From Materialist Maps to Sourced Creation: Animating a New Paradigm of Being

8/9/25 Presentation for San Diego Integral
Holly Woods PhD

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Living as a Portal: From Problem-Solving to Sourced Creation in an Animate Cosmos

The meta-crisis we face is more than ecological or political—it’s a Reality Crisis. Most transformation work assumes the answers lie within—but within what? If we stay inside the frame of a 3D self—this body, this psyche, this lifetime—the best we can do is generate solutions: reactive fixes for problems created by a collapsing paradigm.
But what if reality is not a machine, but an animate, ensouled field of consciousness? And what if you are far more than a separate self—woven across time, space, and subtle dimensions? When you reclaim that multidimensional nature, everything changes: you become a Living Portal—radically whole, aligned with soul, animated by life force, attuned to the harmonics of Earth and cosmos. From this ground, you don’t patch the old world—you birth sourced creations unimaginable from the limits of the separate self.
Join Holly Woods, PhD, as we explore why this ontological upgrade matters, what science and wisdom reveal about an animate cosmos, and how four essential practices—the pillars of the Living Portal™ framework—can help us become the next-level human through which the future emerges.
Learn more at [LivingPortal.co](http://livingportal.co) or contact Holly at 415-858-4308.

# Holly BIO

Holly Woods, PhD, founder of Emergence Institute and creator of the Living Portal™ framework, guides visionary leaders and change-makers to reclaim their multidimensional wholeness and bring sourced creations into the world. With a background spanning human development, science, and ancient wisdom traditions, Holly helps individuals and organizations evolve beyond problem-solving toward innovations born from the unified field of being. She is the author of The Golden Thread: Where to Find Purpose in the Stages of Your Life and a lifelong explorer of the intersection of consciousness, creativity, and cosmology.
Connect with Holly at livingportal.co or emergenceinstitute.net or LinkedIn.