The awesome energy and vision of Jean Houston was evident in her passionate presentation today at the LOHAS conference in Boulder, Colorado.  Her capacity to express herself in cosmic metaphors staggers the mind.  As Ted Ning, the LOHAS conference director, commented, "listening to Jean is like attempting to take a sip from a fire hose."

Her challenge to all of us is to step into the fullness of our biological and spiritual design as human beings. 

"These are mythic times of transformation on Planet Earth and we are the mything (sic) link. It is up to humans to embrace our creative capacity to bring balance and harmony back into our communities and our way of being in the world. Jean Houston has researched creative change makers for decades and found that they all embody the ability to "marinate" in their own imaginations, pondering the possible. She went on to say: "They are excellent spelunkers of their own creativity." Her enthusiasm and passion launches her into many rapid fire quotes, practically jumping across the universe from Goethe to Joseph Campbell.  


Of course, she took issue with Joseph Campbell's insistence that there are no Heroine Journeys', only the Heroes Journey, which was very popular with the women in the audience. She went on to share some fascinating research from 107 countries. It is women who are on the forefront of making things work in their communities. In fact, it is a specific subset of women. She called this phenomenon as "Post-Menapausal Zing." These findings are consistent with research from the Micro Finance world, unfortunately for men, they have found that money given to men in the developing world is often squandered on alcohol or consumer goods that have nothing to do with the sustainability of their communities. In Jean's research 70 to 80% of all activity that sustains a community is being done by women. She reassured the men in the audience that the clarity of masculine energy can be engaged to restore the biosphere in partnership with women.  She emphasized it is not about the "rise of women," it is about designing a whole new culture of kindness.

www.youtube.com/watch Here Jean Houston speaks briefly about the Possible Human.

She touched a resonant nerve with Marc Barasch, a LOHAS Forum attendee, who launched his own Green World Campaign, based upon his dreams. The Axis Mundi image of the Tree of Life connecting Heaven and Earth awakening a passion for manifesting and bringing forth into the world our most cherished ideals. 



Her parting words inspired the audience to a standing ovation when she encouraged everyone to allow our personal liberation to embrace our inventiveness. She believes the Earth is desperately needing the "possible human" to emerge into the "possible society" and create an entirely new civilization. Everyone alive today is born for these times.



Let's step up to the challenge, the Earth is eager for all of us to wake up.

Onward with Courage.

Bud Wilson was a student-athlete-activist during the tumultuous era at Harvard University and emerged with an interdisciplinary degree combining, child development, innovative education and urban social policy.  He the Global Director of Bio-Regional Leadership and an awareness instructor and wilderness guide for Sacred Passage and The Way of Nature. Bud has devoted his passion and energy to raising awareness (including his own) and shifting human consciousness to appreciate that we are all living in an interdependent, interconnected world where there is more than enough for all of humanity to live in peace and harmony. A proud dad of 2 wonderful grown children!