I grew up in a home where unusual big-life questions were the everyday conversation. What is our human purpose? Have the new capabilities that powerful technologies confer on the world at large changed people and if so, in what ways? Could they serve a greater good? In 1949 my parents, Barbara Marx Hubbard ( BarbaraMarxHubbard.Com) and Earl Wade Hubbard ( EarlHubbard.Com), met in Paris soon after the dropping of the bombs on Japan in 1945. This event prompted them to ask their unusual questions. They may have not been necessary to ponder, not so very long ago. Their answers culminated in a perspective they called conscious evolution. My mother believed it unwise to leave it up to chance that powerful technologies, such as those used to build weapons of mass destruction, would be adapted to serve peaceful purposes in the future. She felt it far better to evolve or choose this objective.

Following through with this choice would be how to evolve both the purpose for the technology and the human purpose that they fulfill.
I grew up in a home where unusual big-life questions were the everyday conversation. What is our human purpose? Have the new capabilities that powerful technologies confer on the world at large changed people and if so, in what ways? Could they serve a greater good? In 1949 my parents, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Earl Wade Hubbard, met in Paris soon after the dropping of the bombs on Japan in 1945. This event prompted them to ask their unusual questions. They may have not been necessary to ponder, not so very long ago. Their answers culminated in a perspective they called conscious evolution. My mother believed it unwise to leave it up to chance that powerful technologies, such as those used to build weapons of mass destruction, would be adapted to serve peaceful purposes in the future. She felt it far better to evolve or choose this objective. Following through with this choice would be how to evolve both the purpose for the technology and the human purpose that they fulfill.
On one hand I was greatly influenced by my parents’ ideas, but on the other, I was greatly attracted to the world of Nature lying right outside my front door in Lime Rock, Connecticut. I loved to observe salamanders, chipmunks, and turtles—not as a biologist would but as a student of a fellow Earthling. Suddenly I saw they were answering my mother’s question. Not verbally, of course, but in the way they live. They were fulfilling their biological life cycles and also giving something back to the larger ecosystem. Later, when I learned how to weave, it struck me that animals in the wild are the weavers of its ecological fabric. The same whole-oriented principles of weaving are reflected as an ethic of reciprocity in the natural world. It occurred to me to use the medium of weaving to guide understanding and its integrative process to inspire greater sensitivity of our relationship with each other and the larger whole.
I share my parents’ desire, although my father passed early in the 2000s, to influence an “evolved tendency” to make whole-oriented choices. While they accomplished this with a perspective, I provide experiences which could inspire these decisions. I have expanded the utilitarian value of the craft to include its structural, tactile, and whole-oriented process to serve as conduits to specific information related to how life evolves in relationship to everything else. I have developed this potential in all these aspects of weaving. I use the artform, teach techniques, and interpret the information and understanding generated through the experience of weaving.
I share my parents’ desire, although my father passed early in the 2000s, to influence an “evolved tendency” to make whole-oriented choices. While they accomplished this with a perspective, I provide experiences which could inspire these decisions. I have expanded the utilitarian value of the craft to include its structural, tactile, and whole-oriented process to serve as conduits to specific information related to how life evolves in relationship to everything else. I have developed this potential in all these aspects of weaving. I use the artform, teach techniques, and interpret the information and understanding generated through the experience of weaving.