All posts by Mike Zonta

The Edge: Evolutionary leaders in service to conscious evolution

Calling All Evolutionary Leaders in Service to Conscious Evolution!
This Is Our Moment of Choice!

Together, we can accelerate the evolution of human consciousness and co-create the future. 
Are we ready to step into our power and take an Evolutionary Leap?

STATEMENT BY THE SOURCE OF SYNERGY FOUNDATION

Deepak Chopra and the Evolutionary Leaders Circle

The Source of Synergy Foundation was founded to support positive global transformation and advance conscious leadership rooted in inner awareness, global responsibility, integrity, and the belief in the inherent dignity of all.Recent disclosures of the Epstein Files have revealed that Dr. Deepak Chopra, co-founder of one of our main projects, the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, exchanged disturbing emails with Epstein that objectify and demean women and girls. Epstein was convicted of sexual abuse and implicated in human trafficking, financial manipulation, and exploitation of minors.While Deepak Chopra has not been investigated or criminally charged, and we do not claim to know the full extent of his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, the Source of Synergy Foundation has removed Dr. Chopra from the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, whose mission is to inspire, support, and serve conscious evolution. The lack of full accountability in Dr. Chopra’s most recent public statements and the lack of transparency regarding his association with Epstein do not adhere to the standards of integrity that guide our organization.We stand in unwavering solidarity with the victims and survivors of all forms of exploitation and abuse in their ongoing journey to seek justice and healing. No amount of status, wealth or influence should ever shield abuse or silence those who have suffered. We honor the immense courage it takes to speak truth in the face of power. Exploitation, abuse of power, and complicity are incompatible with the future we seek to build.We are reviewing our policies and procedures to ensure that they reflect the rigor that conscious leadership demands. We commit ourselves to fostering a culture of accountability, transparency, and dignity where exploitation cannot be allowed and where every human being is regarded as sacred.This moment reflects a broader global reckoning. Across sectors, systems built on concentrated power, status above scrutiny, and unchallenged deference to individuals are being questioned. Leadership rooted in personality and influence, rather than values and principles, does not serve the highest good. A recalibration is occurring in the world around us and within ourselves where we are more deeply recognizing and developing our own innate power and capacities.Old patterns of imbalance, power, exploitation, silence, and misplaced trust are being made visible.The unraveling is not the end. It is the beginning of something more honest, more enlightened, and more whole.
Introducing SOUL: The Science of Unitive LoveBy Grant Storry, Jude Currivan and David Lorimer SOUL: The Science Of Unitive Love
SOUL, the Science Of Unitive Love
, is a collaborative vision co-initiated by Evolutionary Leaders Dr. Jude Currivan, cosmologist, planetary healer, and co-founder of WholeWorld-View, and Grant Storrysystems healer, philosopher-builder, and technology executive. It builds on Jude’s decades of pioneering work in unitive science and cosmology and is being carried forward by a growing community of aligned researchers, organizations, and practitioners, including fellow Evolutionary Leaders Heidi Sparkes Guber, David Lorimer, Dr Elena Mustakova, and Anne-Marie Voorhoeve.

SOUL offers a way of engaging within the world: oriented by Coherence, expressed through relationship, and animated by love.

Founded on the evidence-based unitive science that underpins and frames the Evolutionary Leaders’ adopted unitive narrative, SOUL asks a deceptively simple but profound question: What if love is not merely a human emotion or ethical ideal, but a universal principle intrinsic to the nature of reality itself? From this inquiry, SOUL explores how the universe coheres, evolves, and regenerates through nested relationships -across cosmology, biology, psychology, social systems, consciousness, and lived human experience- revealing Coherence, meaning, belonging, wholeness, and pattern as fundamental features and natural law governing how our shared reality unfolds.


Crucially, SOUL is not only something to understand, but a posture to inhabit, a way of orienting toward Life itself. It offers a Coherent lens through which we meet ourselves, one another, and the living world, recognizing that inner states and outer systems are continuously shaping one another within a shared relational field. In 
this light, SOUL asks us to consider: What changes when love is approached not as an ideal, but as a principle of Coherence in everyday life? As both theory and lived practice, SOUL invites us to act as Coherent agents, in relationship, aware of our entanglement with all Life; allowing love, consciously embodied as Coherence, to become a practical force for profound transformational healing across personal, collective, and systemic domains.SOUL, featured in Paradigm Explorer: Activating Coherence ConsciousnessLearn more at: WholeWorld-View: SOUL“Love, consciously embodied as Coherence, becomes a practical force for transformation.”
Happy News in Times of DarknessBy Anneloes Smitsman
Warm greetings from a very hot and sunny Mauritius. It’s been a little while since our last newsletter, and this one comes packed with good news!Many of you know that for the past year(s), I’ve been fully immersed in bringing Elowyn: Quest of Time into the world, together with an incredible team and mission-aligned partners. I’m happy to share that we’re now very close to the Alpha release—and something unexpected and wonderful has already happened (prior to the official game launch).Just 10 days ago, we launched our first public Elowyn quests with fun rewards to build the community in partnership with Immutable Play. Since then, the Elowyn community has grown by over 16,000 new players, with thousands now playing Elowyn daily. Seeing so many people step into win-win gameplay and get creative with their positive-impact strategies has been deeply moving. Truly a dream come true, and this is only the beginning. We’re soon embarking on Beta development, followed by the official Master release and full launch later this year.If you haven’t joined yet, you’re warmly invited to step in and play Elowyn. For those of you who joined earlier, please note that all accounts have been reset as part of our transition to a new Polygon-supported wallet solution.As our thank you, everyone who joins now receives 100 EWA pointsfree access to all 144 cards, and several card duplicates. Very soon, you’ll be able to fuse and upgrade cards in the in-game shop and trade them on the in-game marketplace (more on this in upcoming emails).A quick note: we use Sequence as our Polygon wallet solution. Due to international financial regulations, certain countries are currently blocked. If you’re unable to create an in-game wallet, please check the country you’re accessing Elowyn from.We’re also excited to share that we’re once again participating in the Green Game Jam, part of the UNEP-backed Playing for the Planet Alliance. This year, Elowyn will be playing and fundraising for rainforest protection and regeneration—more on that campaign very soon.Join Elowyn here and click the play button on the website via your desktop browser (not yet available on mobile).Watch the new Elowyn trailer (or click the image below). It’s already gone viral on X, YouTube, and TikTok. It’s time now, for a new way to play with new ways to gain…With deep thanks to our Executive Producer, Mitch, and our partner Frag Games for their amazing work on the trailer. 
Elowyn: Quest of Time – Official Alpha Trailer | Battle Moloch in Win-Win CCG

A dark force is rising. Shadows grow stronger. Fears run deep. When hope falls asleep, people forget the promises they swore to keep.

Transform the world of winners and losers with new rules to play, new ways to gain. Join Elowyn: Quest of Time – the epic strategy card game where every choice matters! The stakes are high. Only an unlikely alliance between Shadow Arcs and Guardians can stop the rise of Moloch — the giant of greed and domination.www.earthwise.games
Launching uniphi Culture & Leadership DiagnosticBy Peter Matthies

I’m super excited to unveil our uniphi Culture & Leadership Diagnostic, which we’ve been creating & testing for the past 2 years. 
 
For 20 years, I’ve worked with leaders who genuinely care about their people.
 
They know their revenue.
They know their margins.
They know their headcount.
 
But when I ask: “How are your people really experiencing your leadership?”
 
Most pause. Not because they don’t care. But because they don’t actually know.Of course there are tools available that measure engagement. But when I ask leaders, I hear is this: 
Often too superficial.
Too political.
Don’t lead to real change.
 
So over the past two years, we’ve been quietly building something different.
It’s called uniphi™.
 
It’s not another engagement survey but a culture & leadership diagnostic that provides Data You Can FeelInsights You Can Work WithReal Conversations.uniphi helps founders, CEOs, and HR leaders see:
Where culture is strong
Where leadership & culture needs improving
What their people feel (but don’t say)
And what to actually do next
 
What we’ve learned so far: Culture isn’t soft. It’s just rarely measured well.
 
uniphi is our approach to change that.
 
We’re excited to share more during the coming weeks. Stay tuned. 
 
We’re also launching a Founder-Led Pilot limited to 5 organizations/team. If you want to be included, join the waitlist. 
 
Check out the uniphi website
 
I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments!
 
