Becoming Human in 2026, by Giles Hutchins

Welcome to 2026! A year of metamorphic death-rebirth no less. But what does this mean for us? For our humanity, and our day-to-day approach to living and leading during the year ahead?

In this article, I explore how the times we’re in call for a root-and-branch (r)evolution in what it means to be human: A process of becoming human by realizing our deeper potential within our innate Humanity.

Welcome to the Metacrisis

I’d like to invite-in a signature phrase not just for 2026 but for the next handful of years ahead: moving through the metacrisis.

While ‘polycrisis’ became THE 2025 buzzword for describing our myriad interwoven and amplifying crises, the term ‘metacrisis’ (from the Greek ‘meta’ meaning ‘beyond’ or ‘transcend-and-include’) is perhaps more relevant for 2026, as we begin to catalyse our individual and collective consciousness to move beyond a fight-flight-freeze reactivity into deeper generativity.

Cognitive overwhelm is a natural human response to the manifold crises amplifying on our watch. Its quite natural to be stunned and shocked by the rising complexity, confusion and chaos, or indeed angered into frantic symptom-fixing. Clouded by dissonance we get frustrated, figure-point, polarize, and rush into reductive reactivity inured to the same level of consciousness that created the crises in the first place.

‘Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe toward which this world is headed — be it ecological, social or a general breakdown of civilization — will be unavoidable.’ Vaclav Havel, former Czech President

As more and more people wake-up to the wholesale significance of looming tipping points, the year ahead will undoubtably witness more panic, projection, fragmentation, alienation and polarization. Arguably, this is all quite human. But on closer inspection, this reactive tendency spawns from an uncentring egoic-urge of adolescent-humanity rather than a more mature and wiser adult-humanity. 

Can we do more than cope amid rising complexity? You bet!

Humanity has a hard-won ability of allowing rising dissonance to not just trigger adolescent reactivity but catalyse an up-stretch into an expanded stage of meaning-making. This is what (r)evolution is all about, and it’s THE key move that will save our humanity (and much of life on Earth) from its current endgame trajectory.

Rather than 2026 bearing witness to a reinforcement of the very level of consciousness that created our problems in the first place as we get sucked into reactivity, anxiety, fear and separateness amid rising confusion and frustration, we might permit ourselves to see the next few years as opportune -initiatory and kairotic – for a once-in-a-civilization up-stretch. A profound shift that affects our way of attending to life, how and why we do things, and the purpose and meaning we bring to our value-creation ventures, political praxis and civic communities. A new movement in the symphony of human identity no less that reorientates our being-and-knowing and self-other-world relationality – how we view our own sense of self in relation to others and the wider world. A seeing-with-new-eyes from an adolescent, exploitative and blinkered-view of ‘progress’ into a more holistic, adult and regenerative perception of ‘progress’.

This ‘up-stretch’ is when we jump-up a stage in our meaning-making by expanding our consciousness to embrace today’s challenges with a different quality of consciousness than that which created them in the first place. This is a move through the ‘fear zone’ into the ‘learning zone’, and requires real leadership and courage to move into the unknown amid volatility and uncertainty.

I believe that the popularity of defensive coping and doom-laden narratives, and techno-optimistic geoengineering narratives, is a byproduct of what created the polycrisis in the first place – a flawed mindset, a flawed view about how the world works. It’s this flawed worldview that underlies our real problems, as it invokes fear and fragmentation. Ignore at our peril.

Let’s permit ourselves to see 2026 as an initiatic kairotic moment:  A threshold-crossing, a rite-of-passage that invokes not fear but courage to bring forth our deeper humanity and birth a new worldview. This new worldview dispels the dangerous delusions of our adolescence and ensures we attend to our sea of crises with a different level of consciousness than which created the problems in the first place.

‘We cannot solve problems from the same level of consciousness that created them.’  Albert Einstein, physicist

This up-stretch process of moving through the metacrisis is fundamentally educatory. The word ‘education’ finds its root in the Latin ‘educere’ which means to bring forth something latent. The metacrisis as a threshold-crossing brings forth our deeper human nature: A depth of self-other-world relationality with an innate biophilic receptive-creative humanity. 

