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Bayer’s KERENDIA (finerenone) Receives New Recommendations From American Diabetes Association for Improving Cardiovascular Outcomes and Managing…

Posted: July 3, 2022 at 2:09 am

WHIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Bayers KERENDIA (finerenone) was recognized by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes2022 with a new grade A recommendation* for improving cardiovascular (CV) outcomes and reducing the risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) progression in patients with CKD associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D).1

KERENDIA was approved in the United States based on the results of FIDELIO-DKD, to reduce the risk of sustained eGFR decline, end-stage kidney disease, CV death, nonfatal myocardial infarction and hospitalization for heart failure in adult patients with CKD associated with T2D.4 The KERENDIA label contains a Warning and Precaution that KERENDIA can cause hyperkalemia.4 For more information, see Important Safety Information and the FIDELIO-DKD study results below.

The addendum, titled Cardiovascular Disease and Risk Management: Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes2022, was updated based on evidence from the FIDELIO-DKD and FIGARO-DKD Phase III studies as well as the FIDELITY prespecified pooled analysis,1 which comprise the largest cardiorenal outcomes program to investigate the occurrence of fatal and nonfatal CV events and progression of kidney disease in patients with CKD associated with T2D in more than 13,000 patients. The program investigated the impact of finerenone in adults with CKD associated with T2D across a range of disease severity (CKD stages 1-4).2

The Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes2022 were first released in December 2021 and included a grade A recommendation for KERENDIA in a new section emphasizing the importance of chronic kidney disease and risk management.

At the ADAs 82nd Scientific Sessions on June 6, and aligned with the ADA interim update, the ADA and Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) orally presented a joint consensus statement on the management of CKD and diabetes, recommending the use of finerenone for patients with T2D, an estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) of 25 mL/min/1.73 m2, normal serum potassium concentration and albuminuria (albumin-to-creatinine ratio [ACR] 30 mg/g) despite maximum tolerated dose of renin-angiotensin-system (RAS) inhibitor.3 In the coming months, both the consensus statement and the final KDIGO update are expected to be published.

Managing patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes requires a multidisciplinary care team that works together to control the disease while working to reduce the risk of cardiovascular events and slow kidney disease progression, said Professor George Bakris, M.D., University of Chicago Medicine and principal investigator of FIDELIO-DKD. The ADA and KDIGOtwo highly respected clinical bodiesaligned on an oral joint consensus statement at the ADA scientific sessions supporting KERENDIA as a pillar of established therapy to improve cardiovascular and renal outcomes for patients with chronic kidney disease associated with type 2 diabetes.3

The joint statement orally presented at the ADA scientific sessions from two prestigious professional organizations provide additional clinical information for health care providers to consider when looking for treatment options in the ongoing management of their patients with chronic kidney disease associated with type 2 diabetes, said Sameer Bansilal, M.D., M.S., FACC, Vice President, Cardiovascular, U.S. Medical Affairs at Bayer. At Bayer, we are committed to continuing our long history of researching and providing treatments to fight cardiovascular and kidney diseases.

About the ADA Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes2022 Update

The new grade A recommendation reads: For patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease treated with maximum tolerated doses of ACE inhibitors or angiotensin receptor blockers, addition of finerenone should be considered to improve cardiovascular outcomes and reduce the risk of chronic kidney disease progression. A1 Additionally, the Lifestyle and Pharmacological Intervention subsection now includes the following statement: Patients with type 2 diabetes and chronic kidney disease should be considered for treatment with finerenone to reduce cardiovascular outcomes and the risk of chronic kidney disease progression.1

The December 2021 update included the following grade A recommendation for KERENDIA for CKD associated with T2D in section 11: In patients with chronic kidney disease who are at increased risk for cardiovascular events or chronic kidney disease progression or are unable to use a sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitor, a nonsteroidal mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist (finerenone) is recommended to reduce chronic kidney disease progression and cardiovascular events (Table 9.2). A5 The section was also updated to include evidence from the Phase III trial FIGARO-DKD and the prespecified pooled analysis FIDELITY, in addition to evidence from the Phase III trial FIDELIO-DKD.6

*Recommendations with an A rating, the ADA's highest recommendation, are based on large, well-designed clinical trials or well-done meta-analyses that have the best chance of improving outcomes. Generally, these recommendations have the best chance of improving outcomes when applied to the population to which they are appropriate.7

About KERENDIA (finerenone)

INDICATION:

IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION

CONTRAINDICATIONS:

WARNINGS AND PRECAUTIONS:

Measure serum potassium periodically during treatment with KERENDIA and adjust dose accordingly. More frequent monitoring may be necessary for patients at risk for hyperkalemia, including those on concomitant medications that impair potassium excretion or increase serum potassium4

MOST COMMON ADVERSE REACTIONS:

DRUG INTERACTIONS:

USE IN SPECIFIC POPULATIONS:

Please read the Prescribing Information for KERENDIA.

About Finerenone Phase III Clinical Trials Program

Having randomized more than 13,000 patients with CKD associated with T2D around the world, the Phase III program with finerenone in CKD associated with T2D comprises two studies, evaluating the effect of finerenone versus placebo on top of standard of care (SoC) on both renal and CV outcomes.2

The FIDELIO-DKD (FInerenone in reducing kiDnEy faiLure and dIsease prOgression in Diabetic Kidney Disease) study was a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study in adult patients with CKD associated with T2D, defined as either having an uACR of 30 to 300 mg/g, eGFR 25 to 60 mL/min/1.73 m2 and diabetic retinopathy, or as having an uACR of 300 mg/g and an eGFR of 25 to 75 mL/min/1.73 m2.4,8 The trial excluded patients with known significant nondiabetic kidney disease and a clinical diagnosis of chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction and persistent symptoms (NYHA class II to IV).4 All patients were to have a serum potassium 4.8 mEq/L at screening and be receiving standard of care background therapy, including a maximum tolerated labeled dose of an angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor (ACEi) or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB).4 A total of 5,674 patients were randomized to receive finerenone (N=2,833) or placebo (N=2,841) and were followed for a median of 2.6 years.4 The mean age of the study population was 66 years, and 70% of patients were male.6 The trial population was 63% white, 25% Asian, and 5% Black.4

Finerenone reduced the incidence of the primary composite endpoint of a sustained decline in eGFR of 40%, kidney failure, or renal death (HR 0.82 [95% CI, 0.73-0.93; P=0.001]).4 The treatment effect reflected a reduction in a sustained decline in eGFR of 40% and progression to kidney failure.6 There were few renal deaths during the trial.4

Finerenone also reduced the incidence of the composite endpoint of cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke or hospitalization for heart failure (HR 0.86 [95% CI, 0.75-0.99; P=0.034]).4 The treatment effect reflected a reduction in cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarction and hospitalization for heart failure.4

The most frequently reported adverse reaction was hyperkalemia (18.3% KERENDIA vs. 9% placebo).4 Hospitalization due to hyperkalemia for the KERENDIA group was 1.4% versus 0.3% in the placebo group.4 Hyperkalemia led to permanent discontinuation of treatment in 2.3% of patients receiving KERENDIA versus 0.9% of patients receiving placebo.4

FIGARO-DKD (FInerenone in reducinG cArdiovascular moRtality and mOrbidity in Diabetic Kidney Disease), a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, randomly assigned 7,352 participants to finerenone (N=3686) or placebo (N=3666) on top of standard of care, including a maximum tolerated labeled dose of ACEis or ARBs.9 Patients had UACR 30<300 mg/g and eGFR 2590 mL/min/1.73m2 or UACR 3005000 mg/g and eGFR 60 mL/min/1.73m2.9 This data is under review with the FDA.

KERENDIA significantly reduced the risk of the composite primary endpoint of time to first occurrence of CV death or nonfatal CV events (myocardial infarction, stroke or heart failure hospitalization) by 13% (relative risk reduction, HR 0.87 [95% CI, 0.76-0.98; P=0.0264]) over a median duration of follow-up of 3.4 years when added to maximum tolerated labeled dose of ACEi or ARB in adults with CKD associated with T2D.9 The reduction in the CV composite outcome was primarily driven by hospitalization due to heart failure.9

The incidence of the secondary endpoint, a composite of time to kidney failure, a sustained decrease of eGFR 40% from baseline over a period of at least four weeks, or renal death, was lower with finerenone than with placebo, affecting 350 (9.5%) and 395 (10.8%) patients, respectively.8 However, the difference was not statistically significant (HR 0.87 [95% CI, 0.76-1.01]) over a median duration of follow-up of 3.4 years.9

Overall, hyperkalemia-related adverse events occurred more often in patients receiving finerenone compared with placebo (10.8% and 5.3%, respectively).9 Hospitalization due to hyperkalemia for the finerenone group was 0.6% versus 0.1% in the placebo group, and there was no hyperkalemia-related death in either treatment group. Treatment was discontinued due to hyperkalemia in 1.2% of patients treated with finerenone compared to 0.4% in the placebo group.9

Bayer also initiated the FINEARTS-HF study, a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III study that will investigate finerenone compared to placebo in more than 5,500 symptomatic heart failure patients (NYHA class II-IV) with a left ventricular ejection fraction of 40%.10 The primary objective of the study is to demonstrate superiority of finerenone over placebo in reducing the rate of the composite endpoint of cardiovascular death and total (first and recurrent) heart failure events (defined as hospitalizations for heart failure or urgent heart failure visits).10

About Chronic Kidney Disease Associated With Type 2 Diabetes

Patients with CKD associated with T2D are three times more likely to die from a CV-related cause than those with T2D alone.11 CKD is a serious and progressive condition that is generally underrecognized.12 CKD is a frequent complication arising from T2D and is also an independent risk factor of CV disease.13-15 Approximately 40% of all patients with T2D develop CKD.15 Despite guideline-directed therapies, patients with CKD associated with T2D remain at high risk of CKD progression and CV events.13,14,16,17 T2D is the leading cause of end-stage kidney disease, which requires dialysis or a kidney transplant to stay alive.18-20

About Bayers Commitment in Cardiovascular and Kidney Diseases

Bayer is an innovation leader in the area of cardiovascular diseases, with a long-standing commitment to delivering science for a better life by advancing a portfolio of innovative treatments. The heart and the kidneys are closely linked in health and disease, and Bayer is working in a wide range of therapeutic areas on new treatment approaches for cardiovascular and kidney diseases with high unmet medical needs. The cardiology franchise at Bayer already includes a number of products and several other compounds in various stages of preclinical and clinical development. Together, these products reflect the companys approach to research, which prioritizes targets and pathways with the potential to impact the way that cardiovascular diseases are treated.

About Bayer

Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and nutrition. Its products and services are designed to help people and the planet thrive by supporting efforts to master the major challenges presented by a growing and aging global population. Bayer is committed to drive sustainable development and generate a positive impact with its businesses. At the same time, the Group aims to increase its earning power and create value through innovation and growth. The Bayer brand stands for trust, reliability and quality throughout the world. In fiscal 2021, the Group employed around 100,000 people and had sales of 44.1 billion euros. R&D expenses before special items amounted to 5.3 billion euros. For more information, go to http://www.bayer.com.

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Forward-Looking Statements

This release may contain forward-looking statements based on current assumptions and forecasts made by Bayer management. Various known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors could lead to material differences between the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance of the company and the estimates given here. These factors include those discussed in Bayers public reports which are available on the Bayer website at http://www.bayer.com. The company assumes no liability whatsoever to update these forward-looking statements or to conform them to future events or developments.

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The Valley Classic Tees Off for 33rd Annual Golf Tournament – Premier Health

Posted: July 3, 2022 at 2:09 am

Proceeds support Miami Valley Hospital patients at the Bull Family Diabetes Center.

DAYTON, Ohio (July 5, 2022) The Valley Classic, Miami Valley Hospital Foundations annual golf tournament in support of patient programs at Miami Valley Hospital, will tee off July 25, 2022, at NCR Country Club in Kettering.

The Valley Classic is one of the areas longest running and most successful charity golf outings. This event has raised more than $4 million to support numerous patient programs and projects at Miami Valley Hospital. Proceeds from this years tournament will benefit diabetes patient education through the Bull Family Diabetes Center.

Educators at the Bull Family Diabetes Center help patients better manage their disease, said Jenny Lewis, CFRE, system vice president of philanthropy at Premier Health. This tournament has served our hospitals patients and their families for more than three decades and would not be possible without the extraordinary support of our sponsors, players, donors, and volunteers who have made this tournament such a huge success.

The tournament format is a four-player scramble. Brunch is available prior to a shotgun start. Player registration is $375 per player or $1,500 per foursome. The entry fee includes brunch, greens fee, cart, driving range, refreshments on the course, gifts, prizes, a silent auction, and cocktails and dinner for each player and their guest that evening at the golf course.

This tournament is so special in helping our community and diabetic patients, said John Bull, chairman of the 2022 Valley Classic Steering Committee. We encourage men and women, no matter their golf skillset, to join us in raising funds for this wonderful service.

Gold Level sponsors Cisco and CDW lead nearly 40 sponsors and in-kind donors for this years event. Tournament proceeds support the work of the Certified Diabetes Educators who provide education for inpatients and outpatients.

Based at the Bull Family Diabetes Center, the diabetes educators completed 1,148 inpatient visits in 2021. In addition, the Miami Valley Hospital Foundation helps fund outpatient diabetes education for individuals who are uninsured or underinsured. Funds raised by The Valley Classic helps sustain these vital educational programs that enhance the lives of diabetic patients throughout our region.

