Barbara talked about writing—she would say “receiving”—a manuscript called ¹The Half-Hour of Silence. The reference was to a half-hourglass she’d received as a gift, using it as a metaphor to illustrate that time is running out for humanity to shift from separation and fear to unity and love. When the manuscript was completed, she called it ²The Book of Co-Creation. In that first meeting with Barbara she read a passage and within a minute I had an emotional meltdown. I’d recognized the voice of the text, the Risen Christ.

Throughout the ’80s, I videotaped Barbara and many of her friends and documented events where she played a principal role. Managing Xavier University’s Television Center in Cincinnati, I was privileged to have access to production equipment and many students who were eager for some “real world” experience. In one instance I took six of them to Washington, D.C. to document ³The First Soviet American Citizens Summit.

Our students had day, night and weekend access to the editing machines and there were no distribution outlets for independently produced videos at the time, so the tapes got shelved. When the 3/4″ videotape format was on its way out, I transferred the originals to VHS cassettes. Then, when I retired from full-time teaching in 2007, I transferred them to DVD discs and put them in a binder. Having been a quality-conscious producer, it didn’t occur to me that they could be edited into programs due to the generation loss. Then, in 2023 my friend Glenn Geffcken urged me to put the tapes on YouTube despite the picture quality. It was the wakeup call I needed. I went to work immediately. The result is a collection of videos that features the leading spiritual, future-oriented thought-leaders of the 1980s. Besides their historical value, four decades later, the perspectives articulated by these visionaries are as relevant today as they were then.

This collection and website is dedicated to Linda Smith, my wife, who for four and a half decades of self-sacrifice, support and creativity has been a silent partner in this work. It could not have happened without her.

Where to begin? I highly recommend the one-hour video, Our Spiritual Experience: A Conversation with Buckminster Fuller and Barbara Marx Hubbard. Check out Awakening to Universal Harmony with Ram Dass. And don’t miss the 52 minute speech that Barbara Marx Hubbard considered the best she ever gave—Navigating Evolutionary Change. Then read the video descriptions in the “Videos” category.