It’s a shift from a modernist/postmodernist and humanist/transhumanist/posthumanist ‘adolescence’ (rooted in materialism with its corrupting illusion of separation) into a deeper ontology (being) and epistemology (knowing) rooted in a quantum-consciousness of connectedness. This quantum-complexity perspective includes panpsychic, animistic and panentheistic flavours, where the human and more-than-human world is perceived as sacred and ensouled, a perspective that lies at the heart of all ancient traditions the world-over. While acknowledging the varying differentiations across diverse beliefs, traditions and creeds, what’s primary here is an overcoming of the illusion of separation, moving us beyond the dualisms of mind-matter, human-nature, inner-outer.

This shift in being-and-knowing can manifest through everyday acts of care, kindness, respect and right relation with all life. By ‘right relation’ I mean a receptive attentiveness to the participatory (immanent-transcendent) depth and breadth of life’s vibrancy, its multiplicity-in-unity. Where diversity is celebrated through a lived dynamic of mutual respect, deep listening and dialogue. This is simultaneously phenomenological and metaphysical, both an embodied ‘immanent’ of-the-flesh experience and also a numinous ‘transcendent’ sixth-sense experience that opens the ego to the awe and rapture of being alive.

‘The ultimate mystery ground, the transcendent energy source of the universe, is also the mysterious source of your own life.’ Joseph Campbell, mythologist

This is a rekindling an ancient self-other-world relationality latent within our humanity that’s been zealously supressed since the Enlightenment, stuffed into the growing shadow-side of our adolescent mechanistic-materialistic humanity. Today’s crisis of meaning, disconnection, alienation, anxiety and addiction is fed by this soul-suppression which disenchants us in deep and partly unconscious ways. This soul-suppression warps our humanity into an egoic carcinogenic consciousness. It creates an immature humanity suffering psychospiritual alienation from the animate Earth. It unmoors our sense of self and disconnects us from our own home. This widespread soul-suppression is becoming more glaringly obvious amid this initiatory time. As we dare bring our self-awareness to this shadow within (and all around us) we bring forth something deeply regenerative. 

‘The very thing that is potentially destroying us is at the same time waking us up.’ Paul Levy, Tibetan Buddhist practitioner

This bringing forth invokes a radical reorientation in our way of being-and-knowing which invites a shift in worldview from Mechanistic Materialism (MM) to Quantum Complexity (QC). No aspect of our civilizational way of being-and-knowing is spared, and while this shall take years to fully unfold and flourish throughout our social systems, I see 2026 as a pivotal moment of welcoming-in a new way of seeing, relating and responding to our sea of crises.

‘I regard the grooves of destiny into which our civilization has entered as a special case of evolutionary cul-de-sac. Courses which offered short-term advantage have been adopted, have become rigidly programmed, and have begun to prove disastrous over longer time. This is the paradigm for extinction by way of loss of flexibility.’ Gregory Bateson, systems scientist

This up-stretch moves our minds beyond acculturated grooves that create our evolutionary cul-de-sac’s impeding endgame.

The metacrisis brings an intensity of dissonance that allows for a breakdown-breakthrough liminality. Our programming can be rebooted. Conditioned grooves of thinking can be defragged. Our minds washed with flash-flooding insights amid complexity, curiosity and creativity. A portent doorway into a different way of being-and-knowing opens if we dare to seize the moment. This is what 2026 offers us – a threshold-crossing.

‘A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It’s the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.’ Valentine, Arcadia

Before we get in to what a (r)evolution in worldview qualitatively means for our human-beingness, I’d first like to highlight the difference between holding a polycrisis perspective and holding a metacrisis perspective. Discerning between these two perspectives can aid our becoming more self-aware of the depth of consciousness we’re applying to our living and leading as we move through the weeks and months ahead.

