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A New Energy for Planetary Consciousness

  • Writer: Rick Bonetti
    Rick Bonetti
  • 3 hours ago
  • 6 min read

Unity Earth hosted Symposium V - Spiraling UP: A New Energy for Planetary Consciousness online February 20-22, 2026. The highlight video on YouTube includes talks and panels from authors, scientists, musicians, theologians, and philosophers speaking on the themes of unity consciousness, interconnectedness, and interspirituality.


The full speaker lineup included: Robert Atkinson, Diane Berke, Ben Bowler, Roger P. Briggs, Adam Bucko, Jude Currivan, Riane Eisler, Tezikiah Gabriel, Charles P. Gibbs, Jeff Genung, Audrey Kitagawa, Mussie Hailu, Kristin Hoffmann, Kurt Johnson, William Keepin, Julie Krull, Rama Mani, Deborah Moldow, Omashar, Jon Ramer, Alexander Schieffer, and Anne-Marie Voorhoeve, all members of: Evolutionary Leaders: In Service to Conscious Evolution of The Source of Synergy Foundation. Find the link to their website here.


Day 1, February 20, 2026, had one session: Vision & Direction, focusing on "UNITY EARTH as an organization: reflecting on purpose, learnings, and pathways for 2026 and beyond."


Day 2, February 21, 2026, was dedicated to Partnerships, Coalitions, Alliances, and Networks — because no single movement can meet this moment alone. The final Day 3 turned toward the maturation of interspirituality — how shared spiritual awareness becomes structured, embodied action in the world. You can watch Session 1 HERE and Session 2 HERE


The Day 2 morning session brought together leaders whose work bridges traditions, sectors, and systems.


  • Dr. Julie Krull explored inner coherence as the foundation of outer collaboration.

  • Ambassador Mussie Hailu and Sami Awad draw on decades of peacebuilding across cultures, demonstrating how alliances form through courageous relationships.

  • Syed Salman Chishty embodies the Sufi tradition’s call to unity through service.

  • Yuka Saionji Matsuura, representing the global May Peace Prevail On Earth movement and the Goi Peace Foundation, demonstrates how shared intention can become living infrastructure — a worldwide network linking governments, communities, and grassroots leaders through a universal prayer for peace.


From cosmology to partnership economics - Dr. Jude Currivan, Roger Briggs, Rama Mani, Alexander Schieffer, Riane Eisler, and Jon Ramer illuminate how networks of cooperation — across governance, spirituality, and social innovation — are shaping a regenerative planetary future. Hosted by Ben Bowler, this session revealed partnership not merely as a strategy, but as a lived practice — the essential architecture of planetary consciousness.


Hosted by Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Deborah Moldow, this session brought together institutions and leaders who have carried the work of interspiritual collaboration into long-term, lived practice.


Day 3, February 22, 2026 - The Future of Interspirituality: From Awareness to Action

You can watch Session 1 HERE and Session 2 HERE


The final Day 3 on February 22nd turned toward the maturation of interspirituality — how shared spiritual awareness becomes structured, embodied action in the world.


The morning session opened with a keynote from Rev. Matthew Fox, whose Creation-centered theology and prophetic voice call us into a spirituality that serves justice, ecology, and cultural transformation. This was hosted by Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Deborah Moldow


From there, three converging clusters demonstrated how this vision is being carried forward:

Cluster 1 – Bede Griffiths Trust

Matthew M. Cobb, Patrick Carolan, Calvin Chatlos, and Roger Briggs represent a contemplative lineage in dialogue with science, ecology, and systems thinking — spirituality expressed through institutional continuity and cultural evolution.


Cluster 2 – Temple of Understanding

Grove Harris, Jonathan Granoff, and Jyotsna Singh show how spiritual principles can influence diplomacy, education, and global cooperation — translating dialogue into structural impact.


Cluster 3 – Holomovement & Prosocial Spirituality

Jeff Genung, Rev. Diane Berke, William Keepin, and Susan Belchamber explore the integration of spirituality, systems science, and collective intelligence in shaping regenerative culture.


Geff Genung is Managing Director and Chief Architect of ProSocial World. Jeff serves ProSocial's mission to consciously evolve a world that works for all. We believe that to catalyze rapid, positive cultural change, we need to recognize our interconnectedness and continuously improve the relationships we have with ourselves, each other, and the planet. ProSocial is an evidence-based framework for cooperation. It integrates multiple sciences, including the Nobel Prize-winning work of Elinor Ostrom. ProSocial has trained 1,000 facilitators in over 35 countries.


In a dedicated segment, Rocky Dawuni shared reflections on the cultural dimension of planetary awakening, followed by one of his songs — embodying the movement from awareness into action through art.


