This paper presents the dialectical method as a robust framework for scenario development within futures studies. It begins by situating this approach within a broader typology of existing scenario methodologies… Click to read more…
Futures
The River Within Us: Rediscovering Our Sacred Bond with Rivers
As the backbones of civilization, rivers did not just sustain life—they created history. Along their banks, civilisations blossomed into the societies we know today. Rivers are not only the authors of human history, but the intrinsic essence of life and the cosmos. Click to read more…
Chasing the Future Leader We Need
The quest for a good leader starts with us. The concept of sadvipra is a tool. It requires us to become self-aware of our own patterning, our complicity in the maintenance of an unjust and violent world, and through reflection, begin to make the change in our own lives. The future is calling to us, inviting us to live as if a better tomorrow is already with us. This is a comforting thought, but it requires work and a big heart. As Sarkar noted many times in meetings with disciples: “Love is the beginning point; Love is the end point”. Love and leadership go hand in hand. Click to read more…
Another Singularity: Sarkar, Günther, Tegmark, and the Prerequisites for a Human AI Future
This essay explores why the future of intelligence must be guided not by code, but by conscience. Drawing on Tegmark’s scenarios and Sarkar’s PROUT philosophy, the author argues that real intelligence is spiritual, ethical, and collective — and that a just AI future depends on our ability to awaken before the singularity. Click to read more…
An Opinion: Prophetic Leadership and Working Towards a Sadvipra Society
Boaventura de Sousa Santos recently identified moral courage and the prophetic as attributes of leadership and provides numerous examples of assassinations and also candidates for assassination. Picking up on Santos’ provocation, we could say that our imaginations have been assassinated. Yet, we have the power to take back our imagination, recharge it with prophetic pragmatism and become, in our own small way, leaders promoting better futures. Click to read more…
Dialogues Between Neohumanism and Emergent Philosophies
This article investigates how participatory foresight methods, particularly scenario-based games, can surface, challenge, and reconfigure our assumptions about ethical leadership and moral systems in imagined futures. Click to read more…
Dynasties and Sages, Demons and Sadvipras: Using Macrohistory to Navigate the Crossroads of Time
Drawing on Chinese, Islamic, and Indic traditions, this essay examines how virtue (te), social cohesion (asabiyya), and psycho-spiritual evolution drive civilizational rise and decline. The essay situates these frameworks within contemporary global crises—planetary ecological collapse, inequity, loss of meaning, and the failure of global governance—and proposes four alternative futures: No Change, Marginal Change, Adaptive Change, and Radical Change. Ultimately, the essay argues that while structural forces shape history, agency can redirect the future toward planetary consciousness, cooperative economics, and spiritual renewal. Click to read more…
Sadvipra Leadership in a Technofeudal Age: A Neohumanist CLA of Artificial Intelligence
This article employs Causal Layered Analysis to examine AI’s role across litany, systemic causes, worldview, and myths/metaphors. The analysis shows how AI narratives privilege efficiency and disembodied knowledge while obscuring embodied experience, ethical imagination, and collective resilience. Click to read more…