Sapience: The Moment Is Now

Sapience: The Moment Is Now is a provocative journey through 5,000 years of human history, power, and myth. Furthermore, the text presents a sweeping, myth-minded manifesto during a period of rising authoritarianism and collapsing truth.

From the ancient roots of the “strongman” archetype to the modern billionaires building a new kind of empire, this book exposes the psychological, political, and spiritual patterns repeating in today’s world — and asks: What does it mean to be fully human in the face of chaos?

As a result, Sapience integrates Jungian psychology, historical analysis, and cultural critique to reclaim imagination and meaning.

If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by the noise but still determined to wake up, Sapience is your invitation to join the resistance — not with weapons, but with awareness.

In other words, we don’t need more followers. We need more fully conscious humans.”

Check out it out on Amazon: Sapience: The Moment Is Now

Five Star Review

Excerpt from review:
One of the standout features of "Sapience" is that draws on a wide array of disciplines, including economics, politics, psychology, anthropology, and ethics, to build a comprehensive picture of humanity's current predicament. Moreover, "Sapience" is not just a theoretical treatise; it is a call to action. The book urges individuals to cultivate mindfulness, ethical responsibility, and a deeper connection with the world around them. It emphasizes the importance of collective action and the need for a paradigm shift in how we view progress and success. 

A quote for a feel of the book:"Even people riding on the upper crests of the waves of civilization feel it… if they are honest with themselves, there is a constant tug pulling on the conscience of all human beings living in all civilizations and in all social levels all over the world that they don’t matter, that they are not valued, that they are not a treasured member of society. Nobody is. How can they be?

"Groups of connected individuals used to be 20 to 30 members. Back then, 5,000+ years ago, everybody mattered, everybody had something of value, a talent, an ability that was needed and helped the tribe survive. And this was a gift… and it was treasured by everybody in the tribe.

In the modern world, where a thousand people … probably more… can do the same job for even less than what you need to do it, everybody feels themselves to be a disposable commodity used by a mindless machine man calls civilization."

The book is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of humanity and the steps we must take to ensure a sustainable and enlightened path forward. It is a powerful reminder that the choices we make today will shape the world of tomorrow, and it inspires readers to rise to the challenge with wisdom and resolve. The book ends on a cliffhanger being the first volume in a set.

✍️ Read Sapience? If it moved you, confused you, or woke something up in you… I’d love for you to leave a review. It doesn’t need to be long. Just real.

Your words help others find the signal in the noise.

Graphic Novels & Visual Journals

Additionally, the graphic novels and visual journals in the Sapience Studio are small windows into a much larger exploration. While the Sapience book series dives deeply into history, psychology, and the forces shaping our world, these shorter illustrated works allow those same ideas to breathe in a different way—through story, symbolism, and imagination.

Some feel like discovered journals from strange journeys. Others unfold as visual myths, quiet reflections, or illustrated guides to navigating uncertain times. Each one is designed to be explored in a single sitting, like opening a curious artifact: a field journal, a survival guide, a fragment of a larger map. Together they form a growing constellation of mini graphic novels and zines that make the deeper ideas of the Sapience universe more playful, visual, and accessible.

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Why Art & Story?

Each human being who has ever lived, who lives today, and who will ever live is a story unfolding through space and time. Hence, we need new and better stories about ourselves, about each other, and about our shared reality.

Homo sapiens is a single species that evolved on Earth, emerging out of billions and billions of other life that evolved on Earth. Moreover, standing at the threshold of our modern time, we alone hold the key to life on Earth. Supposedly, we are the wise ones, but have we lost the very wisdom for which our species was named. Now, more than ever, we need the agency of wisdom to guide our actions. We may have caused this disease, but we are also the medicine of Now.

As a result, art and story matter because they aid us in telling stronger personal narratives and discovering our identity.

Every thought, choice, and action we make is like a vote on the direction our collective tide of consciousness flows. This direction creates Now, and this is why every human being is needed to create a better Now. As we learn how to swim once again in the deeper waters of our consciousness, we can begin to access deeper ways of being and wisdom needed to solve complex global challenges. We can learn how to unite mind and psyche allowing us to access creativity that helps us rediscover ways of thinking and being in the world that are life affirming and sustainable.

