Becoming the Future Human – The Universalis Project #20
Becoming the Future Human – The Universalis Project #20

Aviv Shahar with Karen Heney and Kyriaki Nikandrou

September 12, 2025

It’s both curious and fitting that the validation and verification of knowledge has become a central inquiry within the Universalis series. In this latest episode, Aviv Shahar, Karen Heney, and Kyriaki Nikandrou are joined by friends in a rich exploration that begins by tracing the emerging awarenesses of Humanity’s Awakening within the Universalis journey, to arrive at this significant current inquiry.

How can knowledge be accessed and validated in a way that is both life-connecting and liberating?

To access truth through the full range of the human system, multiple pathways must be activated, allowing for a more inclusive and comprehensive verification process. When this activation is guided by the core principles of life and a whole-person engagement, knowledge validation becomes more than conceptual, it becomes embodied.

When our ways of knowing are enhanced by the validation of lived experience, the result is not only new knowledge, but also an increase in well-being, resilience, and effectiveness.

Highlights and Insights from the episode Include:

  • An overview of the nineteen previous Universalis episodes, drawing a potent trace through these transitional times. This overview surfaces themes, contemplations, and agentic capabilities that have emerged along the journey.
  • Five pathways of validation, illustrating how life’s natural verification systems support an integrated, whole-person approach. Moving beyond the limitations of singular perspective, this method reveals a “kaleidoscope of configurations” that together offer credible and grounded insight.
  • What can you access in describing what you know through an integrated search for truth and knowledge? - A narration of the ten dimensions of knowing through a deepening relationship.
  • Evidence of new knowledge emerging, and what this enables in the human system —how deep inquiry, refined attention, and appreciation can serve as validating forces in themselves.

This episode continues the Universalis journey into the evolving frontiers of human consciousness, coherence, and capacity, where knowing becomes a living force, and validation is no longer abstract but deeply alive in the experience of life itself. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

The way life validates you is more than the knowledge you get. Life validates you through the energy, the intuition, the creativity, the well-being, the vitality, and the various capacities that you are able to activate. When a validation method is part of an integrated frame, it becomes a tool you can use.

Aviv Shahar

Karen Heney

Karen Heney

From an early age there has been a compelling search for truths, those realities that didn’t have a fixing or a closed door. The quest for meaning, sometimes quiet, other times reaching and finding pathways, has always accompanied me. The awareness that all life is caused to exist for an inherent purpose, one that allows for the possibility of furtherance and refinement, has prompted both perceptions and questions. These concern the purpose of human life, its integration within greater domains and what I personally may need to discover in order to play my part. Creativity has always been integral, with an endeavour to create visual interpretations of concepts as practical activities. The intention behind a current project is to broaden the paths of relevance and meaning for others to access and explore.

Kyriaki Nikandrou

Kyriaki Nikandrou

When I was a child, staring at the starry night skies, I was filled with awe and wonder, about the mysteries of the Universe, Life, Time, the Human and its place in the Cosmos, trying to connect the dots that link everything with everything… Some years down the line, I still do. I am seeking to be in conversation with others in search for keys, for tools of understanding and application and for the real questions, the ones that become portals to contemplative journeys, leading to uncharted territories that feel like home. I believe we are on a trajectory of multiple and unpredictable changes; it is up to each one of us to rise to the challenge of our times. Now, more than ever before, is the time to be true to ourselves and fulfill our potential.

Aviv Shahar

Aviv Shahar

Aviv serves as the Portals' sherpa. He curates transformational journeys and is a storyteller of the epochal evolution culminating at this time. Aviv is the Founder of Aviv Consulting, helping leaders unleash strategic innovation, and is the author of Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.


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