Polycrisis perspective: Sees change and tensions as things to fix and resolve through a control-manage leadership action-logic. Has a reductive tendency to fix problems by treating symptoms at the surface level while overlooking deeper root causes. It applies systems-thinking to comprehend the relational nature of the interwoven crises but this is done through a materialistic lens i.e. empirical-physical outer-nature is prioritized and psychical inner-nature is deprioritized (suppressed even). The first ‘M’ – mechanistic – of the MM (Mechanistic Materialism) worldview starts to be challenged due to the recognition of the relational complexity of life. But the second ‘M’ – materialism – is still intact as mind is seen as separate form matter, and inner is deprioritized over outer. Hence, MM starts to become MC (Materialistic Complexity) though this falls short of a full-blown death-rebirth worldview shift into QC (Quantum Complexity). The immature, and fatally flawed, story of materialistic progress is left intact, as is the corrupting illusion of separation.

As philosopher Edgar Morin notes, ‘The polycrisis we are experiencing across the planet is an anthropological crisis. It’s a crisis of humanity failing to become Humanity.’ This failure is because of a flawed MM worldview with its immature story of progress and narrowed being-and-knowing which limits our polycrisis perspective.

Metacrisis perspective: Sees change and tensions as crucibles for creativity and emergence that we sense-respond to in order to learn, flourish and serve. Systems-thinking is a tool within a deeper repertoire of holistic being-and-knowing that senses root problems beyond symptoms. Reality beyond the illusion of separation is awoken to in realizing mind-matter, inner-outer, human-nature are false dualisms. Here MM and MC are transcended-and-included into the deeper worldview of QC. This deeper comprehension of life reorientates our sense of humanity and our story of progress. Regenerative futures become not only possible, but the only viable futures. We see beyond the polycrisis perspective of an ever-diminishing endgame and bring forth a depth of hopefulness and wisdom inherent in our true humanity.

(Note – Immanent ‘outer-nature’ means the sensorial empirical forms and relational exchanges of normal corporeal space-time that can be quantized-defined through reductive empiricism and experienced with our five-senses. Transcendent ‘inner-nature’ means the metaphysical yet experiential depth engaged with through imagination, insight and extrasensory perception (ESP) including gut-feelings, synchronicities, intuitions, premonitions, precognitive dreams, clairsentience, telepathy, and altered-states of consciousness like OBEs, peak experiences or psychedelic journeying.)

I do not wish to create a dialectic duality here of polycrisis perspective v metacrisis perspective. That’s too simplistic.

What I wish to welcome-in to our lived experiences throughout 2026 is an increased self-awareness of our own flickering between two perspectives amid a messy metamorphic phase-change, where the metacrisis perspective transcends-and-includes the polycrisis perspective. Sometimes we flicker into an up-stretch – an expanded state of meaning-making where we dance amid change, find flow and ‘thrive amid the metacrisis’. And sometimes we flicker into a more limited and reactive state of meaning-making where we attempt to control-manage change and ‘cope amid the polycrisis’.

In becoming more self-aware over the weeks and months ahead of when we’re holding a polycrisis perspective and when a metacrisis perspective, we partake in the educatory process of becoming more conscious of our own initiation into our deeper humanity.  Life becomes the classroom. Every day a meditation that deepens us as we birth into a new worldview.

One perspective is not morally ‘superior’ to the other – both are totally natural – and yet the metacrisis perspective activates a latent potential innate in our humanity; a psychospiritual process which Carl Jung called individuation. This activation inside our psyche is an ego permeation-and-maturation that shifts our ego-soul dynamic from ego-as-dominant to ego-as-servant to soul. This psychospiritual reorientation increases our receptivity to the inherent physical-and-metaphysical immanent-and-transcendent experience of Reality. I refer to this as activating our super-nature, and provide various practices, coaching frames and techniques to aid this activation in my latest book Keys for Future-fit Leadership.