On fire, Peter
www.evolutionaryleaders.net/opportunitiesWelcome to the Evolutionary Leaders new portal to OPPORTUNITIES – upcoming events, courses, journeys and more, all led by members of the community of Evolutionary Leaders. Check in often when you’re looking for new, exciting experiences to empower your contributions to the conscious evolution of humanity!Here are some of the opportunities for the coming month:

March 2-6
Why Turning Inward Brings Lasting Change – with Shamini Jain, Esalen, CA

March 3 – Monthly
Legion of Light Peace Meditation – with David GershonMarch 4-7Message from the Stars – with John Perkins, Sivananda Ashram Retreat, Paradise Island, Nassau, Bahamas

March 4 – 8-Week Course

Become a Conscious Creator: Transform your Reality Through Science – with Bruce H. Lipton, PhD & Shamini Jain, PhDMarch 5
The Brutoco Briefing – with Rinaldo BrutocoMarch 9Beyond the Veil – with Suzanne GiesemannMarch 19 for 8 Weeks
Master The Language Of Energy – with Puria

March 24 for 3 Months
Fierce Vulnerability Kinship Lab – with Kazu Haga
Look for more enticing opportunities atwww.evolutionaryleaders.net/opportunities
New Books
How to Meditate Without Even Trying
By Peter Russell

I’ve been busy working on a new book, How to Meditate Without Even Trying, which will be published by New World Library on March 24th. Moreover, I’m excited to say that Eckhart Tolle has written a delightful forward.

Some of you may recognize this as the title of my online course. It began as a handbook to that course, but as I worked on it, I found myself adding practices I’ve shared over the years in groups, lectures, and videos—material that had never been brought together in one place. The result is a much more comprehensive book, How to Meditate Without Even Trying.

I’ve also posted a new video (see below).

In it, Eckhart Tolle and I discuss the nature of consciousness. We explore a question that often gets blurred in scientific discussions: while the brain may shape the changing experiences that arise in consciousness—the “contents” of consciousness—does it actually create consciousness itself? Or is consciousness already present in all living systems? Watch Here
Peter Russell and Eckhart Tolle explore the nature of consciousness. The conventional scientific view treats it as a byproduct of brain chemistry. Peter claims there are actually two questions here which get confused.
1. Does the brain determine the changing experiences that arise in consciousness – the “contents” of consciousness?
2 Does the brain create the ever-present faculty of consciousness itself?
He proposes that the confusion is exacerbated from our use of the word consciousness as a noun – some “thing” we can know. Instead, it is better to treat it as a verb – “knowing”: the permanent quality of being that knows our ever-changing thoughts and experiences.
Videos and Podcasts
Nina Meyerhof Presents Children’s Torch of Hope  to Walk for Peace Monks


During the 109th and final day of the Walk for Peace pilgrimage, Dr. Nina Meyerhof gifted the Torch of Hope to with Venerable Bhikkhu Paññākāra and the walk for peace monks in front of the Lincoln monument in Washington, DC.
Was Patriarchy a Detour?With Riane Eisler, Heather Ensworth and Sandie Sedgbeer
History, Trauma & the Sacred Feminine
When did we begin to believe that domination and hierarchy were inevitable? In this Synergy Sessions episode, Sandie Sedgbeer explores an alternative historical and psychological narrative with Riane Eisler and Heather Ensworth, drawing on research across disciplines to re-examine long-held assumptions about human nature.
Free Teaching on the Medicine WheelBy Alberto VilloldoIn this video, I explain:
• Why everything ultimately is energetics
• Why we don’t wait for crisis to upgrade the field
• Why this is not about learning — but becoming, embodying
• And why this path reclaims us as the authors of our destinyWe are living in times of rapid change.
The future is happening quickly.And we have to create the health, the meaning, and the destiny we want to take with us.
Your place around the fire is calling you back to it, and if you feel it,
I encourage you to watch this teaching.This Training is currently available as:

6-MONTH ONLINE PROGRAM
FINAL Class starting: March 9th, 2026
or
28-DAY IMMERSIVE RESIDENTIAL PROGRAM
Croatia (August 2026), Chile (November 2026)See video invitation here
The Cell is a ComputerBy Bruce Lipton
Integral City – The Master Code of CareMarilyn Hamilton with Puria
In this interview we talk about:What can we learn in organizing cities from the beehivesThe master code and frequency of careWhat is Integral City workWhat are the four voices we need to include in city dialoguesHow can cities find the double sustainability loopIf you wish individual support on your journey of awakening, healing or embodiment of your most evolved being: https://puria.org
Between Realms and ReasonWith Karuna and Sandie Segbeer
From Glamour to Grace
What if awakening begins not with effort… but with awareness? In this deeply reflective episode of Between Realms and Reason, Karuna shares her journey from the world of fashion to the path of Kundalini Yoga, meditation, and conscious awakening. Through lived experience and spiritual insight, she explores how sound, vibration, and mantra serve as gateways to healing, awareness, and inner transformation — supporting both personal growth and collective evolution.
Articles
2030 Peace Moonshot: Creating a Global Culture of Peace
By David Gershon

The First Earth Run: Inspiration for the 2030 Peace Moonshot
In 1986, at the height of the Cold War, the author conceived and organized a global initiative in partnership with UNICEF and ABC Television: the passing of a torch of peace around the world. Called the First Earth Run, it was witnessed by a billion people through global media and involved 25 million participants and 45 heads of state across 62 countries. Wherever the torch of peace traveled, wars stopped, and humanity experienced a shared sense of peace.

This global peace initiative produced outcomes once considered impossible. Military adversaries laid down their arms. Communities united across political, religious, and national divides. Two Cold War antagonists, President Gorbachev of the Soviet Union and President Reagan of the United States, both endorsed the effort, transcending their differences. Heads of state collaborated with grassroots NGOs. A new move on the geopolitical chessboard was born with remarkable outcomes.

These events prompted important questions: What lessons could be carried forward? How could one translate the knowledge gleaned from mobilizing humanity for a global moment in time into behavior change at scale — the ultimate social impact measurement? Answering these questions would require a deep exploration of behavior change, community empowerment, large-scale system transformation, and the science of tipping points.

Over the following decades, and much trial and error, this exploration led to the creation of the Peace on Earth by 2030 Moonshot — a bold, systemic plan to create a global culture of peace by the end of the decade
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Fig.1. Communities across the world mobilized to participate in the First Earth Run in 1986. (Photo Credits: Haroldo de Faria Castro; UNICEF; Robert Goodearl)

The 2030 Peace Moonshot
The Peace Moonshot is built around a three-part transformative architecture. A Peace Game transforms individuals through peace practices. A Peace Zone transforms communities through cooperation. A Global Peace Movement ignites collective purpose and momentum. When these three operate together, peace becomes self-reinforcing.

This transformational architecture scales peace from behavior change to system change. Personal practices create new social behaviors. Repeated behaviors in communities become new social norms. New social norms across communities shift the operating system of society. Peace scales the same way all durable change scales — through norms.

While the Peace Moonshot’s primary goal is creating a global culture of peace, it is also designed to strengthen the conditions needed for all positive change initiatives to succeed. By addressing root causes of obstacles, such as lack of cooperation or community polarization, it enables more effective action across society.

Just as the best way to influence a river is by acting upstream, the Peace Moonshot targets these upstream interventions to improve outcomes downstream, where most social change happens. When communities build cooperation and collective agency, they are better equipped to address challenges such as poverty, health, education, and environmental sustainability. This is the benefit provided by establishing a culture of peace.

From 2020 to 2025, the Peace Moonshot initiative piloted its two transformative social innovations: the Peace Game and Peace Zones.

The Peace Game pilot engaged thousands of participants who carried out tens of thousands of Peace Actions across hundreds of cities impacting millions of people. In parallel, five multi-year Peace Zone pilots were launched — two in the United States and one each in Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa which modeled cooperation strategies. To support scaling these efforts, more than 70 partner organizations were mobilized, including Rotary, which brings a global network of 46,000 clubs spanning over 200 countries.

Based on the successful pilot implementation and knowledge acquired from these platforms, Empowerment Institute and its partners, who are leading the initiative, have now begun the scaling phase. The goal from 2026 to 2030 is to achieve peace tipping points by engaging 40 million people globally in the Peace Game and establishing 10,000 Peace Zones worldwide.