To register, for sponsorship information, or to find out more about the Valley Classic, please contact the Foundation at (937) 208-2700, or visit the Miami Valley Hospital Foundation website by clicking here.

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Exposing The Agenda To Implement Global Totalitarianism Based On …

Posted: July 3, 2022 at 2:08 am

from Humans Are Free:

Its become absolutely crucial to understand what were up against, globally, and whos responsible for the rising totalitarianism and their ultimate intention.

The COVID pandemic was a coup dtat by the technocratic cabal that is behind the global takeover agenda, referred to asThe Great Reset.

TRUTH LIVES on athttps://sgtreport.tv/

The Great Reset was introduced by the World Economic Forum, which is tightly coupled to the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Their agenda is to implement a global type of totalitarianism based on technocratic and transhumanist ideologies. Part of that plan also includes reengineering and controlling all life forms, including humans.

While the outward expression of technocracy will appear as totalitarianism, the control center is not an individual. Rather than a single person ruling by the decree, technocracy relies on control through technology and algorithm. This is a very important difference.

In short, there will be no individual to blame or hold accountable. The dictator is an algorithm

Technocracy is an invented and unnatural form of economics that expresses itself as totalitarianism and requires social engineering to work. Technocrats in the past defined technocracy as the science of social engineering. Controlling the populace is crucial for the system to function.

Patrick Wood, a repeat guest, has spent decades studying technocracy an invented economic system that the global cabal is currently trying to implement worldwide. He was recently interviewed by The Defender, the Childrens Health Defense newsletter. You will find that interview below. I would actually encourage you to watch that one first, because it provides a really good background of Wood and his work.

This conversation also ties in with an interview I recently did with professor Mattias Desmet, author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, which will air in a few weeks, so be sure to keep an eye out for that one. While technocracy and totalitarianism have many similarities, there are some differences in perspective, which we will unravel here.

I wish there was something else to talk about, but this is it, Wood says. This is the topic of the day. This is what people need to know and understand.

If we are going to fight back against this enemy, which previously has pretty much been unseen, we must recognize who were dealing with. Period. We cannot provide any defense or offense to push back on this unless we know who the enemy really is and what theyre thinking, whats in their head.

While the COVID crisis sent most into a state of confusion, Wood was not surprised by the chain of events that eventually took place. Hed been following the climate change alarmism and the sustainable development agenda for a long time, and as soon as the same people who were promoting climate alarmism jumped on the COVID train, he knew they were connected, and that COVID was going to be used to promote the technocratic agenda.

The same flawed computer models used to convince us climate change will kill us all were also used to incite panic about the lethality of COVID. These computer models are basically rigged to say whatever they want them to say. According to climate change alarmists, mankind should have been wiped off the face of the earth 10 years ago. Yet here we are. The COVID models also failed, missing the mark by miles.

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by Rhoda Wilson, Expose News:

Its become absolutely crucial to understand what were up against, globally, and whos responsible for the rising totalitarianism and their ultimate intention.

The COVID pandemic was a coup dtat by the technocratic cabal that is behind the global takeover agenda, referred to as The Great Reset.

The Great Reset was introduced by the World Economic Forum, which is tightly coupled to the United Nations and the World Health Organization. Their agenda is to implement a global type of totalitarianism based on technocratic and transhumanist ideologies. Part of that plan also includes reengineering and controlling all life forms, including humans.

TRUTH LIVES on athttps://sgtreport.tv/

While the outward expression of technocracy will appear as totalitarianism, the control center is not an individual. Rather than a single person ruling by the decree, technocracy relies on control through technology and algorithm. This is a very important difference. In short, there will be no individual to blame or hold accountable. The dictator is an algorithm

Technocracy is an invented and unnatural form of economics that expresses itself as totalitarianism and requires social engineering to work. Technocrats in the past defined technocracy as the science of social engineering. Controlling the populace is crucial for the system to function.

By Dr J Mercola

Patrick Wood, a repeat guest, has spent decades studying technocracy an invented economic system that the global cabal is currently trying to implement worldwide. He was recently interviewed by The Defender, the Childrens Health Defense newsletter. You will find that interview below. I would actually encourage you to watch that one first, because it provides a really good background of Wood and his work.

This conversation also ties in with an interview I recently did with professor Mattias Desmet, author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism, which will air in a few weeks, so be sure to keep an eye out for that one. While technocracy and totalitarianism have many similarities, there are some differences in perspective, which we will unravel here.

I wish there was something else to talk about, but this is it,Wood says.This is the topic of the day. This is what people need to know and understand.

If we are going to fight back against this enemy, which previously has pretty much been unseen, we must recognize who were dealing with. Period. We cannot provide any defense or offense to push back on this unless we know who the enemy really is and what theyre thinking, whats in their head.

While the COVID crisis sent most into a state of confusion, Wood was not surprised by the chain of events that eventually took place. Hed been following the climate change alarmism and the sustainable development agenda for a long time, and as soon as the same people who were promoting climate alarmism jumped on the COVID train, he knew they were connected, and that COVID was going to be used to promote the technocratic agenda.

The same flawed computer models used to convince us climate change will kill us all were also used to incite panic about the lethality of COVID. These computer models are basically rigged to say whatever they want them to say. According to climate change alarmists, mankind should have been wiped off the face of the earth 10 years ago. Yet here we are. The COVID models also failed, missing the mark by miles.

At the time [in early 2020], I said this is technocracys coup dtat. Theyre finally making their major global move to do what they said they were going to do for a long time. Now, theyre actually putting shoe leather to it and theyre making it happen, so I called it coup dtat early on,Wood says.

Unfortunately, to quote Woods coauthor of previous books, Anthony Sutton, only 2% of people have critical thinking skills, 8% of people think they can think, and 90% would rather die than think. This willful ignorance explains why only 10% of a given population, on average, does not fall intomass formation hypnosis.

Wood, along with Dr. Judy Mikovits and Dr. Reiner Fuellmich, an international lawyer who cofounded the German Corona Investigative Committee have formed the Crimes Against Humanity Task Force. The first event will be held in Tampa, FL with guest speaker, Michael Yeadon, Ph.D..

We believe there is a great case to be made that, indeed, crimes against humanity have been committed in the same context and sense that they were discovered at the Nuremberg trials that produced the Nuremberg Code, which is now embedded in the legal system in every nation on earth, [including] our country and every state as well.

Medical experimentation is verboten, period, and yet it has happened anyway, with no informed consent along the way. People are getting sick and dying, the same old drill. What went wrong? Were presenting this case to the American public in person, and I will say the dynamic of talking to a live audience today is a breath of fresh air for me, personally. I think everybody else would say the same thing.

While many resist this stance, I and Wood agree that the crisis is not over, and its not going to right itself. No. Itll get worse, and things will never go back to the way they were. Its important to realize that we shouldnt want things to go back to the old normal, however. Because the old normal is what precipitated the many crises were currently facing.

We can fully expect that the partially failed vaccine passport will be replaced by digital identity, which will progress to a central bank digital currency (CBDC). Most central banks in the world will be rolling out CBDCs within the next three to five years.

Digital identity and CBDCs are a disaster racing toward us like a freight train, and itll be extremely difficult to get out of harms way. The past two years will seem like a picnic compared to whats coming.

If my hypothesis is true, January 2020 was the coup dtat that started this war in earnest, the hot war, if you will, versus the leading up to it. Lots of bad stuff happened from 9/11 through 2020 that we could point to and say, it looks like somebodys orchestrating this, but it went into a hot war, literally, globally as well, in January 2020. Revolutions never stop with one attack. Thats obvious. Im sure its self-evident.

So, who instigated this global revolution? Whos pulling the strings? Whos the real enemy? Its not the populace. Its not even a specific nation. Its a conglomerate of wealthy and influential people all over the world. But they have a shared philosophy, ideology and agenda. Wood explains:

Whats going on is called The Great Reset of the planet. The Great Reset has become a catchphrase. Most people dont have a clue what it means yet, but its promoted by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is tightly interlinked and coupled with the United Nations.

This elite group of people represent in mix all of the people that were originally in the Trilateral Commission back in the 1970s. Its the same kinds of people, the same agenda to transform the world into their vision, the way they think things ought to be. These are the people that have orchestrated this whole thing and theyre the ones that are pushing it right now.

Its easy to identify most of the people involved in this. You can look at the Klaus Schwabs and the Bill Gateses [of the world], and the thousand companies that belong to the World Economic Forum. They all have CEOs, board members, et cetera, that are part of the World Economic Forum. Its pretty easy to identify them today.

The idea of The Great Reset is complete transformation of society and individuals that live in this society. The World Economic Forum is boldly talking about both. They talk about this technocratic takeover on one hand, to reform society, that is the structures of society, the institutions, but they also talk about the restructuring of humanity itself.

That is, the merging of technology with the human condition, with the flesh, the changing of genetic code, Humanity 2.0, H+ is another term is used. This is mad scientist type of stuff. The average guy on the street has never been exposed to this.

Its hard to get your head around how evil this whole thing is, and its all uninvited. Nobody asked for it, they just did it. Thats another thing thats really important to understand: This didnt just come out of the blue or fall out of the sky from outer space. This has been in the works for a very long time.

In 1992, Agenda 21 was created. That was the genesis of sustainable development. Thats where that doctrine was openly described. The Agenda 21 and the Biodiversity Convention that took place at the same time was the agenda for 21st century.

As explained by Wood, Agenda 21 was foundational in the sense that laid out all the events being rolled out and changes being implemented today. Its just that no one was really paying attention to where things were headed, the ultimate implications of it all. Of course, those who did see the writing on the wall were discredited as crazy conspiracy theorists.

There was a great book released in 1994 called The Earth Brokers. The two authors were scholars. They were also the original environmental crowd. They werent on our side necessarily, but they went to the Agenda 21 conference in good faith, figuring there was going to be some negotiation to dial back the development that was messing with the Third World and try to get the planet back together.

They went hoping to turn some things around, and they came away from the Agenda 21 conference completely disillusioned In that book, they criticized the Agenda 21 process. They started out by saying something like this: We argue that USAID the United Nations conference on economic development has boosted precisely the type of industrial development that is destructive for the environment, the planet and its inhabitants.

We see how, as a result of USAID, the rich would get richer, the poor poorer, while more and more of the planet is destroyed in the process. What can we say, but amen to that. Here we are today. Its exactly whats happened.

The Earth Brokers also reviewed what they learned from the Biodiversity Convention, which ran parallel with the Agenda 21 conference. It had the same participants, just two different thought tracks brought together at the same conference.

They wrote about the biodiversity convention, which has become incredibly important today to the United Nations. They said the convention implicitly equates the diversity of life, that is animals and plants, to the diversity of genetic codes. By doing so, diversity becomes something modern science can manipulate. It promotes biotechnology as being essential for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity.

They redefined the term biodiversity, for one, but they also said the main stake raised by the biodiversity convention is the issue of ownership and control over biological diversity. The major concern was protecting the pharmaceutical and emerging biotechnology industries. That was their assessment.

To which, today, we can say, Bingo! That is exactly what happened back then, and this is exactly the expression today that we see of the genetic takeover of life on planet earth. Theyve gotten the seeds, theyve gotten the plants, theyve gotten the animals.

Today, the technocrats are also moving in on the human genetic code. Chief medical officer of Moderna, Tal Zaks, for example, has stated that Moderna, a developer of the mRNA COVID jab, is hacking the software of life. He described the human genetic code as an operating system, and if you can change that operating system by introducing a new line of code, or by changing a line of code, you can change how the operating system functions.

Since 1992, legislation has been created to protect Big Pharma. You could say the 1992 Agenda 21 was a pre-coup. They laid the groundwork back then to protect the pharmaceutical and emerging biotech industries they knew were coming. And, today, the very genetic makeup of mankind is up for grabs.

Technocracy dates further back than the 90s, however. Handwritten letters dating to the 1930s reveal some of the originators of the technocratic movement had gotten into an argument with the Hearst newspaper empire, and because of that, they forbade journalists to discuss them or the technocratic ideology. Hence, technocracy went underground and got sort of buried for a few decades. Wood explains:

What happened was, Howard Scott, one of the cofounders of Technocracy Inc., was also the leader of the group at Columbia University when it was housed there in 1932. He had promoted himself as being a certified engineer and one of the intellectual guys that would fit in to Columbia University. He wasnt from Columbia, but he was heading the [technocratic] movement there.

It was discovered, while he was there, that he was a complete fraud. He had no engineering degree at all. He was just a blowhard. He was a promoter basically a con man and Nicholas Murray Butler, the president of Columbia flipped out, and drop-kicked Scott out of Columbia

By the same token, Howard Scott was out working in the media like crazy, and he worked the Hearst empire to get articles about technocracy published all across the country.

When Randolph Hearst discovered, as Butler did, that he had been taken for a ride and that his media empire had been manipulated, he freaked out and sent out a telegram-type memo to every newspaper in the country, saying, If anybody ever mentions technocracy again, youre fired.

Well, that took care of that. History books have a 25-year lag, typically. Historians dont go back and analyze stuff from last year to write in history books. They go back 25 years and they look around and they read the newspaper articles and whatever, and try and figure out what happened. Thats how they write history.

Well, theres this huge hole on the technocracy movement because it just got dropped out. All of a sudden, theres no newspaper articles. Its just like they disappeared into thin air. The big, highly credentialed scientist and engineers at Columbia who were crowing about technocracy the year before, now, all of a sudden, would not dare mention the word.

