The way we see the world determines how we live in it. Our societal worldview is in the midst of a major shift. Our goal is to provide a gathering place to explore this "great change" as well as a basic introduction to what comes next.

Today's problems are systemic, with interlocking elements found from economics, politics and media to education, healthcare and justice. These problems connect because they all stem from a common root cause, an oligarchic cultural system focused on advancing elite wealth regardless of the cost to people and planet. Oligarchic true-believers have turned our original Enlightenment ideals into elite-serving rationales. Democracy has become oligarchic government run by and for elites. Freedom has become the right of the rich to be free from government oversight, and free enterprise has become plundering free-market profiteers liberated from law.

What then shall we do? A number of years ago I wrote a nice academic book that described a great change, an immense societal shift emerging in everything from business, education, and agriculture to economics and finance. My contribution was showing how a similar great change in science - taking place everywhere from math and physics to biology and sociology - could add new clarity, unity, and substance to the societal shift. While both societal and scientific shifts involve recognizing that everything is connected, the science of energy systems (ESS) turns this general realization into a more logical vision of the laws of systemic health that shows where we need to go, while also providing the empirical tools we need to guide our steps.

Then, after that book came out, a strange thing happened. People involved in the social transformation started calling, wanting to know more about how the science spoke to their work and their concerns. These people were quite literally from all walks of life: business, agriculture, education, economics, healthcare, political reform, consciousness, spirituality, urban planning, and a host of others too numerous to mention. Now I too stand amazed. I had been arguing intellectually that an immense social change was in progress, but I now realized it was real.

I've spent the intervening years traveling the world, talking to people in these different fields and learning from them how today's new scientific revolution unifies, clarifies and adds rigor, practical detail and emotional punch for the new Enlightenment underway.