Imagine a process that can bypass our dominant, loves-to-be-in-control brain and open a subtle energetic pathway to help us sense and feel the many dimensions of the Universalis human. A deeper contemplative process of feelings and intuition, not fixed mental boundaries.

In the newest Universalis Project conversation, Aviv Shahar, Karen Heney and Kyriaki Nikandrou explore the potential of a guided meditative process in expanding access to our universal nature. They demonstrate several pathways in an abiding circle meditation, a process that focuses the creative energy generated in the shared ecology of a group contemplation.

The circle meditation is a healing journey of inner discovery that invites us to metabolize and release pain and trauma. It builds inner conductivity and activates latent capacities and sense organs that enable deeper registrations of our universalis possibility. Other insights from Aviv, Karen and Kyriaki include:

• By abiding with inquiries in collective circle meditations, we unlock different processes, shifting from mental references to a whole person melting, merging, and harmonizing of different feelings and inner states.
• We are not one thing; we are multiple lives within; a soul, spirit and many other capacities. A struggle emerges as this orchestra faces the demands of an exterior world while forever harmonizing the interior life.
• Meditative abiding engenders greater awareness of the subtle bodies of somatic and mental processes. Each organ has its energetic body; together they constitute a configuration of presences.
• We shrink and separate ourselves by all sorts of modern conventions, but spiritual traditions and texts invite us to realize we are the crown jewel of the universal process here on this planet.
• The nature of universal love is that we are never alone, even when we feel lonely. The spiritual source of this love is forever around us with healing and possibility.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“The Universalis human will also not arise through some techno-utopian version of ourselves. We are not likely to find the Universalis human arising in silicon, or in sophisticated computer chips. My conviction, my belief, is that the birthing of a new human possibility, the suggestion is that the Universalis permission, the Universalis possibility, the Universalis activation, occurs inside us and in between us.” (Aviv)

“Wherever you will find a group of people who are interested in how we humans are evolving, both to solve the existential problems that the meta-crisis brought to us, and even more so to do so by unlocking our latent potential, the way we go about cultivating our interior inquiries and contemplations, individually and collectively, we are leaning into these possibilities, which is, how can we be part - a co-creative, co-participative part - of the rise of a universal human?” (Aviv)

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The Universalis Project #15: Pathways to Universal Life

If an incoming wave of universal change is influencing human behavior and global culture, as many have said, how do we see it? Where is it appearing? Can we really decode the flow and patterns of evolution as they emerge almost real-time in many of the core domains of human life and endeavor?

In the newest chapter of the The Universalis Project, Aviv Shahar and Portals friends Karen Heney and Kyriaki Nikandrou explore possible evidence of an unfolding new epoch in the breakthroughs and revelations that are transforming many areas of the modern world.

As they discover, creating space for something new, even the flow of emerging new universal possibility, happens when a person or circumstance come to the edge of their experience and knowledge, and resist the pull of history and prevailing available wisdom. They push through.

The breakthroughs that can transform humanity occur in many fields of life and expression, often driven by a compelling need for change. These transformations happen in science, technology, health and healing, leadership, and organizational dynamics. Resisting, transcending and going beyond the past are at the heart of attuning ourselves to the living flow of evolution and the future.

Among the many insights and points of inspiration in the Universalis conversation:

• Pushing the envelope: Great scientists and inventors don’t evolve in a void; they push the envelope of discovery on behalf of a universe that seeks to become more intelligent and conscious through its human partners.
• Natural leadership: Indigo and Violet impulses support a transition from rigid, mechanical systems to organic, emergent ways that attune to natural rhythms of life, such as in distributed and feminine leadership.
• Beyond royalty: There is a bigger idea in how human beings can manage themselves, other than the genealogy of a royal line — processes and protocols in the Blue system that facilitate democracies.
• Making mistakes: Pioneers see a need and are not satisfied with the prevailing paradigm; they don't stop themselves in the search for something new, and don't mind making mistakes.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“We're proposing that Acropolis work is prodding and poking and exploring into and beyond the edge for new connections, for new permissions, for new communion possibilities. And that when we do so, we seek to activate the human temple, the template of human life. Because every time we expand the horizon to new permissions, we are opening the broader template of human possibility, it's like we discover that the human mansion had another room that we never stepped into.” (Aviv)

“This begins again in asserting the more than human realms I'm choosing to describe here, the idea that human life is not flying solo in the universe. We are forever accompanied by the luminescent realms of possibility, and the luminescent realms of possibility, and the ascending and transcending spirals of development between other things, contain all the human endeavor throughout history and more.” (Aviv)

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The Universalis Project #14: Decoding the Current of the Epoch

In the Western world we usually identify ourselves as singular entities. Yet, we find ourselves in conflict with ourselves and with other people. We often get triggered, without even knowing why. How can we navigate the complex human interiority as well as our interactions with others? How can we reduce suffering and make our choices form a place of wholeness?

