Event Schedule
Join us Online this Dec. 14th – 17th, 2025
Program 2025
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The program of the Forum is designed in the spirit of truth pursued, not truth possessed. This is why we are convening the entire six year process from 2025 - 2030 around a single question rather than any answers or dogmatic certainties.
The question is:
How should humanity refine its consciousness to creatively respond to four fundamental truths of our time:
1) accelerating ecological collapse,
2) turbulence at every level of human affairs,
3) exponential growth in AI,
4) the reality of technologically advanced non-human intelligences on Earth?
The invitation to participants is to join us in a spirit of collaborative inquiry to discern connections and take action. .Examining the implications of these four truths reveals a startling reality: human intelligence is now interacting with three other distinct intelligences — nature intelligence, artificial intelligence, cosmic intelligence. How we understand this and take up the challenge to engage in intelligible communication with them is the Multi-Intelligence Revolution of our time. The central challenge of our time is for humanity to learn the language of consciousness, of clairvoyance, of Psi — the Mother Tongue — in order to co-create with them a flourishing future. What awaits us is a whole new world of possibility.
This Forum marks the first time that the question we are posing has ever been seriously considered at a public level. The Forum will also be the first time that Cosmic Intelligence has been integrated with other world issues in an international gathering. This makes the Forum a conversation of a lifetime. Our reality is that we are not alone and we cannot make it alone. We need the other intelligences to survive and thrive. To embrace and o-create with them, we must undertake a revolutionary shift in paradigm for human identity and for humanity’s relationship with the larger ecology of life.
Join us to co-create a future we can all fall in love with.
Presenter Bios are in the Presenters section.
Watch the Opening Ceremony Live
Join the world as we open the State of the World Forum on Dec. 14th (2:00-4:00 PM EST) with a global livestream—free and open to all.
Sunday, December 14th
⏰ 2:00 - 4:00 PM EST
Opening the Circle - Apela Colorado, Anita Sanchez, Pat McCabe, Helene Lindmark, Rutendo Ngara, Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, Lynne Twist, Jim Garrison, Tom Eddington, Pippa Malmgren, Anne Poelina, Sulafa Victoria, Robert L. Arnold, Patrick McCollum and Fred Johnson
We gather not as strangers online but as part of a greater story that began long before this moment. Fred Johnson will share voices of the heart and the Indigenous Grandmothers will offer invocation and blessings from the Elements and the Four Directions to open our Circle:
Apela Colorado, Oneida, Celt
Anita Sanchez, Nahua, Aztec, Toltec
Pat McCabe - Dine (Navajo)
Helene Lindmark - Sami, Sweden
Rutendo Ngara - Bantú, Southern Africa
Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, Mohawk Six Nations, North America
Fred Johnson will share the voice of the Forum.
Lynne Twist will recall the original Forum and tell the origin story for the new Forum. Jim Garrison will provide an overview of the mission of the renewed Forum. Tom Eddington will invite us into a shared commitment to listen deeply, to speak truthfully, and to remember that the wisdom we seek is already present — in ourselves, in each other, in all sentient beings, in the land, from the sky.
Pippa Malmgren and Anne Poelena share their insights on the world situation in relation to the four intelligences. Patrick McCollum will speak to the gathering of indigenous peoples globally. Sulafa Victoria will speak to the challenges of Gen Zs.
Closing Remarks by Jim Garrison
Blessing by Grandmother/Auntie Puna Kamala Dawson, Hawaiian
🎤 Music by Pato Banton & Antoinette Rootsdawtah Hall
🌠 9:00 – 11:00 PM EST
Global Evening Skywatch (Optional, Self Guided)
(This experience is optional and takes place completely outside the Zoom event. There is no livestream.)
Step outside and join a global moment of intention. As Chris Bledsoe skywatches from North Carolina and Birdie Jaworski gathers a small group in New Mexico, Forum attendees around the world are invited to look to the night sky from their own location. Together, we will focus our hearts and attention to raise the vibration of the planet and call the orbs of light closer to Earth.
