My Perspective on the now, Solutions and Change

For systems and for the people inside them, real change starts with recognising reality in its entirety.

That is a timely and uncomfortable process; it asks people to sit with things that don’t have immediate answers. To see the scale of what’s wrong, without rushing to control or cover it up with something more palatable.

The ‘fix it’ mindset – born from a lifetime of pathologising diversity through narrowed perspectives – needs to end. It’s not helping us move forward. It keeps us cycling through surface-level responses whilst ignoring the deeper structures that embed the harm in the first place.

Here’s the general shape of the process – as I see it – though it rarely moves in a straight line:

People begin to move into a higher state of consciousness.

Sometimes gradually, sometimes abruptly. A shift in awareness, often caused by a life event. What used to feel normal and acceptable no longer does.

Then comes understanding.

From a science perspective this means not just more data – but real integration of the data. Synthesis, patterns, systemic design. The point where learning stops being abstract and becomes logically embodied.

Next is sharing.

Quiet conversations at first; then frameworks. Language starts to change. People realise they’re not alone – that what they’re seeing has form. Then comes quiet pressure for accountability. It won’t come from performative outrage – it comes from clarity. From people who’ve stopped waiting for institutions to fix what they were designed to ignore.

New systems begin to form.

Often slowly and often from the margins. People start building what didn’t exist – not out of optimism, but out of necessity. Quiet, grounded alternatives take shape.

This is where Neurotopia CIC fits: exposing the limits of atomised science, and restoring the missing bridge between lived experience and biological reality. The integration of neuro-biological terrain, genomics, epigenetics, and environment challenges the fragmentation that’s been normalised for decades.

Without this fuller picture, there is no way forward that is truly integrative – only recycled systems pretending to be new.

Throughout all of this, people begin to step into their role.

Whatever that is; some speak, some build, some document, some support. It doesn’t need to be big, but it does need to be real. You don’t need to be everything – just what’s yours.

Divergent skill sets were built for connection.

There’s no linearity here.

People move between stages; get stuck, loop back or skip forward.

That’s the process, and it is still progress.

If you’re not seeing the change yet – check where you’re standing.

That’s often where it starts.

– Neurotopia CIC 2026