Wood eventually discovered a major university archive at University of Edmonton in Alberta, where all of the leaders of the Canadian technocracy movement had combined their papers in the 90s.

The documents were placed in a warehouse where they sat for years on end, until a catalog of them was finally published on the internet. It was a real jackpot. Wood and his wife drove to Edmonton and spent a week sifting through and copying materials. After that, it wasnt very difficult to break down how the technocratic agenda had been moved forward and was being implemented.

While the outward expression of technocracy will appear as totalitarianism, the control center is not a dictator. Rather than a single person ruling by the decree, technocracy relies on control through technology and algorithm. This is a very important difference. In short, there are no people behind the curtain pulling strings. Theres no individual to blame or hold accountable.

The dictator is an algorithm. Looking at Google over the past couple of years, in particular, we can see this in action. We can also see it in the censorship of social media, and in the social credit system in China.

The so-called artificial intelligence boom has created the possibility of controlling people by algorithm, rather than by political dictate,Wood says.There has been a battle between technocrats and governments ever since technocracy started. Back in the day, they hated government. They wanted to get rid of government. There is still that propensity today.

You see it at the World Economic Forum, you see it at United Nations. They want to dissolve the national governments of the world. Historically, fascism and communism have been instituted by national governments. These entities are on the hit list for technocracy. We saw this, by the way, just recently. There was a conference in Dubai, called the World Government Summit1[March 29-30, 2022].

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Posted: July 3, 2022 at 2:08 am

What is truth? Truth is the revelation and acceptance of what is genuinely real.Time. What is Truth?

The public theologian needs an answer to the question, what is truth? Further, this answer needs to be intelligible. Why? Because of the relentless and merciless shelling against the theistic citadel by new atheist artillery. Believers in God, allegedly, cannot live in the truth because there is no deity. God does not exist. This makes all theistic claims not only false but unintelligible. It is time to ask this question: what is truth?

Despite the diversity of atheists, the American Atheists website makes clear that the common thread that ties all atheists together is a lack of belief in gods. Some of these atheists load their cannons with scientific ammunition. Is there a connection between science and atheism? Really?

Atheist Feldmarschall Richard Dawkins demands that the question of Gods existence be treated as a scientific hypothesis. If so treated, the evidence will show that no god exists, rendering the theistic hypothesis disconfirmed. Dawkins contends that religious belief is not true in the scientific sense. This makes religious belief one of the worlds greatest evils.

Not so, according to Cambridge University hybrid physicist and theologian, the late John Polkinghorne. Polkinghorne finds the natural world intelligible and celebrates this intelligibility. Polkinghorne also finds that the intelligibility of the natural world is enhanced when grasped as the creation of a loving and gracious God. God and the world are most intelligible when viewed together.

The universe is astonishingly open to us, relationally transparent to our enquiry.The most we can require is an interpretation that is coherent and persuasive. Theism provides just such a response to the meta question of intelligibility. If the world is the creation of the rational God, and if we are creatures made in the divine image, then it is entirely understandable that there is an order in the universe that is deeply accessible to our minds. Putting the same point in a different way, one could say that science discerns a world in which its rational beauty and rational transparency is shot through with signs of mind, and the theist can understand this because it is indeed the Mind of God that is partially disclosed in this way(Polkinghorne, 1998, pp. 72-73).[i]

In other words, the most coherent understanding of the many scientific propositions which disclose natures secrets requires a worldview inclusive of natures creator, God. A worldview that incorporates both God and what we learn about nature through science is more comprehensive and more intelligible than science without reference to God can provide.

So, when we ask, what is truth?, we are asking that genuine reality reveal itself to us.[ii] This happens in science, we trust. This happens in faith, we also trust. How might these cohere with one another in worldview construction?

Unless the claims of Holy Scripture and the Christian tradition are true, no one would want to believe them. The task of the public theologian is to make Christian claims intelligible, so that those within the church and outside the church can test them for their truth value.[iii]

What is truth? That was Pilates question to Jesus in John 18:38. Elsewhere, in John 14:6, we find Jesus saying, I am the way, and the truth, and the life What does truth mean here? And everywhere we use this word?

If truth is propositional, then the assertionJesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the lifecould be either true or false. How would we measure the truth or falsity of this proposition? On the basis of what appears. On the basis of what has been revealed to be real. On the basis of what is yet-to-be revealed to be real.

In the Johannine passages cited above, note the Greek word for truth, aletheia. Philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) analyzed this term (Heidegger, 1947). He noted how aletheia means unveiling or uncovering or revealing, Entdeckung. Truth is an event in which something concealed becomes unconcealed, Unverborgenheit.

Curiously, the unconcealing of one truth sometimes requires the concealing of another truth, leading to an ongoing dialectic of revealing and hiding. In sum, truth is the unconcealing or disclosing of being (Water, 1969).

What modern culture loves about science is that scientific facts and theories are transcultural. Scientific claims are universal, according to Polish philosopher Jsef Tischner. The fundamental property of scientific truth is its universalityscientific truth is the truth for everyonebasic truths are the same for all people(Tischner, 1982, p. 33).

Scientific truths come in the form of propositions or assertions. Truth and falsity areproperties of propositions (Inwagen, 2009, p. 33). Propositional truth presumes a correspondence between what is thought or asserted via language with objective or mind-independent reality. So far, so good.

Yet, phenomenologically speaking, the truth of propositions is dependent on a more fundamental and more comprehensive human experience, namely, the ostensive self-revelation of reality. Only what has been uncovered or disclosed about natures mysteries can rise to articulation in assertions or propositions.[iv] Then, when propositions or assertions correspond with what has been unconcealed, they are said to be true.[v]

Here is the takeaway. A propositional claim is like a single Blue Gill hooked by someone fishing, reeled in, and landed in the boat. Even though this single fish is real in every respect, it is abstracted from the fishermans total experience with the entire lake and the unknown number of fish that have not been seen, caught, or reeled in.

So, we must grant with Stuart A. Kauffman that Science is not the only pathway to truth (Kauffman, 2008, p. xii). Or, perhaps more precisely, scientific truth is an abstraction. It finds its meaning within a more comprehensive horizon of truth as experienced.

This applies to true living as well, living in behalf of the common good. The truth is deeper than facts, contends Patheos columnist, Victorious Living. More important. More real, even. We cannot pursue truth while avoiding facts. But we cannot make sense of our facts while avoiding the deeper truths.

Let me tell you about Charles Townes (1915-2015). Charlie was a Nobel Prize winning physicist. Among his achievements was the discovery of a black hole in the center of our galaxy, designing the scientific agenda of the first astronauts on the Moon, and inventing the laser and maser. The final decades of his career were spent at the University of California at Berkeley, where I had an opportunity to get to know him and his vibrant wife, Francis. Charlie served on the board of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences.

Charlie loved physics. Physics was his passion. Even as he neared the age of a hundred, he spent almost every day engaged in scientific research. I get to do physics all day. What could be better than that?, he once said to me with glee.

Now, heres whats startling. Charlie told me and then an audience that I assembled that the invention of the laser was due to a special revelation. The laser came to him as a vision. While sitting on park bench in Washington DC, a vision appeared before his eyes with the physics and engineering necessary to make the first laser. He copied on his brown lunch bag what appeared in the vision. And, thus, the laser was born.

Charlie did not describe the vision as supernatural. Yet, is was a revelation that came to him as a gift.

One evening, Charlie and Francis were visiting at my Berkeley condo. A number of students were seated around Charlie, eagerly asking questions. Ya know, Charlie began one of his rare pontifications, I believe all scientific discoveries are revelations. Oh, yes, discoveries come at the end of experiments. But, whats really happening is that nature is revealing itself to the human mind. Isnt it wonderful!

Before a scientist can enunciate a proposition, nature must reveal itself. Thats Heideggers phenomenological insight. Revelation as disclosure applies as much to science as it does to theology.

If you are motivated to harken to the call of truth, then you will want to understand truth. To understand truth, is to subject your mind and your will to the reality that is uncovered in a truth event. Understanding requires us to stand under the authority of truth.

Truth is self-defining. And truth compels us to respect it by submitting to it. Here is theologian Alan Padgett: I want to stand under the truth and receive (understand) what light it brings(Padgett, Alan 2006). Truth asks us for submission so that we can gain understanding.

Or, more completely: I will simply propose that we understand truth as the mediated disclosure of being (or reality). Sometimes that truth will be mediated through everyday experience, or common sense, sometimes through the specifics of propositions (Padgett, Alan 2006). In short, truth calls the human mind to humility. This applies to truth in all forms, especially theological truth.

Grace to Youproposes an understanding of theological truth.

Heres a simple definition drawn from what the Bible teaches: Truth is that which is consistent with the mind, will, character, glory, and being of God. Even more to the point:Truth is the self-expression of God. That is the biblical meaning of truth. Because the definition of truth flows from God, truth istheological.

Truth is alsoontologicalwhich is a fancy way of saying it is the way things really are. Reality is what it is because God declared it so and made it so. Therefore God is the author, source, determiner, governor, arbiter, ultimate standard, and final judge of all truth.

Now, we turn to hermeneutics. Truth is tied to interpretation.

Our human receptivity for revelation is conditioned by our personal past experience, our historically inherited culture, our linguistic capacity, and our willingness to learn new things. You and I come to every new experience with a pre-understanding, a Vorverstndnis, to use the terminology of Hans-Georg Gadamer(Gadamer, 1965). An open-minded person ready to learn avoids allowing this pre-understanding to become a prejudgment (Vorurteil) or prejudice. A prejudice prevents new learning. A pre-understanding is always necessary for receiving new truth. But, a prejudice is optional.

Because each one of us lives within a specific context with its own horizon of pre-understanding, our experience with a truth event will be inescapably perspectival. A purely objective or absolute truth with no pre-understanding is not an option. All of our seeing is seeing-as. We must grant a certain level of relativity to our truth experience. What passes for objective truth is, for all practical purposes, an inter-subjective interpretation.

Theologian Catherine Keller acknowledges the inescapability of relativity in perspective. Relativity, which we must strictly distinguish from relativism, just describes the reality of a relational universe. The human observer belongs to that universe. Therefore all human truth-claims are relative to context and perspective(Keller, 2008, p. 4).

The truth of Godthe truth that brings knowledge, forgiveness, comfort, and joyis always pro me, says Martin Luther. The objective truth of God is revealed within subjective trueness for you and for me. To understand God is to stand under Gods Word addressed to you or me.

The uncovering of what is genuinely real is the essence of all truth. This applies to Gods emergence from hiding as well. God defines God-self in events of self-revelation. And because God is the ultimate reality, all truth becomes dependent on what is revealed by God about God. At least according to Calvinist philosopher Alvin Plantinga. There is such a thing as truth, and it is intimately connected with God (Plantinga, 1998, p.36).[vi]

This is the theme that runs through Karl Barths Church Dogmatics. The freely acting God Himself and alone is the truth of revelation. (Barth, 1936-1962, p. I/1 15). According to Barth, the Bible mediates Gods Word through the human words on the pages.

T.F. Torrance, a scholar quite concerned with the interaction between theology and science, elaborates with regard to Scriptural truth.

When all is said and done in biblical interpretation and theological formulation, the ultimate criterion to which appeal is to be made is the Truth itself, that Truth independent of themselves too which the Holy Scriptures direct us and to which they themselves are subject. All faithful interpretation must allow the Truth to assert itself in its own intrinsic weight and majesty and to maintain its own ground over against us and our prejudices, for in the last resort we have to reckon with the fact that God alone can name himself and bear witness to himself and prove himself to us (Torrance, 1982, pp.118-119).

On the one hand, what we assert in propositional or second order form derives from what is uncovered in first order experience. Reality comes out of hiding and becomes unconcealed at the level of first order experience. Then, when we formulate an assertion about what has been revealed, we abstract from the embedded first order experience. In sum, propositions are second order discourse reporting on the first order experience of disclosure.

One task of the systematic theologianalong with the public theologianis to press for coherence between what has been revealed to us by God and what has been unconcealed for us by our scientists. But, constructing coherence requires distinguishing prejudice from pre-understanding.

Here is the late Wolfhart Pannenberg on overcoming prejudice in constructive theology.

The truth of Christian doctrine cannot be maintained where Christian proclamation gives priority to adaptation to the secular mentality. It has to challenge that mentality and its prejudices.Since secularism produces meaninglessness, the human person suffers from the lack of meaning. There is a need, then, for the Christian message, perhaps more urgently so than in other periods of human history. But the message can reach its addresse only if the prejudices of secularism against Christianity can be overcome (Pannenberg 2002, 1).

Pannenberg advocates a coherence theory of truth, not a correspondence theory of truth. Coherence provides the final criterion of truth, and it can serve as such a criterion because it also belongs to the nature of truth: so that truth is only one, but all -embracing, closely related to the concept of the one God (Pannenberg, An Introduction to Systematic Theology 1991, 6). How coherence works should become clear in what follows.

Belief in God requires belief in the truth. No rational person would place his or her or their life in the hands of a God who does not exist. It all depends on truth, says Pannenberg when asking why a non-Jew might believe in the God of Israel. If we suppose that the God of Israel and of Jesus is the one and only true God, then and only then is there sufficient reason for believing in that God, even if one is not a Jew (Pannenberg, An Introduction to Systematic Theology 1991, 4-5). Belief includes confidence and trust in truth. And, truth depends on revelation. Did divine revelation take place in Israels history?

