Aviv is writing today with a Portals update. Here is what I am reflecting on. How do you navigate a confusing and chaotic world when the map itself shapes-shifts as you move?

Where do you find a sure path to transcend confusion and the corrosive exhaustion of cacophonous polarization, so as to find sanity inside a sense of fresh possibility?

Variations of these questions emerge in my work with senior leaders in Silicon Valley. They face tremendous pressures, and they seek me out to help them revitalize their organization and create new viable futures. In Portals we grapple with these inquiries not in the context of business, but in the even broader human condition and the challenges of these threshold times.

Peter Barry, the curator of the Portals site, and I chat weekly. We ask what is emerging for Portals. It is a curious threefold Venn diagram inquiry. We listen to discover what is catching our attention in the world around us. We tune into inquiries we have taken on as a lifelong practice, and ponder how these are merging and revealing the perennial Portals prod about where the future comes from.

These threads feed the discovery crucible as we seek to understand where this purposeful inquiry is nudging us next.

What else are we working on?

I am writing the next chapters of Portals Into the Soul. Although I did not initially anticipate it would evolve in this way, I am discovering the Epoch Culmination story has found a way to infiltrate the plot of this soul journey. I will write more about this in the coming months.

Patrick Summers, Kyriaki Nikandrou, and Peter Barry offer comments and suggestions. Kyriaki and Paul Stone are developing the soul installment videos and are now working on the video of chapter two to be published in April. Jerry Pike creates the episodes’ artwork. Emmy Schaling develops the practice outlines. Lisa Marcus co-hosts our events and nurtures with Kyriaki the Portals community.

We also are working on a potent piece we will publish later in the month decoding the teacher’s journey, the double teacher-student trap, and the pathologies of the golden shadow. We will continue to publish the Universalis conversation series with Karen Heney and Kyriaki Nikandrou, providing special content for members level two ($171.00 per year). We are concurrently building the Internal Human Orchestra Work (IHOW) series with Rita Lampen, Beth Simpson, and Eleni Makri. The first couple of practices will be accessible for all. We then will continue to generate these for members level 1-access ($57.00 per year). The spirit of this is offering value to everyone supporting the project. Please consider adding your support. We would love to have your involvement in the Portals project.

David Price Francis continues to collaborate on the Current Openings series. We just published CO#15 - The Four Development Zones. We have three more episodes lined up for the next several months, including a very special conversation coming in April.

In the epoch journey conversations with Jeff Vander Clute, we have several more rare conversations generated late last year we will soon release, including "The Guru Trap and the Golden Shadow" exposition later this month.

In the What is Healing? series, in collaboration with Alexander Love, we will soon release a new conversation with several healing practitioners.  In the Evolving Together series, with Well and Nigel Geeves, we have the next two installments lined up for release in coming weeks.

In An End of an Era & A Post-Guru World, we suggested the solutions to our wicked problems require us to collaborate and work together in new ways. The Portals project is an experimentation theater. It affords us opportunities for cultivating and testing these ideas, where we strive to embody and ensoul these possibilities in practical ways. We don’t pretend to have definitive answers to any of our questions. Instead, we set out to let the project develop and lead us into practicing daily our highest intentions so we can learn by doing, by making mistakes, falling on our face, and picking ourselves up to create new next drafts.

Living into the Violet Upsurge

Living into the rapid shape-shift of the Violet upsurge invites us to embrace every day as an opportunity for creating new drafts. Anything we claim or try to cement in definitive terms today will likely make us look like fools a couple of weeks later. Such is the way of the Violet tectonic shift.

There is something freeing in embracing the motto of relaxing everyday into creating new drafts in the project of becoming our better universal human version. It liberates each person to find their sense of aliveness and vibrant possibility. My own litmus test is simple. In 15 years, when I am 80 and my granddaughter is 19, will she be able to say: “I see that living is about continuing to discover yourself anew and evolving in the process; my grandpa is still discovering who he is and what he is about into his 80s…”  It is an effective imagery for me. It frees me up.

I don’t need to have answers to all my questions; instead, I need to keep asking new, deeper, more penetrating, and possibility-releasing questions. I never knew in my 20s and 30s this living practice would open the way to exhilarating and rewarding consulting work. It now liberates me to ask in new ways, how can I serve my grandchildren and future generations? How can we each serve the higher universal potential and purpose of human life?

Will you care to join this odyssey with us?