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"An Economic Vision" with Hazel Henderson
In this first teleseminar of 2009, renowned futurist, evolutionary economist and author, Hazel Henderson talks with host and IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert about the current state of the economy. Hazel share’s her in-depth knowledge and offers studied, positive alternatives for the future including digital currencies, green economy and local community banking.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2009-01-07
- 00:41:55
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"Building True Wealth" with Catherine Austin Fitts (excerpt)
IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert and radical financial guru Catherine Austin Fitts engage in a thought-provoking conversation based on the analogy of big business as a "tapeworm." Catherine argues that If we want clean water, fresh food, sustainable infrastructure, sound banks, lawful companies, and healthy communities, we are going to have to finance and govern these resources ourselves.
- Audio Shorts
- 2006-01-03
- 00:13:20
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"Navigating Uncertain Times" with Catherine Austin Fitts
Solari President Catherine Austin Fitts, has seen the distortions, corruption, and challenges built into our economic system as a high-level insider on Wall Street and in the first Bush administration. From these days, she has developed a sophisticated understanding of how money actually flows in our world.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-10-20
- 00:03:00
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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.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-04-04
- 01:02:20
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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.
- Audio Shorts
- 2007-04-04
- 00:05:36
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"Building True Wealth" with Catherine Austin Fitts
IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert and guest Catherine Austin Fitts engage in a thought provoking conversation which includes the analogy of big business as a tape worm. Catherine describes what we need to be aware of in our investments to insure that we are not unintentionally feeding the 'tape worm.'
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-01-03
- 01:01:01
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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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Teleseminar with Sylvia Boorstein
Host Cassandra Vieten talks with author, psychologist, and spiritual teacher Sylvia Boorstein, who shares ways to bring spiritual practices into every day life. From standing in line at the grocery store to driving in heavy traffic, she suggests we repeat: “May I (“you” or a specific name) be peaceful; May I be happy; May I be free from suffering.”
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-03-11
- 00:59:40
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Walter Link
Walter Link is a former member of the IONS Board of Directors.
An international businessman and social entrepreneur, he has engaged in not-for-profit projects and socially responsible business ventures throughout Europe, the Americas, and South-East Asia. His activities reflect his desire to understand the complexity of global life and to develop practical approaches that support the evolution of a more aware, humane, and sustainable world. Walter grew up in a German family of business leaders and diplomats, who were “bridge builders” between cultures and continents, a tradition to which he adds building bridges between disciplines and communities. He speaks fluent English, German, French, and some Spanish.
Walter’s activities and accomplishments include: Completion of a License en Sciences Commercialles et Industrielles at the University of Geneva, studying business administrations, economics, law, and political science. Walters’s summa cum laude thesis researched the complex interactions of Brazilian healthcare systems with its economic and social conditions, participation in a number of training programs ranging from multi-product production and commerce in France and Chile to international banking at the Midland Bank in London, to working on an assemble line in Thailand.
He was a former partner of B. Grimm, a 125-year old South-East Asian Industrial Group with roots in his native Europe. B. Grimm grew from a traditional Asian trading house into a diversified industrial group of more than 20 companies operating in the fields of health care, telecommunications, engineering, infrastructure, and construction. The company’s partnerships and join ventures include major European and US corporations such as Carrier, Merck, and Siemens.
Currently, he is an investor and venture capitalist providing funding for technology companies and companies pursuing social and environmental goals. Examples include Nature & Discover, the products of which are both educating and enchanting people with nature, and the assisted living companies, Juniper Partners and Edencare, which provide the elderly with dignified living options. Walter is also the managing director of an organic farm that offers an alternative model for successful farming.
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Catherine Austin Fitts
Catherine Austin Fitts offers a unique perspective on the global financial system and the power of people to overcome that system. With an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Catherine's "insider" background includes managing director of a major Wall Street financial services firm, Assistant Secretary of Housing at HUD - the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and president/founder of Hamilton Securities investment bank.
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William "Bill" Sechrest, JD
William Sechrest is the Chair of the IONS Board of Directors.
He joined the Law Firm of Shartsis Friese, LLP, in the capacity "Of Counsel" on January 2, 2007. Mr. Sechrest has practiced law for forty years; most of that time being invested with the 300 law firm he founded in Dallas, Texas in 1973. During the forty years, Mr. Sechrest has represented clients and served as a consultant in a variety of matters including real estate acquisition and development; real estate finance; land use and entitlement issues; corporate, partnership, and limited liability debt offerings; equity and debt structures and restructures (including reorganizations both outside and inside bankruptcy); commercial lending; and general corporate issues for both private and publicly held organizations, including regulatory and financial issues and most recently issues involving Sarbanes Oxley. Mr. Sechrest is a member of the Board of Directors of The Men's Wearhouse, Inc., a NYSE company, and Ojai Community Bank which is also publicly traded. Mr. Sechrest chairs the Board of Directors of Vitamin Angel Alliance, a Section 501©(3) organization located in Santa Barbara, California. Mr. Sechrest is a frequent lecturer at conferences regarding currencies, markets, and monetary policy. Mr. Sechrest received his BA degree from Stanford University in Economics and his JD from Southern Methodist University. He is a member of the American Bar Association and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL).
