Portals of Perception

125 - The Soul's Journey In Between Epochs, Part 1

24 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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...

124 - 10 Dimensions of Knowing - Universalis #17

10 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

“How do you know what you know?” This provocative question sets the stage for an illuminating live conversation. Opening pathways to expanded ways...

123 - This Epochal Moment, Part 2: Renewal

27 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

122 - This Epochal Moment, Part 1: Breakdown

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Is it really a contradiction to think of the global chaos unfolding us around as both an overdue day of reckoning, and possibly the most hopeful, opti...

121 - Conscience: A Threefold Soul Guidance

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Do we think of our conscience only as a feeling of guilt when our behavior or attitudes seem somehow out of line with our inner sense of moral right a...

120 - The Trinitarian Principle - Current Openings #23

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

We have been taught to exteriorize knowledge and truth to such an extent we have come to a breaking point, evident in the large-scale destruction we ...

119 - The Revelation of Knowledge - Current Openings #22

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

How do we acquire, assimilate and verify knowledge?Exploring an inquiry as old as the human capacity to search for truth, which is re-enlivened in our...

118 - Pathways to Universal Life - Universalis #15

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a process that can bypass our dominant, loves-to-be-in-control brain and open a subtle energetic pathway to help us sense and feel the many di...

117 - Decoding the Current of the Epoch - Universalis #14

02 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

If an incoming wave of universal change is influencing human behavior and global culture, as many have said, how do we see it? Where is it appearing? ...

116 - The Wholeness of Parts - What is Healing? #4

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the Western world we usually identify ourselves as singular entities. Yet, we find ourselves in conflict with ourselves and with other people. We o...

115 - The Transfiguration Archetype

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If we’re seeking a feeling of illumination or deeper connection to the universal and divine, what clues and meaning can we find in perhaps the best-...

114 - The Conductivity Mystery - Current Openings #21

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A new epoch is dawning as the old one ebbs, much like the tide, placing us in ever more conductive times. Have you noticed that old systems and ways n...

113 - Resilience and the Crisis of Belief

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most powerful tools of personal transformation is also one of the most accessible: it’s the story we tell ourselves about who we are and...

112 - The Epoch Mystery - Current Openings #20

24 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A powerful way to envision our entry into this new phase of evolution and epochal shift is as a fusion process — a merging of the physical realm wit...

111 - The Five Stories of the Epoch

10 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Let us imagine that one of the most powerful ways to create space and be open to an incoming wave of evolutionary progress — the future — is to co...

110 - The 7-Fold Epoch Progression - The Universalis Project #13

26 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For many, last year made it impossible to ignore the scale of global change — what we see as global instability is only one dimension of a larger me...

109 - Spiritualize the Universe - 20 Core Premises: Current Openings #19

12 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Our adventure exploring the deeper nature of human life forever seeks to find new bridges — the special connecting insights and nuggets of wisdom th...

108 - The Shared Intentions of Life - Evolving Together #6

29 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Can we imagine that the simple act of coming together — the “togetherings” of ourselves with our inner lives, our friends, our communities — u...

107 - Expressions of Religious Living

15 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What does it mean to live religiously? How do the premises and ways of living religiously evolve to embrace and embody new evolutionary possibility?Ho...

106 - Religion and the Esoteric

01 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Is it possible to appreciate the life of Jesus Christ in a real way that embraces the universal message and mystery, but also finds harmony with a fun...

105 - The Open-Heart Conversation: Current Openings #18

18 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What is the message we would bring back to our families and friends if we survived a near-death experience? It’s the kind of event that could change...

104 - The Goddess Arising

04 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

What would the divine feminine or Goddess nature want to ask or expect of a man today? If you were a man representing the divine masculine, and had th...

103 - The Two Struggles - The Universalis Project #11

20 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As we find our way each day through the often intense and personal struggles facing us and humanity, imagine that we can build our strength and resili...

102 - Evolution, Consciousness, and the New Truth

06 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Where is our global culture today? How did we get here? What steps might we need to take now to shape a future that could become a saving grace for hu...

101 - God: An Evolving Revelation

23 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can a forward-looking, evolution-inclined spirituality, not tied to dogma or history, offer us a sense of meaning and purpose in a time of cultura...

100 - Current Openings #17 – Burning Questions

09 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine being able to connect with a level of potency, passion and energy that could help reveal even deeper intelligence and meaning to our most comp...