Revelations from God about God always leave some residue, some dimensions that resist codification in assertions or propositions. This is because God remains mysterious even in unconcealment. The more that God reveals, the more we become aware of the divine mystery. Religious propositions, then, must convey the dialectic of concealment with unconcealment. Religious propositions must be symbolic at their most fundamental level.

A holistic self-disclosure of reality rises to articulation only in symbolic speech. Binoy (Jacob) Pichalakkat, mathematician and theologian in Pune, India, makes this observation. In symbols reality becomes aware of itself and mirrors itself (Pichalakkatt, 2006, p. 26). Note the direction of movement: reality discloses itself, and we mark the event of this disclosure with a symbol. Symbols both reflect and participate in the reality they disclose.

Please get this point. Propositional truths are literal assertions that intend a single meaning. Symbolic truths are multi-valent with two or more levels of meaning. We live in a worldview with both.

Austrian philosopher Eric Voegelin reminds us of the distinction between symbols and propositions. Truth is not a body of propositions about a world-immanent object; it is the world-transcendent summum bonum, experienced as an orienting force in the soul, about which we can speak only in analogical symbols (Voegelin, 1956-1987, p. 3:363). Symbols point to and even participate in the reality they uncover; but symbols cannot exhaust the meaning of what they reveal in propositional form. Symbols come first. Propositions come second.

As double-valent, symbols connote concealment and unconcealment simultaneously. Religious symbols are pre-propositional in character. Symbols participate in the truth, to be sure. Yet, first order symbols stop short of reducing truth to proposition. Second order propositions interpret first order symbolic experience. Scientific propositions interpret experience in the form of empirical evidence and experiment.

Do religious people believe in literal truth? No. Scientists do, though.

Well, wait a minute! Some evangelicals and fundamentalists pridefully exclaim that they stand on the literal truth of the Bible. Patheos columnist Vance Morgan was born into a fundamentalist family. He has since become a Progressive Christian. Morgan explains what it means to believe in literal truth.

I was born into the fundamentalist Protestant worldand I am thoroughly familiar with how literalists read the Bible. I was taught that the Bible is the inerrant and infallible word of God, dictated by divine inspiration to specially selected human beings, then assembled into the Word of God that we call the Bible. The Bible is Gods final word to us, I was taught; all the guidance a Christian needs to live a life pleasing to God can be found between its covers. Many of the vehicles in our church parking lot sported a bumper sticker expressing the appropriate attitude toward Scripture: God Said It. I Believe It. That Settles It.

Because the linguistic expressions of Holy Scripture include deliberately non-literal formspsalms, aphorisms, parables, metaphors, and suchit would be irrational to treat all biblical texts literally. Contrary to common belief, Protestant fundamentalists do not believe in the dictation theory of the Bible.

The predominant view of Scriptures inspiration within fundamentalism derives from the late 19th century Princeton Theology. According to that Princeton Theology, the Holy Spirit inspired the New Testament writers who then mediated Gods Word through their own language and experience along with the their own writers agenda. In the heat of the fundamentalist-modernist controversy of the 1920s, fundamentalist Clarence E. Macartney announced in his famous sermon, Shall Unbelief Win?, the following. Those who hold the New Testament idea of inspiration, that holy men of old spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, have never thought of the Holy Ghost dictating to Moses, Isaiah or St. Paul. What could be more clear! There is no warrant to believe that the words of the text were dictated by God, even for a fundamentalist. So, what Morgan reports here seems a tad extreme.

Biblical speech is fundamentally symbolic and double-valent. Biblical speech connotes invisible realities while it denotes ordinary experiences. This is why Jesus strained to convey truths about God through parables. We today must always treat Holy Sculpture hermeneutically, soliciting the Holy Spirits inner witness when we apply scriptural truth to our own daily lives.

Not so with scientific propositions. The laboratory scientist swims in eddies of experiment, fact, data, hypotheses, theories, and revisions of theories. Then, with corroboration and caution, the scientist tenders a proposition. That proposition is intended to be a literal assertion. It is intended to denote a fact. And only a fact. Thats it. Nothing more. No meaning. No significance. No metaphysical implications. Just a fact.

Keep clear: it is science that communicates literally through propositions. Not religion.

Do theologians ever make propositions? Yes, indeed. The Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed are collections of propositions. To theological propositions we now turn.

Theological propositionscalled dogmasare hypothetical assertions about ultimate reality. They are hypothetical because their truth depends upon confirmation or disconfirmation by Gods future actions. Drawing from the multi-valent symbols found in Scripture, dogmas point prophetically to truths about divine promises yet awaiting fulfillment. Only future fulfillment can determine the truth or falsity of such Christian theological claims.

Such dogmatic propositions are also doxological. That is, the reality yet to be revealed will be far more glorious than these propositions can convey. Even if a theological proposition gets confirmed by God, its literal meaning will be engulfed with a penumbra of glory that will bring an unanticipated fullness. Here is Pannenberg on dogmatic statements requiring eschatological confirmation to determine their truth value.

Dogmatic statements have a proleptic tendency in that they have all of reality, history as a whole, in view, since in Christ, the consummation of history, the future of us all, has already begun.Thus, the doxological element in the dogmatic statement is founded upon the proleptic, and both are interrelated through the universal meaning that inheres in this particular event(Pannenberg, Basic Questions in Theology, 2 Volumes, 1970-1971, p. 1:205).

Right now, the Apostles Creed and Nicene Creed are statements of faith awaiting divine confirmation or disconfirmation eschatologically. These collections of Christian propositions about God are abstractions from more robust multi-valent biblical symbols. Even in propositional form, dogmas still resonate with symbolic meaning that is suprapropositional. Historically, creedal collections of dogmas are frequently called, symbols.

Creedal symbols remain second order discourse, still subordinate to the first order discourse of Holy Scripture. The more basic biblical symbols articulate what our ancestors experienced in revelatory events where truths about God were disclosed. Today we look forward to the eschatological future anticipated by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 13:12: For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.

The scriptures themselves tell us that the universal recognition of Gods glory will not occur before the eschaton. Until then, the truth of his revelation continue to be in dispute. (Pannenberg, An Introduction to Systematic Theology 1991, 17)

Not everyone is dedicated to standing under the truth in coherent form. Wikipedia management, for example, holds that multiple truths exist without cohering with one another. We all have different truths. We all have different biases. We need to listen to voices other than Western white men. We should share power. Rather than talk about the truth, then, we should focus on what we believe and what we can agree on. What is important is that we all get along, according to Wikipedias Katherine Maher. Yet, despite this well-intentioned gesture toward social harmony, my question here is still this: what is truth?

In this Patheos post, we have been asking: what is truth? In addition, we have been asking whether a theological worldview could be intelligible when coherently incorporating scientific knowledge. Standing under the truth requires the theologian to strive not only for coherence but also intelligibility.

No theologian need answer atheist shelling with a counterattack. Rather, the theist may simply live truly within the symbols which participate in Gods self-revelation. Then, of course, the theologian should formulate intelligible propositions. Such constructed propositions will be hypothetical. They will turn out to be proleptic assertions, awaiting divine confirmation or disconfirmation in the eschaton.

Every searching soul welcomes truth whenever an event of unconcealment makes something invisible visible. Scientific truth along with personal truth and divine truth belong together in a single worldview. Pannenberg rightly reminds the public theologian: The question of the truth of Christianity cannot be enquired into without also enquiring into the question of the truth of all areas of human experience, including scientific knowledge about the natural world (Pannenberg, Theology and the Philosophy of Science, 1976, p. 255).

Ive been working with the following hypothesis: truth is the revelation and acceptance of what is genuinely real. If God is the ultimate reality, then all truth must come from the one God. All truth, no matter by whom it is uttered, comes from the Holy Spirit (Omnis veritas, a quoquo dicitur, e Spiritu Sancto est). Ascribed to St. Ambrose of Milan.

Thank God that our minds hunger and thirst for truth. Thank God that truth comes to us. Thank God that truth satisfies that hunger and slakes that thirst.

Ted Peters directs traffic at the intersection of science, religion, and ethics. Peters is an emeritus professor at the Graduate Theological Union, where he co-edits the journal, Theology and Science, on behalf of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, in Berkeley, California, USA. He authored Playing God? Genetic Determinism and Human Freedom? (Routledge, 2nd ed., 2002) as well as Science, Theology, and Ethics (Ashgate 2003). He is editor of AI and IA: Utopia or Extinction? (ATF 2019). Along with Arvin Gouw and Brian Patrick Green, he co-edited the new book, Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics hot off the press (Roman and Littlefield/Lexington, 2022). Soon he will publish The Voice of Christian Public Theology (ATF 2022). See his website: TedsTimelyTake.com.The fictional spy thriller, Cyrus Twelve, follows the twists and turns of a transhumanist plot.

[i] Truth cannot contradict truth(Pope, 1998).

[ii] No religion is genuine unless it be joined with truth, according to John Calvin(Calvin, 1960, p. I/v.3.50.).

[iv] Fuller systematic theologian Veli-Matti Krkkinen promotes the dialogue between theology and the natural sciences, because the doctrine of creation itself requires the access to reality provided by science. Specifically, the scientific worldview differs from previous worldviews within which theology worked. This engagement happens under a radically different worldview from that of the past: ours is dynamic, interrelated, evolving, in-the-making(Krkkinen, 2015, pp. 10-11).

[v] Lets compare correspondence with coherence. Scientific propositions rely on the correspondence theory of truth, according to which propositions correspond to reality as revealed. The coherence theory of truth, alternatively, relies on the coherence of one proposition with others in a web of claims. Borrowing the metaphor of the web or net of beliefs formulated by logician W.V.O. Quine, Nancey Murphy at Fuller abandons the correspondence model of truth in favor of a coherence model. Truth is found in coherence, where beliefs require one another is a web or net. This new picture of knowledge is salutary for religion scholars, she writes. No longer is there a need to find an unquestionable starting point, a theological foundation, before we can begin the task of theology proper(Murphy, 2018, p. 71).

[vi] Truths from God belong together with truths from science. The task of the systematic theologian is to make them all coherent. A limited rational validation of the truth of the Gospel is possible.Negatively the Gospel must and can be validated by exploring the limits of historic forms of wisdom and virtue. Positively it is validated when the truth of faith is correlated with all truths which may be known by scientific and philosophical disciplines and proves itself a resource for coordinating them into a deeper and wider system of coherence(Niebuhr, 1949, p. 152).

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Barbara Marx Hubbard: Godmother of Transhumanism and Synthetic Spirituality

Posted: July 3, 2022 at 2:07 am

In 2016, the Global Future Councils of the World Economic Forum (WEF) posted a video entitled 8 Predictions for the World in 2030, which infamously forecasted a technocratic New World Order in which [y]oull own nothing. And youll be happy. It doesnt take a stretch of the imagination to ponder how WEF oligarchs plan to roll out sustainable development policies which will ration consumer goods in a global sharing economy that employs transient gig workers who will be rendered into propertyless serfs under a techno-communitarian rendition of neo-feudalism. But how will the globalist technocrats of the WEF sway the virtual peasant class to be happy with their permanent state of digitally indentured servitude?

Enter New Age guru Barbara Marx Hubbard and her endorsement of the HeartMath Institutes Global Coherence Initiative [1][2], which is propagating transhumanist neurofeedback wearables across the planet in order to digitally synchronize humanitys collective heart rhythms and brainwaves into electronically induced states of synthetic spiritual bliss. With Hubbards transhumanist blessings, HeartMaths global neurotech network is primed to lull plebs and proles into happy compliance with the New Normal of the Fourth Industrial Revolutions techno-feudal stakeholder economy.

In this first installment of my series on Hubbards legacy contributions to the post-humanist religion and techno-fascist economy of the neo-eugenic Fourth Industrial Revolution, I will historicize how Rockefeller philanthropies bankrolled Hubbards Foundation for Conscious Evolution in order to digitally engineer humankind into a new transhuman species baptized in the name of tech-Gnostic Christ Consciousness [3]. Furthermore, I will expose how Hubbard collaborated with globalists at the World Business Academy, corporatists at Singularity University, and Eupsychian human potential psychologists in connection with the Esalen Institute in order to establish a techno-communitarian spiritualism that worships transhumanist evolution controlled by Big Tech companies which dominate the stakeholder economy of the Fourth Industrial Revolution [4]. Finally, I will document how Hubbard advanced the globalization of HeartMath Institutes transhumanist biofeedback wearables which can neuro-technologically mesmerize the precariat into virtual states of happy subservience to the New Normal.

In the coming installments of this series, I will reveal how Hubbards transhumanist mission to steer conscious evolution is steeped in Malthusian-eugenic population control. Additionally, I will unveil how Hubbards transhumanist allies from the World Future Society, the Human Potential Movement, and the Foundation for Conscious Evolution are entangled with networks of alleged pedophiles and sexual abuse cults.

Ever since the announcement of COVID-19 lockdowns, there has been a spate of propaganda campaigns from government bureaucrats, corporate oligarchs, and globalist technocrats who have been lecturing about the necessity to acclimate to the New Normal. You probably never heard this post-COVID slogan until 2020, but Hubbard was prophesying the dawning of a New Normal at least as far back as 2008. In fact, Hubbard foretold that 2020 would mark the pivotal year of the global Shift toward the New Normal that is transitioning the world into the futurist Singularity envisioned by Googles Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, who is a founder of Singularity University, which is a post-humanist think tank where Hubbard promoted her dreams of harnessing conscious evolution to engineer a new transhuman species.

