My conversation with Christian Häuselmann brought something into the Third Attractor field that has stayed with me ever since. It was a shift in perspective that felt both grounding and enlarging at the same time. While many voices in this space speak about the urgency of the meta crisis or the pressure of short political cycles, Christian quietly introduced a much longer horizon. He spoke about thinking ahead for seven generations.
There was something deeply sane about that. As he described his own work and life, it became clear that this is not a poetic idea for him. It is a lived orientation. Christian has always acted from this wider timeframe. When he created the Flyer e bike in the early nineties, there was no market for such a thing. When he worked on circular economy systems in Switzerland, almost nobody was speaking about circularity. He has repeatedly invested years and sometimes decades into ideas that looked premature in the moment but became obvious long after.
What touched me was the clarity and calm in his approach. Seven generation thinking takes the personal drama out of the equation. It removes the pressure of my lifetime, my success, my fear, my urgency. It shifts the whole attention toward continuity and care. It shifts us toward consequences that unfold far beyond what we will ever see.
Both current attractors, authoritarianism and collapse, feed on short term panic. They thrive on reactivity. Christian’s perspective breaks that spell. It invites us into a different attractor field. It opens the possibility of a cultural posture that is not driven by fear but by long term responsibility. It is the posture of someone who wants to become a good ancestor.
His voice also reminded me of the quiet relationship between evolution and patience. The Third Attractor will not come from people who are overwhelmed by the speed of change. It will come from people who know how to breathe again. People who can look far enough ahead that their imagination becomes generous. People who are willing to build what only future generations will fully inhabit.
What Christian added is simple and profound. Slow down your imagination until seven generations can be held inside it. Then look again at what is worth creating.
When I take that seriously, something relaxes inside me. The noise becomes less convincing. My sense of what matters becomes sharper. And the whole project of the Third Attractor feels less like an emergency and more like a deep evolutionary calling that stretches far beyond our individual lives.
This long view might be one of the most important keys we have for co creating the Third Attractor.
