Juan Carlos Kaiten

"Education should be nurturing the higher purpose of kids and giving them all the resources they need to fulfill that purpose, whether they are skills, people, resources, access to a market that they can reach and bring their gift. Whether you're an architect, an engineer, a poet, a chef, or a healer, anything that brings your heart to shine with energy, love, and passion."

"Many times, you have to trust yourself, take a step into the void, and trust that a magical step will appear so you can keep walking through the becoming. I think that's something that I've been doing over and over."

"I have always learned that when a person or a group connects to higher purpose, that brings you the energy to be a better person. People that are in addictions, depressions, or any sort of trouble, the moment you tap into a higher purpose, that will bring you the energy every morning to stand up, wake up early, do exercise, go and study, go and work. We need emotional education. Any unhealed emotion moves to an addiction, and that could be an addiction to food, to work. It doesn't need to be alcohol and drugs, but it could be many types of invisible destructive habits."

"The advice to find your purpose is to stop for a moment, really go back to that moment where you were full of dreams and energy. What were those dreams? What was that purpose? Go back, get them, and trust yourself. Never stop. My key for finding higher purpose and keeping myself there is to find those who resonate with you. Do not go alone."

"As I was studying and trying to understand the purpose of why we are here on Earth, I started learning from indigenous wisdom leaders, wisdom keepers, and evolutionary pioneers, avant garde thinkers. At eighteen, I started finding spiritual masters and teachers. Then I realized and understood my purpose."

"We build safe containers where people feel safe. Everyone is acknowledged, and everyone receives the resources they need to fulfill their purpose. In communities of coherence, we guide people to be in the right placement. People need to find their purpose in their heart so they can find resonance with others. It is like music. You might be out of tune and not fit into teams, causing trouble. But once you find your tune, then you resonate with others. People vibrating at the same scale will resonate with you. When you connect to your heart and purpose, you will find resonance with others."

"I am meta weaving a movement, so I have to work on weaving many disciplines. Something I learned is not to go too fast, because people will not be able to listen or understand. There is an art of not coming all the way back and becoming one of the million people doing the same thing, but being a little bit ahead and getting people to hear you, so you can push the present to the future. That has been one of the greatest challenges for me."

"People say, why are you not just doing money, why do you not focus on having a house and enough money for your retirement, you are careless. You are careless because you are not focusing on making money and you are doing so many things. I will tell you, money is not the most important thing. I am meta weaving a movement, so I have to work on weaving many disciplines. A friend once told me, your problem is that you are in the believing edge. You are too ahead, nobody sees what you are doing, nobody understands what you are doing. He gave me good advice, take some steps back, move to the living edge, that is when you become famous and wealthy. But for me, that is still being in the comfort zone, and we do not have time."

"The biggest struggle I have had living my purpose is that nobody believes it is possible. We are living in a global crisis of belief. People do not believe anymore. What I am saying now, I have been saying the same thing for the past fifteen years, and now I think the world is ready to listen. Many times, you just have to stay. One of the hardest things for me is to stay on the fire in the waters of uncertainty and ambiguity, and hold the fire. Many times, you have to trust yourself, take a step into the void, and trust that a magical step will appear so you can keep walking through the becoming. You must be a believer and stay strong, called to purpose. There's a fine line between being persistent and being obstinate. You need to have wisdom to know when to stop and go back and when to be persistent and stick to your values and your high purpose."

"When I was eighteen or nineteen, I joined an international organization of students, and that took me to travel the world and become a world citizen. Then I understood social justice. I started traveling and seeing why this person lives in very good conditions and this person does not. This is not fair. We can do better. We can find better solutions. That is what I was doing with young students from all over the world, working together and bringing better solutions than what the grown ups could."

"We can become spiritual beings. We need to reconnect to our divinity, our supra human Jedi capacities, and at the same time we can do better on this planet. There is no reason why there is hunger, sickness, and the problems that the planet has. We have enough resources, intelligence, action, commitment, and skill to do it. I understood social justice. I started traveling and seeing why this person lives in very good conditions and this person does not. This is not fair. We can do better. We can find better solutions. That is what I was doing with young students from all over the world, working together and bringing better solutions than what the grown ups could."

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"At eighteen, I started finding spiritual masters and teachers. Then I realized and understood my purpose, that the purpose of the planet is to evolve into higher consciousness. We are evolving to become a planetary and universal humanity. I was like, that is exactly what I am about here. I have been developing a methodology I call social alchemy, where I combine social intelligence, collective intelligence practices, and spiritual intelligence practices. We need to unite the heart, the mind, and the spirit. Our vision is to build communities of coherence that can synergize with other communities on a bioregional basis. Bioregions are the stepping stones from the age of the nation-state to the age of planetary consciousness."

"My purpose started, my passion started very soon. I would say when I was three to six years old. I was very intrigued by all of the questions that I could not find answers to from family, church, or school. I had questions like, what happens when we die. Are we alone in the universe. What about all this paranormal, that apparently some humans have, others do not. So I went into a huge pilgrimage. Since I was six, started at three, but when I was six and able to speak a little bit better, I started the quest. At twelve, I started finding people. I was led, I was able to speak to strangers. I started gathering more information that I could not get beyond the barrier of my family, friends, and schools."