Barbara Marx Hubbard - The Future Feminine

Is sex evolving? Barbara Marx Hubbard, renowned “evolutionary visionary,” and author of Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, speaks with EnlightenNext's Elizabeth Debold about the emerging new potentials of an evolving human sexuality.

According to Hubbard, as we age and as the physical urge to procreate diminishes, a window of profound spiritual affirmation opens. For women especially, Hubbard believes, this stage in life offers profound possibilities for the discovery and exploration of untapped freedom, creativity, and spiritual development. She calls this new phase of life “regenopause,” and defines it as “a pause in the life cycle of the older woman when the possibility of remaking herself by choosing from her deepest impulse becomes evident.” Hubbard believes that this phase of life reveals a new creative function for sexual energy as we evolve beyond the primal mandate to procreate. She assigns this new potential to both men and women equally, and from her own personal exploration and experience, describes it as the most ennobling, vital, and creative engagement available to any human being. For Hubbard, the future of humanity looks bright indeed, for as we live longer lives, our shared capacity to engage in this transcendent co-creative potential should only increase.

BIO

Barbara Marx Hubbard is an author, public speaker, social innovator, and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She has initiated a guided educational program supported by Internet systems 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 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.”

As a member of the Jonas Salk Foundation's Epoch B group, Dr. Hubbard is working to understand and catalyze the actions needed to navigate a quantum change to avoid global collapse. She is also working on the synthesis of the principles and practices of Conscious Evolution and New Thought with Reverend Jim Lockard.

She is a founder and member of the Santa Barbara Conscious Evolution Community. She is initiating the SYNCON Process, for synergistic convergence to overcome the polarization in the United States by bringing together opposing groups to seek common goals and match needs and resources in the light of new capacities at the growing edge of the sciences and the psychologies. Her websites are designed to be global communion/communication hubs for the conscious evolution of humanity.

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 1970'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. She was one of the original directors of the Center for Soviet American Dialogue and served as a citizen diplomat during the late 1980'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 and Action, The Foundation for the Future, and the Association for Global New Thought. She was awarded the first Doctorate in Conscious Evolution by Emerson Institute.

Dr. Hubbard's books include Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future, and Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium.