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Dazia Wallerson's avatar

Wow Ronit!!! Your words speak directly to my heart and soul’s longing! This a chilling account of our current day and road ahead and I am jarred yet grateful for your insights into our human condition and trajectory. “True change must begin at the level of how we perceive and engage with the world.” I couldn’t agree more! It is up to me as a future human to continuously work on how I perceive the world. We need each other to do so. I humbly hear your call.

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Jill Altshuler's avatar

WOW - this is incredible!

I apologize in advance for this LOOONG comment...

So many emotions as I was reading, some I can't really explain very well.

Right from the start something about it - your words, your style, even just the concept of this - drew me right in. It was like a sense of awe or amazement or something about you Ronit. It felt so real, and brilliant, so spot on. This sense of awe lasted throughout the whole read - Letters 1 & 2.

I would love to point out specific examples of what resonated the most, but there are too many, so, here is one:

"But our most daunting challenge right now is not the external problems we face. It is the internal barriers—the perceptual, emotional and cognitive limitations that keep us locked into outdated ways of being."

And I love how you describe the moment we are living in: "Great unraveling and potential possibility."

Your words inspire me to persevere in my attempts to build community when no one else seems to think it's possible, or to want to do the work with me, or have faith that this can be done.

You validate the necessity of this work.

I will definitely share this, widely. It's so important!

Thank you to a dear friend who shared this with me!

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Ronit Herzfeld's avatar

Jill, I deeply appreciate your warm, thoughtful and engaged response. My intention with these letters is to spark a vital conversation about the urgency of this moment in our shared human story. We unconsciously fall into familiar patterns without noticing the essential information that demand our attention.

There is so much calling out to us right now—threats that continue to grow, but we are too caught up in our everyday moment to moment life to attune to them. They will only intensify if we don't find the courage to respond with clarity and intention.

You’re right—many believe that getting involved in this kind of undertaking is too difficult, too idealistic, or simply a waste of time. But if you truly see the undeniable reality of what humanity is facing, then it’s hard to imagine any other choice. No matter how daunting or impossible the task of waking us up may seem, for me, it is not optional. It is necessary.

I invite you—and anyone who resonates with these letters—to stay in conversation with me and with one another. When we raise our voices together, we amplify what truly matters, and with enough of us, we can turn awareness into action and hope into change.

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Jill Altshuler's avatar

I will certainly do my part to ask and gather people to have this vital conversation. Not only do people need to find the courage to respond with clarity and intention, they need to be willing to have their eyes opened, and to care. So many people are consumed with their own daily goings-on, which I don't want to judge because I have been there myself for most of my life, but now that I am aware of, and deeply care about, the need to do this work, I am all in with my heart and soul.

I am here to stay in conversation with you and everyone else. Perhaps we can organize and offer a virtual community conversation?

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Ronit Herzfeld's avatar

I'm looking forward to continuing this conversation with you and welcoming others into it as well. It would be wonderful to start a virtual community dialogue together. Let’s give it a little time and space to grow the community--we need each other!

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Jill Altshuler's avatar

I'm ready when you are!

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Ronit Herzfeld's avatar

Thank you Jill!

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Dazia Wallerson's avatar

Jill, this is a great idea! Let’s discuss it further when we meet.

I’m excited to read Letter 1 at our intercultural community luncheon on Sunday. This could be a simple way for others to start the conversation as well.

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Sebastian Steinbach's avatar

Dear Jill, I feel moved by your receptivity! Your comment feels fully engaged with the letter, on a cognitive, heart and soul level. I look forward to continuing the conversation among all of us. I too resonate with the "great unraveling and potential possibility" - the definition of crisis - on a personal and collective level. What an adventure we're invited to.

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Sebastian Steinbach's avatar

Dear Ronit, Your heartbreaking honesty, your unwaivering care, your strength to see the truth, but not flinch, and hold up the torch of love, is breathtaking. Everything stopped when I read your first letter. My soul expands towards your words, while my heart quivers in doubt. But this is not the time to hesitate - there is no other game in town! Thank you for this map, I intend to use it well.

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Calvin Odera's avatar

This reminds me alot of my grandma.

She used to say "the society has so much focused on cleaning the outer surface of the guard,fully forgetting that it's the inside that carries the milk"

Of course have found this so "unnecessary"!.Thank you for pouring your heart and soul for the good of Future Human.

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Dazia Wallerson's avatar

Love Grandma's quote Calvin!

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Ronit Herzfeld's avatar

Appreciating your grandmother’s wisdom. Would love to hear more about you as your spirit moves you.

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EricR's avatar

I have read this letter many times now. I am struck by how you map my life’s journey - my struggles, blocks, defenses - and the hope that lives in my heart. You speak to a universal hunger, exactly that part that knows, as you said, that something is very off in our world, and something else can exist.

