Dr.TOM LOMBARDO - WISDOM FACING FORWARD-

Tom Lombardo, Ph.D. is an educator with a multitude of passions. Currently director of the Center for Future Consciousness, he has broad experience in education and mental health. Dr. Lombardo has published over forty articles and books on topics such as wisdom, creativity, virtue, evolution, consciousness, and the future. He is an editor for The Journal of Futures Studies and a member of the World Future Society and World Futures Studies Federation. His companion volumes, The Evolution of Future Consciousness and Contemporary Futurist Thought, have been described as “brilliant...encyclopedic...a masterpiece.”Tom will speak on his two new books, to be published this fall: Wisdom, Consciousness, and the Future and Mind Flight: A Journey into the Future. The first book is nothing short of a blueprint for a new and integrative wisdom-based model of education and the future evolution of mind and human consciousness. He will explain why wisdom is the key ideal that should be modeled and taught within education and how wisdom is the highest expression of future consciousness—the most important capacity humans need to cultivate and further develop to flourish in the years ahead. He will also explore how the development of wisdom aligns with our ongoing technological evolution and global-ecological awareness. Mind Flight is a profound exploration of the archetypal themes of order and chaos; good and evil; truth and beauty; passion and reason; and creation and destruction. As Copthorne Macdonald, creator of The Wisdom Page states, “Mind Flight is ...deeply engaging and stimulating ...a truly remarkable book.”