Gil Agnew: Raising Your Gaze, Playing the Infinite Game

Futurist, design scientist, and co-founder of Whole World View, Gil Agnew joins us for a deep, wide-ranging conversation that connects personal purpose to the larger evolutionary story of humanity. Drawing from decades in technology, consciousness research, and spiritual inquiry, Gil explores why so many people feel disoriented right now, and why that disorientation may be a necessary threshold rather than a failure.

In this episode, Gil breaks down how worldview acts as an invisible filter shaping everything we perceive, why purpose is not a single “thing” but a lived process, and how intention, intuition, and embodiment function as practical tools for conscious creation. He shares his own midlife departure from corporate life, the role of uncertainty in awakening curiosity, and how inner work, healing the inner child, understanding ancestral patterns, and cultivating spiritual intelligence, becomes essential in times of rapid change.

The conversation moves outward into the collective moment: the shift from finite to infinite games, the reunion of science and spirituality, the meaning of chaos as an evolutionary force, and what the Age of Aquarius signals for wisdom, technology, and human responsibility. Gil also addresses AI, the transition from information and knowledge to wisdom, and why compassion, presence, and mentorship may be the most important forms of leadership now.

This episode is both grounding and expansive, an invitation to see the bigger picture without bypassing the inner work, to participate consciously in a changing world, and to play your role in an unfolding story that includes all of life.

Learn more: https://www.instagram.com/gilagnew/

Timecodes

00:00 – Intention, intuition, and embodiment as the foundation of conscious creation

01:43 – Focused intention and the power of collective attention

03:21 – Purpose as an evolving cultural language

04:43 – Leaving corporate life and the wake-up call of midlife

06:20 – Uncertainty as the doorway to curiosity and expansion

07:42 – Permission to explore and rediscover joy

09:25 – Mystery schools, divinity, and soul-level learning

10:53 – Emotional and spiritual intelligence as evolutionary tools

12:32 – From IQ to EQ to spiritual intelligence

15:04 – Worldview, separation, and unity consciousness

16:42 – Playing the infinite game

18:30 – Why purpose isn’t one thing, but a living process

19:43 – Compassion, ancestry, and inner healing

21:32 – Why most people feel disconnected from purpose

23:25 – Presence as impact

26:02 – Being over doing

27:43 – Measuring a meaningful life

29:29 – 2020 as an evolutionary pause

32:23 – Chaos, rebirth, and collective transition

34:24 – Seeing the whole and playing your role

38:27 – Nature, humility, and embodied wisdom

40:06 – Entering the Age of Aquarius

42:55 – Technology, AI, and the wisdom threshold

45:53 – Mentorship and becoming a wise elder

47:41 – Offering guidance during times of change

50:37 – From information to wisdom

54:29 – The Age of the Sage

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Follow Gil's Work: https://www.instagram.com/gilagnew/

Learn more about the Holomovement Purpose Lab: https://ourlightnet.org/purposemap

This collaboration is brought to you by stewards of the Holomovement and LightNet. Special thanks to our Broadcast Partners: Humanity’s Team, Unify, Good of the Whole and New Realities.

The Holomovement is a social movement that awakens us to our interconnectedness, igniting a critical mass of collaborative action serving the good of the whole. Learn more at http://www.holomovement.net

http://www.LightNet.org is a collective intelligence platform mapping how people do impossible things. We then use the data to make breakthroughs of our own in teams of 8-12 and continue to share the data for those to follow.

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Sofia Suardi: Purpose as Being, Depression as Seasons & Returning to the Natural Self

Your Purpose Isn’t a Job. It’s Being Alive.

What if the entire culture sold you the wrong idea of purpose?

What if purpose isn’t a career, a calling, a brand, or something you “figure out” by 30… but a state of being you either inhabit or avoid?

In this episode of Awaken Your Purpose, Zenka Caro sits down with Sofia Suardi for a raw, unsanitized conversation about purpose, depression, existential collapse, and the quiet rebellion of choosing to simply be.

This conversation lands as the final stretch of the 100-Person Purpose Research Project with the Holomovement. After dozens of interviews, one pattern keeps showing up: the people who feel most aligned didn’t optimize their lives. They stopped performing them.

Zenka also weaves in reflections on The Wave in Portugal, where artists, scientists, philosophers, musicians, and edge-walkers gather not to pitch themselves, but to sense what’s actually emerging. Portugal, often named as the birthplace of the Fifth Kingdom, becomes a backdrop for this episode’s deeper provocation: the next renaissance won’t be built by hustlers. It will be remembered by humans. holomovement.net/wave

Sofia shares what it was like to wake up existentially at sixteen and then spend years in what she calls a long internal winter. She speaks openly about numbness, depression, guilt for having “everything,” and the terror of not feeling anything at all. She talks about dance as a nervous-system reset, darkness retreats done alone in a bedroom, off-grid living, modern life as an evolutionary mismatch, and why letting yourself fully fall apart can be the thing that saves you.

00:00 Feeling Purpose as an Energy

02:04 Closing the 100-Person Purpose Research Project

03:07 The Wave in Portugal & the New Renaissance

04:10 Sofia’s Awakening at 16

05:10 “My Purpose Is to Be”

05:30 When Life Looks Perfect but Feels Empty

06:06 Reality, Belief & Perception

06:52 Letting Go of External Goals

07:43 Falling Into the Black Hole

08:52 Dance as Moving Meditation

10:02 Mind-Wandering & Presence

11:16 The Liminal State Before Sleep

12:14 Berlin, Flow & Connection

13:02 Purpose Alongside Depression

13:56 Five Years of Winter

15:13 Ego Death & Seeing the World Anew

16:17 Losing Interest in What Once Brought Joy

17:24 Guilt, Gifts & Numbness

19:06 Allowing the Depression Full

20:16 A Personal Darkness Retreat

21:16 Spring: The Slow Defrost

22:43 When Simple Things Feel Impossible

24:31 Creativity Returns

25:09 Sedona & Off-Grid Living

27:06 Modern Life & Modern Illness

29:25 Farming, Earthiness & Balance

31:12 You Already Are Your Purpose

32:00 Being Is Enough

33:57 Living Purpose Without Forcing It

36:09 Beingness Leads to Flow

37:26 Life Is Everything at Once

38:07 An Open Ending

Follow Sofias Work: https://www.instagram.com/sofiaaa.travel

Learn more about the Holomovement Purpose Lab: https://ourlightnet.org/purposemap

This collaboration is brought to you by stewards of the Holomovement and LightNet. Special thanks to our Broadcast Partners: Humanity’s Team, Unify, Good of the Whole and New Realities.

The Holomovement is a social movement that awakens us to our interconnectedness, igniting a critical mass of collaborative action serving the good of the whole. Learn more at http://www.holomovement.net

http://www.LightNet.org is a collective intelligence platform mapping how people do impossible things. We then use the data to make breakthroughs of our own in teams of 8-12 and continue to share the data for those to follow.

@the_holomovement IG: @ourlightnet FB @theholomovementofficial FB @OurLightNet@ourlightnet