Brian Eno: ‘Sex, drugs, art… they’re all ways of surrendering’

The process of crossing the threshold is demanding for each and every one of us. When the cracks appear in a long-held belief, it causes anxiety and pain. As the certain world is replaced by great uncertainty, the risk is that we cling to what we know more than ever. The gravitational pull of the familiar exerts itself, no matter how dysfunctional

People everywhere are joining in, and creating the possibility of a truly sustainable, inclusive, joyful future as they do so.

To embrace a new story, safe uncertainty is the mindset we need to cultivate not just as individuals, but as organisations, institutions, and indeed whole societies. This demands honesty, acknowledgement of the challenges, and a commitment to facing them together.

We can look back and see the times and places of Citizen emergence not as curiosities, but as precursors to this moment, when we are better equipped than ever before to embrace a bigger idea of ourselves. We can see all these, and our own time, not as causes for fear, but as sources of hope.

one of the millions of green shoots forcing their way through the cracks in the concrete, each defying the headline narrative of decline that dominates our time.