Center for Future Consciousness

A New Approach to Education in the Twenty-first Century

The Center for Future Consciousness is a new kind of school offering highly informative and personally enriching courses, workshops, presentations and retreats for individuals, groups, and organizations in both online and in-person formats.

The Center provides educational experiences that emphasize and value heightened awareness of the future, deep learning and the intrinsic worth of knowledge; broad scholarship and intellectual standards; contemporary science, psychology, and philosophy; critical thinking and creative imagination; personal relevance and application; the development of character virtues and wisdom; and the growth and future expansion of the human mind and human consciousness.

For the Center, future consciousness has a two-fold meaning: The total set of our mental abilities for understanding and constructively dealing with the future, and the future development of mind and consciousness. At the Center, our educational offerings emphasize becoming more conscious and capable regarding the future, and enhancing the breadth and depth of human consciousness in the future – that is, becoming more enlightened and wise. We believe that:

"The quality of the future will reflect the future quality of human beings.”

Our educational offerings cluster into six interconnected areas:

Philosophy, Wisdom, Enlightenment, and Education
Mind, Consciousness, and the Future of Psychology
The Study of the Future, Future Consciousness, and Science Fiction
Evolution, Cosmology, and the Future of Science and Technology
Virtue, Ethical Character Development, and Ethical Evolution
Issues in the Future of Society and Culture

Read more on our education page about our workshops and presentations and their benefits.

Director of the Center, Dr. Tom Lombardo, and co-director, Jeanne Belisle Lombardo, 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 published articles in psychology, philosophy, education, and the future.

The Center for Future Consciousness also has a network of fellow faculty, educators and futurists who serve on the advisory board.

Central Values, Critical Educational Goals, and
Core Educational Objectives

Enhancing one’s awareness and understanding of the possibilities of the future
Empowering one’s future consciousness to create a positive and constructive life for tomorrow, both personally and collectively
Understanding and cultivating the development of wisdom, the highest expression of future consciousness
Exploring the history and future possibilities of psychological and social evolution
Studying the nature of the human mind and grappling with the mystery of consciousness
Examining the significance of science and the impact of emerging technologies on the future of humanity
Pursuing the great issues and themes of philosophy and cosmology as the pathway to enlightenment
Aspiring toward a deeper and more inspiring vision of education and learning
Highlighting the central importance of virtues, character development, and ethical evolution in our future development.

Read more about our Philosophy and Educational Approach.

Educational Resources

Visit our Library for a wealth of reference resources. Access Tom’s extensive Readings on the study of the future, the enhancement of future consciousness, education and character development, philosophy, and contemporary and futurist psychology; and read Jeanne’s large selection of essays on philosophy and the Humanities.

Explore our most Recent Articles and Presentations on the future of psychology, the future of marriage, wisdom, character virtues and academic excellence, sustainability, globalization, and more.

Tom Lombardo futurist educator Award:

FUTUREtakes, international futurist magazine for the World Future Society, honored Tom Lombardo with the award of “Futurist Educator of the Quarter” for the winter of 2009. Click here to read the article highlighting Tom’s work.

Books on the Future and Future Consciousness

The Evolution of Future Consciousness and
Contemporary Futurist Thought

“…a maturing of future studies, placing it solidly within the larger frameworks of human thought…I would recommend it to anyone practicing or teaching in that field.”

Walter Truett Anderson

“…a great book… a must-read book for futurists… a masterpiece… a brilliant performance, informed, fair-minded, reliable, and powerful.”

Wendell Bell

Read More on Tom Lombardo’s Books on the Future

Announcing Tom and Jeanne’s new book:

Mind Flight:

Wisdom, Enlightenment, and the Journey of Life

The book length version of Tom’s essay “The Time of Your Life”,

Mind Flight is a personal and philosophical narrative, from time past to time present and into time future. It is a story about the quest for wisdom, the pursuit of enlightenment, the search for love, and the aspiration toward a positive vision of the future. It is an encyclopedia of ideas, a weaving together of a personal narrative with an intellectual odyssey that explores a multitude of theories and philosophies from across the great panorama of history.

Of the original essay, Copthorne Macdonald, creator of the Wisdom Page, wrote:

“What a compelling piece of writing! A rich, thought-stimulating, feeling-stimulating, mind-massaging trip."

Mind Flight will be appearing in serial form, one new chapter a month, on the Wisdom Page.

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Contact Tom Lombardo by email: tom@centerforfutureconsciousness.com
Contact Jeanne Belisle Lombardo by email: jeanne@centerforfutureconsciousness.com