📸 Share Your Footage
If you feel moved to record the sky or capture any unusual lights, you can upload your clips to the Sutra Community app. Select moments, including footage from Chris, Birdie, and participants worldwide, will be woven into a Closing Ceremony highlight reel celebrating our shared intention.
Monday, December 15th
The Four Fundamental Truths of Our Time
⏰ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
The State of Our World: Code Red
Invocation offered by Makaulule Mphatheleni, South Africa
This session will help us understand the reality that we are facing accelerating ecological collapse and deepening instability at every level of human affairs. Presenters will speak from the frontlines of climate disruption and cultural survival. They remind us that the crises we face are not abstract — they live in the rivers, in the bodies of women, in the ways we speak and act with each other. Presenters will address the Code Red issues of our time – extreme weather events, planetary tipping points being crossed, rising authoritarianism, genocide in Gaza, nuclear weapons and geo-strategic conflict between the great powers, damage by social media, assault on women and those of gender fluidity, cruelty to animals, among other issues of concern.
Strategic Initiative: Launching a World Mycelium Learning Network designed to create new learning systems based on mycelium and biomimicry.
Presenters: Jim Garrison, Moderator, Osprey Orielle Lake, Ed Muller, Vladimir Posner, Jenin Madhi, Rebecca Wright Hardcastle, Aditi Pajiyar, Jason Bayless
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
Forum Unplugged with Robert L. Arnold, 2025 Forum Poet Laureate
Interaction between speakers and participants.
⏰ 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST
Break
⏰ 2:30 - 4:30 PM EST
The AI/NHI Revolution: The Exponential Mirror of AI, Cosmic Disclosure as Human Reckoning
In this session we will highlight the latest research indicating the UFO connection with nuclear weapons testing and the mysterious phenomenon of 3I/Atlas. We will also look at the AI revolution and its connection with Non Human Intelligences (NHI). We are invited to take in the reality that we are not alone and we cannot make it alone. We will explore the edge of official secrecy on UFOs/UAP where evidence of cosmic intelligence asks us to reconsider who we are in the larger cosmic web of life.
Strategic Initiative: AI × NHI Convergence
Two high-probability high-impact disruptions are converging — runaway AI and escalating UAP/NHI Disclosure. The time to prepare society and industry is now. This Strategic Initiative will provide the foundational preparation that will matter for stakeholders and people worldwide.
Presenters: Ross Coulthart, Moderator, Avi Loeb, Beatriz Villarroel, Jonathan Berte, Deep Prasad, Pippa Malmgren, Sarah Gamm, Katie Hurley, Anna Brady-Estevez, Bob Salas, Birdie Jaworski, Georg Boch
⏰ 4:30 - 5:30 PM EST
Forum Unplugged
Interaction between speakers and participants
Blessing offered by Donna Kerridge, Maori, New Zealand
🎤 Music by Pato Banton & Antoinette Rootsdawtah Hall
🌠 9:00 – 11:00 PM EST
Global Evening Skywatch (Optional, Self Guided)
(This experience is optional and takes place completely outside the Zoom event. There is no livestream.)
Step outside and join a global moment of intention. As Chris Bledsoe skywatches from North Carolina and Birdie Jaworski gathers a small group in New Mexico, Forum attendees around the world are invited to look to the night sky from their own location. Together, we will focus our hearts and attention to raise the vibration of the planet and call the orbs of light closer to Earth.
📸 Share Your Footage
If you feel moved to record the sky or capture any unusual lights, you can upload your clips to the Sutra Community app. Select moments, including footage from Chris, Birdie, and participants worldwide, will be woven into a Closing Ceremony highlight reel celebrating our shared intention.
Tuesday, December 16th
Exploring the Multi-Intelligence Revolution
⏰ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
The Four Intelligences in Relationship: Nature’s Living Language, Cosmic Co-Creation
Invocation by Selene Manga, Quechua, Peru
We will learn about water’s capacity to communicate, intelligible conversations with great apes and lions, the Sun’s influence on human thought and emotions, plants and trees that communicate and heal, communicating through art and ecosystems and direct encounters with cosmic intelligences, offering stories that are as intimate as they are vast — stories where interspecies contact becomes collaboration.
