How can we bring the whole human intelligence to strengthen and steady us as we navigate an epochal shift?

In this engaging workshop, through inquiry and ground-breaking insights, Aviv Shahar and a group of international friends explore the story of the soul alongside the unfolding story of the evolving epoch. Movement, music, painting and drawing are shared as live, experimental methodologies to liberate our unique inner capacities.

Beginning with a summary of Chapters 1–6 of Portals into the Soul, the workshop opens the challenging invitation to attune to the greater versatility of one’s soul. At its core, the premise is a calling to the human family to re-engage the soul as a vital force in our time.

Rather than offering answers, the invitation is to live into the inquiry. Within each of us, one part may be dying while another is being born anew. Participants' contributions illuminate this inner panorama, revealing that what we see happening in the world is also stirring within us.

As we come to see that the energy crisis is not only planetary but also a concern of the soul — expressed in inner fragmentation, fatigue, and the depletion of human faculties — the search for greater intactness and soul range becomes a path to renewed vitality. This awakening can unlock inner resources to meet the demands of our time.

In the face of a global leadership breakdown, the soul’s journey calls us to step into a deeper initiation, toward becoming fully self-arising, self-responsible, and self-directing beings. True self-leadership emerges as essential for personal growth and for navigating transformative times.

• How do we engage in three essential tasks at once: release the conditioning of the old epoch and its operating system, embrace the liminal transition into the unknown, and facilitate liberation in the emerging epoch?
• The meta-crisis is not merely a problem to solve, but an expression and symptom of an epochal transition.
• What triggers chronic conflict in humans and what could enable deep settlement, peace, and well-being?
• How do we discover and cultivate the inner technologies that support process leadership? What we need now are process catalysts and facilitators of emergence.
• We are tenderly hospice-ing a dying epoch and caringly midwifing the birth of a new one — not only in the world around us, but within ourselves. This sensibility is arising in many people who feel called to this threshold.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“Any crisis point you can describe, and look at, on the world stage, has an interior dimension that mirrors it, that we can frame by way of an inquiry that is a Soul concern. So we'll abide with that for a bit, and there again, the inquiry will be, okay, what is it that we are observing that we can do, individually and collectively, to help facilitate the Soul to be more fully resilient, and all of us as people, wherever we find ourselves?” (Aviv)

“Part of the awareness in this is that we cannot make the transition from one epoch to the next just with our heads, just with concepts. We actually need the whole human person, the full inner orchestra, the inner lives, all the faculties, all the capabilities, all the talents, all the intelligence lines to participate in the discovery.” (Aviv)

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Navigating the Shift – Event Part 1: The Soul’s Journey In Between Epochs

“How do you know what you know?” This provocative question sets the stage for an illuminating live conversation. Opening pathways to expanded ways of knowing is a profound liberation — especially in a time marked by increasing polarization. The exploration of ten distinct types of knowledge runs throughout this latest dialogue in the Universalis series.

In this episode, Aviv Shahar, Karen Heney, and Kyriaki Nikandrou explore the transformative shifts that catalyze the emergence of a "Universalis human." These shifts guide us beyond rigid fixations and controlling tendencies rooted in what we think we know, steering us instead toward authentic curiosity and inquiry into the unknown. Through a whole-person contemplative exploration, attuned to the natural flow of life, we discover how each of us can uniquely serve the universe.

Insights developed and explored include:

• To dance with the universe and be an agency for life is the invitation at the heart of this enlightening conversation.
• The 10 Dimensions of Knowledge introduce pathways where integrated approaches expand and elevate our capacity to know. By weaving together the experienced, the sensed, and the intuited, we liberate our multiple inner lives — and in doing so unlock and uplift what we can connect with and understand.
• Through a potent inquiry integrating thinking and feeling, this brief explores new ways of knowing — not by replacing our senses, feelings or emotions, but by introducing frameworks of reference about how the universe works, ready to guide and accompany us on our journey inward.
• With domain residency, access to knowledge becomes almost instant as the domain knows itself through you. You can then move with ease through different life domains (such as family or profession) and unlock broader networks of human possibility.
• The emerging inquiry is: How fully can we be present in ourselves in order to access these pathways and liberate whole‑person, integrated knowing?

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“And then the inquiry arose from an even more foundational place, which is, how do you integrate what you think you know, by way of reference that you have learned, and the feeling experience? How do you bring these two interior universes into a convergent coherence where thinking and feeling work together rather than fight each other?” (Aviv)

“And what I suggested here is that there is a point where the attunement to a domain, and being centered in the first-principle nature of the domain, you become the embodiment of the essence of that domain. It's another way of describing it, a whole other level of mastery, process knowledge, sentiment knowledge, and domain knowledge, now you became the embodiment of that arena or that space, or that artistry or that discipline that you demonstrate.” (Aviv)

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The Universalis Project #17 – 10 Dimensions of Knowing

One of our greatest sources of power is our imagination — the creative energy we bring online as we visualize the way forward and a new blueprint for humanity’s renewal. It’s the knowledge we are never alone: intelligence and perception in multiple dimensions are available for the asking. Can we make the space? Are we prepared to update our understanding and belief about what is possible?

Great ponders once again for our international group of Portals friends, who gathered recently with Aviv Shahar to explore what it means to create a new future-inclined operating system for the human species in this epochal moment. These creative contemplations began in their first gathering. A core understanding is that as the universe accelerates its expansion, we also can choose to accelerate, and be more defined by who we are becoming than by who we were yesterday. In doing so, we then begin to sense our Universalis nature.

Additional insights from our friends’ collective contemplation:

• What is uniquely different about this time is that our destructive capacity is exponential; so much is at stake, especially for future generations and the toddlers arriving now.
• We are each self-authoring, each responsible; no need to wait for a teacher or guru to tell us what to do. In this epochal moment, we awaken into our own fuller potential.
• The best advice in any crisis point is find somebody to help; when you help somebody else, you help yourself.
• We are loved and supported by creation: believe in that. We are not alone; something higher enhances us, and we can lean into that strength.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

“Where do I begin a place of renewal and upgrade? Well, the first two places I go to, nature and my purpose friends, and my community of purpose, one of which is right here right now, with all of you. And thirdly, I work daily to be in communion with the sacred blessing realms, the invisible, unseen blessing realms that I feel and experience when I'm out in nature. I feel an experience when we come together, and I feel an experience in literally everything I do, every moment of my life. And when I forget to remember that, I don't feel as well. I don't feel as vibrantly energized as I know I can.” (Aviv)

“So now I ask myself, well, how will I choose to upgrade my self-authoring government in how I guide, how I enact, how I regulate my everything? It begins with how I regulate my energies because everything begins with energy, it's the foundational property of life. How do I regulate my physical energy, emotional, mental, spiritual, and relational energy? And then, how do I guide, and enact, and regulate my thoughts, my feelings, my inner lives?” (Aviv)

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This Epochal Moment, Event Part 2: Renewal