In this illuminating conversation, Aviv Shahar and Portals friend Alexander Love explore the transformative practice of "parts work" as a pathway to inner healing and greater personal and communal harmony. Guided by Alexander, an insightful healer, acupuncturist and life coach, we navigate the intricate landscape of the inner self, learning to recognize and integrate the diverse parts that comprise our being. Alexander articulates a holistic approach inspired by Eastern wisdom, particularly Chinese medicine, viewing each individual as an inner ecology, where every "part" holds unique perspectives, intentions, and functions.

Parts work invites us to move beyond seeing ourselves as singular beings and acknowledge the rich inner multiplicity. By gently engaging these diverse inner voices, we begin a profound healing and developmental journey toward inner harmony, emotional resilience, and deeper connection.

Ultimately, this practice not only helps resolve internal conflicts but cultivates an embodied wholeness that transforms our interactions and relationships with the external world, fostering enlightened intention and compassionate living.

Other insights and ponders:

• The inner ecology perspective: recognizing the self as composed of interdependent, dynamic parts rather than isolated components.
• We are always becoming with our world. Modernity has created a sense of separation to observe the world objectively. In fact, I am part of the world and what’s going on outside is also going on inside.
• No matter how much a part of the self feels separated and disconnected, it’s still a part of the whole.
• The first million-dollar question is: How do I feel towards this part? If it is wholeness, the answer will be automatically, I’m curious, I’m loving, I’m interested, I’m compassionate.
• We don’t start with fragmentation and then by the end of the session we are hoping for wholeness. We flip that around, when possible, we are starting with wholeness. Wholeness begets wholeness.
• Transforming protective parts by uncovering their deeper, authentic qualities, shifting from harmful behaviors to supportive functions.
• In the Portals Into the Soul writing, we develop the Inner Conclave work, visualizing an inner ecology where parts or different voices come into conversation with each other. We can apply this practice to do therapy work, developmental work, and connective communion, where the parts of the self-surrender to become the conduit for the creative act of the universe.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“There are all of these different traditions that are pointing to the same thing, that wholeness is intrinsic within all of the parts, even if they're feeling closed off from it. And so part of what we can do is to support that wholeness to come out, and then this creates deeper trust in the system, because the parts, they often don't feel successful when they're trying these strategies that are kind of warped or causing harm. And yet, they're committed to helping, but they don't know another way. By doing this and finding the deeper, enlightened intention underneath, and helping the parts experience that, they start to experience a much deeper sense of trust, that there's a deeper wholeness in the system which they are a part of.” (Alexander)

“Our human potentials seem to be so beautiful, and our ability to interact with chaos and uncertainty and darkness, our potential to be able to do that well is huge. It's vast. For me, the deeper invitation here is that we are deeply unbroken. We are deeply equipped to be able to face anything and lean into it, and find the beauty in it, and find the creativity in how dark times are invoking the evolution of things that are beyond what we can imagine, and that this is something we can do.” (Alexander)

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What is Healing? #4 – The Wholeness of Parts

If we’re seeking a feeling of illumination or deeper connection to the universal and divine, what clues and meaning can we find in perhaps the best-known story of transformation in western history — the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ? Does it reveal an esoteric path to active engagement with evolution and expanding consciousness? Or is it a powerful metaphor for an innate human species capacity to grow and develop?

In this conversation, Aviv Shahar and metamodern thought leader Brendan Graham Dempsey continue their lively dialogue on the many faces of Jesus Christ, the central pillar of Christianity. Building on their previous conversation, they focus on mystical and metamodern appreciations of the mystery of the Transfiguration.

