Dear friends,
Last year we announced the New Story of Wholeness initiative. Today it has gone live, and you are the very first to receive it.
A new chapter of human consciousness is opening and a new integrative worldview is being cultivated, taught, and lived into being. The modern and postmodern eras have succeeded themselves into a metacrisis, which ultimately is just the first half—the breakdown phase—of a broader global integration threshold. The second half is something stronger, richer, and more whole—a reorganization phase of consciousness, culture and institutions that is equal to the complexity of our moment and returns to its carriers the generative optimism and agency this transition needs of them.
Just this week, in his first social encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, Pope Leo XIV reminds us that “We are called to reflect on the great ‘construction sites’ of our era and ask: What are we building?” He calls on us to pursue integral human development: “a process in which the growth of individuals and peoples encompasses all dimensions of existence and opens the future to subsequent generations as well.”
Over the years, many of us have wanted an experience we could send someone to when they were beginning to sense the story underlying that reorganization, but didn’t yet have a doorway in.
The New Story of Wholeness is our attempt at that welcome mat. A place to stand at the threshold of an integrative way of seeing and begin to find our bearings—designed to make the worldview visible and emotionally compelling without asking the visitor to first do years of reading.
It is structured around seven core patterns that connect—qualities of reality integrative traditions have been pointing at from many directions for decades. It invites you to see the patterns directly: through guided perceptual practices, concrete examples across domains, and the intellectual lineages that have given each one shape.
You can explore it here: newstoryofwholeness.com
A few requests. Spend time in one section before moving on; the experience compounds. Please share it with someone you think will recognize themselves in it. And tell us what lands and what doesn’t—this is just the beginning, not a finished product.
Thank you for being with us on the journey.
Warm loving regards,
Robb