Transformation of Individuals: The Peace Game
“Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.” — Preamble to UNESCO Charter

The peace plan posits that lasting peace starts with a shift in human consciousness. Through the Peace Game, individuals are empowered to transform internal barriers like fear, prejudice, and indifference. This is achieved through an engaging app that uses gamified behavior change and a peer support system called a Peace Team. A research study on the Peace Game found participants became empowered, collaborative, empathetic, and willing to help and connect with others. […]Read the full article on Medium here If you wish to accelerate the social impact of your organization, create a Peace Zone in your community, or contribute in another way, you are invited to become a Peace Moonshot partner. To learn more, visit https://peace2030.earth/partners.
To play the Peace Game, visit https://peace2030.earth.

David Gershon
 is Co-founder and CEO of Empowerment Institute
Don’t Eat (some of) Your GreensBy Lynne McTaggartFor at least 70 years, the West has been consumed by the notion of healthy eating, but what exactly constitutes ‘health foods’ has been a highly moveable feast, with a new theory emerging with each new decade.  

Ever since Ancel Keys published his Seven Countries studies in the 1950s to determine the source of heart disease, the consensus has been that a high fat diet and high blood cholesterol are the primary culprits of heart disease. 

Most significantly, Keys’ partial research (conveniently eliminating further evidence from nine other countries that didn’t support his theory) spawned the entire low-fat industry and the notion that saturated fats caused the build-up of cholesterol in the blood. 

To this day, most of mainstream medicine still supports the fat-are-bad-for-us theory, encouraging anyone over 50 to take  statins as a preventive measure.

What was considered gospel for all those decades is now being debunked by new evidence showing that cholesterol and fats are essential to brain health and that statins and low-fat diets (often full of highly processed ‘healthy’ alternatives) may be responsible for the current epidemic of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. 

In the last decade, carbohydrates have become the demon food group. Those in the vanguard of healthy eating have ditched low-fat, added back meat and saturated fats, and are now minimizing all the white stuff – potatoes, white rice, processed foods of all sorts –  sticking to low-glycemic foods  that convert into sugar slowly. 

At the centerpiece of high protein, low carb eating is plant foods: dark greens like spinach, sweet potatoes instead of the white variety, plus nuts, especially almonds, and for treats, dark chocolate with cocoa content of 70 percent or more.

Every last book on diet and nutrition now emphasizes drinking regular green smoothies, packed with almonds, chia seeds and protein powder in the morning; baking with almond flour instead of wheat flour; consuming lots of legumes; and filling your plate with dark leafy greens. But this too can be a recipe for ill health.

Many of these so-called superfoods contain high levels of a substance called ‘oxalates’ (the common name for oxalic acid), a naturally occurring substance present in many plant foods like leafy greens, nuts, and soybeans and other legumes. 

When consumed in high amounts, this anti-nutrient can bind to calcium during digestion, preventing absorption of vital nutrients and causing a raft of problems, from joint pain and irritable bowel to skin issues, sinusitis and, most problematically, kidney stones.  

The toxicity of oxalates is nothing new. Oxalic acid was used in the 1700s as an industrial substance and cleaning powder, and 200 years ago, medical reports discussed cases of accidental poisoning with it – some even causing kidney failure.  In the mid-1800s, doctors connected oxalates with everything from fatigue and bladder pain to arthritis.  

Nevertheless, in modern times, only doctors those specializing in kidney disease have made the connection between kidney function and high oxalate foods since three-quarters of kidney stones contain calcium oxalate. […]
 Read the full article here
On Sacred RelationshipA remedy for an increasingly transactional culture
By Stephen Dinan

How do we relate to others in a way that liberates ourselves and helps to heal the world?

Today I offer my reflections on sacred relationship, which I believe sits at the heart of personal and cultural renewal. As the fabric of public trust continues to fray, our ability to engage in meaningful, life-affirming connections becomes not only a personal path but a planetary remedy.Sacred relationship is not limited to romance or long-term intimacy. It can emerge in a five minute encounter or grow across decades. It is a way of engaging that sees, honors, and amplifies the divine essence in the other person and blesses their highest becoming. It is grounded in love but includes a more attuned, empowering way of engaging as well.This orientation creates a third presence between people — not just you and me but a field of shared coherence that begins to grow between us. Sacred relationship is a triad: Self, Other, and the Bond, which we can call friendship, alliance, partnership or something unique. Each part of the tried requires care, curiosity, and attunement.By contrast, a transactional relationship centers on extraction: what can I get from this person? This orientation objectifies. The other becomes a means to an end – a vehicle or stepping stone to get more of something I desire. In keeping the focus on the egoic, separate self, it lacks care for the other person and reinforces a sense of isolation for both parties. The result? Disconnection, cynicism, and cultural polarization.When relationships are governed by self-interest alone, trust withers. And when enough breakdowns of trust accumulate, we begin to anticipate betrayal. Suspicion becomes the norm. Self-preservation becomes the baseline.Transactional relationships reinforce a culture of greed and selfishness because people get the clear signal that others won’t look out for their best interests, which leads to more suspicion, fear, and self-preservation.Many of the signals of transactional relationships are subtle. Most people aren’t aware of how they act in more transactional ways that corrode the quality of our relationship field. Here are a few examples that are common and contribute to a more transactional relational culture. […]Read the full article on Substack here
A Moment in TimeBy Kristin Engvig
After many years of convening women from around the world, today I felt a profound happiness (about it again).There was a time when my focus on inner development was overlooked, sometimes even questioned. Yet the systems change required to create a paradigm in which we truly flourish cannot be built by addressing the world and the workplace alone.

We must also address ourselves.

Our inner lives. Our balance of feminine and masculine. Our body, mind, and heart.

Over the past 29 years, I am also deeply proud that many women who have walked this path have gone both far and deep. With that depth, our collective consciousness has risen. Worldwide.

Today, as we enter the Chinese New Year, I find myself reflecting on our long-standing connections with China and on the wisdom that has shaped this journey.

I remember one of our speakers and my Chinese Qi Gong master, Bi Sung , once telling me:
“If you wish to increase your consciousness, there are two things you must do: – Meditate. – And serve the world with your heart.”

Her words have stayed with me.

It is not enough to educate and empower; we must cultivate inner connection and stillness.
And it is not enough to meditate in solitude; we must bring our awakened heart into service.
Inner cultivation and outer contribution belong together.

A Shift in the Field
In recent weeks, I have held several women’s circles, a deeper evolution of the Mobilizing Women meetings.

I have such passion for coming together again.

Because unlike earlier years, when my conversations about consciousness or spiritual intelligence were met with skepticism, something has shifted.

I have always believed in wholeness: integrating inner and outer, feminine and masculine, body and soul. To transform systems, we must become the solution.

There were moments when I felt out of place in a world that prized intellect and competition, while WIN also stood for collaboration, harmony, and a whole-systems view. The integration of the two.

Today, I sense readiness.

A longing for luminous leadership. For deeper connection to Earth, to one another, and to what lies beyond us.

What a moment. […]Read the full article on LinkedIn here
An Open Letter to Spiritual & Harmonic Leaders: From Outrage to Harmonic ActionHow Awakening Leaders Respond to a Fractured WorldBy Julie KrullPicture on MediumNote to the reader:
This letter is written in a moment of collective reckoning and offered as a stabilizing response for those committed to healing without collapse. As evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris often reminded us, humanity appears to be moving from a long adolescence into an early adulthood as a species. This letter is written from — and for — that developmental threshold.



Dear leaders, teachers, practitioners, and stewards of the future —
Beloved Imaginal Souls,

We are living in a time of exposure. Not just of individuals, but of systems.

Not just of behavior, but of underlying architectures of power, silence, and complicity.

What was once hidden is surfacing. What was once tolerated is being questioned. What was once “just how things work” is no longer holding. This is not merely a political or cultural reckoning. It is a developmental threshold — one that asks something deeper of us as a species.

This is not a moment for spiritual bypass.
Nor is it a moment for outrage or moral theater.
It is a moment for adult consciousness.

First: We Feel, Then We Regulate
Before we respond, we allow ourselves to feel. Shock, grief, anger, outrage, betrayal, fear — these are natural and necessary human responses when harm and corruption are exposed. Feeling them does not make us reactive; denying them does.

There are moments when anger is appropriate. When outrage signals a moral boundary. When grief tells the truth about what has been lost. These emotions are not evidence of weakness. They are evidence that our hearts are awake.

But feeling is not the same as leading from dysregulation.

