I believe evolutionary leaders
and leadership
is the most important movement
now happening on planet earth.
And what an evolutionary leader is,
in the deeper sense of it is picking 
up the impulse of creation
that's been going through for billions 
and billions of years, from no thing at all
to create energy, matter, life,
animal life, human life.
And now human life has hit
a crisis point.
And it's the first time in the
history of any species
where  a species becomes aware
of its own evolution,
and becomes aware that by its own 
actions it's affecting its own evolution,
and the negative signals are it  could affect its
evolution to the detriment of life on earth.
Or... it could use its power of
consciousness, creativity and innovation,
and science and technology to evolve
the whole world equal to our deepest intention.
And an evolutionary leader wherever
they may be, is one motivated like that.
And it's a new category...
And in my understanding
of evolutionary leaders,
because every field is experiencing emergence
as well as breakdown of old structures,
whether it be the religious structures,
the corporate structures,
the university structures, political structures,
within every one of those fields
there is emerging leadership,
innovation, creativity...
and they have certain qualities
in common.
I don't think we've ever brought ourselves
together to see what are the qualities
that make one capable of attuning
to what yet hasn't happened;
to feel such an enormous hope about it;
and even more than just hope,
feel a genuine yearning to participate
the whole way in giving your gift...
and a passion to express your
unique part of the whole.
And the evolutionary leaders
are a first collection
that was brought together by
Dianne Williams and a couple of other people,
and Emily has played a very
strong role in this....
Dianne's organization brought us together,
Deepak Chopra was the first person
to collectively invite us,
we went down to La Costa, we had
an amazing time,
and there we all were,
we found each other.
Because almost every evolutionary
leader has been a pioneer on their own.
And the yearning for community
and communion and fellowship
among people who are stepping forward
out of every single field that we have,
almost always being pioneers and not fully
recognizing that there's a connectivity
on all those pioneers...
And perhaps  the evolutionary leaders - not
perhaps, IT IS  the first I have ever been with
as one of those pioneers as a whole,
where every single person
in that room is motivated
by his passion to express unique life purpose
on behalf of the evolution of something.
One time recently...one of my
passions is mapping and tracking.
I like to map; so I had a little morning
session and the idea was -
that each one of these leaders would
have to stand up...
It was very hard for us to get together
because we're all leaders.
The first thing I said, "Let's go around...." there
were maybe 50 people, 40 people in the room
and Steve and Diane were  sitting
next to me on a computer.
If each person would just stand up briefly...
it's sort of  what we were talking about.
- Tell me your name?
- Lynn
Lynn - what gives voice to the passion that's
motivating you to give your life -
for something that's emergent; and could
you state in one minute what that is?
We went around one after the other
for about an hour,
whilst Steven took notes, and tried
to categorize
what functional categories that
people naturally are part of.
And there was one man there who had been
trying very hard to create global citizen...
- I think his name was...
- Mark Gerson-
Mark Gerson; that's him.
Mark Gerson was there, working about
collective global citizenship.
And what happened after we saw the
connection of all these leaders
is that the global citizenry, when we all share
our life purpose and go into -
these functional areas where we
naturally express ourselves,
we could stay in the emerging
world in our midst.
You could actually get a glimmer of it -
by this process even though it's not like we all...
we thought maybe we'd have to do one project
but it's really still too
diverse for that.
But the fellowship and the
communion and the community
and then the communication
into the larger world
We did ... where's the call to
consciousness... this one...
We put this out and about
50,000 people responded.
They want to know what to do
about the call for consciousness.
And we realized that the program that
would even make that feasible
to respond to the number of people
who would like to participate -
more fully in expressing their hopes...
it's the makings of the new world,
it's right there.
So Emily... there's a press
story of Emily...
Perhaps we had some challenges
in deciding on any one thing to do
because there's also individuals.
Emily said, "Well we're going  to have
a show at the Royce Hall at UCLA
and you're all going to participate
and I'm going to produce it."
And "Deepak, you will do this,
Jane, you will do that...
Barbara, you will do this,
Jason, you will do that..."
And we didn't pay attention 
to her for a while...
But then she got us all backstage and we realized
she's the producer and we had to follow her.
because we didn't know really
what to do. We didn't rehearse,
we didn't do our thing that we
were supposed to be doing.
So this is the thing about Emily...
She took hold as the producer
of the theater
and she had it orchestrated
to perfection - was anybody there?
Yes, it was beautiful.
