Is it really a contradiction to think of the global chaos unfolding around us as both an overdue day of reckoning, and possibly the most hopeful, optimistic time we’ve seen in this century? Can humanity still retain the capacity for renewal and rebirth in such a time of intense doubt and fear about the future?

It seems like the perfect contemplation for a group of international Portals friends who recently gathered with Aviv Shahar to share their intuitions about this moment in the onsetting new epoch. Their intention and direction are to begin imagining a path forward, a new blueprint, through the upheaval to a new possibility for resurrection and rejuvenation. 

The collective intelligence reveals clarity and confidence, and the humility of realizing we swim in a great unknown among emerging patterns of new universal possibility. Among their insights and sentiments:

• We call this an epochal moment because humanity is fast approaching a pivot point that can define future possibility, but requires an active individual and collective response.
• If humanity does not choose wisely, we can cause irreversible harm. Never has so much depended on the few of us alive today to guarantee future generations have a future.
• Just when we need it the most, the global collaboration required to solve global issues is becoming harder to find in this time of a quickening epochal transition.
• The coming decade is a critical reckoning time, as upgrade and renewal begin with each of us, and how we express the values and sentiments of the emerging universal human.
• The invitation is to be empowered and take responsibility for our own lives; take steps to address issues, local and global, without waiting for a government solution.

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