A Psychology of the Future

Thirty thinkers, teachers, and spiritual leaders were asked a single question: what are they actually building, and where do they believe psychology is headed? The answers came out of a free video series spanning more than ten hours of interviews, with figures drawn from personal growth, meditation, science, technology, and contemplative practice.

Some of the conversations get specific. Dr. James Hardt talks about raising I.Q. Dr. Rick Hanson examines what happens inside the Buddha's brain. Ken Wilber takes up Integral Psychology alongside the question of where artificial intelligence might lead. Virginia Wright covers psychedelic therapy. Dr. Cheryl Fraser speaks to relationships and sexuality. That range gives you a sense of how wide the net was cast.

The full roster is long. Bill Harris, Ken Wilber, Dr. Rick Hanson, Dr. Daniel Siegel, Dr. Rich Fernandes, Dr. James Hardt, Jun Po Roshi, Rabbi Joel Bakst, Diane Musho Hamilton, Dr. Cheryl Fraser, Michelle Gale, Graham Hancock, Dr. Rick Strassman, Dr. Peter Pearson, Dr. Ellyn Bader, Lori Petro, Dr. Gay Hendricks, and Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks all contribute. Several threads run through their talks: society and trauma, the therapeutic use of psychedelics, and what it means to live consciously while staying honest about where we come from.

Most people arrive hoping to solve a particular problem in their lives. That turns out to be hard, and the reason is rarely the problem itself. The missing piece is a set of inner practices: the ability to hold executive attention, to steady your emotional and mental states, and to drop into deep relaxation or rise to high energy when you choose to, rather than whenever circumstances allow. Those skills are learned, not inherited.

Which is why mindfulness, meditation, and neuro-training sit at the center of the material here. They are the groundwork that makes the rest of it usable.