• The exploration goes beyond historical accounts to seek the significance of such a transformation to our own pursuit of meaning, connection, purpose and expanded awareness. How do each of us experience our own moments of sacred empowerment and profound, life-changing insight and inspiration?
• The conversation expands our understanding of this unique time, into the evolutionary possibility to experience and express our true universal nature. Aviv and Brendan’s many insights include:
• The story of Christ’s transfiguration is a key moment of storytelling in the broader narrative that we see unfolding in human cultural evolution towards a shift in higher consciousness.
• We have entered a unique time where the species is reaching for something beyond Homo Solaris — the Universalis human, where we can again embrace plurality.
• We are not human beings seeking a spiritual experience, but spirit beings becoming human to develop, mature and become vessels for continual evolution to occur through us as co-creators.
• The first consideration in an esoteric contemplation is that a prophecy, or any learning, is actualized not when it occurs, but when it has been witnessed and validated.
• If the spiritual discourse is not amenable to the same kinds of justification dynamics as science or other discourse, it is insulated from critique, and breaks down into ‘you feel it or you don’t’.
• Focusing only on exterior sources of knowledge, and giving credence to the microscope and telescope, can disenfranchise the ‘interior scope’ and natural inner sense organs.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“We are not actually flying here on our own. This is not just a biological experience. That we are, in fact, not human beings seeking a spiritual experience, we are, in fact, spirit beings coming into the human experience to gain development and maturation such that we become vessels for continual evolution to occur through us as we are co-participants and co-creators of this evolution.” (Aviv)

“How do we make this journey? And we went back and forth in finding, carving, a way to enable a space that perhaps is not defined by the gravitational logic that we process every day, and at the same time that is not going to abandon certain frameworks and certain ways of thinking and being that will afford us freedom and safety and collaboration and, ultimately, possibilities to solve big problems on the global stage.” (Aviv)

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The Transfiguration Archetype

A new epoch is dawning as the old one ebbs, much like the tide, placing us in ever more conductive times. Have you noticed that old systems and ways no longer hold, offering little energetic nourishment? As energetic beings, we find ourselves desperately searching for the “new”, from leadership models to inner fulfillment, each are under intense scrutiny. On the surface, we observe rapid change, confusion, dysfunction, conflict, and instability — but these are byproducts of rising conductivity. There is a restlessness, evidenced by so many people on the move, seeking purpose and questioning from whence authority comes. Clearly, both human and planetary systems and patterns are in flux.

Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis go on a magical mystery exploration of these increasingly conductive times. By differentiating three levels of knowledge and perception; from the exoteric to the mesoteric, then shifting gears into the esoteric level, they move from peripheral views to core reasons, understandings and causes for these events.

Central to this is the electrical, spiritual human as a conductor of energy, both from within and without. We are our own energy worlds, designed to receive signals from the greater energy worlds; an organic, flowering radar dish for universal signals for planetary upgrade and evolution. As humans we can choose to bring finer energies into ourselves, but more importantly are our reasons why. Are we here for the planet, or is the planet here for us… or is this unique human race and planet an integrated, co-creative enterprise on behalf of something higher?

Significant points:

• The human is an electrical being and processor of energy signals that runs on five levels of energy; food, liquid, gas, light, and impressions. The moment we stop, we call that death.
• There is a natural relationship between the human as a conductor of energies; the subtle energy worlds within and around the body (aura), and the invisible energy worlds, including planetary, lunar, solar and universal sources.
• The mystery of increasing conductivity; what are conductivities? Why are they increasing? What is the evidence? Where are they increasing from? How are we humans called to respond?
• Understanding the three level of knowledge; exoteric, mesoteric, esoteric, that give elevating perspectives; for example, from information, to knowledge, to transformation, all ‘formations’ at different levels.
• Appreciating the reversal that occurs from a mesoteric perspective to an esoteric perspective, it’s a reversal octave or polarity shift, that takes you to the core or cause of anything; e.g. from "Mastery" to "Mystery".
• The epochal, octave shift calls for higher frequencies to be received and processed by humans and the planet, for planetary and universal upgrade, which we call evolution.

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“It's almost as though you would ask so, what's the purpose of life in the universe? The purpose of life in the universe is to birth even more capable life, all the way to conscious life. What we recognize with human life, which is the capacity of a life to become initially conscious, and then a life that is conscious of its consciousness, and then a life that is conscious of the very nature of consciousness - so, in some way, it begins to offer back the learning feedback loop to the universe about its own very nature.” (Aviv)

“We assume that the planet's here for us, rather than we're actually part of a universal process that involves the planet we live on, and the sun, and the universe - and we're part of it. We're not somehow separated out from it. And that to me is a big part of the conductivity, because when a person feels they're isolated, they feel disconnected. Disconnected is a word that says blocking the current, because if you're disconnected you've no longer got the current flowing through you. So if we think of ourselves as an independent human species that's managed to conquer the planet, well, we're really disconnecting ourselves from the universe.” (David)

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The Conductivity Mystery - Current Openings #21

One of the most powerful tools of personal transformation is also one of the most accessible: it’s the story we tell ourselves about who we are and the future we imagine. It’s a story we can update and recalibrate every day — no permission beyond ourselves required to create and recreate the person we want to be and the way forward.

