Glimpses of Emergence in a Darkening Future

Summer 2026

Theme Context
The current world situation brought to us relentlessly by the news and social media presents a dire scenario. But we also see it ourselves: remarkable changes in storms, fires, and droughts; disappearing animals from our childhood; destruction of forests and rivers we have loved. Humankind faces challenges of hitherto unimaginable proportions such as climate disruption, political divisions, genocides, and the erosion of a shared sense of reality. The future of our species and the web of life itself appear to be in peril.

But as we slip planet-wide into what some have called the Great Unraveling, counterpoints and instances of light and direction are emerging beyond the glare of mainstream communications.

Some are finding hope in the mythic pattern that a new age of light requires a time of dissolution and chaos. And the realization that we humans are the cause of the metacrisis suggests an evolutionary pressure for a change to humanity greater and more fundamental even than the explosion of culture and technology in the last 50,000 years.

Resolving problems requires a departure from the patterns that gave rise to them. Humanity is unfinished. Beyond the current shared reality—a childhood or adolescence of our relatively young species—other lenses or potentials of consciousness far exceeding today’s norms are appearing or perhaps waiting in the wings.

Sri Aurobindo and Mother announced the coming of a subjective age and the evolution of a supra-mental consciousness on Earth. Are you already looking for the intermediary ones? Are you longing for or stumbling on—in yourself or elsewhere—new forms, flashes, or pools of light beyond the mental; practices and gatherings of the soul; intermediary beings calling in a people of the future?

Invitation
In this issue we invite writers and artists to share a more hopeful glimpse of the future. This is a call for submissions—articles, essays, poetry, art, reflections, experiences, intuitions, teachings, examples—of the seeds, forms, flashes, and liminal beings announcing or embodying new powers and widenesses, perfectly suited to the Great Unraveling and responding to the cries of nature and humanity from the depths. We are looking for real world examples and descriptions of these emerging potentials and possibilities, how the yoga of the psychic being, for example, invites grace and vivifies forms of light, direction, love, and richer forms of union.

We invite you to share what you are finding as the future gradually unfolds. Is there evidence that can infuse a sense of hope for the future? We look forward to receiving your explorations and findings in whatever arenas you have chosen to investigate or have experienced personally.

Due by March 1, 2026

Aspiration

Fall/Winter 2026/2027

Something drives us onward, inward, upward.
Some obscure yearning, reaching, seeking, eventually emerges, flames up within. Some selfless inner breath and spark leap—or slowly build—into an arrow, a flaming call, a need for Truth, Light, Peace, and Love.

“There is a special power, a special joy, a special vibration in the world’s intensity of aspiration to become again what it is,” the Mother wrote.

The Collaboration team invites you to submit your thoughts, insights, practices, experiences, and stories from the deep heart on the universal theme of Aspiration for the Fall/Winter 2026 issue.

Feel free to discover your own questions, experiences, and creative expression about this important aspect of yoga.

If you’d like some help to catalyze reflection and action, here are some questions:

Is this quality, this need, a dimension of your own inner practice?
Is it something you can describe or follow its trail of development? Does it happen on more than one level of the being?
How have you found your truest, highest aspiration so far?
Can a group of people develop a sincere and effective aspiration—a force that leads to or calls down the needed response?

Have you sensed human aspiration being an evolutionary driver in times of crisis?
Does humanity as a whole have an aspiration for a higher, nobler state of being?
Do you find smaller, humbler movements in daily life that carry the flame and contribute indirectly to larger goals?
Do you intuit anything like an aspiration of Earth herself for a higher, more evolved state of consciousness and being?

What stories, drama, music, ceremonies, and other activities evoke and strengthen the inner flame for you or for others?

Due by July 1, 2026