Portals of Perception

Portals of Perception Each human represents a portal of possibility, unto itself, and as part of something greater.

Each of us, by design, can become a living embassy for the evolutionary process as it arises, through our intentions, connections, and living expression. Portals of Perception is a not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) organization.

09/13/2026

Join us in our new Portals Adventure:

The Portals Un-Mystery School, Session 2, The Evolution of the Knower,

on Saturday, October 31st, 10:00 am – 1:30 pm EDT (2:00 -5:30 pm GMT, 4:00 - 7:30 pm EET) Admission is: $15 - $95.

Register today at: https://portalsofperception.org/events/the-portals-un-mystery-school-session-two-the-evolution-of-the-knower/

What if knowledge was never meant merely to inform us, but to transform us?

The mystery schools of the past understood that certain knowledge could not simply be transmitted as information. The human being had to become capable of receiving, embodying, and living it. Perhaps the great frontier before us is not simply the discovery of more knowledge. Perhaps it is discovering what the knower can become.

We will enter this discovery together. You do not need to have participated in the first Un-Mystery School gathering. Bring your questions, your curiosity, your experience, and your willingness to explore. What can we discover together about the evolution of knowledge, the evolution of ourselves, and the possibilities waiting beyond what we already know?

Your host:
Aviv serves as the Portals’ sherpa. He creates transformational journeys and is a storyteller of the epochal evolution culminating in our time. He is the founder of Aviv Consulting, helping leaders unleash strategic innovation, and the author of Portals Into the Soul and Create New Futures: How Leaders Produce Breakthroughs and Transform the World Through Conversation.

What does it mean to become human at a time when humanity itself appears to be crossing a threshold?This recorded event,...
09/11/2026

What does it mean to become human at a time when humanity itself appears to be crossing a threshold?

This recorded event, Universal Becoming: The Human in Transition, with Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis, begins with the proposition that the human being is not a finished project. We inherit a vast evolutionary and civilizational journey, and something within us remains emergent, unfinished, and capable of awakening into new forms of perception, participation, and responsibility.

The conversation ultimately opens a call into human function. The future is not presented as something happening elsewhere or arriving fully formed. It is a participatory possibility, approaching through signals, intuitions, and unrealized capacities that require human receptivity and response.

The invitation is to become grounded enough to enter the unknown, open enough to receive what is arriving, and responsible enough to play our part in what humanity may become.

Watch the full episode here: https://portalsofperception.org/portals/universal-becoming-the-human-in-transition-event-part-1/

09/11/2026

How do we make sense of life in the vortex of so much change?

Where do the interior and exterior developments mirror one another — and where do they diverge?

The sixteen vortices described here offer a profound revelation emerging from the current tracking of this epochal intensification. These vortices include novel developments in both machine intelligence and human intelligence. AI clearly holds the potential either to help us or to hinder us. The critical question is: will we become subject to the machine and lose the significance of our humanity, or will we liberate our greater universal capacity — using the advancement of machines to help awaken and amplify our own universal potential?

The Cambrian explosion was the sudden appearance of new life-forms and greater complexity in an earlier age of Earth’s history. Today we are living through a crisis of complexity of another kind — a Cambrian Release — offering us a unique opportunity to connect with new dimensions of human intelligence that are revealing themselves now.

In this mind-expanding conversation, Aviv Shahar and Jeff Vander Clute pivot around the age-old question: What is intelligence? They explore the unseen dimension of universal intelligence that quietly nudges us forward, revealing the path ahead. We experience this intelligence when we engage in self-directed, long-term practices — individually and collectively — as a way of liberating greater perception and insight.

From Jeff’s two-year journey of writing a book — with its inherent agonies and ecstasies — the conversation zooms out to trace the five-year arc of the Epochal Journey and the Portals project. Aviv shares what it means to “fly in formation” with other self-directed elders engaged in the same developmental path. He reveals six habitual “shrinkage moves” that can immobilize us — or, if consciously leaned into, can become catalysts for breakthrough and new vistas of perception.

Significant opportunities explored include:

Embodying long-term practice and process: discovering that the work you are doing is simultaneously doing its work on you.