Harmonic leadership begins when we learn to hold the tension of the opposites:
to feel deeply and remain steady,
to honor emotion and stay coherent,
to allow intensity without being overtaken by it.

We take care of ourselves responsibly. We ground in the body. We breathe. We slow perception. We allow sensation to move — without collapsing into it or acting it out unconsciously. Because dysregulated leadership amplifies chaos. Reactive leadership fragments the field.

Coherence is not emotional numbness. It is the capacity to stay present with what is real. And coherence is not a preference — it is infrastructure.

Second: We Center Harm Without Losing Humanity
Harm is real. Those harmed matter. Their dignity, safety, and healing must not be sacrificed to preserve reputations, institutions, or comfort.

Justice is not anti-love. Consequences are not unspiritual. Boundaries are not duality.
At the same time, compassion does not require denial, and accountability does not require dehumanization. Withdrawing support is not exiling a soul. Naming harm is not hatred. Refusing alignment is not cruelty.

Mature systems protect the vulnerable and preserve humanity. […]Read the full article on Medium here
The Natural Order of the Universe is Wholeness and UnityUnitive Consciousness is Our Archetypal Inheritance
By Bob Atkinson

To realize the preconditions necessary for bringing about the unity of the human family, we need to see the big picture of why this is our origin and our destiny.

Unity is the glue maintaining the wholeness-in-motion of all things. At the mystic heart of all sacred traditions – and now at the leading edge of the latest scientific findings – is the knowledge that a hidden thread of wholeness connects and unites all things in existence. Love is the underlying force of Creation.There is an inherent unity to the Universe. All the planets in the sky above have been created to be in perfect alignment with each other. All the cells and organs in the human body have been created to be in perfect alignment with each other. These macro and micro levels were designed to fit perfectly together expressing harmony, balance, and unity.

All things came into being through the supreme attractive force of Love. All of Creation is a sacred wholeness-in-motion, the embodiment of Love-in-action. The cause of the existence of the entire Creation is Love-in-action, the force that maintains unity throughout.

From its inception, an archetypal unity pervaded the entire Cosmos. This original wholeness was the essence of the Cosmos, with all beings emerging out of the same elemental substance, bound together by the same power of attraction.

This attractive force of unity manifests coherence between all atoms of the component parts of Creation, from mineral to vegetable to the animal kingdom and beyond, as expressed in the love emanating from the human heart. […]Read the full article on Substack here
Artificial Intelligence, Human Stupidity, and Weapons of Mass DistractionBy Anodea JudithIf animals could talk, I sometimes wonder what they might have said as humans made their late arrival to the evolutionary party.

“Hey, there’s this new species,” Bear says. “They walk on two feet and have really big brains. They use tools and complex language. They can figure things out we can’t even begin to understand.”

Fox flicks his tail. “And they’re spreading fast. Soon they’ll be everywhere.”

Horse, ever hopeful, offers, “Maybe they’re here to help the rest of us survive and prosper.”

Cow chews thoughtfully. “Or maybe they’re going to round us up for food.”

History suggests Cow had the better instincts.

Fast-forward a blink of evolutionary time, and now it’s our turn to whisper nervously around the fire.

“There’s this new intelligence,” the pundits say. “It learns faster than we do. It writes, paints, diagnoses disease, drives cars, predicts wars. It may cure cancer. It may end jobs. It may save us. It may replace us.”

Will artificial intelligence be our savior or our demise?

And beneath that question, a quieter one:
Is AI really the problem — or is human stupidity the greater threat?


Every Advantage Has a Shadow

Every technology offers an advantage.
Guns over swords.
Chainsaws over axes.
Cars over walking.
Computers over memory.

Each leap makes life faster, easier, and more powerful, allowing us to do more with less.
And each leap carries consequences we conveniently ignore.

Guns are the leading cause of death in children in America.
Chainsaws leveled ancient forests in a generation.
Cars and planes contribute to climate catastrophe.
Screens connect us everywhere, yet leave us lonelier than ever.

It isn’t the tools themselves that betray us. It’s our failure to use them wisely. And that is a failure of human intelligence.

We wage wars that solve nothing.
We poison the ecosystems that feed us.
We ignore the rise of dictatorships until it’s too late.
We repeat the same historical mistakes with astonishing confidence.

From this perspective, humanity doesn’t look like the most intelligent species on Earth. But maybe stupidity isn’t the right word.

Maybe we’re just misinformed. […]Read the full article here
On the Concept of Paradigms and a New Paradigm for Evolving Cooperative SystemsBy David Sloan Wilson Our 21st-century crises are rooted in outdated, individualistic paradigms. A new complexity and evolution-based paradigm can better guide science, policy, and collective action.

How we act upon the world depends upon how we conceptualize the world. Life is far too complex to pay attention to everything.  Instead, our ideas draw our attention to a tiny slice of reality and process this information in ways that “make sense;” in other words, that help us to survive and thrive in the world to which we are so largely blind. 

The multiple crises facing the world today are therefore symptoms of a crisis taking place inside our heads. Our ideas are failing us. Perhaps they served us better in the past, or served at least some of us, but now they seem poised to bring about the ruin of us all.
It’s not just a matter of good or bad intentions. Even the best-intentioned person can behave ruinously based on ideas that “made sense” to them but didn’t happen to play out as intended in the real world. Such a person is like the character of a folk tale who is granted a wish and ends up regretting what they wished for. 

The phrase “new paradigm” is often used to convey the need for a way of thinking that is truly different and not just a nudging of current ways of thought. Yet, the concept of paradigms is notoriously fuzzy, and even people who are highly aligned in their good intentions differ in their articulation of what “the” new paradigm might be. If the concept of a new paradigm becomes too pluralistic, then the word paradigm loses its meaning. 

This essay has two goals: The first is to provide an operational definition of the word “paradigm” that captures the idea of multiple sets of ideas guiding action. My second goal is to identify both an old paradigm that needs to be shed and a new paradigm that needs to be adopted. I see this in broad historical terms as a transition from the individualism and reductionism of past centuries to the holism and interactionism of the 21st century. 

The overall tone of my essay is optimistic. There really is a new way of thinking that has emerged over roughly the last 50 years, which can help us navigate the world much better than older patterns of thought. The new paradigm is not something we need to search for or bring about in the future. It already exists for a sizeable community of thinkers and doers—although this community is a tiny fraction of those who need to know about it. Hence, the urgent need is to catalyze something that is already in progress. […]Read the full article here
A Little Love Letter to CommunityLet’s fire up this horse year with truth-full compassion
By Shilpa JainFeb 14, 2026Dear Beloved Community,


Buckle up my friends; it’s that time again. The Lunar New Year is nearly upon us, and this time around, it suggests a doozy of change.

We are moving from a very intense 2025 Yin Wood Snake year — where the energetic impulse was ‘to shed [and] find intimacy in what is dying’ — into a yet-to-be-known 2026 Yang Fire Horse year, which ‘powers revolutions fated by the stars’ (according to the wisdom of my friend and artist Kylie Tseng; see her incredible images below).
This love letter is for both of us, you and me. I am sending it from my tender heart to yours, so we can prepare to hold each other for what lies ahead. I’ve been praying that this Fire Horse year will not be a fire hose year. Regardless, I know I’ll be needing you as much as ever, and I want you to know you can count on me, too. That’s what community love is all about, in my humble opinion.

As this year comes to a close, I have been feeling the impacts of the shedding of old worldviews and institutions. Whether seen in the DOGE-ing that kicked us in the gut at the top of the year, or in the ceaselessly violent ‘cease-fire’ in Gaza, or in the funding of a few billionaires’ tax cuts over healthcare and nutritional assistance for millions, or in the heinous cover-up of the Epstein scandal, or in the ICE goon squads that intensified these last months, I have felt that snake shedding its skin almost daily. The thin veneer of civility and progress has systematically been pulled off, and the depth and breadth of the pervasive sicknesses of greed, hatred, and separation have been revealed.

Yet, even though so many moments of this last year have been horrifying and painful, I also think they have illuminated what matters most — love for each other, care for Mama Earth, truth and honesty, and standing up to stop injustice and violence — all while building up pathways of self-care, mutual aid, interconnected solidarity, and other kinds of kinship routes. I love that the ideology of ‘neighborism’ has emerged from the heart and soul of Minnesota’s people power — the sense that protecting the people around you, regardless of who they are and where they come from, is more valuable than anything else.* That feels like the intimacy that is most needed now. And, it is what I want to invite more of this year.


