In this course we trace the path of the rhizome into new narratives that reclaim the human story from progress, re-imagining pasts and futures alike as we seek out ecological wisdom and planetary homecoming.

In order to arrive here, in this transformational present, we will have to come to know the intimate relationship between meaning and matter, the fluctuating dance of shifting worldviews, new ways of embodying our relationship with time, becoming and human “development,” and a re-envisioned history of consciousness.

In this six-week series of exploratory lectures, author Jeremy Johnson will draw from philosophers, poets, artists, and spiritual practitioners to argue that the future is already present, even if we don’t recognize it.

We stand on a new-and-ancient ground which, like gravity, has re-directed modernity’s hapless attempts to run for the exits, turning humanity around for a reunion with planet, place, and presence.

It is here, in the locus of the transformational present, where we can learn how to reclaim time from the relentless pace of techno-utopianism, find corridors towards habitable futures, and enact fragments of regenerative tomorrows in our here and now.

In order to empower new stories about habitable futures, we will need to tell different stories about our past, gather up temporal toolkits and medicine bundles that help our wayfinding and healing on the path between worlds, and take lessons from our more-than-human kin, like the nautilus, or the still more ancient mycorrhizae, on how we can re-imagine time, transformation, and development.

Fragments of an Integral Future draws its material from the forthcoming book (Fragments of an Integral Future, Integral Imprint 2023). No pre-requisite reading materials will be required, and additional reading materials will be provided during the course.