My focus in this article is on both the underlying cause of the fundamental problem we are all facing at this time in history as well as on a direction for solving that problem. I see that cause as our bureaucratic way of life with its emphasis on persisting hierarchy, narrow specialization, and personal conformity. And I’m convinced that our learning new habits throughout our everyday lives which emphasize the combination of mindfulness, evolutionary perception, and interaction—or “head,” “heart” and “hand”—provides the direction we require to solve that problem by moving toward an evolutionary way of life. My contact with C. Wright Mills at Columbia, together with work with my co-author of Creating Life Before Death: Before Disaster Strikes the Ship of State, 2nd edition (2024), Thomas J. Savage—as well as Andy Plotkin, Neil S. Weiss, Sergio M. Sanseverino, William Tarman-Ramcheck, Alecea Standlee, Max O. Spitzer, Arnold Kraft Sherman, Charles Thorpe and Ray Porter, along with others—have enabled us to demonstrate through our publications the power of these ideas. As illustrations of those publications, I’ve included my resume along with summaries of a number of articles published since the appearance in 2024 of Creating Life Before Death. These ideas yield a direction for peacefully fulfilling the democratic aims of the 1960s counterculture.