In a very real sense, the story of futurist and visionary Barbara Marx Hubbard, told in The Mother of Invention is the story of the future of all of us. We are all moving through the same process, the book and its subject declare. It is the process of the birthing of our species. This biography begins in the future, unravelling Barbara's story backward: from December 22, 2012, to the date of her birth. A remarkable individual, Barbara became one of the first women ever to have her name placed in nomination for the vice presidency of the United States by a major political party, travelled to Russia as a cultural ambassador for peace, visited the Oval Office and asked the President a question that he could not answer, and developed a deep acquaintanceship with the American space program. Barbara believes that on December 22, 2012, conditions will be perfect for humanity to launch a new way of living and that together, we can consciously co-create a new world. Throughout the book are special sections inviting us to explore how we may directly apply what she has observed and learned during her remarkable 80-year journey to our own daily lives.
