GrokingWholeness.info is a new portal for information and tools that promote individual and collective well-being. The website, which fosters transformation through information, inspiration, and practical skills that advance our inherent human potential, is the brainchild of four friends—Linda Sechrist, Bob Staretz, Douglas Bonar, and Dr. Carol Roberts.

United by a shared commitment to raising human consciousness, these longtime seekers and facilitators of healing and personal growth explain that the idea for the website emerged spontaneously during a conversation about one of the hard problems of science—what is consciousness? When each contributed their unique thread of wisdom and experience, the casual exchange quickly blossomed into a creative impulse: “Let’s build something that matters—something that helps people remember who they truly are.”

Grokking is a word coined in 1962 by author Robert Heinlein, who wrote Stranger in a Strange Land. It means to deeply understand—not just intellectually, but also through intuition or empathy. The word perfectly captures the spirit of the project: to not just know wholeness intellectually, but to feel it, live it, and share it.

The website, which is a dynamic and ever-evolving space, is designed to help individuals go beyond egocentric consciousness, enhance their well-being, and live in harmony with the consciousness of all of nature and the cosmos. “I believe that consciousness exists within the field of the much larger Universal Consciousness and is so much more than ego consciousness. We just don’t recognize that part of ourselves,” says Staretz. A longtime friend of Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who founded the Institute for Noetic Sciences.

Bonar, a recently retired mental health counselor and owner of A Center of Wellness in St. Petersburg, Florida, adds, “The challenge is to evolve in our body, mind, spirit, and in our collective consciousness. We want to help individuals build a world that we all intuitively know we want to live in.” Bonar will be offering aspects of his workshop series, Roots and Wings: The Way of Wholeness, on GrokingWholeness.info. The model emphasizes the interconnectedness of individuals with the living Earth, each other, and the intelligence of the universe.

“At GrokingWholeness.info, we believe in the transformative power of integrating mind, body, and spirit to foster balance within the individual and their surroundings. Changing oneself is a prerequisite to changing one’s surroundings or society, because personal growth creates the foundation for broader impact,” says Dr. Roberts, who practices functional medicine in Sarasota and leads psychedelic ketamine retreats.

“We’re not here to be gurus or gatekeepers. We’re companions on the path who asked, ‘What can we do to have a positive impact that helps people live mindfully and act consciously, so they offer their highest good for the world?’ Our task is to create the spark for waking up to the realization of what we really are—and what we are capable of,” says Sechrist, an editor of Natural Awakenings magazine and a 30-year student of consciousness.

Explore GrokingWholeness.info.