Bruce Alderman on Co-Creating the Third Attractor

Across the world, a new conversation is emerging—a conversation about the future of civilization itself.As our existing systems reach their limits, we face an urgent crossroads: one path leads toward collapse, another toward increasing control and centralization. But a growing chorus of thinkers, visionaries, and cultural pioneers are pointing to a third possibility—a conscious, regenerative, and life-affirming future.This series of conversations explores that possibility.While we draw on the term Third Attractor—popularized by Daniel Schmachtenberger—this vision is part of a larger movement of aligned ideas: Regenerative Civilization, Metamodern Society, Game B, The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible, Planetary Civilization, The Integral Age, The Great Transition, Symbiotic Civilization, The Noosphere, Civilizational Awakening, and the Second Renaissance.Each points toward a future rooted in wholeness, complexity, interconnection, and evolution.Over the next months, I’ll be speaking with thought leaders and cultural change-agents who are helping to shape this emerging reality. We’ll explore what must die, what wants to be born, and how we might co-create a path forward that honors the full depth of our humanity and the profound challenges of our time.These conversations are not just about ideas—they are about activating the future, together.Bruce Alderman is an integral psychologist, writer, and spiritual explorer known for his work in metatheory, integral theory, and transpersonal psychology. He is Associate Director of the Blue Sky Leaders program at CIIS and teaches consciousness, psychology, and transformation at National University. Alderman also produces The Integral Stage Podcast, exploring integrative responses to social, ecological, and spiritual challenges.With experience teaching in Asia and studying in monastic communities and ashrams, he holds a master’s degree in Integral Psychology from John F. Kennedy University. His work bridges spiritual, psychological, philosophical, ecological, and scientific domains, and he has published in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice while fostering collaborative forums for integral and metamodern dialogue. https://www.ciis.edu/blueskyleadershttps://www.ciis.eduDaniela Bomatter, originally from Switzerland, is a former Software Engineer who progressed into various leadership roles, ultimately serving as the CEO of SwissEnergy at the Federal Office of Energy in Switzerland.She is the co-founder of Manifest Nirvana (https://www.manifest-nirvana.com ) and a senior practitioner of Evolutionary Enlightenment. She was a long-term student of Andrew Cohen and was closely studying, working and living with him from 2016 to 2025.She lives in Tiruvannamalai, India, in a Small Sustainable Village (https://www.giamantraglobalvillage.com/) where she runs the Manifest Nirvana Ashram, where the in person - events of Manifest Nirvana happen. She recently published the book "The Viratya Myth begins" (https://www.viratya.com)Website: www.manifest-nirvana.com Instagram: #evolutionarynun