- Wasn't it? It was really, really beautiful.
- It was a great night.
And she was able... some spoke alone,
some spoke in groups,
but we all stood up there and I think there
were... Emily, how many people were there?
You mean in the audience?
About a thousand, right?
A thousand, at least.
It was a huge audience and I remember
when I had my chance to speak,
and I stood right there at the edge
and there was this sea of faces
all wanting to know how 
to create a new world.
It's really a marvelous thing 
and Emily helped us to produce -
this event that I think is the first time that
evolutionary leaders have been able to share
to a large audience what
evolutionary leadership is,
 leadership for the emerging world
and how people can participate.
So what I really feel is the importance
of what you're doing here tonight
in having people support
evolutionary leaders.
And just about everyone that I've
talked to who is an evolutionary leader...
who's in this room, or you
wouldn't even be here.
is just to say that I cannot think
of a more important thing to do.
And I believe that we are at the
threshold of a planetary movement now;
and from an evolutionary point of view,
crises precedes transformation.
Problems are evolutionary drivers.
Nature takes jumps through
greater synergy;
The whole is greater than
the sum of the parts.
and we are as a collective
emerging humanity,
anyone who is motivated by
that inner impulse
to be more, to create more,
to love more, to innovate more,
We I believe, are  at the point
of social synergy.
That's  a boring word for love,
community, communion and procreation.
And what this gathering is tonight is
it is an example of that.
And everywhere I go... and I just
wanted to show you these two things too...
I'm reading Steve Mcintosh's excellent
book Evolution's Purpose.
And he's going through the whole scientific
understanding and interpretation of evolution
to demonstrate that there
is an innate purpose
in the evolution of our consciousness
and the evolution of our species.
And in my book Earth 2012 and Beyond,
we're saying let's all convene and join
together to show up in convergence
on December 22nd, 2012 with
a celebration of what's being born...
What's emergent, what's created.
And we have 12 members of the welcoming
committee, many of whom are evolutionary leaders
and we want to invite everybody
to be part of this.
So I guess I want to say in conclusion that
connecting and communion and communication
of this emerging community
that is motivated from within by an impulse,
It is a spiritual impulse
that manifests itself in expression...
in voice, in creative action...
are the pioneers, we are the leaven
in the loaf of the body politic... it's rising.
And only the people in whom it's rising
could possibly create a world that is uprising.
I mean, who else could do it?
So I guess I would just like to thank you
for your support of evolutionary leaders
and to give it over to any
questions or comments.
Yeah, okay...
I've read from various people that
some people believe there's a percentage
of the population that kind of needs
to consciously be on board to -
effect the actual change;
do you think that?
There are several different
kinds of estimates.
Somebody... I believe it was Maharshi,
said the square root of 1% in TM...
because he was very interested in that deeper
meditation could shift a system so that's one thought.
Another thought from Ken Wilbur
is that...
he estimates  about 5% of the people
are now in what he calls "2nd tier consciousness."
2nd tier people can include all of it
and they respect the better part of all of it
but they do not say "I am only that."
They see the system as a whole.
And Ken's estimate is that there are
about 5% of humanity now
who are veering toward the 2nd tier or
whole system consciousness,
or evolutionary consciousness.
And if they could get another 5%...
10% would then be  a turning point,
in his estimate.
And the work that we're doing with his network
and Earth 2012, Steven Dynan and -
our event producer which we
are all doing something with,
is wanting to get a hundred
million people on the planet
feeling an experience of awakening
and connecting together.
Hartmap...
Are you familiar with Heartmap?
They have a big project called
Global Resonance, heart coherence.
The head of Heartmap told me that
his estimate is -
that our life support system could go.
Therefore, nature has to have built in
a quicker way
for the evolutionary positive impulse to happen.
It can't be just in a linear manner.
So the nervous system I think has
come in just in time
to be infused with this kind
of impulse;
all of our communications, our writing,
our work and our planetary celebrations
so that we could experience in
our lifetime
what it feels like to have a consciousness
shift on planet earth.
We are right at a point of having
to test out if we could destroy ourselves.
My own intuition is that we're right
at the threshold
of that lower complexity consciousness
shifting us towards
let's say a communion of those already
moving to higher consciousness.
So it's not everybody has to change; it's the ones
that are changing need to be in communion.
From my own deepest intuition
about nature,
it's enough; that nothing is missing.
Everything we need is given.
If we are aware of the 
evolutionary potential.
And I think if we could mature other
areas of this movement...