In Hubbards book, 52 Codes for Conscious Self Evolution: A Process of Metamorphosis to Realize Our Full Potential Self, Code 33 called for human beings to Come Forward as a New Norm in order to evolve the human species from Homo sapiens sapiens to Homo universalis [5]. Later, in 2012, Hubbard published another book, Birth 2012 and Beyond: Humanitys Great Shift to the Age of Conscious Evolution. In a section titled from 2012 to 2020 and Beyond, Hubbard proclaimed that [t]he eight years after the [2012] Birth, leading up to 2020, will be critical for implementing the shifts necessary for us to gently grow into the next era . . . evolving into fully formed evolutionary communities . . . around the world where each person can learn to transform themselves and our world into a transhumanist New World Order [1].

Even prior to 2008, for decades, Hubbard foretold the coming of a new transhumanist age in which humankind will merge with technology through conscious evolution. As a crusader for the Human Potential Movement, Hubbard networked with psychologists at the Esalen Institute and corporatists at Singularity University to pave the way for human consciousness to collectively co-evolve with the noetic consciousness of the cosmos through transhumanist technologies [6]. Bankrolled by Rockefeller philanthropy [3], Hubbard established the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, which has been pushing the synergistic advancement of biotech, nanotech, and supercomputing artificial intelligence (AI) that can be globally converged through the internet-of-things (IoT) and the internet-of-bodies (IoB) in order to engineer a new transhuman species. To help build the collective cybernetic nervous system of an evolving transhuman superorganism, Hubbard promoted the HeartMath Institutes Global Coherence Network of wearable neurofeedback technologies that interlink human biorhythms through smartphones across the planet [1].

In An Evolutionary Synthesis: A New World View (Weaving Together a New Memetic Code for the Optimum Future for Humanity), which was published in 2008 by the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Hubbard forecasted how, [f]rom the perspective of the Evolutionary Trans-humanism we see a possible convergence of our expanded consciousness with our technologically-enhanced body/minds . . . as the next stage of our evolution when there will be a cosmic cultural convergence of life between trans-human and eventually post-human life, including silicon-based life. Foreshadowing the post-COVID New Normal of 2020, Hubbard added that, [i]n Evolutionary Trans-Humanism the Universal Human appears for the first time on this Earth as a new norm: as a person incarnating our spiritual, social and scientific/technological capacities.

As the techno-fascist exploitation of COVID lockdowns manifests the theme of Hubbards 1993 book, Our Crisis Is a Birth [7],the coronavirus crisis is birthing a technocratic New Normal in which human life is being increasingly mediated through computer screens and digital IDs that are primed to be tracked and traced by IoTIoB cybernetics. Hence, it appears that the turning point of 2020 has lined up with Hubbards predictions for a Great Shift toward the Birth of a Conscious Evolution in which humankind begins to synergize with digital computer technologies in order to be reimagined as a new transhuman cyborg species.

If you dont like the idea of Big Tech biotechnologically engineering you into a digital computer product, dont worry. Hubbards global HeartMath initiative can hook you up to biofeedback wearables that will electronically hypnotize you into copasetic obedience as you are techno-eugenically engineered into a transhuman underling who will happily own nothing, not even your own body, in the New Normal that is the techno-fascist Fourth Industrial Revolution.

To be sure, Hubbards vision of the transhuman future wasnt magically gleaned from peering into a crystal ball. Rather, Hubbard was closely involved with many of the transhumanist architects of the technocratic New Normal which, for several decades, they have been plotting for 2020.

Hubbards vision of trans-evolution through a superorganic cyber-nervous system was inspired by the tech-Gnostic prophesies of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and the design science revolution of R. Buckminster Fuller [8]. Teilhard de Chardin was a eugenicist Jesuit priest who preached a trans-Gnostic gospel of spiritual, or noetic, evolution through the awakening of universal consciousness through the noosphere. Fuller was an eminent futurist and the godfather of the design science revolution, which prototyped synergetic models of evolutionary architecture, such as the geodesic dome. Both Teilhard de Chardin and Fuller professed their faith in the Cosmic Christ Consciousness of noospheric evolution, which Hubbard likewise idolized as the crux of humankinds cybernetic evolution into a trans-technological collective.

During Hubbards 2015 speech to members of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), she traced the awakening of her own conscious evolution to her reading of Teilhard de Chardins Phenomenon of Man: the minute I read that . . . I dedicated myself to the noosphere. Derived from the pre-Socratic philosopher Anaxagorass concept of the nous, which is the omnipresent mind of the cosmos, the noosphere is, according to Teilhard de Chardin, the tangential energy of the universe that is evolving through human consciousness. In Hubbards speech at the 2015 IONS International Conference, she pontificated how, through the tangential energies of noetic evolution, the planet has grown a new nervous system in the last 15 years. And its internet. Its Facebook; its Twitter; its 7 billion cellphones and counting. . . . An enormous nervous system has been given, and its open to us.

In brief, Hubbard believed that the noospheric expansion of consciousness is evolving the human biological nervous system into an extended technological network of smartphones that are interlinked with internet social media. By ostensibly branching human nervous systems collectively out through mobile phones across satellite telecommunications, online social networks are, according to Hubbard, building evolutionary stepping stones toward a transhuman zenith in which brain-computer interfaces and nanotech implants will unite human consciousness with the cosmic consciousness of the noosphere by merging organic biological intelligence with hi-tech artificial intelligence.

In her 2001 book, Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence (10 Steps to the Universal Human), Hubbard relayed how Teilhard de Chardins noosphere is what we might call the thinking layer of Earth, or the mind sphere. Think of this noosphere as an invisible, yet all pervasive, superorganism. Here, each of us lives, much as our own cells live inside of our body. The noosphere is composed of our collective consciousnesses . . . as well as the intelligence that is creating our extended bodies in the form of rapidly growing technology, including the Internet, biotechnology, and nanotechnology [9].

During her 2017 speech, Awakening the New Species in You, at the Global Purpose Movements Purpose Summit in San Francisco, Hubbard declared that Teilhard de Chardins noosphere is now the internet nervous system of the planet, and theres enough of us now to wake up our planetary nervous system through hi-tech . . . artificial intelligence, quantum computing, robotics, genetics, all of that . . . being the powers of our mythological gods.

In sum, Hubbard believed that, by harnessing biotech and nanotech robotics, genetically engineered human bodies can be melded with quantum AI, which will evolve human beings into transhuman cyborgs who can achieve godhood by summoning the collective consciousness of the noosphere through the internet of things (IoT) and the internet of bodies (IoB).

Inverting the Biblical gospel of how God humbled himself to descend from Heaven in order to be incarnated in the human body of Jesus Christ, Hubbard preached Teilhard de Chardins trans-Gnostic gospel of how humans must exalt themselves as gods by technologically evolving into ultrahumanmachine hybrids capable of ascending to the Christ Consciousness of the noosphere. During her IONS speech, Hubbard relayed how Teilhard de Chardin prophesied that, [w]hen the mind sphere . . . gets its collective eyes, we will experience . . . the Christification of the Earth.

According to Hubbard, the mind spheres, or noospheres, collective eyes are being opened through the worldwide web of internet social media. In Hubbards vision of the future, these digital social networks would spread across the globe and saturate the planet through what R. Buckminster Fuller called the design science revolution. In the final equation, Hubbards Fuller-inspired technetronic revolution will culminate in a noetic nexus of satellite telecommunications and mobile computer devices that will consciously evolve into a transhumanist IoTIoB Singularity, resulting in the so-called Christification of the Earth, which will anoint the collective human species as god on Earth.

This tech-Gnostic gospel of Christ Consciousness was also preached by Fuller, who believed that his design science revolution would harness advances in science and industry to technocratically usher in a utopian heaven on Earth. Like Hubbard and Teilhard de Chardin, Fuller envisioned that, by means of the design science revolution, the universal mind, or cosmic Christ consciousness, would evolve through the transhumanist synergy of human intelligence and technological progress. In Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, Fuller pontificated that the Universe is technology and that, in the emerging epoch of the new age, the design science revolution would technocratically meld the Christ consciousness of the noosphere with the human consciousness of the biosphere, resulting in a cosmic-transhumanist singularity that would bring about a paradise on Earth.

Finding a nous-mate in Hubbard, Fuller laureled her as the heir to his futurist vision of Christified technocratic evolution through his design science revolution. In Hubbards 2015 book, The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation: The Promise Will Be Kept, she recorded how Fuller declared, [t]here is no doubt in my mind that Barbara Marx Hubbardwho helped introduce the concept of futurism to societyis the best informed human now alive regarding futurism and the foresights it has produced [3]. With great pride, Hubbard took on Fullers mantle and carried the torch for his techno-Christified design science revolution.

In her speech titled How Do We Get Ready for 2012: A Vision for Humanity, which was orated during The Prophets Conference: 2012 Tipping Point at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada, Hubbard told a story about how both she and Fuller had Christ Consciousness experiences that brought together their esoteric journeys toward hi-tech conscious evolution:

Buckys Christ experience was that he was walking along the streets in Chicago; . . . he saw a light; he got lifted up by the light, and he heard the words, Bucky, you are the first mini-Christ on Earth, and what you attest to is true. Fuller revealed this vision to her on an occasion when Hubbard shared her own Christ experience with him. Hubbard explains that, one day, I had written this book about the New Testament of an evolutionary Christ. Bucky asked to see me alone. He put his arms around me . . . and he said, darling, I had the same experience. And he put his temple onto mine, and I feel he zapped me with the design science revolution.

In a nutshell, both Hubbard and Fuller professed their faith in noospheric Christ Consciousness, and Hubbard believed that her shared Christ experience with Fuller noetically transmuted his revolutionary design science mission into her own conscious evolution.

Carrying on the message of Fullers design science revolution, Hubbard paraphrased a passage from his Utopia or Oblivion in her 1995 book, The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium. In a section titled The Journey, Hubbard relayed Fullers utopian forecast of how the metaphysical, or noetic, consciousness of universal intelligence is cosmically evolving in tandem with the collective-conscious evolution of human intelligence through the transhumanist technological progression of the design science revolution:

[t]he universe is . . . building up toward even higher order because it is increasing in intelligencethough us!

Intelligence, proclaimed Fuller, is not physical, it is metaphysical . . . Our technology is becoming ephemeralized, miniaturized, and aesthetic, like natures technologies: photosynthesis, DNA, the human brain. We now have the technology, resources, and know-how, Fuller said, to make of this world a 100 percent physical success. . . .

The growing edge of technology is giving us the power to transform ourselves as well as our world. . . .The individual human has enormous untapped potential. The planet is evolving toward a quantum leap, wherein all of its members will experience themselves as part of one body. We have the ability to overcome physical lack, and even to change our physical natureour body/mind systems. These great evolutionary goals are the meaning of power.

Stated differently, Hubbard touted Fullers postulation of how, as technology evolves, it will become increasingly ephemeralized until it is so condensed that it can be fused into human biology. In turn, this ephemeralized amalgamation of biology and technology will, according to Hubbard, transform body/mind systems by melding them with the digital infrastructure of the world economy.

To put it all together, Hubbard was an evangelist for conscious transhumanist evolution through the globalization of a collective cybernetic nervous system that will be vitalized by the techno-industrial revolution of Fullers synergetic design science and the noospheric awakening of Teilhard de Chardins Cosmic Christ Consciousness.

To midwife the tech-noetic trans-evolution of the universal Christ mind idolized by Fuller and Teilhard de Chardin, Hubbard set up the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, which was seed-funded by Laurence Rockefeller [3]. The brother of John D. Rockefeller III, David Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller, and Winthrop Rockefeller, Laurence was a president and a founding trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which is a corporate philanthropy that finances social impact investments in biotechnology and digital technology. These, of course, are key building blocks in the IoT-IoB matrix at the crux of Hubbards transhumanist dreams of collective-conscious evolution. Laurence also bankrolled esoteric studies into Gnostic Christ Consciousness and noetical parapsychology.

In the prelude to her Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation, which was dedicated to Laurence Rockefeller, Hubbard lauds how he was instrumental in helping her found the Foundation for Conscious Evolution: [w]ith great gratitude I dedicate Evolutionary Testament: [sic] The Promise Will Be Kept to Lawrence [sic] Rockefeller, who recognized its purpose to help bring forth the Christ of the 21st Century and supported me in forming The Foundation for Conscious Evolution to bring it forward into the world [3].

According to the official website of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, this Rockefeller-funded tax-exempt foundation advances synergistic transhuman evolution driven by the [t]he advent of radical evolutionary technologies such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, quantum computing, space exploration, etc. . . . [T]he tools are there to transform ourselves, our bodies and our world. We can and are actually moving beyond the creature human condition toward a new species, a universal humanity, capable of coevolving with nature. In other words, fueled with Rockefeller money, the Foundation for Conscious Evolution advocates for humankind to merge with biotech and nanotech quantum computers in order to evolve humanity into a new transhuman species, which Hubbard has dubbed Homo Universalis.

Not only did Rockefeller provide the seed financing for Hubbards Foundation for Conscious Evolution, but he also bankrolled many of the hi-tech industries, including biotech, nanotech, and quantum computing, which the Foundation for Conscious Evolution sees as vehicles for conscious transhuman evolution.

In 1946, Laurence Rockefeller and his brothers, David, Nelson, Winthrop, and John D. III, founded one of the very first venture capital firms, Rockefeller Brothers Inc., which is today known as Venrock. Laurence kicked off Venrock ventures by investing in Silicon Valley corporations, such as Intel and Apple. In fact, Venrock held a board seat for nearly 20 years at Apple.

