerative visions and actions.
4. Enhancing the contributions that religious, spiritual and global ethics-based organizations can make to a new development paradigm that promotes full human development of all in a flourishing Earth community.

Flagship activities of this activity are the annual (since 2018) Rome/Assisi Conference on Spirituality and Sustainability with the Vatican Dicastery for Laudato Si (https://cartadelatierra.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/2018-Assisi-Rome-Conference-Program-Brochure-version-2018-02-23.pdf), and others and experiential ecospirituality activities and retreats with various Retreat Centers.

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The purposes of this Synergy Circle are, initially, (1) to support and nurture Bio-Cultural Sacred Sites worldwide particularly with activities that increase their role in the vitalization of Mother Earth (or "Gaia") and especially in line with activities already initiated by some founding members of this circle (see https://issuu.com/lightonlight/docs/lightonlight_issue_3) and (2) to create an effective and influential media narrative with regard the meaning and significance of "Bio-Cultural Sacred Sites and Sacred Science."

"Bio-Cultural Sacred Sites" is a UNESCO term referring to sites considered "sacred" for either their biological and/or cultural significance. "Sacred Science" refers to ancient and current wisdom and modalities, particularly of indigenous peoples ["modalities" is further defined as "a particular mode in which something exists or is experienced or expressed." [Webster] and which modality may, or may not, be understood by conventional empirical science].

Members: The circle is an Open Circle (including ELs and non ELs), by invitation.

There are currently five subcircles, some overlapping in membership, each contributing to a sector of the visioning and planning of the Circle:

(1) original founders [ELs Mindahi Bastida, Ken Kitatani, Kurt Johnson, Oscar Miro-Quesada, Duane Elgin, J.J. and Desiree Hurtak, Robert Atkinson];

(2) from the EL Ultra-Violets Synergy Circle [ELs Kurt Johnson, Adam Hall, Lynnaea Lumbard, J. J. Hurtak, Desiree Hurtak, Nina Meyerhof, Oscar-Miro Quesada, Jude Currivan];

(3) the Four Worlds Institute Group [EL Chief Phil Lane with Chief Dwaine Perry, Owl, and Linda Bjork;

(4) the Australian Group [EL Ben Bowler with Prof. Jim Bowler, Jason Kelly;

(5) the Media Group [ELs Kurt Johnson and Robert Atkinson with Ariel Patricia, Karuna].

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Plans for 2021-22 include events, on-line programming, e-magazine creation and participations, and moving toward a book on the meaning of Sacred Sites (esoterically and exoterically).

Gathering themes from across the Synergy Circles, it is based on the generally recognized four foundations for a partnership civilization, four interconnected foundations or cornerstones that determine if a social system is either more partnership-oriented, or dominance-oriented.

The first cornerstone is childhood: Neuroscience shows that what children experience and observe, especially in their first 5 years, shapes nothing less than the architecture of our brains, and with this, how we feel, think, and act – including how we vote. So how children are raised is a key social issue.

The second cornerstone is the attitude toward gender: We’ve been taught this is just a secondary “women’s issue,” but it’s a key social issue. Ranking the male form over the female form of our species is a template for equating all differences with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving -- a model for in-group versus out-group prejudices: racism, anti-Semitism, and so-forth. Moreover, traits and activities that in domination systems are associated with real masculinity, such as conquest and domination, are ranked over those stereotypically associated with femininity, such as caring—be it for children in families or caring for our natural life-support systems. This negatively affects everyone, and must be transformed.

The third cornerstone is economics: Current economic systems, both capitalist and socialist, follow this gendered system of values, failing to adequately reward the work of caring for people and caring for nature in ways that put food on the table and a roof over people’s head. That’s why we urgently need a new caring economics of partnerism.