Hosted by Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Deborah Moldow, the morning session brought together institutions and leaders who have carried the work of interspiritual collaboration into long-term, lived practice.


The afternoon session on February 22nd - From Dialogue to Embodiment: Interspiritual Action in a Divided World - was also hosted by Dr. Kurt Johnson and Rev. Deborah Moldow, who brought together institutions and leaders who have carried the work of interspiritual collaboration into long-term, lived practice.


Cluster 4 – United Religions Initiative (URI)

With Charles P. Gibbs, Kay Lindahl, Gard Jameson, and Sally Mahé, we saw grassroots global networks advancing peace, listening, and cooperative leadership across nations and cultures.

We see grassroots global networks advancing peace, listening, and cooperative leadership across nations and cultures.


Cluster 5 – Charis Foundation & the Snowmass Dialogue; Gender Equity & Reconciliation International

Rory McEntee and Alejandra Warden represent a lineage of contemplative dialogue among the world’s traditions — where spiritual depth becomes shared responsibility. 

Rory D. McEntee is Executive Director of the Charis Foundation for New Monasticism & Interspirituality, “Charis supports spiritual maturation, interspiritual collaboration, and broad systemic change in the world. Our ethos, or the spirit of our ideals, is articulated in our “Charis Community Vows.”

Find out more about Rory here and his books:


Find out more about the Snowmass Interreligious Conference held from 1984 until 2015 by Father Thomas Keating (1923-2018) at the St. Benedict's Monastary in Snowmass, Colorado here.


Find out more about Contemplative Outreach of New Mexico here. This group was established to bring this ancient prayer practice out of the monastic milieu to those in our contemporary society.


Alejandra Warden, also of Charis Foundation, represents a lineage of contemplative dialogue among the world’s traditions — where spiritual depth becomes shared responsibility.  Divine feminine Charis Circles. Alejandra Warden wrote an amazing book Remembrance: A Vision of the Sacred Feminine and the Renewal of the Earth. Alejandra participates in Ed Bastian’s Spiritual Paths Institute.


Through William Keepin and Rev. Cynthia Brix, interspirituality moves beyond conversation into the healing of gender division and relational imbalance.


Will Keepin, PhD, is president and executive director of the Satyana Institute in Boulder, Colorado, which he cofounded in 1996 and founded Gender Reconciliation International, which has organized more than 75 intensive gatherings in seven countries for healing and reconciliation between women and men. A mathematical physicist with 30 scientific publications on sustainable energy and global warming to his name, Keepin presented testimony to European and Australian parliaments and the Unite States House of Representatives, and became a whistleblower in nuclear science policy. Keepin began practicing silent meditation in 1982, trained in transpersonal psychology, and has facilitated Holotropic Breathwork since the 1990s. He leads retreats on interfaith spirituality and is a Fellow of the Findhorn Foundation, and adjunct faculty at Holy Names University.


Keepin is author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men; co-editor of Song of the Earth: The Emerging Synthesis of Scientific and Spiritual Worldviews; and coauthor of Women Healing Women.


On Jan 15, 2026, Ben Bowler interviewed mathematical physicist Will Keepin to discuss his 2016 book entitled Belonging to God: Science, Spirituality & a Universal Path of Divine Love on the tenth anniversary of 1God.com. They discussed science, spirituality, and mysticism, exploring the dynamic relationship between the various systems of knowledge. “Can Science Reveal GOD?" https://youtu.be/BKSpb7yk5Ds?si=Nvo33IPZRdowqFHS


Rev. Cynthia Brix, MA, MDiv, is an interfaith minister specializing in international peacemaking and spiritual direction for young adults. She is the program director of Satyana Institute, co-director of the Gender Reconciliation International project, and cofounder of the Women’s Spiritual Mastery project. 


After she earned her master of Divinity from Iliff School of Theology in 2006, she worked as a campus minister at the University of Colorado for United Ministries of Higher Education, and she led meditation workshops at regional and national Unitarian Universalist conferences.


Additionally, Brix cochaired the Race Relations Committee for the City of Muncie, Indiana, and later initiated an interfaith project to address racial tensions at the University of Colorado.


A long-time student of Eknath Easwaran, Brix is an adjunct faculty member at Holy Names University. Additionally, she is a contributing author of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation Between Women and Men and coauthor of Women Healing Women. 


Brix organized an international conference in Turin, Italy that brought women spiritual masters together from Buddhist, Christian, and Hindu traditions, and produced a DVD video from this conference in 2009 titled, Cultivating Women's Spiritual Mastery.


Interspirituality moves beyond conversation into the healing of gender division and relational imbalance.


Robert Atkinson and Ben Bowler called us forward in the final gathering — “from inspiration to implementation, from shared vision to shared work.”


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