When I began my inquiry into my inner world, I constantly fell victim to my own defense of “knowing everything.” I didn’t want to see how my conditioning, and my reactive responses, created the divisiveness, pain, and harm in my life. I hid behind “I’m a good person doing good things in the world.” I avoided feeling the pain by working on one more social enterprise done MY WAY, or funding one more important impact investment that was DIFFERENT, or sat on one more VITAL board, or went to another conference that promised to heal the climate, poverty and more. Despite all of this investment, not much changed other than a degradation of mine and others’ resources - our health, our finances, and our hope.

Even as I have shifted my focus inward for many years, it is still so easy to avoid the pain. And at times I still feel alone, even when surrounded by so much love, which shows me what I/we are up against. Yet, being in community with you and others navigating this comprehensive framework you share with me and the world, has revitalized my hope and fueled me. I’m looking forward to experiencing more of my own and all of our Future Humans, now!

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Liz Tipper's avatar

I really enjoyed reading through the first letter of the Dear Future Human. She’s right, I hope it is a letter that serves to wake up the parts of us that “know” that something is off, and to bring online the new more integrated parts of our brains that can make the necessary shifts

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Mark's avatar

The above Letter 1 (above) struck me as a gentle introduction, offering a sense of safety through the presence of the “future human.” Knowing they exist provided a kind of reassurance. But once the themes of uncertainty, potential calamity, and the call for an inner transformation, I was fully drawn in. It resonated on a profound level.

I completely agree with your critique of external innovations whether technological, political, or social, are inadequate solutions. In fact, they often serve as distractions from the inner work we must do. They perpetuate the illusion and, if left unchecked, may ultimately contribute to our downfall. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a scary question, although it has been on the horizon for decades. But we were asleep or distracted. Case and point!

I'm especially curious to hear the vision of the “future human.” What condition will future generations and civilizations find themselves in? And how will today’s technological, political, and social trends shape said future? Letter 1 sparked these essential questions in me, but it’s Letter 2 that feels like the true catalyst (I highly recommend reading!)—it carries a motivating energy that pushes the reader deeper with a stronger call to wake up with a promise of anecdotal truths.

I’m genuinely looking forward to the upcoming anecdotes, research, and the larger framework Ronit will present.

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valentina iordan's avatar

I think there are more and more people who think so.

In Romania, the country where I live, the coaching market has grown by 80% in the last 3 years.

At the same time, many of them, even if they started the coaching profession, go back to school and study psychology. Why? Just learn to recognize, as Ronit says, the functioning mechanisms of human brain, mentally, cognitively emotionally, because that's where change begins.

The idea of ​​an interdisciplinary group is a very good idea. I came across the idea of ​​a quantum psychology academy expressed by other visionaries.

But more than that I believe that the change will be made according to the principle of critical mass in physics, which has been shown to work in other fields as well.

If genuine change occurs in a critical percentage, some say 5% others say 15%, then otherwise the change occurs in an avalanche.

So we who are awakened must first work with ourselves, change ourselves authentically, raise our level of consciousness and vibration, and then we will contaminate those around us as in an epidemic of evolution in consciousness.

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Ronit Herzfeld's avatar

Beautifully said, Valentina. This issue is becoming more urgent as growing numbers of people begin to recognize the precarious state of our world. The challenge is that we’re still working in silos—focused on immediate demands rather than the larger shifts already underway. If we will begin to connect across sectors, visions, and communities, we have the chance to respond—not just react—with wisdom and collective power. The time to come together is now.

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Nawaz Lakhani's avatar

Beautifully expressed!

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Edward Zaydelman's avatar

I think you’ll love the latest letter Nawaz!

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Talia Arnow's avatar

The weight, chaos, and fragmentation of the world we live in can feel so overwhelming and paralyzing at times. And yet, the way you so poignantly describe our current reality — sharing the truth of the chaos and the root causes for the perilous path we are walking — gives me a deep sense of clarity and surprisingly a sense of relief.

I think my sense of relief comes from your clear compass and direction for what is necessary right now: “accelerate human growth and adaptation, enabling our minds and behaviors to evolve in step with the demands of a rapidly changing world.” I am stirred awake by these words. I feel the call to action to participate in helping myself and others consciously evolve our capacity to healthfully adapt to our changing world. What other choice do we have?

Thank you Ronit for delving into your heart and soul to paint the picture of what you see and what you have learned. Your words resonate as a vibrational compass for me.

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Vasilica Papadopol's avatar

Ronit, when I first read your letter, I felt a strong impulse to act, to respond and do something truly meaningful. Your words lit a fire within me. But shortly after, I felt myself shut down. What you expressed touched something so deep and real within me that my defense mechanism tried to deny it, to numb me, to pull me back into the illusion that “maybe it’s not that bad.”

That reaction made me realize just how profound the truth you speak really is. I also felt a lot of resistance in sharing these thoughts. It took me time to find the courage to write, because your message awakened a vulnerability in me that wasn’t easy to face.

Your letter is not just a message to future generations, it is a mirror for the present, reflecting both the beauty and the blindness of our times. It's a courageous transmission that penetrates the noise and invites us into a deeper reckoning with who we are, what we could become.

Thank you for your courage, your clarity, and your unconditional love for humanity. Your voice is a gift, and it stays with me as a reminder of what truly matters.

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