As we become more attentive to observing how we make-meaning, relate with and move through everyday leadership and systems-change challenges, we can allow for the chaotic complexity of the polycrisis to not simply trigger our reactivity but catalyse our receptivity and creativity. Then, each day becomes a learning-zone for expanding our self-and-systemic awareness as we subtly shift our way of being-and-knowing in the world. This is what 2026 affords us, a maturation from adolescence to adulthood tested out each week and month ahead.

This is the initiation – our humanity in the making. 

‘Each new hour holds new chances, for a new beginning. The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.’ Maya Angelou, poet

All the while we have the choice to make-meaning (soul-poiesis) amid the labyrinthine-maze of egoic trip-wires, or get frozen by our own projections and reactions. Good news is, if we allow ourselves to truly relax – breath-deep and open mind-heart-will – amid the complexity and confusion, we naturally find our way into a deeper love of Life which reveals Nature’s Wisdom. No app required, in fact the less screen-time the better!

‘There’s a revolution that needs to happen, and it starts from inside each one of us. We need to wake up and fall in love with the Earth.’ Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Master & peace activist 

So, what does this midlife shift into adulthood actually look-and-feel like on a day-to-day basis?  That all depends on our lived context, and life challenges we’re enduring. Though what I’ve noticed in coaching hundreds of adults through life-changing midlife journeys is that a reorientation in our being-and-knowing has some hallmark effects on our demeanour, how we hold ourselves, how we relate, show-up, contemplate and radiate our sense of self in relation with the world.

Here I share three qualities that aid the emergence of our True Humanity on a day-to-day basis: Hopeful, Convivial, Imaginal.  In the section below, I convey these qualities without wishing to ‘define’ them, instead I offer something to reflect on, so as to help these qualities be courageously and enthusiastically lived by us during the turbulent and tensive year ahead.

Three Qualities of Becoming Human: Hopeful, Convivial, Imaginal

Hopeful

This is an openness to life. A receptive-creative life-stance that says ‘yes’ to life, not in some positive-psychology kind of way but in terms of embracing dissonances and consonances with an equanimity of presencing. This hopeful-presencing is not simply present-moment mindfulness, it’s also an intentional inquiry into the future while learning from the past. It’s full of curiosity and wonder, and releases us from a soul-constriction formed by the ego’s control-manage anxieties.

This openness to life is neither an ungrounded optimism nor a nihilistic pessimism, nor is it a ‘middle way’ inbetween these two shallow perspectives of life. Instead, it welcomes-in soul-depth through a different way of seeing, of making meaning, of relating and participating within life as a rich multidimensional learning journey. Like a pilgrimage, life can be seen as a journey that deepens the soul far beyond ego-quests, anxieties and urgencies for control and certainty. In this regard, ‘hopeful’ as a quality of being-and-knowing opens up a dimension of the soul, making us more available to Life. We become more vulnerable, authentic, attentive and intentional. It’s a conduit for soul-poiesis in bringing forth of our deeper humanity.

‘Hope is a dimension of the soul, an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart. It transcends the world that is immediately experienced and is anchored somewhere beyond its horizons. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out.’Vaclav Havel, former Czech President

Convivial

The word ‘convivial’ comes from the Latin con-vivere meaning ‘celebratory living together’. These days the word often conveys a warm friendly cooperative atmosphere. A fostering of care, shared wellbeing, right-relation and human flourishing. 

An atmosphere that suppresses the soul is not convivial. One that enlivens the soul in attunement with local systems and communities and has a healthy dose of play, celebration, humour and joy is convivial.  As well as the spaces and atmospheres we inhabit, we ourselves can effervesce conviviality, catalysing the convivial atmosphere in our midst.

I’ve referred many of my coaching clients to this video on creativity by John Cleese (apologies for the political-incorrectness of some of the jokes). In what Cleese calls an ‘open state’ of mind, we become more creative, expansive, receptive and humorous. This ‘open state’ of mind is an aspect of what I convey here with this ‘convivial’ quality. When we loosen-up and let-go of our own self-judgements, self-sensitivities and self-importance, we allow the ego to permeate, to invite in more of life. We see with fresher, warmer, more biophilic eyes. This convivial warmth welcomes-in a more soulful gaze that sees beyond polarities, celebrates difference, learns amid tensions, and listens deep. We become less fragmented, hubristic and ungrounded, and more connected, humble and rooted.  

