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Masaru Emoto demonstrates in beautiful photographs that prayer and thoughts alter crystalline formations of frozen water. His work was featured in the movie, What the Bleep Do We Know!?

Integral philosopher Steve McIntosh gives some unorthodox advice to the next U.S. President on how to approach the most pressing challenges of the next four years.

Dutch lawyer and environmental activist Roger Cox speaks to EnlightenNext about an impressive project he’s spearheading to transform the Netherlands into the world’s first fully sustainable nation.

Futurist John Petersen speaks with EnlightenNext’s Carter Phipps about his new book, A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change, and why he feels that we may be headed toward one of the biggest transitions in human history.

Washington Post reporter Joel Garreau, author of Radical Evolution, describes some of the most exciting new technologies on the horizon that have the potential to dramatically transform our lives in the not-too-distant future.

EnlightenNext speaks to techno-prophet Ray Kurzweil, and conscious capitalist Patricia Aburdene about where they think the world is going in the next five years.

EnlightenNext's Ross Robertson reads his popular feature article, "A Brighter Shade of Green," about the next environmental revolution.

What happens when the oil runs dry? Petersen explains that we already have a perfect alternative available today and envisions a future in which we freely access the latent energy within empty space itself.

From the far out to the close at hand, four futurists zoom out for a bird's eye view on the global changes we're experiencing now and can anticipate in the future—each outlining both the unprecedented challenges and mind-spinning opportunities humanity faces in the minutes and years to come