In this conversation, we continue the Epoch Journey series as Aviv Shahar and longtime Portals friend Jeff Vander Clute explore the process of self-authoring appraisal. How do we identify the blockages, possible pain and trauma, and limiting beliefs that hold us back from the vast field of larger potential that is our natural birthright?

As we update and realign our values and mental maps of meaning, we liberate greater versatility and range, and foster new pathways into our deeper universal nature. Appraising who we are today and the influences shaping our lives does not deny or bypass real challenges we may face. It allows us to melt and heal many types of inner scar tissue and discover our natural resilience.

Among Aviv and Jeff’s other insights and discoveries:

• What external persuasions do we allow inside ourselves? A modern vulnerability is openness to impressions that foster self-doubt.
• If we deny the point of pain, or suppress unresolved trauma or unmet essential needs, then already we are in a distorted view, bypassing what the case actually is.
• We explore in the self-authoring appraisal process a way in which we let life itself lead us within the various domains of our growth, development and engagement.
• With enhanced resiliency available to humanity, the big question for the species is, are we going to make it? Do we have enough resiliency to shift from Homo sapiens sapiens to becoming Universalis?
• The self-authoring appraisal is a technology we can apply to almost any aspect of our lives, much like carefully attending to a garden, instead of running on autopilot and habit.
• We can receive guidance by connecting with our inner resources, or inner conclave. If we ask a question, and then clearly see our situation, we’re already beyond it.
• In a post-guru, epochal transition, we all lead; we need each other. Through shared discovery and co-creating, we provoke ourselves and create a greater ecology for the divine.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“Life is open, life is an open system — the universe is actually an open system. So how do we live? How do we dance with life in an open system? It seems that you are pioneering certain understandings and modalities for how to dance with life, in openness. And in the openness each of us can show up fully, and very resiliently, and creatively. Openness is liberation, and inquiry grounds us in our own nature, which then allows us to continue to express and flower.” (Jeff)

“Just capturing two words from what you said that are so central to this appraisal process, and to being generatively creative in telling the story of your life anew every day. Waking up in the morning and saying, 'No, I was who I was yesterday, and today I'm telling the story again in a new way.' You are your own creator. You wake up in the morning and you have permission to rewrite your story today. That is, in what you said, that stopped me.” (Aviv)

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Resilience and the Crisis of Belief

A powerful way to envision our entry into this new phase of evolution and epochal shift is as a fusion process — a merging of the physical realm with a new universal potency that unlocks immense possibilities and profound renewal. Imagine it as an energetic Cambrian release for humanity and the planet. We dive deeper into the mysteries of the epochal shift underway in the latest chapter of the “Current Openings” series with Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis.

To better understand what we mean by an epoch, Aviv and David begin with a closer look at the energetic nature of the human and the cosmos. Modern thinking often confines reality to the limits of our biophysical form. However, we recognize an energetic dimension residing within and between all layers of organic, physical existence. Humans can sense and attune to these spiritual or energetic frequencies through finer faculties naturally embedded in our design. The energetic or unseen natures of the human and the planet evolve over time, which can be traced in the evolution of culture throughout history. This perspective reveals epochs as intelligent, purposeful programs of growth and refinement — forward-looking pathways guiding us toward a universal future.    

Other insights and ponders:

• The new epoch calls for capacities beyond intellect — faculties essential for deeper integration of human life within the universe.
• Epochal changes do not arrive all at once. The energetic permission of the past holds initially but breaks down swiftly, giving rise dramatically to the new.
• By metabolizing new impressions, we activate new capacities and perceptions — a profound act of renewal; an evolutionary process creating something new on the inside.
• Rather than rejecting the past, we harvest its best elements and respectfully leave behind the rest. We carry forward a tested, validated value system.
• There is confusion, chaos, and suffering when we’re not able to connect with new energetic and spiritual fuel available for healing and development elevation.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“An epoch is an evolutionary program, a program afforded by the universe and the planet, where humanity can go through specific and necessary development. The idea that the evolutionary process is just a random trial and error makes no sense; it's too brilliantly constructed. And there is clearly an ascending refinement and complexifying vector of life wanting to support higher levels, higher capacities, higher sophistication, higher consciousness.” (Aviv)

