The Center for Future Consciousness offers educational experiences that challenge and stimulate the mind, expand conscious awareness, empower creativity and imagination, deepen knowledge and understanding, enhance ethical character, and promote personal and social growth. Our mission is to advance the purposeful evolution of humanity through the heightening of future consciousness and wisdom and the inspirational, mythic, and cosmic power of science fiction.
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Future Consciousness Insights, Wisdom and the Future and Wisdom Page Updates September 2012 - Present
Director of the Center, Tom Lombardo, Ph.D., and Co-Director, Jeanne Belisle Lombardo, M.A., are experienced educators, presenters and workshop facilitators. They are regular speakers at the World Future Society conventions and other conferences, as well as at various colleges and educational institutions, nationally and globally. Dr. Lombardo is the writer of numerous books and articles in psychology, philosophy, education, and the future.
Tom Lombardo is an awarded Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation, a special honor given to members who have made a globally recognized, significant and original contribution to futures studies. He is also an Executive Board member of the World Futures Studies Federation.
The Center for Future Consciousness also has a network of fellow faculty, educators and futurists who serve on the advisory board.
Announcing New Books
Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future
Volume Two: The Time Machine to Metropolis
“Lombardo’s encyclopedic knowledge of science fiction is phenomenal.”
Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future
Volume Three: Superman to Star Maker
“Lombardo is just simply brilliant... you will feel overwhelmed.”
An evolutionary and transformative journey through the history of science fiction, from ancient to contemporary times, exploring the innermost passions and dreams of the human spirit, the most expansive cosmic creations of thought and imagination, and the farthest reaches of the universe and beyond.
Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future
Volume One: Prometheus to the Martians
“...a grand vision of the role of science fiction in the progress of human consciousness.”
An evolutionary and transformative journey through the history of science fiction from the innermost passions and dreams of the human spirit to the farthest reaches of the universe, human imagination, and beyond.
“A brilliant, timely, erudite exposure of the shallow, divisive individualism of modern life.”
A concise analysis of contemporary global problems and a focused solution based on the development of character virtues, wisdom, and future consciousness.
Our key educational offerings can be delivered as one-to-two-hour inspirational talks, participatory weekend workshops, and in some cases, semester-length in-depth courses. Topics include:
Heightening Future Consciousness
Science Fiction: The Evolutionary Mythology of the Future
The Future Evolution of Consciousness and the Mind
Contemporary Trends and Theories and Paradigms of the Future
We provide a wide range of educational materials including articles, books, videos, and online courses on consciousness, wisdom, science fiction, and the future.
Link to the tabs at the top of this webpage to access articles and books for each topic identified above, such as Future Consciousness, Science and Technology, Society, and Science Fiction.
Explore our futurist print bibliography, website resources, and recommended books in our Library.
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