Concepts
The Language of Inner Technology
The ideas behind 21 Dimensions, defined. Each one is a doorway into the same work: wisdom and science, mapped across 21 dimensions.
The Holotropic Map of Human Experience
The Holotropic Map of Human Experience is the 21 Dimensions framework: a map of the full range of human experience, organized into interlocking dimensions from Mind and Body to Ceremony and Sacred Plants, each one a doorway toward wholeness.
Read the definition →Human Deeptech
Human deeptech is the full range of inner technologies available to a human being, the practices that change how we think, feel, relate and decide, mapped and studied with the same seriousness deep technology brings to the outer world.
Read the definition →Innertech
Innertech, short for inner technology, is any practice that reliably changes a person's inner state or capacity: a breathing pattern that shifts the nervous system in minutes, a meditation, a ceremony, a framework for self-knowledge. Outer technology extends what we can do in the world; innertech extends who we can be in it.
Read the definition →Technologies of the Sacred
Technologies of the sacred are the practices humanity developed to meet what is larger than the individual self: ceremony, ritual, sacred song, contemplative practice, rites of passage and plant medicine traditions, once carried by ceremony and lineage and now also understood through modern science.
Read the definition →Next-Gen Wisdom
Next-gen wisdom is ancient wisdom and modern science held together: the practical knowledge of contemplative and indigenous traditions, tested against what neuroscience, psychology and physiology now understand, and made usable for people leading in a fast, technological world.
Read the definition →Inner Development
Inner development is the growth of a person's inner capacities (awareness, emotional regulation, perspective-taking, meaning-making, and the ability to relate and act wisely under complexity), the foundation for outer change from leadership to how organizations meet global challenges.
Read the definition →Evolution of Consciousness
The evolution of consciousness describes how human awareness develops: individually, as a person grows into wider perspectives over a lifetime, and collectively, as cultures develop new ways of understanding themselves and the world. Transformation of consciousness is its lived, personal side.
Read the definition →Human 3.0
Human 3.0 is the 21 Dimensions name for the next stage of human development: people fluent in the outer technologies of their time, including AI, and equally developed in the inner technologies that make those tools wise to use: awareness, regulation, meaning-making and connection.
Read the definition →Superconsciousness
Superconsciousness is awareness beyond the ordinary waking mind: states of expanded clarity, unity, creativity and love that contemplative traditions have described for millennia, and that consciousness research now studies as non-ordinary and transcendent states.
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