Many critics are now echoing Einstein’s views, claiming that we must deepen our community conversations about the future. We can no longer rely on ‘mental models based on past experience’. We need, claims American planning academic, Patricia Wilson, ‘new wisdom about the emerging future’. This is because the new direction of ‘deep democracy’ involves ‘the inner experience of interconnectedness’. The sort of civic dialogue Wilson envisages moves from civic ‘knowing’ (learning and sensing together in community) to civic ‘willing’ (the visioning and what is known as presencing of the whole that is wanting to emerge). Finally,