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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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"The Economy through a Consciousness Lens" with Rinaldo Brutoco
Rinaldo Brutoco, Founder & President of the World Business Academy talks with IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert about our economy at this challenging time. Rinaldo offers great practical information to help us understand the implications of collective consciousness on our macro and micro economic well-being.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-07-30
- 01:01:48
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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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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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Lou Leeburg
Lou Leeburg is Co-Chair/Finance Chair of the IONS Board of Directors.
Lou is a trustee for the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust fund and the John E. Fetzer Inner Light Ministries Trust. He was the Vice President of Finance for the Fetzer Institute from 1988 – 1993 and currently serves as the Senior Financial Advisor to the Fetzer Institute. Lou is presently a director of Light-Path Industries, a growing company in the fiber optics industry. He has held various financial positions with different organizations with an emphasis in investment management. Lou is presently a self-employed business consultant. Lou is married and has high school age children. He and his family reside in the Phoenix area. He has had a long-standing interest in the Institute of Noetic Sciences. -
How to "heal" the earth:
1. Dig water wells where needed and provide pumps and sprinkler systems for farming on a worldwide scale. 2. Finance with "e-currency" backed by worldwide concensus. 3. Build affordable, interest-free ... -
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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Mark A. Calhoun
Mark A. Calhoun is Legal Affairs Committee Chair of the IONS Board of Directors.
He is a practicing attorney that has focused his legal career in civil litigation and domestic and international arbitration. He has a broad base of experience in several industries, including technology, real estate, energy, telecommunications, aviation, transportation, and finance. Mark has tried over 35 cases of which half were jury trials. Mark possesses wide-ranging experience in litigation and alternative dispute resolution as an advocate and as a settlement counsel, mediator and arbitrator, both domestically and internationally. His background aids in helping clients reach strategic solutions to complex problems, especially when industry knowledge is paramount.
Apart from his practice he has been very active in the business side of both the legal industry and non-legal businesses. He serves as director for for-profit and not for-profit companies and sits as an arbitrator in complex domestic and international arbitrations. He also founded and ran, for 28 years, the Texas-based firm, Calhoun Stacey, which merged into Winstead. At Winstead, Mark was ultimately involved in management before joining Greenberg Traurig as a principal partner. He is also on the Board of the Institute for Creative Capitalism in Austin, Texas, and on the advisory board of The University of Texas at Dallas.
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Richard Cohn
Richard Cohn is Education Committee Chair of the IONS Board of Directors.
He founded Beyond Words Publishing in 1983 and works full time as the Publisher, overseeing Contract Negotiations, Marketing, Finance, Editorial, and Special Sales. He has worked with many first-time authors and projects like The Secret and Hidden Messages in Water, establishing a reputation for producing inspiring, high-quality books that can help make a difference in the lives of millions of readers. He has helped Beyond Words expand as an information and media company, providing DVD, audio, and product distribution through both traditional and non-traditional markets, webinars, and affiliate programs, as well as fulfillment services and warehousing for authors and film producers. Domestic and International travel are integral to the foreign licensing of books and films and he participates in a variety of Book Fairs worldwide including the Frankfurt International Book Fair, Book Expo America, International New Age Trade Show, and the Los Angeles Conscious Life Expo.
In 1990 he created and currently manages Literally Yours, a Division of Beyond Words, which customizes and personalizes books for end users. His customers include the last six Presidents of the United States, the U.S. State Department, National Geographic, the US Armed Forces, Corporations, publishers, and individuals nationally. He is immensely proud of the company that Beyond Words has become and the recent co-publishing agreement with Atria Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, giving the company a strong domestic and international distribution, as well as a strong foreign rights sales.
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Hazel Henderson
Hazel Henderson, founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and Series Creator and Co-Executive Producer of its TV series - Dr. Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books.
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Paul H. Ray, PhD
Paul H. Ray, PhD is a founding partner in a consulting firm, Integral Partnerships, LLC, designed to help those organizations whose constituencies or customers are Cultural Creatives to be more successful, by aligning their internal activities and values with the values and needs of their constituencies or customers.
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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. -
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.
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About/People
IONS People Faculty & Staff President’s Office Cassandra Vieten – President/CEO Marilyn Schlitz – Ambassador for Creative Projects and Global Affairs Rose Welch – Board, Donor, and Global Community Liaison General Administration ... -
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 ... -
Changing the Way we Think Starts with a Re-examination of Cultural Values
The author of the article "New Beginnings" said that we are in a state of transition from the Industrial Age to the Information Age. However, I believe the Information Age ... -
About/Case Studies/Conscious Business
IONS’ Legacy Initiatives Advance Socially Conscious Business Business, like science, craves its numbers. It measures success in profits, progress in percentages, and outcomes in their relationship to the bottom line ... -
The G20: Fighting for a Safe Spot on the Deck of the Titanic, by Ervin Laszlo
The ship is heading into iceberg territory, but passengers in first class squabble among themselves to secure a safe spot on the upper deck. Does that make sense? To the ...
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Transforming Our Worldview
Transforming Our Worldview Neuroscience Meets Neuro-theology Part II What does worldview transformation really mean and how do we accomplish it? When we talk about transforming our worldview we are talking ...