How can we take the released energy of truthfulness into the New Year with gusto? How can we continue to shed the veneer of separation and fold deeper into the intimacy of connection? How can heart-powered creativity be nurtured as a driving force of change? What does that look like for each of us, personally and collectively? And how can we hold each other in these revolutionary times?

Heart-powered revolutions have me thinking about compassion. I’ve written about the compass of compassion before, and I sense the invitations for empathy, forgiveness, curiosity, and stillness will continue to be helpful directions to explore. And yet, one of the things I’ve noticed recently is how compassion can get twisted into a form of avoidance, which then weakens the power of our communities. […]Read the full article on Substack here
Consciousness Was Never MysticalBy Anoop Kumar
Consciousness was never mystical.

It’s the only thing we have ever experienced.
What is truly mystical is the “physical” world – which, mysteriously, nobody has ever seemed to contact in the absence of consciousness.

Hmm….
Let’s straighten things out a bit and state what we know for sure.

We are conscious. Through consciousness we experience many things, including a “physical” world and a “physical” body. Neuroscience, physics, and tech are up to their necks in investigating these relationships.

What if healthcare caught up?
We would lose *nothing* of what we know today, yet also gain the wisdom of all traditions across time.
Not a bad deal.

That’s what we’re working on at Numocore.

We’re connecting the real problems/opportunities in healthcare, like cost, quality, payments, access, knowledge, healing, scale, blind spots, AI, and more with the theory that consciousness is fundamental and matter is its pattern.

Whoa Nelly! That’s a chasm and then some!
Don’t worry. We got this. There’s a bridge.

The bridge is the Numocore Core Models, which are five models of human nature subtle and rigorous enough to be grounded in the primacy of consciousness while also being practical enough to be applied to intractable healthcare problems.

We’ve taken two big steps so far.

(1) We’ve created a beta AI based on Anthropic’s Claude to start explaining the Core Models in such a way that executives, holistic practitioners (including doctors), policy wonks, and anyone else can appreciate what the primacy of consciousness looks like and how to apply it to healthcare. (No medical advice though. We’ll develop and partner with clinical teams to deploy that.) The focus is on understanding and building solutions, not meandering. You can get to know Numos here:
numocore.health/numos

(2) We’ve created a prototype of a new health system where you can watch videos on healing (and upload your insights about health, healing, and healthcare) and even book practitioners, all organized by the Core Models. This is early stage so we have a few videos and a couple amazing practitioners (please support them!). Play around and see how it works:
numocore.health

Healing is possible when we discover the pattern behind all healing. We believe that pattern starts with the primacy of consciousness and extends outward in an infinite tapestry of organized, understandable, customized modalities. Real personalized medicine that heals, scales affordably, and offers independence – that’s what Numocore is about.

Consciousness is playing an ever bigger role in healthcare, wellness, and public health – and as it does, all of these will merge. The trajectory is clear, irreversible, and accelerating.

Please check out the above pages and let us know:
*what’s good
*what needs improvement
*what’s missing
Thank you!
Healing is possible.
Find the Love Within the DarknessBy Clare Dubois

To everyone else out there that is also really struggling with the daily onslaught of toxic sludge that is Epstein’s legacy – a few offerings.

This does all have to come out. In the same way the the body needs to shake out its poisons and a mind needs to dissolve its conditioning in order to heal enough to create a new state of being (or in our case, a new world order) healing requires the toxic to be seen and alchemized in order for transformation to occur. This is what is happening now, and this simply has to happen so we’re going to need to hold each others hands on the journey, because the journey is asking to be made, and made by all of us.

Almost more than the truth itself – the fact of how the system protects its own sickness needs to be seen in all its gory. How the system itself is sick. This excruciating process seems to be what is needed for the world at large to finally be able to grok just how readily those in power protect others in power, as blatantly as simply redacting their names for all to see. The process literally screams ‘we are hiding the perpetrators’ and I (and many of us) just want to throw up.


With every corrupt move, the conscious awareness and light of the masses is pressing into the murk, is gathering its true power, no longer satisfied to simply look away, building a tidal wave of momentum that is our collective demand for transparency. It’s an energetic mechanism of presence and relentless focus that if wielded consciously is steadily going to lift the scabs off all these unhealed nightmarish wounds of inhumanness. The truth will out, because the truth is love, and love will not allow this darkness to stay hidden forever.

When addressing trauma, one does not try to manhandle it into a different shape, one sits inside the unbearable with as much presence, compassion, and love as possible, until the system becomes conscious of itself and begins to realign. One has to look fully into the face of the nightmare, with all the love one possesses, until one begins to find the love within the darkness. Until lostness starts to find itself found. Until the exile dissolves into belonging. Until the agony is met with enough understanding to let go of the clench.

That is alchemy.

That is actual transformation.

When whatever has been held in exile, separation, damnation, horror, self loathing, confusion and anguish is met with sufficient compassion and presence to begin to recognize something other within itself, that is the beginning of a path back into unity.

Somehow, on a daily basis, I am asking us all to sit with the full extent of our compassion and presence and feel what is asking to be felt. Feel what is being dragged up from the shadows. Feel these structures and patterns of behavior that have existed because separation has been sought and accomplished so completely through cruelty wearing so many different kinds of faces.

Separation is a lie, because beneath anything and everything you could ever experience that is the very worst of everything, Love still exists. It does. I know this from my own incredibly gritty experience.

Beneath it all, love still exists. Please, let’s hold each other there.Photo: Lake Baikal in Siberia, by Alexi Trofimov
Be Brave in LoveBy Christian Sorensen
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”  ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi, presidential address to the First Gujarat Political Conference, November 3, 1917


One aspect of living wholeheartedly is loving those around you freely and fully. This can be a challenge because we have all been wounded and hurt by love at one time or another. Rejection can be hard, and we are all rejected at some point as we search for those people who are ready for and can accept our love and appreciation. The key is in not allowing the pain of the past to lock up our hearts and pull us away from the power of connecting with others on a deep level.

We are called to be brave in love! We must be bold and daring! If you hold yourself back because of past hurts, you deny yourself the joy, connection, and passion you feel when you share who you are with someone who is ready to see and know you. Sometimes it takes courage to take that first step forward to speak your truth and share your heart. When you do this, you see that it is always worth sharing your love because when you are brave in love and share yourself freely, the gifts and blessings outweigh any pain the past may have held.

Spiritual Contemplation: Think about what experiences from your past may be holding you back from sharing your love fully and freely? How can you step out bravely to open to love in a new way?  

Affirmation: I bravely share my love with the world!
Personal Message: Continuing the 3-Year MiracleBy Patricia AlbereThree years ago, around this time, I shared with you that I was diagnosed with 4th-stage metastatic breast cancer that had moved into my pancreas, bones, and liver. After a period when it seemed the treatment wasn’t working, something shifted, and I began to feel better.
 
What first looked like a six-month life expectancy in January 2023 has now become over three years of miracles. A friend of mine called this period “An Unexpected Epilogue.”
 
With the treatment and prayers I’ve received, everyone — including my doctors — has been amazed at how much life and vitality I’ve had despite what my body has been going through. Each month and each year has felt like another expression of the miracle that I — and the Evolutionary Collective — have been living inside of.
 

Recently, however, the treatments have lost their effectiveness, and my body is showing signs that it is ready for a new reality. I’ve made the decision to stop further treatment and embrace the dying process (again). I’m considering this my graduation from being human (one can only hope).
 
There is a process and discovery unfolding about where things are going, and I want people to feel the excitement of that. I hope to share more in the coming weeks about the momentum we’re inside of and the future unfolding for the Evolutionary Collective and the larger world.
 
What feels most important to say right now is this: an evolutionary movement is underway, and it is very exciting.

Death itself carries a certain clarity. There is also an evolutionary clarity. When the world is at a particular threshold, something becomes vivid about what matters and how to draw closer to it.
 
In a world where so much competes for our attention, we are invited to ask what truly deserves it. We are not in an ordinary moment. We are in the midst of one of those times.
 
The most important question for such times is:
“How do we listen for and stay awake to where evolution is taking us?”
 
Because there is a positive possibility in where we are being led.
 
I don’t know how long I personally have on this planet. But as a teacher, I know this beautiful creation — the Evolutionary Collective — is real. A family and community of unity. What everyone is looking for, we actually have.
 
I feel assured that what has been built has true existence and will continue, whether I am physically here or not.
 