Other Venrock ventures into Big Tech industries include investments in online behavioral advertising companies, including AppNexus and DoubleClick, the latter of which is now owned by Google. Of course, behavioral advertising analytics are at the core of the data-mining algorithms that power what Hubbard referred to as the collective cybernetic nervous systems of social media networks.

Meanwhile, Venrock has also financed several biotech corporations, biopharmaceutical enterprises, gene-sequencing companies, and genetic-modification businesses, including Abbott Laboratories; Unity Biotechnology; Element Biosciences; REGENXBIO; 10X Genomics; Targeted Genetics; the Genetics Institute; Centocor, which is owned by Johnson & Johnson; Adnexus Therapeutics, which is owned by Bristol-Myers Squibb; Idun Pharmaceuticals, which is owned by Pfizer; andSirna Therapeutics, an RNA interference (RNAi) technology startup that was acquired by Merck.

Furthermore, Venrock has bankrolled quantum computing companies, including Atom Computing, and nanotech corporations, such as Nanosys. Additionally, Venrock is invested in blockchain startups, including Dapper and Flow.

In sum, Laurence Rockefeller funded the development of a nexus of transhumanist technologies, including internet Big Data, biotech, and nanotech, while simultaneously propagating Hubbards trans-evolutionary ideology by financing her Foundation for Conscious Evolution. It is worth noting that Laurences funding of transhumanism, which is fundamentally a hi-tech rendition of eugenic engineering, is rooted in the Rockefeller familys long history of financing past iterations of eugenics, such as American eugenics programs at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and eugenic programs at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes of Nazi Germany.

On top of financing the transhumanist technologies and trans-evolutionary theories espoused by Hubbard, Laurence also advocated for Hubbards noetic spirituality by backing her New Age evangelism. This was done with grants from his Fund for the Enhancement of the Human Spirit. In the Acknowledgement section of her Book of Co-Creation, Hubbard highlighted how [t]he publication of this book and its associated outreach program was made possible through a generous grant from Laurence Rockefellers Fund for the Enhancement of the Human Spirit [7]. In the expanded edition of this book, which is titled The Revelation: A Message of Hope for the New Millennium, Hubbard copied this same acknowledgment of how Rockefeller bankrolled the publication [9].

Similarly, Rockefeller also advanced noetical mysticism by funding the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research(PEAR) program, which studied parapsychological phenomena, including psychokinesis and remote viewing. PEAR launched the Global Consciousness Project, which is a satellite of the Institute of Noetic Sciences where Hubbard, who endorsed IONS in her book, Birth 2012 and Beyond [1], expressed her belief in tech-noospheric evolution through the collective-conscious cyber-nervous systems made possible by internet social media networks. The PEAR program is now restructured as the International Consciousness Research Laboratories.

It is worth noting that Rockefeller also provided the financing for Roger A. Weirs Gnostic books about a secret relationship between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. Weirs Gnostic interpretation of the life of Jesus dovetailed with his New Age synthesis of hermeticism, Eastern mysticism, cosmic evolution, and esoteric consciousness. For instance, echoing the Christ Consciousness Gnosticism of Hubbard, Fuller, and Teilhard de Chardin, Weir taught the following New Age courses at the Bodhi Tree Bookstore Meeting Room in West Hollywood, California: Mary Magdalene & Jesus Great Way: Shared Presence Transforms of Civilization and Species; Hermetic America Future;Homo Sapiens Stellaris: Star Wisdom Man; Quintessential Dimensions of Consciousness: An Ecology of Four Dimensions in Complementarity in Spacetime; and Parayana: The Way Beyond.

To sum up, Rockefeller bankrolled noetic science research, Gnostic Christ Consciousness literature, and transhumanist tech along with Hubbards Foundation for Conscious Evolution, which advocates for the post-human synergism of a tech-noospheric trans-evolution that will culminate in a new Christified cyborg species.

Ultimately, Hubbard and Rockefeller were aligned on essentially every front. More than a source of monetary support, Rockefeller was fondly endeared by Hubbard. In her 1998 book, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential, Hubbard lauded her support from Rockefeller: [m]y heartfelt thanks goes to my beloved patron Laurence S. Rockefeller who has supported this work with fidelity, inspiration and generosity [2]. Then, in the Dedication section of her 2001 Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence, Hubbard wrote, [t]o my benefactor, Laurence S. Rockefeller, who supported this work for ten years, bringing it to this point of fulfillment [9]. Fourteen years later, in 2015, Hubbard also dedicated her Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation to Rockefeller [3], marking 24 years of support.

Laurence Rockefeller also advanced a conscious evolution towards transhumanism by pushing the Human Potential Movement. He did this through his investments in the Human Potential Foundation and the Esalen Institute. Hubbard likewise pursued this philosophy of conscious trans-evolution through the Human Potential Movement, which was spawned from the humanistic and transpersonal psychological theories of her mentor, Abraham Maslow, who coined the psycho-spiritual principle of self-actualization. Maslow preached his trans-psychological gospel of self-actualization at the Esalen Institute, which was also endorsed by Hubbard [1]. Meanwhile, Hubbard allied with Maslow and his Eupsychian Network of Esalen New Agers to promote the evolution of transhuman potential through biofeedback wearables and other computerized technologies that can hack consciousness [4].

A protg of behavioral psychologist E. L. Thorndike, Gestalt psychologist Max Wertheimer, and psychodynamic psychologist Alfred Adler, who was a colleague of Sigmund Freud, Maslow combined the first force of psychology, stimulus-response behaviorism, and the second force of psychology, Freudian psychoanalysis, to produce a third force of psychology [4]. This third force was humanistic psychology, which would then evolve into a fourth force of transhumanist psychology known as transpersonal psychology [4]. In the Preface to the second edition of his book, Toward a Psychology of Being, which was financed by the Ford Foundations Fund for the Advancement of Education, Maslow writes, I consider Humanistic, Third Force Psychology to be transitional, a preparation for a still higher Fourth Psychology, transpersonal, transhuman, centered in the cosmos rather than in human needs and interest, going beyond humanness, identity, self-actualization, and the like [4]. It should be noted here that Maslows transpersonal psychology of self-actualizing transhuman potential was heavily influenced by the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose concept of the ubermensch, or superman, went on to inspire Nazi eugenics, which itself played a role as a precursor to transhumanism.

Maslow, like Buckminster Fuller, took Hubbard under his wing. In her 1989 autobiography, The Hunger of Eve: One Womans Odyssey Toward the Future, Hubbard writes, I wrote to Abraham Maslow, telling him his book Toward a Psychology of Being had saved my life. . . . He wrote back immediately that . . . he would like to meet me. He came to lunch at the New York apartment. . . . He said I was an example of his theory of self-actualizing people [6].

Anointing her as an evangelist for his super-potentializing psychology, Maslow connected Hubbard with a network of New Age organizations, such as the Esalen Institute, which baptized proselytes in the name of his new transhumanist psychology. According to Hubbards Emergence,Abraham H. Maslow called this the Eupsychian Network, the society of self-actualizing and self-transcending people [7]. In her autobiography, Hubbard historicized how, in an effort to help her on her mission to win converts to Maslows trans-potentializing psychology:

[h]e [Maslow] offered his Eupsychian Network, a list of the good people he had collected over a lifetime, those who would form for the Good Society. This was before the human potential movement had surfaced. . . . The Eupsychian Network were people in the growth mode. Many were humanistic psychologists founding growth centers, such as Carl Rogers, Victor Frankl, Michael Murphy of Esalen, to help people move toward full health. . . . My list soon totalled [sic] over 1,000, each one a precious being, sensitive to the emerging civilization [6].

In The Revelation: Our Crisis Is a Birth, Hubbard tells the story of how she wrote to everyone in Maslows [Eupsychian] network, asking for their positive views on our future. Many responded and I published their responses in The Center Letter [7], which was Hubbards futurist newsletter on evolutionary transformation. Thanks to these publications of prominent Eupsychians, according to Hubbard, The Center Letter spread . . . all over the world, from Africa to behind the Iron Curtain . . . Within six months I [Hubbard] was connected to leaders of the emerging world [7].

A list of such key Eupsychian individuals and institutions is printed at the end of the second edition of Maslows Toward a Psychology of Being. In the preface to this concluding section, which is titled Addendum: The Eupsychian Network, Maslow describes Hubbards Eupsychian comrades as a cadre of globalist bent on the collective-conscious evolution of transhumanist potential:

I [Maslow] call it the Eupsychian Network because all these groups, organizations, and journals are interested in helping the individual grow toward fuller humanness, the society grow toward synergy and health, and all societies and all peoples move toward becoming one world and one species. The list can be called a network because the memberships overlap considerably and because these organizations and individuals more or less share the humanistic and transhumanistic outlook on life even prior to confirmation of that outlook. [4]

Stated differently, Maslows Eupsychian Network, which teamed up with Hubbard, was a clique of transhumanist[s] determined to establish a one world order in which humankind will actualize its super potential by collectively evolving and unifying into one species.

Following the prelude to the Addendum, Maslow cataloged his Eupsychian Network of globalist transhuman potentializers, such as Barbara Marx Hubbard and Michael Murphy, along with their affiliated institutions, including the Esalen Institute. In addition to Mike Murphy, Pres. [President] of the Esalen Institute, Maslows Eupsychian directory included Willis Harmans Education for the Future project at Stanford Research Institute [4], which had pioneered AI engineering on top of launching the first iterations of internet communications in collaboration with the US militarys ARPANET. Harman also co-founded the World Business Academy (WBA), which is a corporate-futurist think tank where Hubbard was a Fellow along with New Age guru Deepak Chopra. Chopra, another Esalen affiliate, has proclaimed that Hubbard was the voice for conscious evolution of our time, according to The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation [3]. A key leader in the Human Potential Movement, Harman also spent twenty years as the President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences where Hubbard gave a speech in which she praised her collaborations with Ervin Lszl, who was also a WBA Fellow. In the Appreciations section of her Book of Co-Creation, Hubbard named Willis Harman, Michael Murphy, and Abraham H. Maslow as [c]olleagues and teachers of conscious evolution [7].

Malsow cataloged several other Esalen-connected organizations, including human potential centers, in his menu of Eupsychian institutions:

Other human potential and humanistic psychology institutions listed in Maslows Eupsychian Network include the National Center for Exploration of Human Potential; the American Association of Humanistic Psychology; the American Humanist Association; and the Fellowship of Religious Humanists [4].

To tie it all together, Maslow inducted Hubbard into his Eupsychian Network of human potential organizations where allied with the presidents of the World Business Academy, the Institute for Noetic Sciences, and the Esalen Institute to push the globalization of transhumanist psychology.

The Esalen Institute, which was bolstered by Maslows Eupsychian Network and endorsed by Hubbard in her Birth 2012 and Beyond [1], is best known as a New Age self-actualization retreat led by a host of Eastern mysticist gurus and hippie psychedelics enthusiasts who have propelled the Human Potential Movement. However, Esalen has also been a hub for behavioral psychologists, such as B. F. Skinner, humanistic psychologists, such as Abraham Maslow, and transhumanist computer engineers, such as Mikey Siegel, who have been driving a Transhuman Potential Movement aimed at steering the noetic evolution of the human species through trans-eugenic technologies, such as consciousness-hacking brain-computer interfaces.

This year, in 2022, there will be an Esalen workshop titled Superhuman Evolution, which will explore evolutionary esotericism by examining the intersections across technology, psychedelic[s], Darwinian . . . transformations, and metaphysical revelation . . . that might point to or even manifest the future human (or superhuman). It should be noted here that Darwinism was a predecessor of eugenics, which itself is the precursor to transhumanism.

Darwins cousin, Francis Galton conceptualized eugenics as the science of harnessing Darwinian evolution by selectively breeding elite bloodlines while culling unfit gene pools. Later, in 1957, British Eugenics Society President Julian Huxley, who was a close friend of fellow eugenicist Teilhard de Chardin, coined the term transhumanism to denote the next phase of eugenics in which the old-school methods of artificial genetic selection will take a backseat to biological engineering through human-machine mergers. Julians brother, Aldous Huxley, who authored the dystopic novel Brave New World, coined the term human potential, and he energized the Human Potential Movement as a trendsetter at the Esalen Institute where Hubbards mentors, Abraham Maslow and Buckminster Fuller, were both leading figures.

There have always been integral connections between the Esalen Institute, the Human Potential Movement, hi-tech transhumanism, and noetic Gnosticism. In 2013, H+ Magazine, otherwise known as Humanity+ Magazine, which is the popular publication of the organization formerly known as World Transhumanist Association, posted an article titled Producing and Consuming the Posthuman Body in Superhero Narratives. This H+ article historicizes how:

[s]everal scholars have linked the superhero narrative with the emergence of a human potential movement which became popular in the 1960s. In places such as the Esalen Institute, the philosophy of the cosmic posthuman was put into practice. . . with the intention of unlocking latent abilities. In his weighty tome theFuture of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature,Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy examines . . . evidence of metanormal human functioning. . . . Like the human potential movement, Transhumanism is also the offspring of the sixties counterculture.

At the same time, this article also links Esalens transhuman potential movement to a theological, or Gnostic narrative. In a section titled Silver Age Superheroes and the Emergence of Tranhumanism, this H+ article explicates how [t]ranshumanism, in some forms, presents a world in which science and magic are conflated through the spread of numerous hybrid spiritual or religious movements variously dubbed techno-paganism or cyber-shamanism, which reconfigure shamans as low-tech cyborgs.

