Gawk's Newsletter: Inside the Vision of Leo Mora: The CEO Pushing Us Toward a Type I Civilization

🚀 The future often feels chaotic—a blur of accelerating technological leaps, deepening political polarization, and mounting global crises. There is a collective sense that humanity is moving rapidly, but without a shared map of its destination.

Leo Mora believes that the missing map is the key problem.

Mora is the CEO of GAWK Corporation, a global education and technology company with an ambitious mission: to accelerate humanity toward a Type I Civilization by harmonizing rational knowledge, intuitive wisdom, and immersive technology. While this goal might sound cinematic, Mora speaks about it with practical, urgent clarity.

“We want people to feel the future before we build it,” he says. “Because people forget information, but they never forget how something makes them feel.”

GAWK’s work, including its three-book "Mighty Power Series" and immersive events, is designed to make the long arc of progress tangible and, more importantly, personal.

The Missing Half of Human Education

Mora argues that the fundamental barrier preventing humanity from advancing is not scientific or technological—it is educational. Our current system, he contends, only shapes half of the human experience.

• The Rational Bias: “Traditional education teaches the rational side only,” Mora states. By overdeveloping logic and under developing intuition, society creates generations that can analyze data but struggle to envision possibility and conceive large-scale solutions.

• Restoring Balance: GAWK's aim is not to dismiss rational thinking, but to restore balance. Mora calls intuition the "engine of inspiration," the internal capacity capable of seeing what does not yet exist. A Type I Civilization demands individuals who can operate from both hemispheres:

  • Rationality provides structure.

  • Intuition provides direction.

Mora’s often-asked question—“Are you more analytical or more artistic?”—reveals how education has shaped us, not who we truly are. A future ready for planetary restoration and interplanetary exploration requires both logic and imagination.

What It Means to Become a Type I Civilization

The concept of a Type I Civilization was introduced by astrophysicist Nikolai Kardashev in 1964 as a scale for technological advancement, with humanity currently rated at zero. Mora views this as a humble starting point.

A Type I Society is Defined by Restoration:

• Planetary Restoration: “A Type I Civilization restores the planet,” Mora says. “We stop burning fossil fuels. We use energy that is renewable. We design systems that protect the environment instead of destroying it.”

• Total Energy Optimization: It is a society that harnesses the full spectrum of renewable energy, builds structures that work with nature, and treats construction, transportation, and agriculture as interdependent elements of one shared ecosystem.

In GAWK’s vision, this is not unattainable science fiction. It is a society where innovation is deliberately engineered to serve long-term planetary health over short-term convenience. Mora insists: “It begins with education. It begins with people understanding why the future matters.”

🌐 Who This Vision Is For

GAWK’s community is diverse—including investors, educators, corporate futurists, and early adopters—but they share one defining trait: “Alignment to the vision,” Mora says simply.

• Passion as Currency: GAWK intentionally minimizes traditional corporate hierarchy and plans to rely heavily on volunteers for future initiatives. Mora believes that passion is the ultimate currency: “When you volunteer, you do it because you care. Not because someone pays you. That creates success.”

A Future Built Through Questions

Mora understands that his ideas challenge the comfort of certainty, and he welcomes skepticism, insisting that questions are the only path to understanding.

“If people do not ask questions, nothing stays,” he says. “Questions open the door.”

GAWK’s work is an invitation to ask better questions: What is our purpose? What would society look like if logic and intuition worked together? What is blocking us from evolving?

Leo Mora is not selling a fixed narrative; he is offering a lens through which humanity can look less like fractured factions and more like a species on the cusp of growing up.

A Type I Civilization, in his view, is not a far-off destination. It is a direction. And GAWK’s mission is to help humanity look up and start walking. If Mora is right, the future will not arrive through force, but through understanding.

The first step is simple: Ask the next question.

Leo Mora at Gawk Corp

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