Our focus here is on presenting our vision of what an evolutionary way of life might possibly look like, providing one view of an alternative to our present bureaucratic way of life (with its emphasis on persisting hierarchy, narrow specialization, and personal conformity). Yet in order to communicate the basis for our vision, we have included brief presentations on the nature of our bureaucratic problems in both the introduction and Section IX. To summarize that analysis, the gap between what people want and are able tp get has been increasing rapidly in contemporary societies, due to our continuing technological revolutions coupled with the escalation of advertising. This “revolution of rising expectations,” coupled with people’s limited ability to fulfill them, has yielded a poisonous combination of widespread frustration followed by aggression. Yet despite widespread pessimism coupled with the lack of insight into the nature of this fundamental problem, we can learn to solve it. For we human beings are absolutely fantastic organisms. Indeed, we are the most evolved entity throughout the entire known universe. For example, by learning to view phenomena with what we call “evolutionary perception,” we can continue to gain personal reinforcement. And we can come to see ourselves as the veritable jewels of the universe. We can go on from there to reconstruct ourselves and society, moving from our bureaucratic way of life toward an evolutionary way of life stressing equality, interdisciplinary knowledge and autonomy. By so doing, we can proceed to reconstruct our many social structures, such as education, work, health care, technology, our prisons, and even our patterns of behavior linked to homelessness. Our key metaphors are the seed, or the individual, and the field, or society. We seeds are encased within hard shells, namely, our bureaucratic way of life. We must learn to abandon our shells despite the enormous difficulty of doing so, since we will have to change a lifetime of habitual behavior. The result will be a newfound ability to fulfill our incredible potentials for learning (“head”), emotional development (“heart”), and problem- solving (“hand”). It should be little wonder that our 4-H clubs for children emphasize “head,” “heart,” “hand” and “health.” Those changes will in turn reverse our widespread pessimism about the present and future, turning us toward optimism about ourselves and the future of the world. Our vision of the future includes evolutionary actions of all kinds: “personal reconnection,” “relational regeneration,” “practical coherence,” “silent action,” “field creation” and “ecological patience,” Indeed, such behavior illustrates what it means to be alive.