Another H+ Magazinearticle, which was published in 2014, explores the ways in which the Human Potential Movement and the Neurosingularity Project dovetail together through intersections between genetics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, psychedelics, and a range of psychotechnologies that coalesce in transhumanist evolution. Entitled Mindapps and The Neurosingularity Project, this article, details how, [a]mong current tributaries to the Neurosingularity Project are: 1) multistate theory, 2) transhumanisn, 3) psychedelics, and 4) the human potential movement.

More specifically, in a section titled The Human Potential Movement and Positive Psychology, this article expounds how [m]ultistate theory, psychedelics, transhumanism, transpersonal psychology, and the human potential movement can all contribute to their mutual fulfillment and to the Neurosingularity Project with the HPM [Human Potential Movement] being a precursor of transhumanism. Additionally, this article postulates how, [i]nstead of using only electronic information technologyor biology hybridized with ITto augment human intelligence, milestones in genetics are advancing us down the path toward producing better human brains and other extropic and human potential goals.

In sum, these H+ articles propound how hi-tech transhumanism is an outgrowth of the Human Potential Movement that was spearheaded by the Esalen Institute, which was part of Maslows Eupsychian Network where Hubbard cavorted with other Gnostic trans-eugenicists to advance the noetic evolution of the human species through human-computer interfaces that can hack consciousness.

More recently, in 2018, Esalen hosted a Consciousness Hacking workshop run by Mikey Siegel: a transhumanist computer engineer who has developed Intelligent Robotics and social robotics at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, respectively. On the Esalen website, Siegels biography states that he uses technology to facilitate a path toward higher consciousness, self-realization, awakening, and transcendence. To industrialize transhumanist consciousness hacking into a global corporate enterprise, Siegel, according to Wired Magazine, helped found the Transformative Technology Conference, which convenes a mixer for technologists, futurists, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists trying to turn consciousness hacking into a multi-billion-dollar business on a par with the fitness industry.

Kickstarting the consciousness-hacking industry during the year before his Esalen workshop, Siegel conducted an experiment titled One Thousand Minds Connected Live, which hooked people up to cognition headband[s] that recorded their electroencephalogram (EEG) brainwaves while they all watched a movie called MindGamers. By concurrently data-mining the electrical brain activity of this massive audience, Siegel aimed to digitally record the first image of a mass-connected mind. Commenting on this experiment, Siegel hyped how, as a result of such brain-computer interfaces, we are actually changing as a species . . . [The brain is] actually changing the landscape of human culture. Were profoundly different than what we were 20, 30 years ago.

Assisting Siegel with the Thousand Minds experiment was Tim Mullen. According to TheWrap, Mullen is the CEO of Qusp Labs a neurotechnology firm and has developedwearable brain-computer interface (BCI) technology similar to whats being used in these [Thousand Minds EEG] headbands. Elaborating on the experiment, Mullen laid out [t]he overarching vision that in the future we will have the ability to link the nervous systems of humans . . . [T]he groundwork for that is being laid right now . . . Its accelerating so fast so its really possible to imagine that in one generation we might see that fundamental link established.

In brief, these brainwave-hacking wearables, designed by Siegel and Mullen, are building the next noospheric layer of transhumanitys cybernetic nervous system which, according to Hubbard, has consciously evolved from internet IT infrastructure into online social media networks that can now be augmented through collective webs of biofeedback neurotech. From Mikey Siegels Transformative Technology Conferences, back to Michael Murphys Esalen Institute, all the way back to Abraham Maslows Eupsychian Network, there are branches of transhumanist psychology, neurotechnology, and human-potentializing spirituality that share common roots in Barbara Marx Hubbards noetic prophesies of collective-conscious evolution through global cybernetics.

To mind-meld global human consciousness through brain-computer neurotech, Hubbard evolved the Human Potential Movement into the Social Potential Movement [2], which she used to promote the HeartMath Institute (HMI) [1] [2]. The non-profit HMI is a synergistic satellite of the for-profit HeartMath Inc. corporation that carries out multilevelmarketing schemes to sell biofeedback wearables, such as emWave and Inner Balance, which are similar to the EEG headbands designed by Siegel. Programmed to socially synchronize an individuals heart coherence with the global community by uploading users electrocardiogram (ECG) analytics to online cloud databases, HeartMaths biofeedback technologies are being propagated across the planet through HMIs Global Coherence Initiative (GCI) in order to harmonize the worlds ECG wavelengths into a singular hivemind resonance.

In pursuit of his consciousness-hacking venture, Siegel has also engineered a collective biofeedback wearable called HeartSync, which he piloted at a Burning Man festival. The transhumanist HeartSync headsets can interlink as many as 24 people to a single computer in order to synchronize the groups breathing and heartbeats. At Siegels co-hack house, his Consciousness Hacking MeetUp group, which has hosted at least 15,000 members in at least 30 communities, attendees engage in collective meditation while wearing HeartSync headgear hooked up to a computer. On Project Nights at Siegels co-hack house, startup founders pitch their prototypes, such as the LucidCatcher, a sleep band that stimulates your brain with small electrical pulses, supposedly letting you control your dreams.

According to Siegels business partner, Josh Whiton, who is a personal friend of Elon Musk and Tony Robbins, HeartSync can be used to have a board meeting and you hook everyone up to a headband and a heart-rate sensor to get into state of coherence [sic] . . . You get people out of their ego states and into a group state, thinking as one. Other applications of HeartSync, along with other AI biofeedback devices, neurotech brain stimulators, and immersive VR, include psychotherapeutic and psychedelic consciousness hacks that can digitally induce mindfulness and enlightenment.

Siegels HeartSync neurotech is similar to the emWave and Inner Balance biofeedback wearables that are sold through the HeartMath Institute, which is endorsed by Hubbard in her Birth 2012 and Beyond. In this book, Hubbard lists the Institute of HeartMath as a Birth 2012 Campaign Sponsor along with the World Business Academy and the Global Coherence Initiative (GCI), which is a satellite of the HeartMath Institute [1]. In addition to these Birth 2012 Campaign Sponsors, Hubbard cataloged a directory of Shift Network Allies, including the Esalen Institute and the Institute of Noetic Sciences where Siegel has served as an Advisor to the IONS Innovation Lab [1]. Siegel and his BioFluent Technologies corporation, which is the company that produces HeartSync biofeedback wearables, are also profiled on the list of Industry Partners and Advisors at the Transformative Technology Lab (TTL) where HeartMath President and CEO, Deborah Rozman, whom Hubbard names as an all[y] of the Birth 2012 Campaign [1], is also profiled on list of TTL Industry Partners and Advisors.

Along with Rozman, there are several other GCI Steering Committee and Advisory Board members whom Hubbard endorsed as allies of the of the Birth 2012 Campaign [1]:

Additionally, there are several other GCI Steering Committee and Advisory Board members who hold prominent positions at the Institute for Noetic Sciences:

Also serving on the GCI Scientific Advisory Board is Roger Nelson, who is founder and director of the Global Consciousness Project and was the longtime coordinator of research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University, which was financed by Hubbards benefactor, Laurence Rockefeller. In addition, Nelson is a member of the Esalen Institute Center for Theory and Research.

Towards the end of Birth 2012 and Beyond, Hubbard anthologized a chapter by Claudia Welss, who is another Steering Committee Member of HeartMaths Global Coherence Initiative; a Board Member of Hubbards Foundation for Conscious Evolution; and a member of the extended research faculty of the Institute for Noetic Sciences [1]. In Claudia Welsss Birth 2012 and Beyond chapter, which is titled Energizing Social Synergy for the Shift, she details how HeartMaths biofeedback wearables can be implemented to globally synchronize the EKG heart coherence rhythms of individuals and communities across the planet in order to artificially stimulate a worldwide shift in evolutionary consciousness [1].

Defining heart coherence, Welss describes it as a measurable psychophysiological state that can be quantified with [b]iofeedback measurements [1]. According to Welss, HeartMath has demonstrated that we can intentionally change our heart signal pattern to a coherent waveform in which [h]eart-brain alignment is created, causing a favorable cascade of neural, hormonal, and biochemical changes as systems synchronize and connect, facilitating system-wide communication [1]. In a section titled Scaling Heart Coherence for Social Synergy, Welss elaborates how:

[r]eseach at HeartMath has confirmed that a persons [heart] coherent electromagnetic signals can be detected in the nervous systems of other people as well as in animals. Heart coherence thus appears to enliven our connections through resonance, not only with each other and with nature but, conceivably, with the mind of the cosmos [or noosphere], enabling the parts to be in communication with the whole. [1]

To harmonize the heart coherence waves of global communities with the collective-consciousness of the noosphere, Welss calls for the worldwide coordination of HeartMath biofeedback synchronization through [t]he Global Coherence Initiative, a project of HeartMath, [which] is based on the belief that [heart] coherence scalesfrom the personal, to the social, to the planetary . . . If heart coherence does indeed scale, our attempts at social synergy would benefit on all levels [1]. Citing the evolutionary theories of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who was the godfather of epigenetic theory, Welss posits how:

the Global Coherence Initiative estimates that three-hundred and fifty thousand people measurably increasing their heart coherence baselines may be enough to create a global coherence heart-field environment . . . through the sustained repetition of this new behavior by a critical mass of individuals . . . By intentionally generating this field of global coherence for the Shift, we may . . . emerge as a positive, conscious evolutionary force. [1]

In a separate chapter titled A Map to Cross the Gap, Hubbard herself calls for heart coherence synchronization of 350,000 wearers of HeartMath biofeedback devices by practicing Quick Coherence and Heart Lock-In [1], which are HeartMath-trademarked mindfulness techniques, through a special group setting online [1]. This online biofeedback collaborative is known as [t]he Global Birthing Care Room, a project of the Institute of HeartMaths Global Coherence Initiative, [which] provides a digital representation of practitioners, portraying them as points of light across the globe [1].

In sum, the HeartMath Institute has commissioned a transhumanist network of wearable Global Coherence Apps to interlink brainwaves and heart rhythms across the planet in order to Shift the collective-consciousness of the human species into a one-world Social Potential Movement that is synchronized with the cosmic evolution of the noosphere through the cybernetic nervous system of internet social media. In turn, these transhumanist neurofeedback wearables are in position to biorhythmically induce synthetic states of bliss that will psychologically condition global populations to happily comply with the corporate-communitarian mandates of the techno-fascist Fourth Industrial Revolution.

If you think the global biofeedback synchronization of human conscious sounds like a virtuous means of unifying hearts and minds across the planet into a utopian one-world community, it should be noted that the HeartMath Institute and HeartMath Inc. are steeped in corporatism. Hence, rather than arouse sincere socioemotional bonds across all socioeconomic classes, and instead of elucidating minds with true spiritual enlightenment, HeartMaths commercial neurotech is primed to lull the precariat into blissed out trances that render them submissive to the corporate-technocratic mandates of the surveillance capitalist Fourth Industrial Revolution.

By distributing Global Coherence Apps and other neurofeedback wearables through multilevelmarketing schemes and networks of partnerships with multinational companies and business consulting firms, HeartMaths Global Coherence Initiative is driven by a brand of corporatism known as evolutionary entrepreneurship, which has been promoted by Hubbard and her colleagues at Singularity University. Notwithstanding the flowery love and light rhetoric from Hubbard and GCI spokespeople, the corporate nexus of evolutionary entrepreneurs connected to HeartMath is primed to steer global biorhythm coherence to comply with a techno-fascist Social Credit economy of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

To recruit participants to the Global Coherence Network of wearable biofeedback sensors linked to smartphones, HMI and HeartMatch Inc. employ multilevel-marketing schemes that convert HeartMath practitioners into certified HeartMath Mentors and Trainers who offer heart coherence coaching through HeartMath Resilience workshops. It is keen to note here that multilevel marketing stratagems, which Hubbard advocates in Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential [2], are rooted in the self-actualization workshops of the Human Potential Movement. In fact, the multilevel marketing giant, Amway, has been one of the biggest corporate adherents to the channeling of the Human Potential Movements self-actualization mantra to con salespeople into pyramid scams.

It is also worth noting that the heir to Richard DeVoss Amway fortune is former US Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, who has financed Neurocore biofeedback ed-tech. In my article, Secretary DeVos, Neurocore, and Competency-Based Workforce Training, I documented how the Neurocore corporation, where Betsy sat on the Board of Directors, is part of a burgeoning socioemotional-learning industry that traffics in biofeedback ed-tech which includes the emWave wearables distributed by HeartMath. For instance, HeartMath LLC holds the corporate license for the Macquarie Institute, which facilitates HeartMath workshops, such as the Resilient Educator program that teaches attendees how to utilize emWave biofeedback wearables in order to enhance classroom learning at Primary and Secondary School[s].

By leveraging multilevel-marketing tactics to propagate GCIs Global Coherence Network of transhuman-potentializing biofeedback wearables, the HeartMath Institute is actualizing what Hubbard deemed to be an enterprise of evolutionary entrepreneurship that melds neurotechnology and collective biorhythmic consciousness into the futurist Singularity , as envisioned by Googles Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil.

In 2018, at a Singularity University Global Summit, which was titled The Future of Entrepreneurship: Living in Exponential Creativity, Hubbard was interviewed by Mark Donohue: an associate of both Kurzweil, who is Co-Founder and Chancellor of Singularity U, and Peter Diamandis, who is the Executive Founder and Director of Singularity U. During this interview, Donohue and Hubbard hyped how Maslow-inspired . . . evolutionary entrepreneurs are at the forefront of ushering in a transhumanist Singularity through Maslowean business practices that pivot on synergistic convergences. Donohue highlighted how

Barbara was a seminal leader in the 70s at running what are called SYNCONs, so bringing together the best of whats working to create a synergistic convergence to create a whole new out of the disparate parts. . . . So thats a whole synergistic convergence process which were inviting and believe Singularity [U] is part of, but we feel is another level of convening the exponential technology, the exponential leaders, to actually have a convergence thats more directional and curated by Singularity [U] to take it to the next level.

