The internet originally promised to pull us together. Instead it seems to have pushed us even farther apart. It was supposed to democratize our information, but is instead flattening our knowledge, fomenting a virulent strain of anti-intellectualism and eroding our trust in the fundamental institutions (media, science, politics, etc.) that support modern civilization. The internet was supposed to rekindle our civic idealism and revolutionize our political systems; instead it created a platform where cynicism, tribalism, confirmation bias, and aperspectival madness would eventually culminate in a total epistemic collapse.

We no longer enjoy a “shared reality” in any meaningful sense. We now live in a time-shifted honeycomb of mediated views and values — a flat and fragmented reality that has completely changed the shape of our consciousness, our culture, and our conduct in the public sphere. And while we continue to have far more in common with each other than not, it is getting more difficult to see those commonalities with each new day.

But something new is beginning to take shape. Every new breakthrough is precipitated by a breakdown, and the "post-truth" era is itself just the inevitable breakdown of a postmodern age collapsing under its own weight — the age of ironic detachment and cynical deconstruction — while a brand new era of authenticity, transformation, and integrated wholeness is beginning to break through the surface of history, all across the planet. We often call this newly-emerging stage of personal, cultural, and social development the "Transformation Age" — and it is a decidedly integral age.

On this page we share a number of perspectives and practices to help you navigate through the noise and static of the "post-truth" era, and to help illuminate the path toward a far more sane and sustainable future.