REMARKABLE PEOPLE, barbara marx hubbard
1993 Thresholds interview
The Age of Co-Creation
![]() | Barbara Marx Hubbard is a futurist whose life is a testimony to her belief that humanity has the power to cause its own evolution consciously. Born into a wealthy family with a father who taught her to do her best, Hubbard was free to pursue her spiritual needs at an early age. When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, Hubbard as a teenager began questioning the purpose of our power. From that point forward, she approached her education, her relationships, and her lifes choices in the context of two questions: What is the purpose of humanitys power? and What is my purpose? An avid reader, Hubbard devoured books and ideas, raised five children, and through a series of personal revelatory experiences arrived at her purpose in life: to be a beacon of hope, to communicate to humanity the story of our evolution and potential. Hubbards own quest for purpose has brought her into association with prominent thinkers and leaders such as Jonas Salk, Buckminster Fuller, Lancelot Law Whyte, and Thomas Merton. In 1984 her name was placed in nomination for the Vice Presidency of the United States on the Democratic Ticket, with a Campaign for a Positive Future. Barbara Marx Hubbard is the author of The Book of Co-Creation, Part I and II. Part I is The Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth, an interpretation of the Book of Revelation in the Bible which shows us the remarkable potential available to each individual. Hubbard believes that Jesus provides an example for us of what any human being can become. The Revelation reveals how humanity will evolve by using our vast creative power in harmony with the divine pattern. Hubbard says that she would launch a Creative Revolution by enlarging Thomas Jeffersons great statement to say, We hold these truths to be self-evident. All people are born creative, endowed by our Creator with the inalienable right to realize our creativity, for the good of ourselves and the world. |