In this paper, I explore whether and how strategic foresight could play a more significant role in shaping equitable, just, and sustainable futures. I critique and challenge the mainstream approach to strategic foresight by highlighting its limitations towards exploring and envisioning futures centering equity, justice, and shared well-being. Secondly, I delve into how sacred practices may help to create pathways toward these futures. I am looking to explore how individual and collective efforts for building our desired futures be strengthened by honouring the sacred and reclaiming different ways of knowing and being through practises we individually and collectively deem sacred. Data for this study was collected via a literature review and expert interviews.

Expert interviews were analyzed via a thematic analysis. My findings suggest that due to various limitations embedded the field of strategic foresight, there is both an urgency and need for its ability to centre equity and diversity in many ways. As such honouring the sacred and sacred practises could have a role to play within this. Sacred practises also offer a different way for strategic foresight to contend with how it can play a larger role in building equitable, just, and sustainable futures.

In conclusion, I argue that radical imagination needs to continue to exist unobstructed in the hands of people and communities. I strongly believe that one of the gateways to harness the power of radical imagination is through sacred practices.