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Robert Gass
Robert Gass, EDD, has taught heartful living and personal effectiveness for over 30 years at centers such as Omega, Esalen, Brown, and the U.N. Peace University. A committed social change agent, Robert has served as consultant/shaman to organizations, including General Motors, Chase Bank, Greenpeace, and MoveOn.org. Also a musician, Robert has released over 20 uplifting albums, including the best-selling Om Namaha Shivaya
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Bernard Baars
Bernard J. Baars is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, CA., and is currently an Affiliated Fellow there. He is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a theory of human cognitive architecture and consciousness. He previously served as a professor of psychology at the State University of New York, Stony Brook where he conducted research into the causation of human errors and the Freudian slip, and as a faculty member at the Wright Institute.
Baars co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, and the Academic Press journal Consciousness & Cognition: an International Journal, the latter with William P. Banks.
In addition to research on global workspace theory with Professor Stan Franklin and others, Baars is working to re-introduce the topic of the conscious brain into the standard college and graduate school curriculum, by writing college textbooks and general audience books, web teaching, advanced seminars and course videos. Baars has also published on animal consciousness, volition, and feelings of knowing, and is currently working on an approach to "higher" states, as defined in the meditation traditions. New brain recording methods continue to reveal unexpected evidence on those topics.
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If human creativity, inventiveness, and productivity are the real source of monetary value. And our possibilities for this are essentially unlimited. Why do we remain so attached to the notion of a limited monetary supply?
Our greater reality is that we already have both the human resources and natural resources to create far more whole earth sustainable abundance and prosperity, than we currently realize. It ... -
Anyone Have a Similar Dream?
July 16, 2011 – I dreamed last night of being in the dark of night looking across a concrete-lined river about seventy-five yards wide. A high swiftly flowing river, it was ... -
New Beginnings
We are in a state of transition and I suggest that this transition will lead to great futures, when we begin to acknowledge and to support the development of some ... -
enlightenment of a fish
From: Larry Davis Date: 1/21/2011 12:48:55 PM To: Larry Davis Enlightenment of a fish An Idea to inspire Imagination, which creates thought, which creates matter. Matter ... -
Bernard Lietaer
Bernard Lietaer is an economist and author who was one of the designers of the Euro. He has been active in the domain of money systems for over 25 years in a wide variety of functions. While at the Central Bank in Belgium he co-designed and implemented the convergence mechanism (ECU) to the single European currency system. During that period, he also served as President of Belgium's Electronic Payment System.
His consultant experience in monetary aspects on four continents ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries. He co-founded one of the largest and most successful currency funds becoming its General Manager and Currency Trader, and is the originator of a complementary currency called the Terra. He is the author of The Future of Money
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His academic history includes a Professorship of International Finance at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley, and is co-founder of ACCESS Foundation, (www.accessfoundation.org ), an educational non-profit whose objective is to communicate best practices in the domain of complementary currencies. -
Wendy Woods
Woods is principal of Watershed Training Solutions, a company empowering leaders, teams, and organizations to increase engagement and productivity. To learn more, go to www.watershedtraining.ca.
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Valentine Giraud-Robben
Valentine Giraud-Robben is on the IONS Board of Directors. Her journey began in Brazil, where she was born and raised in a family of manifold ethnic roots: African, European, and Native Brazilians. She grew up in an environment that certainly influenced the paths that she has chosen to take. Here family has offered her a world of deep connection, reflection, and activism since very early in her life. She was brought up in nature, where she grew her own food, lived in community with other families, followed different spiritual practices, and learned about social and environmental activism by following her parents and grandparents’ examples. While growing up, she took part in conversations at the dinner table of her grandparents (Tamas Makray) about the state of the world, the shift in the paradigm of our times, and about our own responsibility in making a difference.
Having lived in a country were the great majority of people do not complete their primary studies, and are faced with the problems of lack of infrastructure, such as water, sanitation, and health, she always felt the moral responsibility to make choices that would benefit her people and others. She has been motivated by the idea of changing the world and decided to take a bachelor degree in International Relations. Her aim was to work with human development organizations that were part of the decision-making process. She wanted to work within systems that held the power to change the macro structures of our society.
Her professional career started in her last year of studies, when she joined the ABN Amro Banco Real Bank, in the team of education and sustainable development. After graduating, she went to live and work in India for one year as an AIESEC trainee at a grassroots NGO located in the Rajasthan, dedicated to rural development. She also joined Planet Finance, an international NGO focused on building bridges among microfinance institutions locally, regionally, and internationally. More than an amazing and very enriching professional experience, it was a life-changing experience – as her grandfather would say, “A trip to India can change your life." In India she learned about humanity, expressed in the oppressing misery in which many people lived, but which is also expressed with compassionate eyes and attitude they have towards life.
Her home base is Amsterdam, and a committed heart to marriage and to her calling to being in the world, her story of journeys, discoveries, and hosting participatory processes continue in South America, Mexico, Sweden, and most recently in the west of the United States. She is currently working on a book, which tells the story of her life as the story of her generation. Its purpose is to inspire and provide other young and adult people to live following their spirit and inner knowledge.