The fourth cornerstone is story and language: Many normative stories, whether original sin or selfish genes, present violence and domination as normal and inevitable -- despite the evidence from neuroscience to the contrary. Not only that, the social categories provided by our languages fragment our consciousness, marginalizing or ignoring the majority of humanity: women and children. We must transform these as well.

Consciousness evolves toward an increasingly comprehensive and coherent understanding of justice and oneness. This evolution is a dialectic between individual and collective, not simply the sum total of individual evolution. Therefore, as we work toward the evolution of consciousness, it is essential to engage the socio-historical structures that scaffold it.

While the world is still steeped in a 17th century frame of reference that emphasizes national sovereignty, borders, and nationalist militarism, we are witnessing a massive and growing worldwide awakening to our spiritual reality of interdependence, and a growing push toward peaceful governance that reflects and protects the spirit of all life. Our biggest challenge is to lead the way and to mobilize all available resources toward the creation of the next level of evolutionary global governance.

With that challenge in mind, the purpose of the Unitive Justice and Global Security Synergy Circle is to articulate an evolutionary spiritual understanding of the practical steps involved in moving from a world organized around the power to dominate to a world organized around the power to protect and steward the spirit of life.

This Synergy Circle will engage in a broad educational effort to cultivate understanding of what unitive justice may look like amidst our existential climate and political crisis, why it requires a federalist international structure, and how this structure can gradually and effectively subsume the task of the protection of peace and planetary life through a global force which frees humanity from military competition in the creation of ever more sophisticated weapons of destruction. It will articulate the integrative spiritual principles that underly unitive justice and human security, and that must become embedded in education on every level.

This effort is our contribution to the global push toward the next level of human social organization that can scaffold the path to universal peace.

Finally, the creation of this circle recognizes the upcoming 2023 United Nations Summit of the Future as an opportunity to make a vigorous contribution to the strengthening of civil society’s ability to bring about the transformation of the United Governments Organisation that it currently is in practice to the United Nations that the founders had envisioned.
(https://globalgovernanceforum.org/saving-humanity-from-the-scourge-of-war/ )

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To synergize and disseminate unitive narrative throughout the Els community and across synergy circles, and beyond with active allies and through content and multimedia campaigns, to do so globally.

This Circle purposes to bring together the possibility of media activities from diverse members of the Evolutionary Leaders and others interested in the interface/ relationship of Media in terms of outreach as generally defined above. To further this purpose, the Circle will create an “Archive” of materials across various constituencies in order to bring to the public the productive dialogue and images that can fulfill our EL mission which is “to explore ideas, perspectives and modalities that support an evolutionary worldview…We seek to make insights that emerge from our exploration accessible to the public through diverse media, educational, and other relevant platforms.”

Specifically, this Circle notes the following “constituencies” within the Evolutionary Leaders currently representing varied elements of this discussion: including, but not limited to,

· New Realities on YouTube

· Circle of Wisdom

· Academy For Future Science

· A Better World

· America Meditating

· Voice America Radio

· Light on Light Magazine

We also endeavor to utilize the other media assets and sources.

Media is the key to reaching out to the world around us. This Synergy Circle is composed of those who have worked in the production end of media and are able to produce projects not just amongst themselves, but for the benefit of the Evolutionary Leaders around the world. Our definition of Media includes all forms of social media as well as books, videos, music/sound and more.

The ACE Synergy Circle serves both as a co-inspire zone for Conscious Artists in the Els and as a place where new creative collaborations can naturally be birthed through the doorway of deepened relationships. While this circle will naturally be comprised of creatives, it can also be a wonderful place for ELs who see The Arts as a powerful and necessary emotion-based vehicle for greater communication, connection and growth.

The purpose of the Circle is for content/vision discussion and action steps regarding all aspects of “Integral and Wholistic Cosmologies.” To build this discussion outward, from vision to action steps, through any number of appropriate working groups and subgroups.

The purpose of the UNITY & PEACE Synergy Circle is to build greater alliances between individuals, groups and “groups of groups” working together for unity and peace on Earth.

