Goodbye to a Beloved Visionary

I’m mourning and celebrating Barbara Marx Hubbard, who died in a Loveland, Colorado hospital on April 10th. She was 89. Barbara was a great thinker, speaker, and visionary. For me, she was also an inspiration and eventually the subject of my documentary American Visionary.

I remember seeing Barbara for the first time; she spoke at the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment. This white-haired octogenarian described the future of humanity with an optimism and confidence I’d never witnessed. Then she paused and asked with gentle intensity, “What is your part in this shift?”

Her question has provoked me and countless others to ask what unique role we can play in the conscious evolution of our species. What is yours to do?

During the process of making this biography, I was privileged to know an indefatigable woman. From dawn to dusk, she was driven by a deep sense of purpose, a daemon, to envision and communicate a radically improved world—and then inspire the unique daemon in others, to create it.

I’m grateful that she, her sister Patricia Ellsberg, and so many others helped document her story and ideas. You can see American Visionary: The Story of Barbara Marx Hubbard for free on Amazon prime.

In addition, if you want to learn more about the woman that Deepak Chopra called “the mother of conscious evolution for our time”, I recommend Neale Donald Walsch’s biography Mother of Invention and Carter Phipps’s insightful book Evolutionaries.

I join with thousands of others in paying respect to a beloved visionary. Barbara was an inspiring and effective champion of our species’ social potential.