With this convivial quality we allow the ego self-as-separate to ease more gracefully into self-as-participatory. We permit our intuitions, insights and somatic sensations to be more available to us, as our ego-machinations lessen.  Dualities of right versus wrong ebb away and instead a more celebratory, warm-hearted curiosity emerges as a life-learning ethic that sees behind and beyond separateness for a fecundity of reciprocity. A friendly sociability that fuels our collaborative ventures while fostering care and respect.  This lies at the heart of what it means to be human, though all-too-often overlooked amid our busyness, anxiety and ego-inflation (ranging from look-at-me narcissism to poor-me victimhood).

‘Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,
There is a field. I’ll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
The world is too full to talk about.’  Rumi, poet

Imaginal

As we’ve already mentioned, the educatory and initiatic process of bringing forth our deeper humanity involves a shift in being-and-knowing that opens us to more of Reality, and a seeing with new eyes.

A vital quality that aids this being-and-knowing up-stretch is ‘imaginal’ a term coined by philosopher and Sufi Scholar Henri Corbin to distinguish between that which is ‘made up’ – a flight of fantasy – and a reality residing on the border between wakefulness and sleep where a more generative kind of being-and-knowing occurs.

Consciously attending to the liminality between daytime consciousness and nighttime consciousness is a powerful act that greatly enhances our understanding of how our own consciousness plays out, and affords a deeper perspective on how nature works – inner-outer nature as a depth behind and beyond the superficial rational-analytic reduction of ‘nature’ into materialistic utility.

The liminal wake-sleep twilight zone provides for receptivity into the transpersonal archetypal collective unconscious. In this liminal zone we still retain our ego-awareness to make-sense of the dark mythic depths. The psychoanalyst Carl Jung found that when he was in this imaginal liminality, he noticed images emerge from the unconscious that were meaningful.

Coming to terms with the unconscious is a profound encounter where we bridge the gap between the ego (the conscious) and the archetype (the unconscious). Through imaginal experiences we attune inner-outer nature and become more human, more whole by making the unconscious conscious. Our ego-soul dynamic shifts from ego-as-dominant to ego-as-servant to soul. From fear and reactivity, we find flow and responsibility.

In neuroscience this imaginal realm or twilight zone between wake and sleep is called a hypnagogic state whereupon the left and right brain hemispheres coherence more readily, the dorsal and ventral attentional systems align, brain-wave frequencies shift out of high-beta into a broader spectrum (more in-tune with nature and the Earth) and start to entrain with the deeper waves of the heart (heart entrainment). This provides for a physiological and psychological up-stretch shifting hormones and nervous systems amid an opening of mind-heart-will whereupon we shift self-other-world relationality and find right relation.

In my latest book Keys for Future-fit Leadership I share powerful practices for aiding this imaginal twilight zone to be accessed amid our daily living and leading, so that we can better work with wisdom and cultivate future-fitness for thriving amid the metacrisis.

It’s in this fecund yet spacious emptiness of the imaginal realm that the originality of our true nature – our soul-essence or Self – is found.  We become more imaginal through various practices that enhance our creative imagination, insight and intuition. This allows formerly suppressed and archetypal aspects of the unconscious to aid our meaning-making. The ego permeates and sees with deeper and more soulful eyes.

‘The greatest voyage of our lifetimes is not in the seeking of new landscapes but in the seeing with new eyes.’  Marcel Proust, philosopher

With practice, we learn to familiarize ourselves with the twilight zone, to access its imaginal depths, and respect a sense of sacred space-time whereupon we gain contact with archetypal powers. We learn to cultivate the capacity to become transparent to the transcendent and intimate with the immanent. In doing so an alchemy of heightened receptivity of physical (sensory experiences) and metaphysical (super-sensory experiences) strengthens our meaning-making for Wisdom Work that relies on a depth of receptivity-creativity for future-fitness that takes us far beyond anything Artificial Intelligence can compute.