Realizing that “Yoga” and “Spiritual Practice” are extremely broad terms, this Circle’s initial purposes will be:

• (1) to understand and “map” the breadth of spiritual practice engagement across the Evolutionary Leaders (ELs) Circle and the EL Synergy Circles,
• (2) assess the potentials for sharing, cross-pollination, and mutual media opportunities for promulgating the messages from these areas of spiritual practice engagement,
• (3) understanding and promoting the relationship of these with other Synergy Circles engaged in spiritual practice understanding and activities (e.g. Bio-cultural Sacred Sites and Sacred Science, and Science and Spirituality), and
• (4) especially in light of the annual International Day of Yoga, and the wide breadth of Yoga-related activities in which many ELs are engaged, especially assess and effectuate the further relationship of the ELs to Yoga and Yoga Communities worldwide.

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The purpose of the emerging Bridging Synergy Circle is to engage in a deeper inquiry/conversation into what it means to bridge our divides – consciousness, spiritual, cultural, racial, gender, social, political, economic – within ourselves, our communities, our countries, and in the world.

We explore how we as a learning community use this inquiry to catalyze collective action and/or inform the work we do in the world. The synchronicities in our Circle are leading to synergies and the synergies lead to opportunities. We choose to skillfully and collectively act on those opportunities through sub-groups, partnerships, and/or together as the larger Circle.

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The circle is an Open Circle (including ELs and non ELs), by invitation.

Structural Note: in accordance with the self-governing provisions of the “Guidelines for Synergy Circles,” the group may choose to have a core “Vision Keepers” group/circle (comprised of the Founding Members and selected others) which will serve to “anchor” the Synergy Circle in the event that many additional members join.

The following strands/potential sub-groups are emerging with Storytelling/media outreach, to explore:

• How to hold our evolutionary journey as a consciousness journey
• What might we, as ELs, have to offer the broader community – our countries and the world – from the perspective of heart-mind?
• How might we write about bridging/healing divides from the vantage of consciousness, of spirit?
• How might we outreach to the entertainment industry – writers and producers of movies and television shows – to incorporate bridging language and conscious behavior into storylines that reach vast audiences?
• Exploring, defining and understanding levels (a continuum, a mandala) of consciousness, and how that relates to collective action
• Delving into the root causes of the consciousness divide we see today, and how to encourage healing
• A spiritual inquiry within the EL community
• What do we mean by spirit, by consciousness?
• How do we understand/work with conflict, as spiritual beings in physical form?
• What spiritual technologies or practices might be useful for our group or elsewhere for building healthy bridges?
• What are we doing on this planet, what is our role, how do we move to the next level of human expression?

Other directions that will emerge.

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The purpose of the Science and Spirituality Circle is to create a dynamic discussion on how best to serve our global need to integrate humanity's "inner" and "outer" ways of knowing. Thus, the title of the Circle is stated simply.

It is an "Open Circle" open to ELs and non-ELs. There is an Application to join the Circle. This is a diverse discussion, including historical and current aspects, the ranges from "hard" to "soft" science, and the diversity of the world's spiritual traditions and science's knowledge of "subtle realms." The Application to join the circle provides much more detailed language concerning these multiple aspects. The circle is "product"-oriented, desiring through its collective assets to create discussions, conferences, events, initiatives, media and so on.

Currently the Circle contains multiple components looking together toward production of a collective product elaborating the frontiers of the current global "science and spirituality" discussion. Components currently include:

• EL adepts of The Galileo Report [EL Hugo Francone and others],
• Evolutionary and Prosocial Theory [ELs David Sloan Wilson and Kurt Johnson],
• Climate Change, Ecospirituality and Sustainability [ELs Mundahi Bastida, Ken Kitatani, Kurt Johnson],
• Holographic Universe and Whole-World View [EL Jude Currivan],
• work of the Institute of Noetic Sciences [EL Claudia Welss] and Chopra Foundation and Chopra Global [EL Deepak Chopra],
• the vision of Choosing Earth [ELs Duane Elgin, Jude Currivan, Ben Bowler, Emanuel Kuntzelman, Jon Ramer, Kurt Johnson], and, in general, Integral Theory & Spiral Dynamics and anomalous and frontier phenomena across Science and Spirituality.