Many of you already know Carolyne Mathlin, our Executive Director. Carolyne is one of our senior Mutual Awakening Teachers and has worked closely with me for the past eight years.
 
Two years ago, Sherry Pae joined our team. She brings a lifetime of mastery at the intersection of medical expertise, holistic healing, and spiritual development. She was a Critical Care Nurse for over two decades before moving into alternative practice for more than 30 years. During that time, she co-founded and directed one of the country’s first Holistic Healing Centers, blending modern medicine with alternative healing approaches. She later served as a faculty member at the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, holding the position of Dean of Advanced Studies in both the United States and Europe, and Dean of the School in Europe. Her leadership has helped shape the future of healing and personal transformation.
 
I have complete confidence in Sherry and Carolyne’s ability to carry this work into its next evolution. You’ll be hearing more from them once I can no longer communicate with you directly.
 
No matter what happens to my body, I know that my Life continues from within shared unity. When the miracle of what was happening around me first became clear, I immediately thought, “I will live.” And it had nothing to do with my physical survival.
 
Thank you for being in this conversation and for being part of what is coming through to be known and lived by us now — and into the future.
 
In Unity All Ways, Always…
Patricia Albere
Evolutionary Collective Founder
Author of Evolutionary Relationships
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Metanoia and paranoia with Michael Grosso

New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove Feb 27, 2026 This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1988. It will remain public for only one week.  Michael Grosso was formerly an associate professor of philosophy and religion at Jersey City State College.  Dr. Grosso is author of The Final Choice: Playing the Survival Game. He suggests that the rising tide of near-death experiences, religious miracles, and other paranormal phenomena are, in effect, a message to humanity as a whole. That message suggests that, as a species, we must either achieve a new level of enlightened transcendence or face extinction. Now you can watch all of the programs from the original Thinking Allowed Video Collection, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove. Subscribe to the new Streaming Channel (https://thinkingallowed.vhx.tv/) and watch more than 350 programs now, with more, previously unreleased titles added weekly. Free month of the classic Thinking Allowed streaming channel for New Thinking Allowed subscribers only. Use code THINKFREELY.

The miracle and mystery of consciousness | Chasing Life

CNN Feb 27, 2026 Chasing Life Can modern science explain, or even define, the mystery of human consciousness? Dr. Sanjay Gupta sits down with writer Michael Pollan to talk about his new book, A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness, and explore the unmapped territory of our inner lives. 0:00 What is consciousness and where does it come from 1:23 Michael Pollan, author “A World Appears” 3:55 What is consciousness? 7:17 Deliberate life regulation 9:52 Flickers of awareness in plants 13:24 What does it mean for AI to replicate human consciousness? 16:39 Human brains are not computers 18:25 Where is consciousness located? 20:02 Appreciate what you have Watch more CNN here: https://cnn.it/4kh5RPe

Astronomers just watched a star 1,540 times the size of our sun transform into a hypergiant. Will it go supernova?

By Robert Lea published 2 days ago (Space.com)

“The future evolution of WOH G64 remains uncertain.”

An illustration of an orange sphere in space surrounded by a gray ring of material.
An illustration of WOH G64’s binary system surrounded by a dense ring of dust. (Image credit: Daniel Cea Martinez)

Astronomers have witnessed one of our universe’s biggest stars transforming into a rare stellar body, and the dramatic metamorphosis may be the prequel to a powerful supernova explosion that sees this star birth a black hole.

The doomed star in question is WOH G64 (also known as IRAS 04553–6825), located in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way known as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), around 163,000 light-years away. The star is around 1,540 times the size of the sun, with almost 30 times the mass of our star and a staggering 282,000 times its brightness. Discovered in the 1970s, WOH G64 has always appeared to be a red supergiant star surrounded by a ring, or torus, of dense dust.

However, in 2014, the appearance of this supergiant began to change. A team of astronomers, led by Gonzalo Muñoz-Sanchez at the National Observatory of Athens, noticed the star’s color changing along with a corresponding increase in its surface temperature. Muñoz-Sanchez and colleagues determined this must represent the transformation of a red supergiant into a rare yellow hypergiant, which could also mean astronomers are witnessing a star “die” in real time.You may like

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“The fate of stars with initial masses between 23 and 30 solar masses after evolving into red supergiants is still uncertain. In this case, WOH G64 was the most extreme red supergiant known, with an estimated mass of around 28 solar masses,” Muñoz-Sanchez told Space.com. “It remains unclear whether such stars explode as supernovas, collapse directly into black holes, or evolve from the red supergiant phase into a yellow hypergiant stage before ending their lives. “WOH G64 might be the solution to this question.”

The team’s results represent the first evidence that an extreme stellar object can change its temperature and evolve from red to yellow in the span of a year — and in a smooth, silent manner at that.

“This is especially surprising because rapid changes in stars are typically associated with violent or abrupt processes,” Muñoz-Sanchez continued.

That wasn’t all the team discovered about this immense star, however. The scientists also found that WOH G64 isn’t alone.

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Live fast, die young … but not alone

At just 5 million years old, WOH G64 is a cosmic youngster in comparison to other stars such as our middle-aged, 4.6-billion-year-old sun, so it may seem a touch cosmically unjust that it is facing the end of its life. This is the case because massive stars such as this “live fast and die young,” burning through their fuel supply needed for nuclear fusion more rapidly than modestly sized stars.

Though this short life span is true for all massive stars, the end stages of the lives of these stellar titans aren’t quite so certain. For instance, not all red supergiants shed their outer layers as their cores contract to become yellow hypergiants.

“Yellow hypergiants are extremely rare because they represent a short-lived transitional phase between the red supergiant stage and the eventual supernova explosion,” Muñoz-Sanchez said. “Consequently, only a small number of confirmed yellow hypergiants are currently known, amounting to just a few tens of objects.”You may like

For this yellow hypergiant transformation to happen, a massive star needs a stellar wind that is strong enough to strip away an outer envelope of previously shed stellar material, a process that drives up its temperature. However, only the brightest red supergiants can drive outflows of material powerful enough to trigger this transitional phase that leads eventually to the death of the star.

On the left, an illustration of a red supergiant star that looks like a red angry ball. On the right, an illustration of a yellow hypergiant that looks like a smoother, yellow sphere.
Artist’s impression of two faces of WOH G64: a red supergiant from its discovery up to 2013 and a binary with yellow hypergiant and a hot star from 2014. (Image credit: Patryk Iwanek/OGLE)

The team also found that the huge star actually is part of a binary system, existing with a companion star. This complicates the potential cause of its transformation if the main star is greedily dragging matter from its companion.

“Binary interactions may also play a crucial role in the formation of yellow hypergiants,” Muñoz-Sanchez said. “If mass transfer or envelope stripping occurs in a binary system, the envelope of a red supergiant can be partially removed, potentially driving its evolution toward the yellow temperatures.”

The researcher continued by explaining that in a binary-driven scenario, which sees the evolution of the star caused by interactions with its companion, the binary system would have been embedded in a common envelope, a cocoon of gas surrounding both stars that made it appear as a red supergiant. The partial ejection of this envelope would then reveal the two stars.

“Alternatively, even though the system is binary, the transition may have been driven by intrinsic stellar processes. In this case, the star may have undergone an extraordinary eruptive episode lasting more than 30 years and is now returning to a yellow, quiescent state,” Muñoz-Sanchez added. “Both possibilities are extremely rare, and witnessing either occur on human timescales is nearly unprecedented.”

Thus, the team does not yet know whether its evolution is a consequence of interactions between WOH G64 and its binary stellar companion or if the metamorphosis is intrinsic to the star itself.

“Recent observations suggest that some of the other extreme red supergiants may also be in binary systems,” Muñoz-Sanchez explained. “Understanding whether the extreme properties of these stars arise from their intrinsic nature or from binary interactions is crucial for studying the populations of evolved massive stars, predicting their deaths, and interpreting the supernovas they produce, phenomena that are still not fully understood.”

And understanding the binary nature of WOH G64 isn’t just key to understanding its life; these details are integral to its death, too.

The continued exchange of mass between the stars could lead to their collision and the merger of the two components. However, if interactions between the stars are slight or non-existent, the main star would evolve toward core collapse, ultimately resulting in either a supernova explosion or direct collapse into a black hole. “In astronomical terms, WOH G64 appears to be a highly evolved system, and it is possible that it could undergo core collapse ‘soon.’ In this context, ‘soon’ corresponds to a timescale ranging from a hundred to a few thousand years,” Muñoz-Sanchez said. “Such an event would be extraordinary, it remains highly unlikely that it will occur within our lifetime.

