Global Mind Change

Global Mind Change argues that late industrial civilization faces a deep cultural crisis resolvable only through a transformation in humanity's shared assumptions about mind and reality. Its central claim is that as a society alters its basic beliefs about the nature of consciousness, it thereby alters the reality it experiences.

Written by a former Stanford engineer turned futurist, the book makes a sincere, science-engaged case that consciousness may be causal rather than a mere by-product of the brain, treating parapsychological and noetic claims as legitimate objects of serious inquiry. It advances this as a hypothesis worth testing rather than a creed.

Drawing on the author's leadership of the Institute of Noetic Sciences and his background in scenario planning, the work links rigorous futures studies with the human potential movement's conviction that inner change drives outer change.