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Stories from the Heart: Van Jones (sample)
Van Jones shares his touching journey from being an indirect beneficiary of affirmative action to having his Clean Energy Jobs initiative adopted by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
- Audio Lectures
- 2007
- 00:03:00
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Stories from the Heart
This program features remarkable speakers from the IONS 2007 conference who deeply touched our hearts, including IONS Founder Edgar Mitchell, Van Jones, Hafsat Abiola, Lynne Twist, and Swami Chidanand Saraswati.
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Intention Downloads Interview: Angeles Arrien
Angeles shares the Inuit people’s philosophy that there are two plans in life: “My plan and Mystery’s plan.” She discusses the relationship between effort and grace and advises us to find a balance between the two.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:25:06
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Essential Shifts Interview: Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill is known for her environmental activism, but she is also a deeply spiritual and reflective being. In this dialogue, she reveals her sense that the most important thing we can do is to hold an image of our world as whole, connected, and complete.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-09-06
- 00:29:18
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Intention Downloads Interview: Michael Murphy
In this interview, Esalen’s co-founder Michael Murphy explores the further reaches of human potential, ranging from the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo to the bodybuilding practices of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:26:41
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Intention Downloads Interview: Larry Dossey
In this discussion with Marilyn Schlitz, Dr. Dossey cautions us about the current popularity of books and movies that promote intention setting for purely self-centered reasons.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:26:33
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"Quantum Change" with William Miller
When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives
Dr. William Miller talks with host Cassandra Vieten about motivational interviewing used to identify conflicting motivations and how to move forward into life changes. Dr. Miller has studied the phenomenon of transformational changes, those that usually occur within a matter of hours and result in enduring and sometimes dramatic change in one's life and personality.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-04-22
- 00:54:48
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Essential Shifts Interview: Don Beck
Spiral Dynamics Integral provides a powerful, multi-leveled mapping of culture, values, and consciousness. In this interview, the leading practitioner of this work, Don Beck, shares his insights about how we can more effectively meet different cultures with solutions appropriate to their "memetic codes."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:48
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Roberto Vargas
Roberto Vargas, DrPH is a visionary cultural activist, organizational planning consultant and ceremony leader. A nationally recognized trainer in leadership and organizational development, Roberto works on behalf of people and organizations that seek to create a healthy world. Drawing from his indigenous spirit tradition and his activist commitments, Roberto’s talent is engaging people to create a porvida culture--living in affirmation of our ability to be “for life and love.”
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Research/Meditation Bibliography/Meditation Types
Meditation Types Photo by premasagar Traditionally, meditation was situated within the context of a set of religious beliefs, teachings, and practices. The objective was to alter everyday consciousness to reach ... -
Cultivating Social Consciousness
What does it mean to be part of a greater whole? How does our worldview, or model of reality, impact what we understand about who we are and how we relate to others? And how can we become more aware of all the ways we are part of an interrelated, global community?
- Collective Intelligence
- Worldview
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Nature’s Best-Kept Secret and the Journey toward Wholeness
All of us have two basic levels of consciousness, two distinct selves. One, which I call our “lower-level self,” emanates from non-conscious sources and lives in our amygdala – in the primitive, lower portion of our brain. The other self, which I call our “higher-level self,” situated in the prefrontal cortex, is designed to take time for conscious consideration of behavior. The two are parts of a whole, however independently they may act and however different their roles.
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The Art of Healing through Conscious Loving
To adopt a shamanistic attitude doesn’t make one a shaman any more than watching an operation makes one a surgeon. But even without the traditional shamanistic use of music, songs, and ritual objects, we all have the potential to heal ourselves, each other, and probably a good portion of the planet.
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About/Temple Award Winners
Recipients of the Temple Award for Creative Altruism About the Temple Awards Past Recipients: 2011 | 2009 | 2007 | 2005 | 2003 | 2001 | 1999 | 1998 2011 Edgar Mitchell Institute of Noetic Sciences Petaluma ... -
The Evolutionary Imperative for Business
To seize the opportunity to work with rather than against emerging forces of change, a higher level of consciousness is needed.
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Toward a Consciousness of Oneness
At a press conference immediately following the earthquake in Japan, President Obama noted that “for all our differences in culture or language or religion, ultimately, humanity is one.” A century ago, earthquakes in California, India, and Italy similarly evoked shared grief and mutual assistance, although oneness was not yet part of our mainstream vocabulary – nor our consciousness. This significant shift in awareness during the last century illustrates the power and promise of evolution.
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The Hidden Gifts of Helping
Not too long ago, we thought of the body as a machine and the brain as some sort of computer that ran the show. But much recent research indicates that the brain is essentially a social organ with its cells and pathways wired for empathy, for experiencing the joys and sufferings of others as if they were our own. Our brain, our hormones, and our immune system are an intimately related care-connection system.