“This realization that in learning there is renewal. Because what it actually means is that we metabolize new impressions, and those new impressions activate in us new capacities and perceptions. And that, in that itself, is a profound act of renewal. And that therefore, as the epoch shifts and a new energy permission is afforded to human experience and to humanity at large, we are to truly expect that everything around us will continue to change in an intensified manner.” (Aviv)

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Current Openings #20 – The Epoch Mystery

Let us imagine that one of the most powerful ways to create space and be open to an incoming wave of evolutionary progress — the future — is to consciously heal and absolve the past, with all of its trauma and scar tissue. Not just our personal past, but imagining in ourselves the flow of history through the current epoch. It’s not just possible, but some would say a vital process in a time of great change and new possibility.  

In this conversation, Aviv Shahar and Portals friend Jeff Vander Clute take a deep look into the epoch’s seven stages and the corresponding potencies of the energy spectrum, Red through Violet. It’s a way of attuning to the flow and energetic nature of history, and to what Aviv and Jeff believe is a step-function leap underway to a new wave of evolution.

Jeff is a consultant and author of three recent books, including Beyond Every Teaching, a collection of transformative spiritual transmissions.

In today’s exploration, we focus on the main stories or perspectives of the epoch, especially the very real human capacity to revisit, rewrite and clean in ourselves painful and traumatic aspects of history. It’s a process of energetic dialysis powered by the spectrum frequency of Yellow, which we can also trace in the epoch to the emergence of the axial religions.

Other amazing insights from Aviv and Jeff’s conversation include:

• Universal culture: For the first time, there is a truly global civilization, with shared communication and commerce platforms — a core premise in the story of the shift from planetary to universal culture and civilization.
• Power of Yellow: Yellow dialysis enables self-forgiveness and transformation — a life reboot. The Yellow frequency promotes inner rewiring and deeper integration.
• Great alchemy: As we transcend and reach the source, the point where it all comes together, great alchemy is possible: polarities and multiplicities are seen in their root nature as unified; a new human species can emerge.
• Liberating essence: The axial religions that emerged around an energetic source became in some paths an institutional bureaucracy. Yellow dialysis liberates the essence into new currency and updating.
• Universal economy: The universe loves economy; if knowledge was codified earlier in the epoch, why waste it? Distill its essence, release what is no longer needed, and further the evolutionary story.
• New sense organs: Activating Yellow brings online new human sense organs and communication apparatus; it encourages shared values and meaning, and connects with higher sources of inspiration.
• Beyond the head: The Enlightenment and scientific revolution are based on the head or intellect-driven knowledge. We can experience knowledge differently through the vibrant, invisible blessing realms.
• Living history: The feelings and traditions of ancient cultures are alive in energetic form. We can attune to those sentiments and passions to sense and wonder about the grandeur of their appearance.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“And so we build into this the recognition that the epoch is not a concept, it's not a mental structure, rather it is a living process. It's arising inside us. It's arising in between us. It arises all around us, and it is something we can live into, inside and in between us, in our conversations and discoveries, which is the premise to come together in small pods or in a larger network, to metabolize, to ease, to decode these ideas as they unfold.” (Aviv)

“I've had an interesting esoteric experience in which I actually changed the past and suddenly the map of where I was going in life changed, instantaneously. It's as if the past is actually quite malleable. So when we're rewriting the past here, I would say that it's powerful beyond the words that we use to tell these stories, there's something going on energetically, and archetypally, within the collective.” (Jeff)

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The Five Stories of the Epoch

For many, last year made it impossible to ignore the scale of global change — what we see as global instability is only one dimension of a larger meta-crisis. Portals has been following the signs of this broader evolutionary cycle, which is reshaping our planet and humanity. With the epoch insight and perspective, we can trace the emergence and patterns of this epochal movement across every area of life, from grand global systems to everyday human endeavors.

In the latest conversation from the The Universalis Project, Aviv Shahar is joined by Karen Heney and Kyriaki Nikandrou to explore the flow of history and evolution through a “7-fold epoch.” This special lens examines the nature of each epochal impulse and its influence on culture, as well as on human growth and development. The epoch framework is not a new meta-theory about life or evolution; instead, it reflects an observable quality within all natural processes. We can see 7-fold patterns in the natural world — including flora, fauna, and human behavior.