In 2019 the Circle sponsored an event at the United Nations Church Center reporting on David Sloan Wilson and Kurt Johnson's recent discussions with His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Our Synergy Circle has the vision of facilitating and supporting the emergence of technologies and social processes that catalyze humanity into deepening levels of coherence and health through their inherent recognition of life’s unitive nature. Inspired in naming by David Bohm’s concept of the ‘holomovement’ where we can conceive of life as the movement of an ‘undivided whole’, the circle aims to promote the development, resourcing, prototyping and usage of co-creative tools, systems and technologies that can help humanity to experience greater levels of wholeness and interconnection. The circle also shares the vision that as we adopt a more integral map of reality, next generation social tools and technologies will increasingly draw on living systems and biological principles and support the evolution of social organisms, in time leading to the emergence of a planetary superorganism. See our Full Vision Statement here.

The Conscious Business Synergy Circle is a global community of business leaders, grounded in the principles of the Conscious Business Declaration, whose purpose is to empower the transformative potential of business to heal the environment, improve human well-being, and increase economic prosperity for the flourishing of all life on Earth.

The Conscious Business World Summit was offered by the Conscious Business Synergy Circle, a joint project of members of Humanity’s Team, the Evolutionary Leaders Circle and UNITY EARTH, March 7-9, 2019. The Circle then produced the first issue of the new magazine imprint Conscious Business: https://issuu.com/lightonlight/docs/conscious_business_winter_2020.

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Inspired by American physicist David Bohm’s philosophy of the holomovement, the Vision and Message of the Holomovement Synergy Circle creates a space enabling like-minded (and like-spirited) people to come together in radical and loving collaboration to create a global shift in consciousness, while honoring the autonomy of each of our purpose-driven callings.

This Synergy Circle is an organic and shared creative process between members of this circle and fellow communities to support the important work being done for the good of the whole. We endeavor to share resources, ideas and engage in thoughtful dialogue on how we can each take action to support this growing movement of movements that we call the Holomovement and bring cosmic unity into mainstream culture.

This Synergy Circle will also work closely with the "Co-creating the Holomovement: Technologies and Social Modalities" Synergy Circle.

The purpose of the Education Circle is to gather persons from across the diverse meanings and activities of "Education" and discover thematic and action areas from which can emerge tangible plans toward collective "products" like discussions, conferences, events, initiatives, media and so on.

It is an "Open Circle" open to ELs and non-ELs. There is an Application to join the Circle. This is a diverse discussion which, to date, has resulted in multiple subgroups strategizing varied and diverse activities. Subgroups continue to expand with new Circle members. From this diversity the Circle searches also for common themes and actions areas in which it can collectively participate, especially through media. The Application to join the circle provides additional details.

Subcircle Activities: Currently the Circle contains twelve subcircle initiatives:

• new advances in humanist education [EL's Ken Kitatani and Mindahi Bastida, with Scott Carlin, Gaston Meskons and Silke Van Cleuvenbergen;
• concepts of planetary education [EL's Gordon Dveirin and Scott Alan Carlin];
• education around the UN SDG's [EL Kurt Johnson and Scott Alan Carlin with Richard Bowell and Michael Shewchuk];
• education around Laudato Si [ELs Ken Kitatani, Mindahi Bastida and Kurt Johnson],
• education media development [EL Jon Ramer, Bob Jayco];
• education centered on works of We.net [EL Rick Ulfik], One Humanity Institute [ELs Nina Meyerhof and Domen Kocevar],
• Friends of the IONS [ELs Kurt Johnson, Rick Ulfik, J.J. and Desiree Hurtak and Alan Steinfeld],
• Academy for Future Science [J.J. and Desiree Hurtak];
• Earth Constitution and global structural change [ELs Kurt Johnson and Rick Ulfik with Glen Martin, Laura George, Ariel Patricia, Robert Levine and Gina Maza];
• Atlas Hugged counterproposal to Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged [ELs David Sloan Wilson, Kurt Johnson, Lynnaea Lumbard, Elisabet Sahtouris, and Michael Wayne, with Jeffrey Genung];
• Global Unitive Healing [ELs Robert Atkinson, Kurt Johnson, Claudia Welss, non-ELs Elena Mustakova, Ariel Patricia].

Circle Activities:

• The Circle sponsored a 2019 event for the United Nations NGO community at Sukyo Mahikari Center on new advances in humanist and planetary education.
• It published in 2021 a free e-book Universal Principles and Action Steps a compendium of published statements re: same from global leaders and organizations since the 20th Century.
• Members regularly collaborate in diverse social media education programs with EL Jon Ramer's Synergized Impact Network Exchange.

The SDG Thought Leaders Synergy Circle is an "Open Circle" (open to EL's and non EL's). With some 90 members the Circle was initiated to create and nurture a broad and robust discussion of the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) with other organizations and NGO's both within and outside the global United Nations community.

An extensive website about the Circle was created including description of the Circle's mission, goals & strategy; participants; activities; and participant commentary and contributions. It is located at https://www.SDGThoughtLeadersCircle.org.

Along with the larger membership there are two EL Coordinator/Liaisons, Dr. Kurt Johnson and Daniel Stone, supported by two core group founding members, Gregg Braden and Jude Currivan, and two EL/SOSF Advisors, Diane Williams and Deborah Moldow.


For more information, or to join, inquire to kurtjohnsonisd@yahoo.com or djs@danielstone.com

Our purpose is to support and accelerate the conscious evolution of humanity and expansion of human awareness through increasing our individual and collective readiness for overt, ongoing contact with other intelligences in our Cosmic Family. We will do this by:

1. Going on an adventure into the unknown together to help clarify our relationship with an expansion of human awareness and our connection to a greater ecology of a Universal Mind. This could include creating a map inclusive of the invisible world, of the “field state” vs. the “particle state” we are living in.
2. Holding Deep Dialogues to understand phenomena outside of our current worldview.
3. Drawing upon both ancient wisdom (including indigenous origin stories) and new ways of knowing to restore the timeless knowledge of the interconnectivity between Earth and intelligences in other locations and realms of existence.
4. Exploring our cosmic evolutionary consciousness and innate higher abilities through individual and collective practices and sharing these “tools” with others. This could include developing our connection with subtle realms and the non-local mind so we can more easily receive and send information from the greater consciousness fields.
5. Advancing our heart development so that we can access vast and extremely powerful subtle dimensions of the Universe through our intention to increase Cosmic love, compassion, coherence, connection, collaboration and understanding.
6. Sharing contact stories and pertinent information that we receive from those contacts.
7. Supporting people as they go through shifts in mass consciousness and worldviews.
8. Exploring the nature of Spiritual Reality and Spiritual Agency
9. Supporting a new set of narratives about Contact that would include the whole pantheon of the Unknown.
10. Researching what the mainstream media and governments are ignoring or avoiding, including individuals interacting with phenomena and bringing new and original perspectives to light.
11. Putting out statements, magazines, posts, websites, books, podcasts, blogs, programs etc. that are easily expressed to the larger population.
12. Presenting to the public our collective evaluation of the human and non-human interface, which can broaden the scope of consciousness and evolve our collective awareness to integrate an expanded cosmology, biology, technology and diversity of life itself.

The results of these 12 Mission factors are for the hope of awakening humanity to its greater potentials.