Concurring with Donohues exaltation of evolutionary entrepreneurs, Hubbard declared that the exponential entrepreneur has the power to shift the system, and if the exponential entrepreneurs feel themselves to be connected with evolution, the guidelines of greater consciousness . . . applied to exponential entrepreneurship actually is the shift point. This shift point, according to Hubbard, will result in humankind becoming a new species. If you combine hi-tech with evolutionary spirituality with greater consciousness, . . . if you combine exponential evolutionary technologies with the new power of humanity . . . , you have a new species . . . Its not only that we are becoming new individuals and to some degree a new species with this power, but the whole system . . . is going to radical newness.

Donohue affirmed Hubbards shift point prediction as he proclaimed that Singularity University will be instrumental in thrusting the human species forward into conscious transhuman evolution: Were upon the birth of what Barbara has named Homo Universalis. . . . The new whole will be far greater than has ever existed before, and ultimately, Singularity [U] is a catalyst and a leader in the awakening of this new species to fulfill our full human potential [inaudible] within the evolutionary story by creating synergistic convergences at the next level. Hubbard concluded the interview by celebrating Singularity U as a driver of conscious transhuman evolution: its a great privilege to see what Singularity [U] is able to do to help initiate this movement. If we want to say a new movement is . . . moving in the direction of evolution, I would say Singularity University is taking a tremendous role to initiate that.

Through the synergistic convergences of exponential entrepreneurs, corporate industries, consumer stakeholders, and futurist think tanks like Singularity U, the Human Potential Movement is expanding into a Social Potential Movement, propelling Hubbards transhumanist dreams of collective-conscious evolution through global technology markets.

In her book, Conscious Evolution: Awakening of Our Social Potential, which was edited by Donohue, Hubbard devoted six chapters to Part III: The Social Potential Movement [2]. Throughout Part III, Hubbard laid out her vision of Social Evolution through the technocratic globalization of public-private partnerships. For example, Hubbard printed a chart of Donohues Golden Innovations wheel, which graphs how the Social Potential Movement is being rolled forward through a Global Collegium that synergistically converges Economics/Business, Science/Technology, Government/Law, Media Communications, Education, Health, and Spirituality/Religion. To cultivate a global Community of CoCreators [sic] through the sphere of Economics/Business, Hubbard promoted corporate foundations, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Center for What Works, along with impact-investing firms, such as the Social Venture Network.

In sum, Hubbard called for public-private partnership to push the collective-conscious evolution of social potential into the futurist Singularity through the globalization of transhumanist neurofeedback technologies, such as the emWave and Inner Balance biofeedback wearables that are distributed through the multi-level marketing schemes of HeartMaths Global Coherence Initiative. It is worth noting here that, at Singularity University, Kurzweil has partnered with the founder and CEO of SingularityNET, Ben Goertzel, who presented his AI research at the 2013 Annual Conference of the World Future Society, which was co-founded by Hubbard [1]. Goertzel is also listed on the roster of the Transformative Technology Labs Industry Partners and Advisors along with the President and CEO of HeartMath.

For almost 20 years, Kurzweil has forecasted that the year 2045 will mark the emergence of the transhuman Singularity. Prior to Kurzweils prediction, Hubbard foretold that 2020 would mark the year of the global consciousness shift that would tech-noetically thrust human evolution into the transhuman Singularity of 2045.

During her speech at the 2015 IONS International Conference, Hubbard propose[d] that we develop a new world purpose . . . by 2020, and the date has been picked by some other people [such as] Stephen Dinan, who is a former Director of the Esalen Institutes Center for Theory and Research, a former Director of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, and the author of the Foreword to Hubbards Birth 2012 and Beyond [1]. In her IONS speech, Hubbard postulated that:

[i]f we took the next 5 years, and said our purpose would be, by 2020, we would connect enough of the co-creators in health, education, economics, in every sector of human endeavor in every culture . . . and show up by 2020 as the beginning of the next stage of human self-evolution . . . [then] [w]e would become the Gnostic human; we would become humans that actually incarnate the genius of evolution, the supramental powers of evolution.

Now that 2020 has ushered in the post-COVID New Normal, which is rolling out the Great Reset for the technocratic Fourth Industrial Revolution, it appears that Hubbards predictions for trans-technological evolution are coming true, and as Kurzweil forecasted, the Singularity is near.

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Kite secures third approved cell therapy indication in Europe – BioPharma-Reporter.com

Posted: July 3, 2022 at 2:03 am

The move was anticipated given that, in April this year, the European Medicines Agencys Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) adopted a positive opinion in relation to Yescarta for that type of lymphoma.

It is the third approved indication for a Kite cell therapy in Europe. The treatment was already authorized by the EC for adult patients with relapsed or refractory diffuse large B-cell lymphoma and primary mediastinal large B-cell lymphoma, after two or more lines of systemic therapy.

The EU approval is supported by data from the pivotal, single-arm Phase 2 ZUMA-5 international study in patients with relapsed or refractory FL who had received at least two prior lines of systemic therapy, including the combination of an anti-CD20 monoclonal antibody and an alkylating agent.

FL that has relapsed multiple times is a difficult-to-treat disease with an especially poor prognosis as only 20% of patients are still alive at five years after their second relapse, saidIbrahim Yakoub-Agha, head of the hematopoietic cell transplantation and cellular therapy unit at Lille University Hospital. He noted that 91% of patients in the ZUMA-5 study responded to axicabtagene ciloleucel after three or more prior lines of therapy, and more than half of these were still in response two years later. This sign of durable remission is critical for patients who need options that can deliver long-term benefit.

FL is often misunderstood as easy to treat or non life-threatening, even when it has reached a significantly advanced stage, according to Nicola Mendelsohn, founder and chair of the Follicular Lymphoma Foundation (FLF). For patients with later-line relapsed or refractory disease, it is often very aggressive, she said."Axicabtagene ciloleucel represents an important advance for a patient population in Europe with limited treatment options.

Based in Santa Monica, California, Kite, which is owned by Gilead, has manufacturing operations in both North America and Europe.

The company received approval in June 2020 from the EMA for the manufacture of Yescarta from its facility near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. That site is expected to facilitate treatment for up to 4,000 patients per year.

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New study allows researchers to more efficiently form human heart cells from stem cells – University of Wisconsin-Madison

Posted: July 3, 2022 at 2:03 am

Lab-grown human heart cells provide a powerful tool to understand and potentially treat heart disease. However, the methods to produce human heart cells from pluripotent stem cells are not optimal. Fortunately, a new study out of the University of WisconsinMadison Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Center is providing key insight that will aid researchers in growing cardiac cells from stem cells.

The research, published recently in eLife, investigates the role of extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins in the generation of heart cells derived from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). The ECM fills the space between cells, providing structural support and regulating formation of tissues and organs. With a better understanding of ECM and its impact on heart development, researchers will be able to more effectively develop heart muscle cells, called cardiomyocytes, that could be useful for cardiac repair, regeneration and cell therapy.

How the ECM impacts the generation of hPSC-cardiomyocytes has been largely overlooked, says Jianhua Zhang, a senior scientist at the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center. The better we understand how the soluble factors as well as the ECM proteins work in the cell culture and differentiation, the closer we get to our goals.

Researchers like Zhang have been looking to improve the differentiation of hPSCs into cardiomyocytes, or the ability to take hPSCs, which can self-renew indefinitely in culture while maintaining the ability to become almost any cell type in the human body and turn them into heart muscle cells. To investigate the role of the ECM in promoting this cardiac differentiation of hPSCs, Zhang tested a variety of proteins to see how they impacted stem cell growth and differentiation specifically, ECM proteins including laminin-111, laminin-521, fibronectin and collagen.

Our study showed ECM proteins play significant roles in the hPSC adhesion, growth, and cardiac differentiation. And fibronectin plays an essential role and is indispensable in hPSC cardiac differentiation, says Zhang. By understanding the roles of ECM, this study will help to develop more robust methods and protocols for generation of hPSC-CMs. Furthermore, this study not only helps in the field for cardiac differentiation, but also other lineage differentiation as well.

While the new study provides important insight into heart cell development, it is built upon a 2012 study Zhang led which looked at the most efficient way to develop cardiac differentiation of stem cells.

This study is actually a follow-up paper to the Matrix Sandwich Method that we developed for efficient cardiac differentiation of hPSCs, Zhang says. In order to culture the stem cells, we needed to have an ECM layer on the bottom of the plate. Otherwise, the stem cells would not attach to the plate. We would then add another layer of ECM on top of the growing stem cells, and we found that this helped promote the most effective differentiation.

While it was clear that this layering, or sandwich, method more efficiently and reproducibly differentiated hPSC-cardiomyocytes, researchers did not fully understand why. The new study explains why the ECM layers are crucial and identifies fibronectin as a key ECM protein in the development of hPSC-cardiomyocytes.

The most exciting part of this study is now I understand why the Matrix Sandwich Method worked. We were able to identify the fibronectin and its integrin receptors as well as the downstream signaling pathways in this study, Zhang explains. With a better understanding of ECMs roles in stem cell growth and cardiac differentiation, we now hope to investigate the roles of fibronectin and other ECM proteins in promoting the hPSC-cardiomyocytes transplantation for cell therapy.

The next step could help researchers realize the full potential of using hPSC-cardiomyocytes for disease modeling, drug screening, cardiac regeneration and cell therapy. This is very meaningful to Zhang, who began working in cardiovascular research more than 16 years ago.

I became interested in stem cell and heart research when I began working with the stem cells and saw them turning into heart cells beating in a cell culture dish under a microscope, Zhang says. It was amazing. Ive become more and more dedicated to this research, and I can really see the potential of using the stem cell technologies to cure disease and improve our health.

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Animal Stem Cell Therapy Market projected CAGR of 5.2% for the next ten years (2022-2032) Persistence Market Research – GlobeNewswire

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New York, June 27, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The global animal stem cell therapy market recorded sales of around US$ 249.9 Mn in 2021 and the market is predicted to experience healthy growth over the years ahead at a CAGR of 5.2% (2022 to 2032).

Animal stem cell therapies are treatments for disorders such as arthritis, soft tissue injuries, traumatic fractures, tendonitis, inflammatory bowel disease, and others that are given to animals. Hematopoietic stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells are used in these treatment procedures.

As the focus on giving animals a better quality of life grows, so does the adoption of such therapies across the world. The market for animal stem cell therapy is predicted to continuously increase owing to the growing need for higher levels of veterinary care.

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Regulatory bodies are also encouraging veterinary regenerative medicine research & development.

The European Commission has approved a few stem cell-based products within the region.

The animal stem cell therapy market is moderately fragmented with a few key market players and presents numerous opportunities for new market entrants to create a foothold in the industry. Increased pet adoption rate can be a beneficial factor for manufacturers of stem cells to expand into emerging markets.

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With rising disposable incomes and higher adoption rate of pet animals, the global market for animal stem cell therapy is set to gain traction over the coming years, says an analyst of Persistence Market Research.

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Key animal stem cell therapy providers are investing in innovating veterinary regenerative medicines and they are also coming up with new product launches for the well-being of animals.

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Cytiva And Bayer To Collaborate On Allogeneic Cell Therapy Manufacturing Platform – BioProcess Online

Posted: July 3, 2022 at 2:03 am

Cytiva and Bayer are teaming up to develop the first modular end-to-end manufacturing platform for allogeneic cell therapies. The companies have already kicked off the multi-year development agreement and are ramping up activities to deliver manufacturing solutions to meet the global industrys growing demand as cell therapies advance from the laboratory to the clinic.

Jens Vogel, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Biotech, Bayer Pharmaceuticals Product Supply, says: Through our collaboration with Cytiva, we plan to realize a uniquely flexible, modular, cell therapy manufacturing platform capable to rapidly industrialize a broad range of cell therapies, thereby creating efficiency, standardization and economies of scale.

Collaborations are key to advancing and accelerating the development of novel therapeutics and ultimately helping improve patients' lives, said Catarina Flyborg, Vice President, Cell and Gene Therapy, Cytiva. Cytiva has a strong history as a leader in therapeutic manufacturing technologies and our collaboration with Bayer and their deep expertise in cell therapy development will enable us to create a new generation of manufacturing solutions specifically designed to meet the developing needs of allogeneic cell therapy.

Cytiva and Bayer share the same conceptual vision for an automated and modular allogenic cell therapy manufacturing platform. Both companies believe this work will help establish new industry standards for manufacturing. Success of the Bayer-Cytiva collaboration rests with the companies plans to design innovative equipment and automation solutions with allogenic cell therapy in mind from the start. They plan to develop equipment and software concurrently with a focus on manufacturing speed, flexibility and a robust plug and play operating environment. The end goal is rapid speed to market and cost-efficient use of manufacturing infrastructure through modular design of equipment and processes.

Both parties will provide personnel, resources, and facilities to work on the joint development program. Bayers road map for allogeneic cell therapy manufacturing technology will be leveraged, and its development product portfolio will be among the product candidates used to support proof of concept testing of the technologies. Cytiva will utilize its equipment and consumable manufacturing expertise and technology roadmap to design the new platforms, and when complete, will make them commercially available.

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