Conscious evolution inspires in us a mysterious and humble awareness that we have been created by this awesome process of evolution and are now being transformed by it.

Barbara Marx Hubbard (1929–2019) was an American futurist, author, and public speaker. She is known for the concept of the “birthing” of humanity. In 1984, as a Democrat and self-described “citizen politician,” she became the first woman to have her name placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States by a major political party. As cofounder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution, Hubbard posited that humanity was on the threshold of a quantum leap if emergent scientific, social, and spiritual capacities were integrated to address global crises.