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Emanuel is the founder of various large-scale movements. He is also an entrepreneur, writer, journalist, philosopher, philanthropist, quantum physicist, and activist for social transformation who has had many lived encounters with spiritual masters. Emanuel founded Greenheart International in 1985, and is the co-founder of Fundación por el Futuro in Madrid, Spain, serving as President since 1995. He is the founding co-creator of the Global Purpose Movement and Purpose Earth, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle. His most current project is developing the theory of the Holomovement as a movement to unite humanity through our collective purpose.
Emanuel Kuntzelman: A meaning in my life came to me when I was in first grade. So I think I was six years old, something like that. I lived in a very small town, very rural community. Wasn't much to do there, but I thought a lot.
But I remember coming home from school one day. It was a beautiful spring day in April. And I lived right across the street from the school. And as I came walking up to my home, there's a large apple tree in front of our house.
And I was very good friends with the apple tree, spent a lot of time climbing around in that tree. And that particular day, the apple tree was in full bloom in its glorious springtime mode. And blue sky, bees buzzing on the blossoms, the sun suffused through the blossoms. It was just one of those very, very special, unique days.
And so I was lured by the mystique of the apple tree and climbed up, and I had a little perch up there where a couple of branches came together. It was a little spot where I could actually almost lie down and feel comfortable in the middle of the tree. And so I was sitting there, staring up at the sky, admiring the blossoms and the sunlight. That day at school, the teacher had written on the blackboard that the population of planet Earth had reached 3 billion people.
And she wrote the figures 3 billion on the blackboard. As a first grader, I didn't quite know what all those extra zeros meant, but it seemed like a lot, and a very significant number. And so that had been the event in school and I was lying up there in the tree looking up. And thinking, wow.
If the universe went to that much trouble, in those days I thought more in standard theological terms, being raised as a Catholic, so I guess my thoughts were, gosh, if God went to all the trouble of creating 3 billion souls. And we're all different, but yet we're all alike at the same time. That's a very extraordinary thing. And we're all unique and we all have some purpose to serve and yet we're all the same and we're all working together.
And so that means, if God, the universe, whatever, went to all this trouble, you have to be faithful to that. You owe it to serve. God, the universe, whatever, in the best of your capacity. And figure out what you're meant to do and do it, that was kind of the extent of.
My thoughts there, but at the time, I was studying for my first communion as a Catholic, so I was thinking in very kind of spiritual terms for a 6- or 7-year-old.
Paulette Pipe: Yes.
Emanuel Kuntzelman: So I said.
Paulette Pipe: Extraordinary.
Emanuel Kuntzelman: So I just said, okay, I get it. I dedicate my life to being the best I can and serving. Serving the universe, but it was a really extraordinary experience. And, never forgot it, and I think it changed my life forever. I felt obligated to be loyal to the own oath that I'd given to the sky, and the apple tree, and the sunlight, all that on that day. And so, yeah, that kind of turned me into a weird kid at a very early age.