- Moving beyond the teacher archetype: exemplified by the five-year Epoch Journey and the imagery of flying in formation with self-led, self-directed elders.
- Recognizing the six shrinkage moves that can hold humanity back — and using them as portals to breakthrough.
- Understanding the seven-fold Epochal Process: upgrading our cognitive and operating systems to navigate greater complexity.
- Exploring the Universalis human and collective liberation: unlocking advanced capacities and learning to abide with unseen dimensions of reality.
- Considering the parallels between the Cambrian explosion and today’s epochal intensification: seeing this era as the release of new forms of intelligence and life through complexification.

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

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08/31/2026

How do we know what we know? How do we validate that our sources of our knowing are reliable?

One practical test asks: Do the practices drawn from this knowledge foster sustained well‑being, or do they diminish it? Can the study of natural laws liberate us into a more potent agency for life? For example, how might the Trinitarian principle help us see the core patterns of existence and the way the universe works?

These questions gain new urgency as the human search for truth becomes a universal impulse — a spiritual drive to join the co-creative act of the universe in its search to discover itself, to authenticate itself through the witnessing of our lived experience.

In Universalis #19, Aviv Shahar, Karen Heney, and Kyriaki Nikandrou deepen the inquiry begun in “Universalis #18: How Do We Know What is True and Real?,” where they explored seven modes of knowing and the nuances of third‑, fourth‑, and fifth‑person perspectives.

Their new conversation reframes the verification challenge as a larger quest: uniting science, spirituality, and philosophy while honoring their distinctions, and cultivating life’s natural validation. Five key elements surface in this search for an integrated system — among them the study of natural laws (Creational Logic). Aviv offers an original view of the Threefold Trinitarian principle, illustrating the “law of three” through multiple examples that reveal its esoteric mechanics and phenomenology. He also outlines 16 dimensions in which a whole‑person living inquiry can yield tangible benefits — greater well‑being, vitality, creativity, resilience, self‑agency, and more.

Studying natural laws and the universe’s workings is meant to liberate us, tethering us to the natural unfolding process of life, so that life itself verifies its truth through us.

Additional insights include:

- You may be holding a permanent line inquiry for years, to the point where it works in you even when you’re not thinking about it. Because it is potently coded in your unconscious, it continues to work for you and offers its yield on its time.
- When we converse with another person or a group of friends, a whole new world comes alive that we wouldn’t be able to access alone. We form a collective intelligence web, each holding a node on which higher knowledge can land.
- Working solely for results differs profoundly from working in the service of a larger cause and allowing results to flow from that orientation.
- “The esoteric life isn’t about perfection; it’s about stepping into the arena of experimentation and learning. The times I fell on my face and learned to rise again offered vital moments of verification.”

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

🎧Listen to the latest episode of Portals of Perception and Follow/Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: https://portalsofperception.org/subscribe

08/17/2026

What does it truly mean to lead yourself?

In this illuminating conversation, Aviv Shahar and David Price Francis explore the nature of self-leadership through three guiding questions:

What is self-leadership?Why is it essential?What stifles or prevents it?

The dialogue unfolds into five key elements of self-leadership — learning to be a generative self-starter, to self-regulate, self-align, and self-author, and ultimately to regeneratively express from elevated internal content.

Together they examine how our modern conditioning often works against the emergence of true self-leadership. Many of us struggle with insecurity, the feeling of not being “enough,” fragmentation, or distance from our authentic capacities as human beings.

Our conditioning in life and the world we live in today works against our taking up true self-leadership; and we fall prey to obstacles like insecurity, feeling we are not “enough” or too small, minimizing our self-views, feeling overwhelmed or fragmented, and being at distance from who we really are and what we are capable of as a human being on this planet.

The conversation culminates with a powerful invitation: to awaken the innate powers we all hold — to reason, to take charge, and to consciously guide the direction of our own lives.

Insights into self-leadership:

- The importance of the powers of "yes" and "no" in self-leadership
- Discover the "glory of being lost" as a potential precursor to moving into a new octave
- Accessing authenticity and the integration of our outer and inner lives
- The need for practical, daily practices; tending to one's inner landscape

This conversation is part of the continuing Portals discovery into what is emerging on the frontiers of human experience in this time of profound change. Information about upcoming special events can be found on the Events page. Also visit and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

🎧Listen to the latest episode of Portals of Perception and Follow/Subscribe so you don't miss an episode: https://portalsofperception.org/subscribe

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