The New Story of Wholeness

Executive Summary

The New Story of Wholeness (NSoW) is a flagship Applied Metatheory Initiative (AMI) designed to bring the Integrative Worldview to life as a felt, visual, and narrative-based experience. It is aiming to be the first open-access digital protocol created to introduce, animate, and invite adoption of an integrative understanding of reality across institutional leaders, cultural influencers, and system builders. Led by Robb Smith and a global team of designers, and developed by the Institute of Applied Metatheory, NSoW will attempt to fuse philosophical depth, developmental theory, and immersive design to create an experiential gateway to the next stage of collective consciousness.

As a metatheoretical platform, NSoW harmonizes the best of modern, postmodern, and emerging integral epistemologies. It encodes key concepts into a dynamic, monomythically-structured interface built around archdisciplinary Kosmic Qualities—the fundamental patterns that make the integrative worldview intelligible and inhabitable.

Problem Identified

Humanity today faces a crisis not only of systems but of sense-making itself. As complexity surges and meaning fractures, no global “Welcome Mat” exists for the worldview capable of holding the complexity of the 21st century. Despite the emergence of integrative insights across disciplines, no coherent digital expression has been constructed to make this worldview widely visible, intuitively navigable, or emotionally compelling. Current educational platforms, institutional narratives, and public discourse remain fragmented in modernist or postmodern paradigms, leaving people disoriented and under-equipped to meet the moment. Without a shared story of wholeness grounded in developmental, systemic, and spiritual coherence, we cannot build the futures we urgently need.

Transformational Thesis

The central thesis of the New Story of Wholeness is that worldviews can be learned—and thus can be taught, transmitted, and transformed. When properly scaffolded, the integrative worldview can shift not only what people believe, but who they become. As a dynamic synthesis of developmental psychology, systems thinking, philosophical integration, and spiritual insight, the integrative worldview offers a meta-narrative capable of restoring coherence in a time of fragmentation.

NSoW proposes that by crafting a digital experience that mirrors the integrative worldview in form as well as content—by embedding learning in story, pattern, complexity, and beauty—we can accelerate the transmission of this worldview into culture. Rather than tell users about wholeness, the NSoW will attempt to demonstrate it, inviting participation in a living, evolving narrative of meaning. This aesthetic-experiential strategy could reorient attention, catalyzes identity change, and makes the worldview real in practice, not just theory.

What’s at Stake

What is at stake is our collective capacity to respond to the metacrisis with wisdom, coherence, and shared purpose. Without a compelling, credible, and inclusive story that frames the emerging epoch, we risk further fragmentation, nihilism, polarization, and collapse. With NSoW, we offer not a fixed ideology but a dynamic framework that honors difference while deepening shared understanding.

If successful, the New Story of Wholeness will serve as a seed-crystal for worldview invitation across sectors, institutions, and generations. It will empower forward-thinking leaders to integrate inner development with outer systems design, help influencers craft narratives of depth and resonance, and provide builders with a coherent compass for regeneration. This initiative attempts to be an epistemic attractor for the emerging worldview.