Great Shift Dialogues
For the Great Shift dialogues, we asked leaders from a range of disciplines to answer the question: "How can we create a great shift on planet earth in the years ahead?"
Their answers span the spectrum from the practical to the philosophical, from green living to key shifts in our belief system, from embodiment to sacred action. It's the richest and most insightful set of dialogues we've done. Enjoy!
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Great Shift Dialogue: Steve Bhaerman and Bruce Lipton
Their dialogue offers insight into the evolution of humanity through four paradigms – animism, polytheism, monotheism, and scientific materialism – into an emergent paradigm that changes the beliefs of our society and therefore the structures of our bodies.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Kevin Danaher and Medea Benjamin
Global Exchange and Green Festival co-founders Medea Benjamin and Kevin Danaher are masters of finding practical solutions that create systemic change. In this dialogue, they explore a triple-bottom line economy, the global grassroots revolution in values, and the opportunity to use America’s worldwide network of military bases as hubs for green innovation.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Barbara Marx Hubbard and Stephen Dinan
Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard is on a mission of conscious evolution, one that was templated in her cells in an experience of what she calls the planetary birth. In her dialogue with Shift in Action founder Stephen Dinan, a remarkable sense of co-creative joy bubbles forth as they discuss subjects from the evolution of new political perspectives to the emergence of Christianity 2.0.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Anodea Judith and Lion Goodman
Lion Goodman interviews Anodea Judith, PhD on the topics in her award-winning book, Waking The Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Ervin Laszlo and Peter Russell
Their discussion covers the acceleration of growth, the crises that follow, and the imperative changes required to move from a materialistic and unsustainable way of life to one in which we respect the limits of growth and learn to live joyfully within them. They also cover the role of the global media, survival drives, and hopeful new signs in an emerging generation.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Bill Plotkin and David Abram (part 1 of 2)
Author, depth psychologist and ecotherapist, Bill Plotkin explores the needed great shifts on the planet with cultural ecologist, philosopher and spiritual teacher David Abrams. Their in-depth discussion examines our western culture’s disconnect from nature, the consequences of that disconnection and potential solutions to reconnect not only to nature but to our authentic selves.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Bill Plotkin and David Abram (part 2 of 2)
Author, depth psychologist and ecotherapist, Bill Plotkin explores the needed great shifts on the planet with cultural ecologist, philosopher and spiritual teacher David Abrams. Their in-depth discussion examines our western culture’s disconnect from nature, the consequences of that disconnection and potential solutions to reconnect not only to nature but to our authentic selves.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Dean Radin and Lynne McTaggart (excerpt)
Pioneering scientist Dean Radin and journalist-author Lynne McTaggart explore the frontiers of science and how shifts in the scientific paradigm can contribute to shifting our world. Together they examine the social pressures to conform to an older scientific worldview as well as the exciting elements of what is emerging ...
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Great Shift Dialogue: Brian Johnson and Gay Hendricks (excerpt)
In this dialogue, two pioneers of enlightened business look at what it will take to create a great shift on planet earth, concluding that we have to begin with bringing our own lives into full alignment with our ideals. In the end, they see the largest cultural shifts building from the seemingly small personal shifts in our lives.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Andrew Harvey and Shiva Rea (excerpt)
Mystic scholar Andrew Harvey and renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea come together to illuminate a path towards sacred embodiment and activism while exploring the initiations that humanity must face: radical heartbreak, death, and rebirth. In this process, two great fires need to be married in the human heart: the passion for justice and the passion for Spirit.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Howard Martin and Deborah Rozman (excerpt)
HeartMath has pioneered a path the merges high technology and heart-intelligence. In this dialogue, Howard Martin and Deborah Rozman share the latest frontiers of this work and how it can contribute to a global shift in consciousness.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Michael Bernard Beckwith and David Hawkins (excerpt)
Power vs. Force author David Hawkins and Agape International founder Michael Bernard Beckwith describe important shifts in perception that represent the foundation for making shifts in the world. They explore the importance of simply being more aware and more loving and the ways that people can incorporate such shifts into their daily lives.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Michael Gelb and Marcia Wieder (excerpt)
A leading teacher of innovation, Michael Gelb, and the leader of a "dream movement," Marcia Wieder, explore what our future might look like if dreamed up by bold visionaries. Both are adept at helping people create bolder visions of their own potential and translating that into substantial change.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Neale Donald Walsch (excerpt)
Neale Donald Walsch is renowned for pioneering a new and more personal approach to questions of God and spirituality. In this interview, he shares his deepest understanding of how we can shift our collective beliefs around God and spirituality to create a great shift in the years ahead.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Maria Nemeth and Mary Manin Morrissey (excerpt)
Maria Nemeth and Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey explore the dark night of the soul and how it connects to a collective dark night, as well as the importance of finding one’s core life intentions and using them as the basis for all decisions.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Kurt Smith (excerpt)
Wild Divine CEO Kurt Smith has been at the forefront of innovative technologies that expand consciousness and enhance health. In this dialogue he begins by urging patience: deep changes take time. He also emphasizes that collective changes can only flow from personal changes, so we need to enhance our personal well-being.
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Great Shift Dialogue: Sequoyah Trueblood and James O’Dea (excerpt)
Former IONS President,James O’Dea and native elder Sequoyah Trueblood discuss "the great shift" in the context of our ...
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Great Shift Dialogue: Michael Bernard Beckwith and David Hawkins
Power vs. Force author David Hawkins and Agape International founder Michael Bernard Beckwith describe important shifts in perception that ...