When we listen to each other’s stories, we heal and grow as individuals and groups, which empowers us to become better individuals who can contribute stronger, better threads to our shared reality (i.e., the stories we tell about ourselves, our families, friends, communities, cities, countries, and world). This is not new work. It is as old as the first humans sitting around the first camp fires telling stories. We choose the quality of the thread we contribute to Now moment by moment.

This site shares stories and art about the New Ancients (who are us). We are the ones who are rising and moving into the deep waters of our individual and collective consciousness. Welcome to this space and to your growing role as a story teller of this moment in time.

Wisdom Guardians

Welcome to the Wisdom Guardians Podcast where we travel through issues and history that shape our reality.

Each episode offers a lively discussion about complex issues facing our world or dives into historical events that have bent the trajectory of our modern age. Each podcast includes a companion blog that provides Briefing Docs, Study Guides, Fact Sheets, and much more.

Increasingly, surviving catastrophic change depends on staying informed, gathering real facts, and identifying legitimate experts versus scammers.

In this space, we will challenge the dominating modern narratives and discover actionable tools to understand our changing world. Follow the Wisdom Guardians podcast on my YouTube channels D. Wunderman and D. Mann.

You can find more resources on each episode here under my Wisdom Guardians blogs and newsletters.

Together, let’s uncover the truths shaping our world! 🌟

Latest Wisdom Guardians episode, exploring Ruthless Rulers through time. Season 2 kicks off with Caligula.

Moreover, explore other episodes here, Wisdom Guardians.

The Adventures of Agent D

Agent D began as a saboteur of a different kind: an agent slipping into the world’s great machines to broadcast empathy, kindness, and compassion into the noise. She got despondent. The noise was louder, and she came to understand that the broadcast wasn’t what she — or the world — actually needed.

So she did something quieter. She went home to Norway, picked up her cat (who is, as these things go, her daemon), and started walking.

Now the two of them travel the Earth the slow way: wordless twelve-second journeys, one true thing about the planet at a time. They began above the Arctic Circle and are circling the top of the world — glaciers, growing hills, rivers that run two colors side by side, roads that end at the ocean — before turning south, dropping a latitude or two with every turn of the spiral, all the way down.

No message. No noise. Just a woman, her daemon, and the world as it actually is — which turns out, looked at closely, to be astonishing.

Recent Blogs

Here are some of my most recent blogs.

Storytelling, art, and music have long helped humans access ancient pathways to deeper knowledge and wisdom—pathways that were well-trodden by our ancestors but have become overgrown, forgotten, and lost in our modern time. In their place, amazing scientific discoveries and technological advancements define our modern time, and indeed they improve our lives in many ways; however, other parts of who we are as human beings remain fuzzy, nascent, and yet to be fully understood—something that seems less and less likely as we become more and more distracted by fabulous new technologies packaged for us by mega corporations who compete fiercely with each other for the money we earn working for them. Essentially, these are circular systems that are eating themselves. But constant economic growth remains the gold star measure of a successful civilization, and so corporations eagerly cater to our appetites for something new. With a human population of 7.5 billion (and growing), Earth’s life sustaining systems are being pushed to breaking points. In short, we are a species that is too successful and has overshot its biological niche bringing us to the brink of devastating, even irreversible damage to Earth’s life sustaining systems such as our climate.

 

“The golden mean or golden middle way is the desirable middle between two extremes, one of excess and the other of deficiency.”
— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics II.1

Most modern humans scarcely recognize the ancients places our ancestors travelled and knew so well… places where insight, creativity, intuition, and wisdom spring from eternally… places that have determined the fate or destiny of man since the beginning of time. Many of us can no longer see, hear, smell or taste our way back to these ancient places, essentially cut off from our internal spring of wisdom, knowledge, and inspiration. This is partly due to the dominate Western narrative that has locked most of humanity inside super-sized, consumption-driven bubbles that has trapped vast amounts of intelligence, creativity, and inspiration. The price is declining psychic, spiritual, and emotional health. Yet, most of us stay in these bubbles lulled into complacency by those benefiting most by our compliance and who want us to believe this is the only way to exist in the world. But it is not. There are other ways to be in the world that are much more balanced, sustainable, and life affirming than our current dominate narrative puffed up on a narcissistic high that badly misunderstands its place in the world, nature, and the true work humans are here to do.