Although, of course, we are not even sure that this star will explode as a supernova.”

A paper about these results was published on Monday (Feb. 23) in the journal Nature.

Robert Lea

Robert Lea

Senior Writer

Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University. Follow him on Twitter @sciencef1rst.

The Astrology of March 2026 – Saturn Sextile Pluto

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In March 2026, we are in full swing of eclipse season. On March 3rd, we have a Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo, bringing culminations, adjustments, and very real-world consequences.

At the same time, we are still integrating the Saturn-Neptune conjunction at 0° Aries from February – the reset that marked the official beginning of a new era.

And yet, while the new era has technically begun, we are still processing the previous one. Pisces energy is still strong in March, with several planets lingering in the last sign of the zodiac.

This creates a very particular atmosphere – part closurepart ignition. We are standing with one foot in the ocean of the past, and the other already on dry land.

… then at the equinox, things heat up quickly – on March 20th, 2026, we have a rare concentration of 6 planets in Aries.

Later this month, we have an exact Saturn-Sextile Pluto.

saturn sextile pluto

But let’s take a look at the most important transits of the month:

March 3, 2026 – Full Moon And Total Lunar Eclipse in Virgo

On March 3rd, 2026, we have a Full Moon and Total Lunar Eclipse at 12° Virgo.

This is a South Node Eclipse, bringing to culmination themes that have been running in the background. In Virgo, this can show up as outdated systems, perfectionist habits, or responsibilities that no longer make sense in the context of where we are heading.

The Eclipse is sextile Jupiter, so despite the usual intensity associated with eclipse season, there is support available. There is a bigger framework that makes the adjustments easier to understand.

Not everything that ends is a loss – some things simply need to be reorganized.

March 6th, 2026 – Venus Enters Aries, Venus Conjunct Neptune And Saturn

On March 6th, 2026, Venus enters Aries, and from this moment on, it’s action time.

Venus is the first personal planet to activate 0° Aries, the point where Saturn and Neptune met in February – giving us a more personal taste of that larger reset.

On February 20th, Saturn and Neptune planted a seed. Now, when the personal planets start crossing that degree, we begin to understand what that seed actually means for us, personally. The collective shift becomes individualized.

And when we talk Venus, we talk values – what matters to us, what we desire, what we are willing to invest energy in.

Out of all the possibilities that have opened up, what truly resonates? What feels aligned with who we are now, not who we used to be? What does not only sound good on paper, but actually feels right?

March 7th, 2026 – Sun Conjunct Mercury

On March 7th, 2026, the Sun is conjunct Mercury retrograde at 16° Pisces, marking the beginning of a brand new Mercury cycle which sets the direction for the next 3-4 months.

The Sun-Mercury conjunction – like any conjunction – is a seed moment. It’s that “chemical reaction” where 2 planets come together and initiate something new. With the Sun and Mercury, this points to a new cycle of clarity around identity and purpose.

This conjunction also trines its ruler Jupiter, now at 15° Cancer, which adds support and coherence to the process.

If you have a project in mind – something related to your purpose, healing, improving relationships, or simply bringing a new idea into the world – this new Mercury cycle is especially supportive. The soil is receptive, and the timing is constructive.

March 11th, 2026 – Jupiter Goes Direct

On March 11th, 2026, Jupiter stations direct at 15° Cancer. From this point onwards, Jupiter will move forward quite quickly through Cancer, entering Leo already at the end of June.

We have 4 more months of Jupiter in the sign of its exaltation. This month, the planets in Pisces apply trines, one by one, to Jupiter, creating flow and support and helping things move forward more naturally.

Let’s enjoy it while it lasts.

March 14th-17th, 2026 – Mercury Conjunct Mars Conjunct North Node

Between March 14th and March 17th, we have a powerful triple conjunctionMercury retrograde and Mars both activate the North Node, now at 8° Pisces. On March 15th we have the exact Mercury-Mars conjunction at 9-10° Pisces.

When the planet of the mind (Mercury) meets the planet of action (Mars), we not only think or talk about something – we act on it. We say what we mean. We walk the talk. We go for it.

And when we go for it, we don’t just go in any direction. With the North Node involved, the focus is aligned with where we are meant to grow, with the path of our destiny.

March 19th, 2026 – New Moon In Pisces

On March 19th, 2026, we have an auspicious New Moon at 28° Pisces. The New Moon is conjunct Neptune and Saturn (now in the early degrees of Aries) and is exactly sextile Uranus in Taurus.

This New Moon can help us see how exactly we can bring a dream – or something we never thought would actually materialize – into reality, in one way or another.

The outcome may not be exactly how we originally imagined it. Saturn and Neptune are now in Aries, so the expression is different from the Pisces version of the dream.

But it will nevertheless be an expression of something authentic, something that has been building for a long time and is now ready to take form in a more concrete way.

March 20th, 2026 – Sun Enters Aries

On March 20th, 2026, the Sun enters Aries. Happy birthday to all Aries out there – and happy new astrological year to everyone!

Just like Venus earlier in the month, soon after entering Aries the Sun will conjunct both Neptune (on March 21st) and Saturn (exact on March 25th).

Now we’re talking. THIS is the real beginning of a new cycle – a new hero or heroine’s journey.

The Sun’s ingress into Aries marks that threshold moment when we shift from waiting for things to happen “out there” to making things happen ourselves.

Aries in general – and particularly 0° Aries – carries that primordial ignition energy, generating incredible momentum. This is pure birth energy!

March 20th and the days that follow are particularly important for articulating and gaining clarity around your purpose. This is a time to make a commitment. From this point onwards, there’s no turning back to the old version of you.

March 21st, 2026 – Mercury Goes Direct

On March 21st, 2026, Mercury goes direct at 8° Pisces, clearing some of the mist that always gathers in the last sign of the zodiac.

But if we are really honest, sometimes we like getting lost in the fog. Call it daydreaming, creative wandering, or simply taking some time off – and “off” is a very Mercury-in-Pisces word.

Sometimes we need that silence, that drifting, that space where things are not sharply defined, in order to reconnect with ourselves and what actually matters.

As Mercury moves forward again, the insights gathered during the retrograde begin to crystallize. What was vague starts to make more sense.

March 26th, 2026 – Venus Conjunct Chiron In Aries

On March 26th, 2026, Venus is conjunct Chiron at 25° Aries, reminding us where there is still healing to be done, where there is still acceptance needed around the “I am.”

But we have come a long way. In the past 7 years, while Chiron has been in Aries, every single year we have gained a little more self-understanding, a little more courage to stand in who we are.

Believe it or not, this is the very last Venus-Chiron conjunction in Aries, at least for the next 43 years or so.

Venus conjunct Chiron will bring one final breakthrough in how we relate to ourselves – and a deeper recognition that we are enough as we are.

March 28th, 2026 – Saturn Sextile Pluto

On March 28th, 2026, Saturn (at 5° Aries) is exactly sextile Pluto (at 5° Aquarius). This is a subtle, yet constructive transit suggesting that deeper structural changes are starting to gain practical support.

Saturn brings discipline and implementation. Pluto brings systemic transformation. The sextile between them suggests that the world may begin putting some operational plumbing in place.

Conversations around infrastructure – perhaps something connected to energy, systems, or strategic alliances – could start moving from idea to execution.

This is not loud or dramatic. But it is functional. And sometimes that is exactly what is needed for real change to take hold.

March 30th, 2026 – Venus Enters Taurus

On March 30th, 2026, Venus enters her sign of domicile, Taurus.

Picture Aphrodite in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon – pure, effortless beauty rooted in nature.

Even if we do not naturally connect with Venus from this more earthy, sensual angle – and that depends, of course, on our own natal chart wiring and current transits – every time Venus is in Taurus, the atmosphere shifts a little bit.

The world feels a little more grounded, a little more tangible, and a little more beautiful.

Aspects And Aspect Patterns 1-Year Program

On March 3rd, 2026 – yes, at the Lunar Eclipse sextile Jupiter – we are starting our 1-year course on Aspects and Aspect Patterns.

Aspects are the connective tissue of the chart – what brings the different parts of the chart to life. Aspects are the most real and tangible part of astrology, because aspects are nothing else but the movements of the planets in the sky.