In case, upon reading all this, the hardened habits of our rational-analytic MM scientism react against this ‘imaginal’ quality and start to view it as something ‘unscientific’ or ‘woo’, it’s worth reminding ourselves that much of science owes a massive debt of gratitude to the imaginal realm as without it many of our most notable scientific ‘discoveries’ wouldn’t have been discovered. The genius Einstein is not alone in emphasising how access to the imaginal is the way into real knowledge and wisdom. Let’s provide two brief examples to help the scientific mind realize the imaginal realm’s potency: 

The Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev gleaned the whole structure of the Periodic Table from a dream. While that was plenty useful enough (profoundly affecting the whole field of chemistry thereafter), the vision also made it clear to Dimitri that there were three more elements as yet undiscovered to complete the table. Time proved this right. In years to come, the three elements were discovered and fitted into the table exactly where Dimitri had imagined.

The second example, also a chemist, the German Friedrich August Kekulé, who after working on organic chemistry all day, retired in front of the fire in his lodgings. As he drifted off, he was shown a vision that informed him of the pattern of the benzene molecule. This discovery went on to revolutionize organic chemistry, affecting our world in innumerable ways, from the household fridge to air travel.

These two examples show insight entering the mind from the imaginal realm during dreamtime, but the imaginal realm’s wisdom can be accessed during daytime through creative imagination, intuition, synchronicity and clairsentience.  The future-fitness of our leaders and change agents benefits hugely from activating this imaginal quality.

‘The sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious.’   Carl Jung, psychoanalyst

This soulful (hopeful-convivial-imaginal) opening into the sacredness of life brings rich regeneration; a renaissance of quiet centeredness, humility, reverence and empathic warmth amid this epic hour of sea-change.  We sense more deeply into the dance of life where stillness and movement, soul-essence and embodied-flesh, mystical and material, space and matter, emptiness and abundance, intuition and rationality, unity and diversity, receptivity and creativity, inner-nature and outer-nature, yin and yang become tensions to dance with rather than dualisms to separate. No need for ego-control and anxiety when we enter the dance, only intention and attention; the ever-present capacity to be conscious and connected. This is our way back home.

‘The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead – his eyes are closed.’ Albert Einstein, physicist

It is my fervent hope that as 2026 unfolds our humanity becomes more hopeful, convivial and imaginal so as to not just rekindle a regenerative light in the darkness of MM’s immature narrowed knowing, but also to help dispel the unconscious degenerative forces at play in the carcinogenic-capitalistic-consumeristic-colonialist-corporatized worldview we seem so wedded to.

With soulful imagination, hope and conviviality, we start to see with new eyes, and become who we’re born to be. To witness a rebirth that is both fresh and ancient, both prescient and practical, both scientific and spiritual, both head and heart. To deepen our humanity and re-enliven our worldview. 

With a hopeful, convivial, imaginal spirit we readily experience the sensation of the mystical wonder of being alive, and bring forth this rapture of living into our rebirth – our coming of age – which is also our home-coming, our re-turn back into life beyond illusion.

‘The only real adventure remaining for the individual is the exploration of one’s own unconscious.’  Carl Jung, psychoanalyst

Amid rising dissonance and cognitive overload, we’re triggered into either paralysis (arrested development) or metamorphosis (death-rebirth awakening). What will you choose? Are you ready for the only adventure worth living?

If so, then confronting and integrating the unconscious is par-for-the-course, as is the subtle opening of one’s mind-heart-will through a hopeful-convivial-imaginal soulfulness. Afterall, this time of immense upheaval is also an opportune time of celebration and renewal.

‘Then he clasped his hands together, smiled, and said, “This could be a good time! There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are being torn apart and will suffer greatly. Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above the water.

And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey come to a halt.

The time of the lone wolf is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word ’struggle’ from your attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration.

We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.’  Hopi Elders’ Prophecy

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