099 - Portals Into the Soul, Chapter 4: A Growing Space for the Soul

25 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the third installment we described two ways to apply Einstein’s admonition when he observed that we cannot solve our problems with the same thi...

098 - The Universalis Project #10 - Why the World is Breaking Down

11 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Even if we’re familiar with the themes of evolutionary change and upgrade that run through Portals, what’s happening in the world today seems st...

097 - Normalizing the Extraordinary: In the Metamodern God Lab

28 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A laboratory is where we’d expect to find a safe space of discovery and purpose; an environment that supports experimenting with diverse ideas and ...

096 - Current Openings #16: The Octave Leap Mystery

14 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How many of us remember having what some people call a “chrysalis” moment? An octave leap, with mind-opening perceptions, in real time. A powerfu...

095 - The Universalis Project #9 - Deepening in Evolutionary Mysteries

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

If we’re already diving deep into the core mysteries of the human experience — such as how to partner with a new wave of evolution and engage wit...

094 - Evolving Together #4 - The Human Radio Set

14 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It may be time to finally change channels, or — if we really want better reception and perception — to trade in that old analogue transmitter and ...

093 - Portals Into the Soul, Chapter 3: Symphonic Seven-fold Soul Work

31 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In chapter 2 we described the nature of separation events and the compensatory act of the soul — the ghost. Before developing ways to recover the s...

092 - Inner Conclave Consciousness

17 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How can we access greater intelligence, wisdom, and power to face the often-scary challenges of these times?In the Inner Conclave Consciousness, Aviv ...

091 - Activating the Inner Conclave

03 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A glance at the headlines today often brings a deep sense of sadness about the escalating violence in many parts of the world, along with an urgent in...

090 - Current Openings #15: The Four Development Zones

20 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It may be easy to see the wisdom of Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, who noted back in the 6th century BC, "The journey of a thousand miles begins with a...

089 - Universalis #8 - Partnering with the Universe

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our long and revealing journey of discovery with homo universalis, the universal human, has taken us to what feels like a new beginning, but now as pa...

088 - The Teacher's Journey with Sarah McCrum

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The journey of a spiritual teacher can help illuminate the joy, pain, revelations and profound awakenings that often accompany someone on the path to ...

087 - Current Openings #14: What Does it Mean to Develop?

08 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It was a Portals cliffhanger: We were in midflight, in midair, final destination unseen, at the end of the last Current Openings as we journeyed i...

086 - Journeying to Source

25 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It remains one of the most powerful and personal callings for someone on a quest for transformation and inspiration: the pilgrimage — a journey to ...

085 - The Time Between Worlds with Layman Pascal

11 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we reckon with a reckoning? We can look around at the many crises engulfing the planet and think that, yes, humanity is facing its day of reck...

084 - Current Openings #13 – How Can We Help the Future?

27 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How would we even consider paying back the universe — returning the favor — for the most amazing gift of being alive? In a simple appreciation, ev...

083 - Portals Into the Soul, Chapter 2 - The Ghost

13 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In chapter one we introduced the story of the soul showing up as part of a new life on the natural as was meant to be line. It is programmed with a th...

082 - 8 Patterns of Transformation with Jose Leal

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if the underlying natural intelligence and energy that help influence and shape nearly every aspect of our lives were actually identifiable patt...

081 - What is Healing? #3 - Opening to Healing

16 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How do we sidestep a familiar and unhelpful pattern of thought or behavior in that moment when trauma or pain begins to assert itself and trigger a re...

080 - The Guru Trap and the Golden Shadow

02 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The teacher-student dynamic has been central for the unfolding story of humanity. Although universities began to emerge in Europe in the 11th and 12th...

079 - The Ghost and the Inner Conclave

19 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s good to remember that whatever the emotional, mental, or life pain or trauma we face — whatever the shadow or ghost — we can at any time as...

078 - Evolving Together #3 - Choosing Our Families

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

How often do we feel the people closest to us emotionally or energetically — though not related by blood or marriage — are actually our real famil...

077 - Current Openings #12 - Why Develop Yourself?

21 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We might want to stop and consider if a slightly different approach could help us unlock the core question this conversation is posing: Why develop yo...

076 - Portals Into the Soul, Chapter 1: The Soul - A Threefold Orchestration

07 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Building on the context offered in thePreamble, this is the first in a series of Portals Into the Soul chapters we are publishing in a draft form. Th...