The Astro Butterfly blog – the transit report – is simply a snapshot of the aspects planets make with each other in a given period of time, in this case one month.

And our natal chart is nothing else but a picture of the sky at the time of our birth, when planets were configured in particular aspects with each other.

When we understand how planets communicate with each other through aspects, 3 important things happen:

  1. We understand ourselves better. All our internal conflicts in life come from the fact that there are parts of us – parts of our psyche – that don’t fully understand each other. When we understand our aspects – properly, not with Google or computer-generated reports – we begin to see how those parts are wired together. We find acceptance. We find wholeness. We start fully living.
  2. We understand the world better. We begin to see how the energies of the moment are a reflection of the dance of the planets in the sky through aspects. With time, life becomes less of a mystery. We understand that events are part of larger cycles, and that everything fits into a broader framework.
  3. And most importantly, when inner understanding meets outer reality, we find alignment. We understand how we are meant to participate. We find our place in the world.

Astrology is one of the most wonderful tools for awareness and growth when we use it properly.

Aspects And Aspect Patterns is a 1-year journey into the language of aspects and aspect patterns – how they shape who we are, how they show up in the world around us, and how understanding them helps us live in alignment with both.

You can learn more about the program and enroll here:

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‘It doesn’t lie. So who are you?’: What happens when DNA tests show a woman is not the mother of the child she gave birth to?

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Lise Barnéoud

Fri, February 27, 2026 (Yahoo.com)

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What happens if a DNA test is incorrect? In 2002, a woman’s DNA test revealed she wasn’t the mother of the two children she gave birth to. . | Credit: skaman306/Getty Images

DNA is often considered the ultimate indicator of our identity — a foolproof way to determine our origins and how we connect to our parents and previous generations of our family. But in this excerpt from “Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity” (Greystone Books, 2025), author and science journalist Lise Barnéoud explores an unusual case that exposes the limitations of DNA testing, when a maternity test suggested a woman was not the mother of the children she gave birth to.


Lydia Fairchild was 26 years old when she applied for welfare benefits to help her raise her two children on her own. As part of the application process, she had to undergo a maternity test. A few weeks later, she was called into a meeting with social services, where they accused her of not being the mother of her children.

“At first, I kind of laughed … But they were serious. I could just see the seriousness in their faces,” Fairchild said. “DNA is 100% foolproof, and it doesn’t lie,” a social worker told her. “So who are you?”

At first, Fairchild was suspected of attempting to defraud the welfare system by inventing children. The state prosecutor launched an investigation and quickly confirmed that two children did indeed live with her. Could she have kidnapped them? Fairchild showed them photographs of herself pregnant. Her mother, her children’s father, and her obstetrician all testified to the fact that she had given birth.

Could she be a surrogate mother who kept the children she’d carried? After three hearings in court, Fairchild feared the worst. “Every day it felt like it was going to be the last day I’d see them,” she tearfully recounted. “I called every lawyer in the phone book. None of them believed me. It was my word against DNA. It was me against everyone.”

Fairchild was pregnant with her third child at the time, and the judge asked that both mother and child be tested immediately after birth. And the impossible happened: Fairchild’s third child, just emerged from her womb, was not her son either — genetically speaking.

At last, a lawyer agreed to help her. Alan Tindell asked Fairchild about her life, her relationships with her siblings, and her relationship with the father of her children. “Given her answers, I finally decided to believe her,” Tindell explained. He soon came across a scientific article describing Karen Keegan’s case and contacted the team in Boston to ask them to examine Fairchild. They first tested Fairchild’s blood, but they found only one cell type, just as they had for Karen Keegan. They moved on to cells from her skin, hair, and cheek: still nothing.

We know too little about our own biology to have blind faith that DNA profiling will always reveal a person’s identity or origins.

Lise Barnéoud, Hidden Guests

Until the day they performed a cervical smear. There, they found cells with a different DNA, a DNA that matched Fairchild’s children as well as her mother. They concluded that the second DNA must have come from a vanished twin sister. Fairchild could finally breathe. But how would her story have ended without Karen Keegan?

The oft-taught equation of “one individual, one genome” fails to capture the full complexity of reality. What seemed a long-established and unshakable certainty, even to me, has turned out to be imperfect knowledge in need of revision. We know too little about our own biology to have blind faith that DNA profiling will always reveal a person’s identity or origins.

Our ultimate proof is far from foolproof. Yet it is very often used to determine relationships, prove or disprove paternity, evaluate applications for family reunification, or convict persons otherwise presumed innocent. “The overriding assumption in such circumstances is that a sample that fails to confirm genetic kinship is an indication of fraud, regardless of other substantiations of legitimate kinship relations,” observes the British philosopher Margrit Shildrick, one of the few scholars to examine the social and legal consequences of microchimerism.

Why is some scientific knowledge so hastily dressed up as infallible truth? Do we not dwell enough on our own ignorance? And why do some fields of knowledge remain frozen by skepticism, even when new discoveries should allow us to dispel our doubts? The sociology of science has its work cut out for it.

It’s impossible to know how many Karen Keegans and Lydia Fairchilds exist. Most of the time, the existence of chimeric cells from vanished twins goes unnoticed. If Keegan had not needed a kidney transplant, if Fairchild had not applied for welfare benefits, they never would have known that their gametes were “occupied” by cells other than their own.

Their children or grandchildren might have eventually discovered that a branch in their family tree appeared to be missing, that they had somehow inherited genes that neither of their parents possessed.

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DNA tests may be more error prone than we want to believe. | Credit: Westend61/Getty Images

Today, we know of about a dozen cases of this phenomenon, known as germ-line chimerism: where chimeric cells are present in the tissues that form eggs or sperm. One such case involved an American man who learned through a paternity test that he could not be the father of his child, who was conceived via assisted reproduction. He was preparing to sue the clinic, believing himself to be the victim of a semen mix-up, when a more precise test revealed that he in fact shared 25% of his DNA with the child. In other words, he was the child’s uncle, genetically speaking.

Further research showed that 10% of his sperm contained DNA from a vanished twin brother. “One of the most impactful consequences of this case study is to point out that some traditional paternity tests which have resulted in negative outcomes (the tested parent was excluded as the biological parent) may have been wrong, because the alleged parent may have undiagnosed chimerism,” stress the researchers who chronicled his case.

Given the increasing use of these tests, it is likely that the paternity of other fathers has been wrongly contested. This is precisely the scenario depicted in the French TV series “Nona et ses filles,” which aired in 2021. Nona, played by 70-year-old actress Miou-Miou, is pregnant when a genetic test reveals that her lover, André, cannot be the father of her child. They eventually learn that one of André’s testicles contains sperm from a vanished twin brother. In the words of André, as he attempts to parse his situation, “So he’s my nephew … but he’s also my son.”


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Hidden Guests: Migrating Cells and How the New Science of Microchimerism Is Redefining Human Identity

Part mind-bending medical mystery — part cutting-edge science — “Hidden Guests” uncovers the astonishing phenomenon of microchimerism: the presence of foreign cells inside our own bodies. The incredible story of how those cells got there—and what they do once they arrive — might change everything we know about the immune system, lineage, and identity.

(Contributed by Marty Owens)

Virgo Eclipse March 3rd 2026: Compassion Needs Discernment

Bryan Colter Astrology Feb 26, 2026 If you want a personal birth chart reading with me or to explore my classes, check the links below. Bryan Colter Astrology School and Readings – https://bryancolter.com/ In this video, I explore the Virgo Blood Moon Eclipse of March 3rd, 2026 through the lens of evolutionary astrology. This is not just an eclipse about release. It is a profound confrontation between discernment and distortion, criticism and compassion, and polarity consciousness versus unity consciousness. Although this is called a Virgo eclipse, the sky is saturated with Pisces energy — making this lunation especially potent around themes of: compassion without discernment discernment without heart confusion, fog, and manipulated narratives fear consciousness and hypercriticism spiritual purification and inner clarity the cultivation of the spiritual warrior In this talk, I explore both the collective and personal meaning of this eclipse, including how these energies may be showing up in the world right now — and how they may be operating in your own subconscious patterns, emotional habits, and nervous system. I also share practical ways to work with this eclipse consciously, including: introspective meditation spiritual detox and purification strengthening discernment without losing compassion becoming less reactive, less programmable, and more inwardly coherent If this video resonates, be sure to like, subscribe, and share it with someone who may need it.

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