Anniversary of Barbara Marx Hubbard’s Death

The subject of my latest documentary, Barbara Marx Hubbard, died one year ago today. She would have been 90.

She did not live to see the coronavirus, not her vision of a “peace room” in the office of the vice presidency. But as the New York Times obit says, “Her ideas, book and lectures had reached countless seekers looking to clarify their purpose and expand their consciousness.”

What would Barbara have thought of the coronavirus? Perhaps she’d think about her 1966 vision, in which a calamity struck humanity with such force that “we all stopped. And in that stopping came love, came empathy.”

In my documentary American Visionary: The Story of Barbara Marx Hubbard, Barbara describes her vision, as well as her aspiration for a VP peace room. “Its purpose will be to defeat the real enemies of humanity: hunger, disease, illiteracy, poverty and war.”

I loved Barbara, as I know many of you did. I invite you to take a moment to reflect on her vision that “crises are evolutionary drivers”.