Advocate for Harmony among People and Planet
Welcome — You’ve Found a Space for Deeper Inquiry and Meaningful Growth
This is a place where curiosity meets clarity, and where personal insight connects with collective purpose. Zen Benefiel — author, facilitator, coach, and creator of One World in a New World — invites you to explore life’s big questions with heart, humility, and grounded insight.
Here you’ll discover:
- Stories and conversations worth listening to — from inner awakening to worldly wisdom.
- Tools for conscious leadership and personal transformation.
- A bridge between science, spirit, and practical living.
- A community of seekers and doers exploring harmony with self, others, and planet.
Whether you’re here to grow, to lead, or to simply wonder more deeply — welcome. This isn’t just information; it’s an invitation — to think, feel, and co-create a world that works for everyone.
Planetary Citizens – Awakening the Heart of Humanity
🌍 A bold vision. A soulful awakening. A global invitation.
In a time of uncertainty, division, and planetary crisis, a new kind of identity is emerging—one rooted not in borders or beliefs, but in belonging to the Earth itself. Planetary Citizens: Awakening the Heart of Humanity is a powerful and timely call to rise into conscious participation with life, community, and the living planet.
Written by transformational guide, podcast host, and movement builder Zen Benefiel, this groundbreaking book weaves personal awakening, global vision, and practical action into one coherent path forward. Whether you’re a seeker, change-maker, educator, entrepreneur, or elder—this book speaks to the part of you that knows we’re here for more… and ready to become it.
✨ Inside you’ll discover:
- The story of the Planetary Citizens movement—from its visionary roots to its global resurgence.
- Ancient and emerging frameworks for co-creating a regenerative civilization.
- Real-world projects and stories from global voices shaping the New Earth.
- A new model of transformational leadership rooted in authenticity, empathy, and evolution.
- Practices, tools, and pathways to embody planetary citizenship in everyday life.
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Authenticity, Receptivity and Truth-telling are Super Powers Today.
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🌍📚 Discover ‘One World in a New World – Apocalyptic Chats’ 📚🌍
Deborah J. Levine
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2025
The beautiful summaries of the many conversations with the creative thought leaders in this book will inspire readers to rethink and articulate what they have to offer the world. It’s truly an honor to be one of the voices in these conversations and reading my section has my brain taking a new look at what comes next. Join me!
Dennis P.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2023
“A truly extraordinary collection of transformational, real-life storytelling, bound to inspire you to step back, and rethink what’s really important, and what really matters is a rapidly changing world. Zen has expertly laid down a gauntlet for us all to challenge our assumptions and world views while equipping us with the tools to do so in the form of an invaluable depth of wisdom shared by an impressive array of people from across the life and business spectrum.”
A dear friend, one Swami Beyondananda, says we are in process of an upwising and great WEset in how we live and work together. Perhaps this
‘new world order’ is a natural evolution of the inner workings of many in transcending tragedy with the discovery of natural design, an apocalypse indeed. As of 2024, Planetary Citizens is a 509(a)(2) nonprofit public charity.
Does God truly dwell within each of us? If God did, and we knew and could embody that, what would it look like in the outer world?
Vedantic philosophy, over 10,000 years old, presents the notion that we are all divine threads incarnate, connected to Source, and capable of god consciousness.
Of course every successful man has a powerful and supportive woman by his side. I’m no different. In 2021, my wife suggested I start talking to people again because she felt it was time for me to come off a 30-year hiatus from producing a TV show, One World. I impacted the local community through sharing insights of others in their personal and professional journeys. Luba is the light in my life on the planet, the reflection of the nothingness in a perfect partner. She’s had her own journey, seeking political asylum from the USSR in 1989, arriving in Arizona in 1990 as a conservatory-trained piano accompanist and pedagogue. We met in 2016 at her Kundalini yoga teacher training graduation. She has a thriving piano studio today.
