2007 IONS Teleseminars
IONS' original Wednesday-night teleseminar series, then called "Shift in Action," ran from 2005-2009. The 2007 lineup included Sharif Abdullah, Barbara Marx Hubbard, and Jim Garrison.
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"Envisioning a Common Society" with Sharif Abdullah
Sharif is an author, proponent, and catalyst for inclusivity and spiritual transformation. His work on inclusivity has taken him to over two dozen countries. Sharif has appeared in several international forums. His books include The Power of One: Authentic Leadership in Turbulent Times and Creating a World That Works for All.
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"New Money for a New World" with Bernard Lietaer
Join host Matthew Gilbert and his guest Bernard Lietaer, an economist and author who was one of the designers of the European currency, the Euro. His consulting experience spans four continents and ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries.
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"Conscious Evolution" with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Teresa Collins (excerpt)
This teleseminar offers a live dialogue with futurist and author Barbara Marx Hubbard and her collaborator Teresa Collins, co-creator of the Gateway to Conscious Evolution program.
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"Leader as Healer and Agent of Transformation" with Robert Gass (excerpt)
With host and former IONS president James O'Dea, committed social change agent, Robert Gass, shares stories of his own personal and professional challenges and triumphs and the value of meditation and the application of noetic principles to shifting difficult situations from hopeless to life-affirming.
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"Leader as Healer and Agent of Transformation" with Robert Gass
With host and former IONS president James O'Dea, committed social change agent, Robert Gass, shares stories of his own personal and professional challenges and triumphs and the value of meditation and the application of noetic principles to shifting difficult situations from hopeless to life-affirming.
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"The Perfection of Health" with Elliott Dacher
In this engaging dialogue with IONS President Marilyn Schlitz, Dr. Dacher describes our conception of health not as something to be fixed but revealed. Our human potential is limitless, yet we tend to deny our precious opportunity to gain vast, profound, and enduring health, happiness, and wholeness.
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"The Perfection of Health" with Elliott Dacher (excerpt)
In this engaging dialogue, Dr. Dacher describes our conception of health as something not to be fixed but revealed. Our human potential is limitless, he says, yet we tend to deny our precious opportunity to gain vast, profound, and enduring health, happiness, and wholeness.
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"The Origin, Persistence, and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory" with Henry Bauer
Dr. Henry Bauer and host Dean Radin engage in an interesting discussion about scientific practices and the difficulty of changing commonly accepted assumptions. Dr. Bauer's latest book The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory challenges the hypothesis that HIV causes AIDS.
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"Healing the Wounds of War" with James Gordon
In this moving discussion with host Marilyn Schlitz, her guest James Gordon, talks about his experience healing the wounds of war. Dr. Gordon has devoted 30 years to the exploration and practice of mind-body medicine.
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"Irreducible Mind" with Edward Kelly
Ed and Emily are the authors of Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century, Computer Recognition of English Word Senses. Their central long term interests revolve around mind-brain relations and functional neuroimaging studies of unusual states of consciousness and associated cognitive phenomena.
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"Spirituality and Medicine" with Sylver Quevedo
In this dialogue, integrative physician Sylver Quevedo draws upon his scientific expertise and his deep appreciation of indigenous and alternative pathways to healing to paint a picture of a more balanced kind of medicine that treats the whole person.
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"Yoga, Sound, and Consciousness" with Suzanne Sterling
Ecstatic vocalist Suzanne Sterling explores the transformational power and esoteric dimensions of sound, voice, and consciousness in this dialogue with host Stephen Dinan. The voice, Suzanne believes, is a microcosm for the psyche, and connects us with deeper, vibratory levels of our being, which makes it a perfect vehicle to expand our freedom.
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"The Global Brain" with Howard Bloom
In this intellectually far-ranging teleseminar, polymath Howard Bloom explores the evolutionary process with former IONS President James O’Dea. As both a scientist and a humanist, Bloom draws upon concepts from biology to physics and mythology to political theory to weave a tapestry of provocative evolutionary ideas.
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"Emerging Wisdom Culture" with Jim Garrison
In this teleseminar discussion with host Stephen Dinan, Garrison ranges from the Socratic method in Greece to the emerging wisdom culture today, looking at the epochal changes in the value landscape that parallel the shifts of the Renaissance. His perspective includes spiritual, sociological, and political dimensions of who we are and where we are headed.