075 - Portals Into the Soul - Preamble

24 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Greetings, friend,Aviv is writing with exciting updates about Portals Into the Soul.On Christmas Eve, Sunday, December 24, I finally found space to s...

074 - What is Healing? #2 - A New Togethering

10 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes it takes courage to heal. It’s usually easy to see, feel, and know the pain and trauma from our own lives, our communities, and the cultur...

073 - Evolving Together #2 - What Holds Us Back?

26 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Be honest: When we see a friend or colleague achieve a personal breakthrough — barrier overcome; milestone reached; the best of themselves coming f...

072 - Current Openings #11 - The Application Conundrum

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Where can the human Big Bang be found? It is: You become what you apply yourself to. It’s not just a different angle on the familiar phrase of becom...

071 - A Conversation with Layman Pascal, Part 2 - Pursuing Integral Wisdom

29 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We’re living in a time where increasingly we see what’s happening in the world around us and have to wonder how, or even if, we can find deep trut...

070 - A Conversation with Layman Pascal Part 1 - Protecting the Sacred

15 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

At a time when cultural and existential crises threaten the wellbeing of our global community, shouldn’t the search for wisdom and a more enlightene...

069 - Rebel Wisdom and the Trauma Myth

01 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Many news platforms today still at times refer to the struggles of life in 2023 as residual pandemic trauma — directly influenced by the painful eve...

068 - Introducing Portals Into the Soul

16 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Portals Into the Soul invites us to realize the soul wants us to be fulfilled — to live a life as closely aligned as possible to the greater connect...

067 - Evolving Together

02 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Is there a unique human or universal possibility in “we” that simply is not available to even the most finely developed “me”? When two human b...

066 - Current Openings #10: The Einstein Brief

19 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

We haven’t followed Albert Einstein’s ratio exactly here on Portals, but there is great wisdom in his insight that if given an hour to solve a pro...

065 - The Next Renaissance, Part 2 - Seeding Cultural Change

05 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if we paraphrase a popular saying about the devil* and think “The greatest trick the modern world ever pulled was getting humanity to believe t...

064 - The Next Renaissance Part 1: The Art of Metamorphosis

22 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What would it take for us to see the ecological and cultural crises sweeping the planet as possible harbingers of a higher transformation and metamorp...

063 - The Development Edge #1 - The Art of Being Together

08 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

With so much interest in creating a new type of collective living experience, it’s reasonable to wonder why the “we” space is seen to be so impo...

062 - What is Healing?

24 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Imagine a process of healing that is powerful enough to restore wellbeing and transform a life, a family, a community with just a one-degree shift in ...

061 - A Conversation with Dr. Keith Witt, Part 2: How to Love and Evolve

10 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Just how important are relationships, really, to our health and happiness? What about to our sense of emotional and spiritual growth and fulfillment? ...

060 - A Conversation with Dr. Keith Witt, Part 1: Trauma to Transcendence

27 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Is it a big stretch to think of struggling with trauma as part of a hero’s journey? Or is it integral for the hero’s transformation? How do we met...

059 - In Search of Wholeness

13 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Isn’t it curious the only species on the planet that appears concerned about or pursues the notion of “wholeness” is the human? Other highly int...

058 - Current Openings #9 - The Emotion Problem

29 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The popular concept of emotional intelligence only begins to scratch the surface of understanding the true nature and power of the human emotion. Emo...

057 - Current Openings #8 - The Energy Problem

15 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Many of us are getting robbed every day, whether we know it or not. We just may be robbing ourselves, too, without fully understanding the consequence...

056 - How Purpose Evolves

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is the power of a motivating purpose in one’s life? What happens when our chosen purpose seems to run out? What do we do when the expected ful...

055 - Insurrection of Belief

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We’re about to get a close-up look at how a creative and successful business leader is using his remarkable experience and passion to transform the ...

054 - A Community of Leaders

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In many Portals conversations we explore the nature of the emerging new universal possibility not as a separate and distant change, but as a living re...

053 - The Mind of the Universe

21 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In many Portals conversations we explore the nature and meaning of what some people describe as expanded or greater consciousness — experiencing dir...

052 - Current Openings #7: The Knowledge Problem

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Most of us would probably agree that our brains and minds are restless: continually consuming (unless we’re asleep) vast amounts of data and informa...