For instance, the world’s major religions arose during the Yellow phase of planetary evolution, while the drive to resolve conflict, balance pressures, and collaborate in scalable systems reflects a Blue impulse.

Other insights from this exploration include:

• The nature of Red: This planet, in its cosmology in the galaxy, and its function as the cradle for evolving conscious life, discovers the unique emergence of a new epoch and conscious life in the frequency and nature of Red.
• Indigo theater: Social media and the internet represent a fantastic Indigo theater of merging and transference.
• Violet phase-shift: In the larger purpose of the epoch, a great endeavor or civilization ends in Violet as part of a phase-change to the next evolutionary leap, sometimes with a violent dimension.
• Living History: The living experience of history — the energy — has not been destroyed; those memories, feelings, and sentiments are encapsulated in time; as we become attuned, we feel the living nature of their experience.
• Capacity for destruction: The unfolding story of the evolution of life includes the capacity to destroy it. We help metabolize lower influences by expanding consciousness and unlocking higher human capabilities.
• • Indigo-Violet Acceleration: A core premise of the epoch study is that it’s a continuing revelation inside the context of a rolling event — the Indigo-Violet acceleration, as witnessed through the meta-crisis and other profound planetary change.

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“So the story of the evolution of life is accompanied by the story of the development of the capacity to destroy life. And the reason we feel so compelled to bring the consciousness of this story into being is that there is an awareness that when we bring consciousness to this story, we may intensify and unlock capacities for humanity to do both the healing and liberation work, at all the levels, the level of the individual, the level of the group, and the level of the tribe and the nation.” (Aviv)

“Every human that's born on the planet, it's designed in such a way that every life can have a spiritual journey, can have a connective, purposeful life. And we're all born into this unfolding epoch. First of all, we need to be aware of it, which is the wonder of these recordings and this journey. Because if we become aware of it, and we opt in to being consciously mindful of these different progressions, then we're saying that we can co-join evolution and a human update.” (Karen)

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The Universalis Project #13: The 7-fold Epoch Progression

Our adventure exploring the deeper nature of human life forever seeks to find new bridges — the special connecting insights and nuggets of wisdom that remind us why this journey of discovery is so critical to our personal and collective futures. What is the premise that inspires us to unlock the promise of the human capacity to engage with and shape this emerging new wave of evolution?  

To help build these bridges of connection, this conversation brings together Aviv Shahar and longtime Portals friend David Price Francis for the 19th episode of their remarkable series “Current Openings.”

Even though these are the early days (comparatively) of the emergence of what we call the universal human, Homo Universalis, Aviv and David remind us we can be intentionally present in multiple spaces in the universe today, here and now. We have the capacity and permission of the human design to renew and reconfigure our finer energetic inner lives any time.

One bridge into the unknown then might be the awareness of our energetic nature and possibility to actively engage with the flow of an evolving cosmos.

Other connecting ideas and scaffolding include:

• We spiritualize the universe and the world through our refinement — the connection, the embodiment and ensoulment, that enable the universe to birth its higher possibilities through us.
• Within our carnal form, we're an electromagnetic spirit-soul being; the dimension of energies we process is vast. We can refine, a permission that no other organic life has.
• We create a space for each other to walk into possibilities that we wouldn't be able to access on our own. That's the other dimension: the universe of energetic potential we create for our collective future.
• Within the amazing promise and premise of being human is perhaps the greatest gift of all: freedom to decide how to use our life. We can choose to spiritualize our future.
• Only humans have been given permission to get it wrong; to mess things up. The rest of organic life follows its program; flora and fauna do what they do, naturally, at 100%.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“When a person has that spiritualized process they walk into the forest, and the trees and the animals, and the flowers they welcome the human. But if the human is full of anger and resentment and the mortgage and what's wrong, and checking their digital media and seeing what's on Twitter whilst they're walking through the forest, well, everything retreats from them because they're on a lower vibration frequency. So we have that amazing promise, but we're not told this is how you have to use it.” (David)

“Everything that exists in organic life is processing universal energies, in some fashion, whether lunar energy, solar energy, energy from different planets, it's being processed and received by planet Earth. So I think of the planet in that sense as this amazing crucible of receiving different energies, and she needs form to receive an energy. So whether it be a squirrel, whether it be a cat, whether it be a tree, a bird, everything is processing energetics and delivering that energy into the energy field of the planet.” (David)

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Current Openings #19: Spiritualize the Universe – 20 Core Premises