How do we get to these other places of being?

Conscious growth is a starting point for when we are born, much of ourselves remains hidden in the darkness of our unconsciousness (i.e., simply it has not risen yet into the light of our growing conscious understanding, thus we cannot see or recognize these parts of ourselves as existing at all). Finding what lies hidden in the darkness of our unconsciousness is a journey that must be reveal over time. Often, we are guided to the deeper places inside ourselves through life events, sudden reversals, and struggle. At the same time, we learn parts of ourselves are not accepted by our family, peers, and/or culture—sometimes in painful or traumatic ways, which can lead us to hide these parts of ourselves, locking them in deep recesses of our unconsciousness, sometimes forgetting they belong to us. Even worst, we may split pieces of our psychic wholeness from ourselves, creating an inner wound that never heals. This process of forgetting and splitting who we are diminishes us in so many ways, most of all, it hinders us from doing what we are here to really do. If we cannot find ways to discover, reunite, and heal these discarded, submerged, or still undiscovered parts of ourselves, we are prevented from becoming whole. And, this can be tragic for every part of ourselves is needed to balance every other part.

Stories offer powerful places where one can go to gain insight, wisdom, truth—even transformation. Stories help us recognize threats that come from within our own psyche and inspire us to resist bad behavior and destructive choices. They can even provide short cuts in learning how to do the hard work of self-reflection needed to find the parts of ourselves that remain unconscious, and in doing so, empower us to become a kinder, wiser, and a more courageous person. Some stories even show us how to recognize and respond to existential threats, providing a pathway off a course that could destroy a person, a civilization, or even world.

Every thought, choice, and action we make is like a vote on the direction our collective tide of our consciousness flows. This direction creates Now, and this is why every human being is needed to create a better Now. As we learn how to swim once again in the deeper waters of our consciousness, we can begin to access deeper ways of being and wisdom needed to solve complex global challenges. We can learn how to unite mind and psyche allowing us to access creativity that will help us rediscover other ways of thinking and being in the world that are life affirming and sustainable. When we listen to each other’s stories, we heal and grow as individuals and groups, which empowers us to become better individuals who can contribute stronger, better threads to our shared reality (i.e., the stories we tell about ourselves, our families, friends, communities, cities, countries, and world). This is not new work. It is as old as the first humans sitting around the first camp fires telling stories.

So now, here we stand at the edge of a global precipice the likes of which humanity has never stood so near before. If we go over, we may never return. Homo sapiens sapiens is a single species that evolved on Earth, emerging out of billions and billions of other life, and now it alone holds the keys to the entire kingdom of life on Earth. Supposedly, we are the wise ones, but we have lost the very wisdom our species was named for andneeds so desperately nowto save ourselves and life on our planet. We may have caused this disease, but we are also the medicine of Now. And, it is simple, we need only apply our time and attention to notice the divine in ourselves and others, thus healing ourselves, each other, and Earth. As our personal stories become richer, stronger, more diverse, so will our collective story, and Earth might yet heal. Each and every person is a force for positive change and transformation (or destruction – the choice is made person by person). To survive, we must become transformers for life, so that Earth can heal, and we can hand her to our children and grandchildren in all her divine beauty seven generations forward. Earth is our home (our Mother)—the only place in the universe capable of sustaining life as we know it (at least the only one that we humans can get to). For you see, life is immensely precious and rare, even in the vastness of this magnificent universe. It’s lost is incalculable and leaves a void in the void of endless space from which we somehow miraculously emerged and found ourselves to exist.

We Are the Story Earth Needs Now

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