Something is stirring.

I can feel it in the conversations—the way an investor pauses mid-sentence to describe a dream they had, or how a CEO suddenly starts talking about plant medicine at the end of our session. The way artists are speaking about their work like they're channeling something larger. The energy is different this summer.

Last week at Psychedelic Science 2025, I watched thousands of people navigate what felt like the edge of a new world. Scientists presenting breakthrough research on consciousness, entrepreneurs discussing business models that exist to regenerate rather than extract, therapists sharing frameworks that sound more like ancient wisdom than clinical practice. Everyone seemed to be speaking in a new language—one that acknowledges what we've always known but rarely said out loud.

The constraints are coming off.

Not just in the obvious places—though watching AI reshape entire industries in real time is certainly part of it. The constraints are lifting in deeper ways. People are remembering that business can be sacred. That leadership can be healing. That the way we've been doing things isn't the only way.

I'm hearing it everywhere: the quiet question of "what if?" The tentative sharing of visions that felt too big or too strange just months ago. The growing comfort with mystery, with not having all the answers, with following what wants to emerge rather than forcing what we think should happen.

There's something about this moment—this particular summer—that feels like a threshold. Like we're collectively standing at the edge of a pool, knowing we're about to jump but not quite ready to let go of the side.

The old frameworks still work for some things. The familiar structures still provide some comfort. But there's an unmistakable sense that we're outgrowing them. That what's trying to be born requires more space, more trust, more willingness to move without a map.

In my own work, I'm noticing clients arriving with different questions. Instead of "How do I fix this problem?" they're asking "What wants to happen here?" Instead of "How do I get better at leading?" they're wondering "Who am I becoming as a leader?" The shift is subtle but profound—from mechanistic thinking to something more organic, more alive.

Maybe it's always been this way and I'm just finally seeing it. Maybe every generation feels like they're on the edge of something unprecedented. But this feels different. The convergence of technology and consciousness, the breakdown of old systems and the emergence of new ones, the growing acknowledgment that we need different approaches to almost everything.

I think about the mycelial networks beneath forests—how they communicate, share resources, coordinate responses across vast distances through underground networks invisible to the casual observer. Maybe that's what's happening now. Maybe all these separate conversations about AI and healing and new organizational forms and consciousness research are actually part of one larger pattern, one underground network finally surfacing.

The people I trust most are the ones who can feel it too but aren't trying to name it yet. Who can sit with the uncertainty while staying open to what's emerging. Who understand that being present to what's unfolding matters more than having the right strategy.

If you're reading this and feeling that same stirring—that sense of something new wanting to be born—you're not alone. And you don't need to have it figured out yet. The invitation right now isn't to know what's coming. It's to stay present to what's here, to trust what you're sensing, and to create space for whatever wants to emerge.

Something is stirring. And maybe the most important thing we can do is learn to feel our way forward together.