Presenters: Jim Garrison, Moderator, Veda Austin, Gary Shapiro, Susan Manewich, Esperide Ananas Ametista, Kathleen Marden, Saskia von Diest, Linda Tucker, Selene Manga, Birdie Jaworski
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
Forum Unplugged
Interaction between speakers and participants
🎤 Reflection and Music by Emily Bledsoe Holloway
⏰ 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST
Break
⏰ 2:30 - 4:30 PM EST
Where Intelligences Meet: Learning the Language of Consciousness
We will explore consciousness, telepathy, remote viewing and the subtle senses that allow humans to converse beyond the limits of time, space, speech or technology with other sentient beings. Presenters will also explore how AI can become a translator between species — bridging human and non-human languages and mapping the intelligence web of which we are a part.
Strategic Initiative: Global Education Network to teach the language of Consciousness. It is time for humanity to learn the language of telepathy and clairvoyance to communicate and collaborate with other sentient beings.
Presenters: Jim Garrison, Moderator, Ky Dickens, Rupert Sheldrake, Diane Hennacy Powell, Jonathan Berte, Deep Prasad, Katie Hurley, Dalia and Lidu Burgoin, Chris Bledsoe, Birdie Jaworski
⏰ 4:30 - 5:30 PM EST
Forum Unplugged
Interaction between speakers and participants
Closing Blessing offered by Pat McCabe, Dine (Navajo)
🎤 Reflection and music by Sammy Hagar
🌠 9:00 – 11:00 PM EST
Global Evening Skywatch (Optional, Self Guided)
(This experience is optional and takes place completely outside the Zoom event. There is no livestream.)
Step outside and join a global moment of intention. As Chris Bledsoe skywatches from North Carolina and Birdie Jaworski gathers a small group in New Mexico, Forum attendees around the world are invited to look to the night sky from their own location. Together, we will focus our hearts and attention to raise the vibration of the planet and call the orbs of light closer to Earth.
📸 Share Your Footage
If you feel moved to record the sky or capture any unusual lights, you can upload your clips to the Sutra Community app. Select moments, including footage from Chris, Birdie, and participants worldwide, will be woven into a Closing Ceremony highlight reel celebrating our shared intention.
Wednesday, December 17th
Inspiring Hope
⏰ 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Healing & Flourishing Futures: Healing the Fracture
Invocation by Grandmother Henrietta Mann, Southern Cheyenne
Indigenous elders lead us through ritual, trauma, apology and forgiveness — not as performance but as a technology of the heart that heals the past and unburdens the future.
Presenters: Tom Eddington, Moderator, Fr. Joshtrum Kureethadam, Robert L. Arnold, Anita Sanchez, Dominique Rankin, Marie Josee Tardif, Lisa Miller, James Gordon, Chief Phil Lane, Alex Cahana
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM EST
Forum Unplugged with Robert L. Arnold, 2025 Forum Poet Laureate
Interaction between speakers and participants
⏰ 2:00 - 2:30 PM EST
Break
⏰ 2:30 - 4:30 PM EST
Chris Bledsoe Center for Planetary Intelligence
The Forum is partnering with Chris Bledsoe to create the world’s first institution to unite Human, Nature, Artificial and Cosmic Intelligences into a unified framework for learning, healing, innovation, and planetary stewardship focused on how humans can learn the language of consciousness to communicate and co-create with them to ensure a flourishing future.
Closing the Circle: The Spiral of Existence
We summarize the proceedings, drawing forth the learnings and challenges ahead. We look ahead to 2026- 2030 as the Forum unfolds. We then close the circle we opened on Sunday — with gratitude, with clarity, with the knowing that the process has begun and the potential has been unleashed to catalyze a new paradigm for humanity as we engage with Nature Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence and Cosmic Intelligence to co-create a flourishing future.
We contemplate the vastness and mystery of the Cosmos with Jude Currivan and astronaut candidate Besan Dahboor Engel.
✨ Banafsheh Sayyad will perform Sufi whirling
Blessing offered by Kahontakwas Diane Longboat, Mohawk, Six Nations Grand River, North America
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FAQs
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Online access includes webinar features, interaction with online Delegates, and access to content (post-event).
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