051 - The New Intentional Communities

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

* This conversation was recorded just a few weeks before the conversation The Emergence of Belonging took place. In several profound ways inquiries fr...

050 - The Ring of Valiance

10 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the kind of word we don’t see or hear much anymore: valiant. And its siblings valor, fortitude, gallant, and heroic. Or sayings such as “Th...

049 - Could Armageddon Be an Inner - geddon?

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We no longer need Hollywood to create ever-bigger fictional disasters to scare us into believing our world just may be on the threshold of Armageddon ...

048 - How to Be a Friend

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Isn’t it interesting that arguably the most connected, in touch and in tune generations ever, Gen Z and millennials — generally people born after ...

047 - Dancing in the Flow

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s familiar to hear athletes and artists talking about “being in the zone” during moments of peak performance — that feeling of total focus ...

046 - Current Openings #6: The Human Predicament and the Planetary Program

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We know from recent conversations the path out of the addiction trap and other unhealthy habitual patterns leads to a life of better balance between t...

045 - Current Openings #5: The Addiction Trap

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

It’s hard to watch the news without also seeing and feeling the pain of toxic and self-destructive behavior influencing so many lives, such as widen...

044 - Current Openings #4: The Brain/Body Conundrum

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Perhaps the most serious predicament facing the human race may be easy to spot by its toxic and destructive effects on our life and the planet, but wh...

043 - Current Openings #3: The Promissory Grace

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the third conversation in a Portals series that is taking on a life of its own and leading us to deeper, more profound and sometimes surpri...

042 - Current Openings #2: The Natural Laws

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the second conversation in the new Portals series “Current Openings — What the World Doesn’t Quite Get Yet.” It’s a different app...

041 - All Things Connected

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most clear and compelling voices across the wide landscape of personal and collective transformation is Dr. Julie Krull , author, mentor, a...

040 - Can You Be Authentic?

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

At times it may seem the more troubling features of our collective cultural experience — polarization, conflict, isolation — appear so intractable...

039 - Current Openings: What the World Doesn't Quite Get Yet

06 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to the first conversation in a new Portals series: “Current Openings — What the World Doesn’t Quite Get Yet.” David Price Francis, aut...

038 - The Future of Education

23 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s remarkable in a digital age where the world is light years ahead of life in the 18th century that a fundamental cultural institution hasn’t c...

037 - A Metamodern Solarpunk Regenerative Vision

09 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At Portals we're seeing more and more that emerging and potentially world - changing ideas and perceptions are arising at points all over the planet. ...

036 - The Co-Creative Power of Life

25 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This is a special Portals conversation with a diverse group of practitioners and leaders who bring their insights into consciousness, and their skills...

035 - The Healing Journey: A Neurobiological Shamanic Psychotherapy

11 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Modern psychotherapy is finally catching up to the shaman. It’s been a long time coming.The pursuit of mental health and a deeper understanding of ...

034 - Imagine 2045

21 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If we let our imagination run free, what kind of a future do we see 25 years from now? What does the world look like? Does humanity fulfill the aspira...

033 - The Way We Flow

07 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It’s tempting to wonder if humanity is really evolving, or devolving. Why does it appear that the expressions of higher intelligence and consciousne...

032 - Homo Universalis Activates

23 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Throughout this Portals adventure, we have explored in many ways how to create the inner and outer space that would allow the next phase of universal ...

031 - Falling Upwards: A Healing Journey

10 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We’re talking today with Tucker Walsh, an Emmy Award-winning documentary director and photojournalist who has collaborated with many of the world’...

030 - Entering the Higher

26 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For almost as long as Homo Sapiens have been on the planet, humans have sensed and tried to commune with a mysterious presence registered as ‘someth...

029 - Searing Moments and Their Transformational Power

12 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, we take a deeper look at the experience of ‘Searing Moments,’ the profoundly meaningful moments, positive or perhaps traumat...

028 - Co-Creating Humanity's Future: Foray Three

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In the most recent Portals Virtual Event, Co-Creating Humanity’s Future: Foray Three, a group of visionaries and searchers shared a profound new ins...

027 - Co-Creating Humanity's Future: Foray Two

15 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Co-Creating Humanity’s Future is a big idea and a big premise. Yet, simply by being alive, we are, in a sense, creating the future. This series of P...

026 - Co-Creating Humanity's Future: Foray One

01 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are proposing that, from the beginning of time, when humans first realized that they were humans, we started to imagine the future. And right from ...