A Seminal View of Consciousness, Cosmology and the Congruence of Science and Spirituality
Zen Benefiel, literally, takes us with him on his journey from drums to conundrums. His mind is facile as he weaves a narrative ranging from deep within the esoteric/ufology subculture to lessons of marriage, family, and business life. He draws upon archetypal psychology with a particular appreciation for the creative godhead archetype. If you read this book with an open heart, you may find yourself discovering new vistas of your own.
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD Host, New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel
CitiZen…NetiZen… ET AL
Since hand-coding his first HTML pages in the mid-1990s, Zen Benefiel has been a digital-age trailblazer—launching vision-centric sites like BeTheDream.com and later founding Planck Social Media Agency to guide small businesses through the maze of WordPress, SEO, and omnichannel branding.
Over three decades online, he’s grown a combined following of more than 150,000 across LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, Medium, Substack, TikTok, YouTube, and VK, leveraging algorithm shifts and content trends to amplify conscious-leadership conversations.
Today, his podcast’s 2 million-view footprint and his knack for interactive web experiences showcase a rare blend of technical fluency and human-centric storytelling that turns clicks into community.
Over 40 years of personal and professional opportunities in numerous environments and industries coalesces for a robust skill set in this ‘possibilities coagulator‘ as founder of Planetary Citizens, with the mission of facilitating a new world order of harmony among people and planet.
Aptitude, attitude and the ability to say ‘yes’ to invitations and opportunities created a plethora of skill building events and pragmatic applications across professional environments. Observing and studying the process turned me into a cognitive scientist over time, delving into how the mind works.
* Transformational Life Coaching * Event, Program & Project Mgt * Workgroup Facilitation Skills * Regenerative Community Design * Leadership Development * Radio & TV * Authorship
I believe we are far more capable of doing things beyond our imagination than we give ourselves credit.
In fact, the simple action of making a step toward achieving a dream brings many worlds into order and available for support.
The longer one stays the course, the better the experience gets. I’ve been a witness to many transformations in my life, my own and others, and they all begin with faith, love and trust at the core. The activities of attention, intention and interaction coagulate the particles that were only waving in order to coagulate them into form, if you get the drift. Vedantic philosophy thousand of years old corroborates this truth.
Zen Benefiel, Cognitive Scientist, Outlier Extraordinaire.
I consider Zen to be one of those superlative examples 
of what the human brain can store and serve up in unique and appealing ways at will on most any occasion or assignment. To say his range of knowledge and interests are “eclectic” is understatement. And this is what makes his services as a “possibilities coagulator“ for his clients so valuable and exciting.
Smart fellow! Great ally!
Dudley Lynch, President – Brain Technologies, Inc.
Zen Benefiel is a man of great ideas and passion. You will never find Zen in a box ~ “Out of the Box” thinking is one of his best attributes. He is a wonderful motivational speaker and workshop leader. A few years ago I had the opportunity to bring him in to work with a staff of 15 people for Team Building. He did an outstanding job ~ so much so we still use the information as a benchmark for communication.
K.C. Miller – Founder/Owner, Southwest Institute of Healing Arts
Zen Benefiel, literally, takes us with him on his journey from drums to conundrums. His mind is facile as he weaves a narrative ranging from deep within the esoteric/ufology subculture to lessons of marriage, family, and business life. He draws upon archetypal psychology with a particular appreciation for the creative godhead archetype. If you read this book with an open heart, you may find yourself discovering new vistas of your own.
Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, Host, New Thinking Allowed YouTube channel
One of the wyrdest experiences of my life that came through me in August of 1981 after hearing ‘pick up a pencil and paper and draw.’ I was a production grinder specialist in the aerospace industry at the time, setting up a job and bent over the machine when I felt someone step onto the lathewood platform I was standing on. Stood up, turner around, no one there, except the voice.
I had my own sense of what it meant, a soul symbol, if you will. I did an AI analysis of it, through a model I designed that wouldn’t drift much. Click the image for more.