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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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Standing in the Light
My Life as a Pantheist
In a glorious new memoir, a prize-winning natural science writer meditates on the history and meaning of pantheism.
- Publications Books
- July 1, 2008
- 356 pages
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Essential Shifts Interview: Elisabet Sahtouris
In this talk, Elisabet draws inspiration from the extraordinary designs provided by nature showing how we can live more lightly and sustainable. She sees abundant evidence for us transitioning from a primarily competitive and egocentric era, which is typical of young populations of any species, into an era in which we learn to cooperate and communicate as one global family.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-04-10
- 00:25:06
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Van Jones One Minute Shift | It's Not Too Late
The crises facing our planet can be overwhelming. But it is not too late for change, says Van Jones, a respected social justice leader. In this inspiring video, he shares that change begins with a worldview that says we’re not going to leave anyone behind.
- Video Shorts
- 00:01:18
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Essential Shifts Interview: Dean Radin
In the view of IONS Senior Scientist Dean Radin, we’re in the midst of an epochal transition from a world steeped in fear and hysteria to one that’s, well, a bit less fearful and hysterical. This insightful and entertaining interview focuses on the shift from a mechanistic model of science to one based on quantum interconnection, drawing upon the latest research on the effects of minds on other minds, as well as the environment.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:21:21
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Essential Shifts Interview: Arjuna Ardagh
For the author of The Translucent Revolution, the question of how we create a new world boils down to one shift: wake up! At the root of all the societal ills and dangers we experience lies a fundamental feeling of separation that fuels hatred, greed, overconsumption, destruction, and war. Instead of remaining in this dream, if we drop the filter of separation by investigating our true nature, we discover ...
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:26:51
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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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Essential Shifts Interview: Brian Johnson
From discussions of Greek arete and the necessity for "both/and" thinking to practical advice on creating organizations that unleash our full potential, Brian ranges freely across myriad domains in his reflections on the keys to creating an outstanding life that makes a difference.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-17
- 00:29:23
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Essential Shifts Interview: Steve Bhaerman
Join comedian and political commentator Steve Bhaerman (aka Swami Beyondananda) for a humorous and insightful look at the "upwising" now underway. You’ll hear about Mad Cowboy Disease, the potential for bloodless evolution, and how to quiet a barking dogma.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:40:03
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Rebecca Costa
Rebecca Costa is a sociobiologist whose unique expertise is to spot and explain emerging trends in relationship to human evolution, global markets, and new technologies with an emphasis on such growing concerns as global warming, pandemic viruses, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, and failing public education.
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14th International IONS Conference/Logistics
Logistics Meals Join us for community breakfasts, which provide a valuable opportunity to meet others and share insights in both organized and informal networking settings. Some tables will have discussions ... -
Ken Homer
"What is the greatest challenge facing humanity today?" The question hung like a storm cloud over the heads of more than 200 spiritual teachers crammed into a hall clearly designed to accommodate a much smaller crowd. After a brief silence the first tentative replies issued forth: “Over-population… loss of habitat… pollution… war… famine… AIDS… nuclear waste...” They seemed to gain in severity as more people weighed in with their perspectives. “Global warming... human trafficking… political corruption… increasing gap between rich and poor…” We were all familiar with this laundry list of global ailments. But few of us were prepared for what came next.
"Those are all very serious and complex challenges." said the speaker, "But, they are all secondary. The greatest challenge we face is for people who see the world very differently to sit in the same room together and not resort to violence in trying to get their way. Or for people to abandon the conversation when it does not confirm their view of the world. Because if we can't find a way to do that, we will never be very successful at tackling all the issues you just raised."
His words set off a lightning bolt in my brain! Up until then I had been stumbling along, seeking something to ignite my mind and give me direction. In the space of a few moments, this man's reframing of world challenges sparked a life-defining question in my mind: How do we bring diverse people together to explore the enormous challenges before us in ways that lead to understanding and effective action instead of stalemates, empty gestures and increased strife? Attempting to answer this question, has opened a path – crooked and twisting, filled with false starts, dead ends and unexpected company – that I have followed for the two decades since I was a volunteer at that conference.
I'm Ken Homer. One of my favorite things in life is designing, convening and hosting gatherings where people learn with and from each other. My background includes ten years as a member of the design team that developed the World Café dialogue process. I am also trained as an integral and ontological coach. My business partner and I run a successful consulting business that emphasizes social learning and collective intelligence to improve organizational capability. I have had a long, fruitful and warm friendship with IONS for many years, having consulted here, and presented at and supported several of their conferences, as well as being befriended by many of those who work here.
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Seven Reasons Why I Remain an Optimist by Elisabet Sahtouris
Last Wednesday, September 21, our New Options Community Group in Amherst, MA discussed this inspiring transformative article by post-Darwinian evolutionary biologist Elisabet Sahtouris. Although published in Shift magazine a few ... -
Staying Resilient in a Wild-Card World
Once thought of by most as unlikely and distant threats, climate change and economic volatility are having significant impacts on the sustainability of global systems. What other wild cards are in the deck of possibilities, and how do we plan for their arrival?
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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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Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature
Educators and psychologists, artists and activists, elders and leaders have all asserted that at the core of our global societal and environmental crises is a need to change our fundamental personal values and what we uphold as meaningful in our lives. Personal transformation is critical to mitigating our global crises.
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Henry Bauer
Henry Bauer is Austrian by birth (1931), Australian by education (1939-56), and American (since 1969) by choice. His Austrian background is evident in his pronunciation of the consonants and slow tempo of speech; his childhood experience in Austria of the Nazi takeover in 1938 led to an unshakeable belief that human beings should be treated as individuals and not as members of groups. His Australian upbringing is discernible in his pronunciation of the vowels and in a relish for plain-speaking argument; his education in Australia led to an unshakeable wish that everyone should be able, as he did, to benefit from free public education focused on intellectual development.
Bauer taught chemistry and carried on research in electrochemistry for about 25 years, at the Universities of Sydney (Australia), Michigan, Southampton (England), and Kentucky. In the 1970s he turned to “science studies” (history, philosophy, and sociology of science), looking particularly into how to differentiate science from pseudo-science. He was a founding member of the Center for the Study of Science in Society at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, teaching in the undergraduate program in Humanities, Science & Technology and the graduate program in Science & Technology Studies. From 1978 until 1986 he served as Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. When political correctness arrived, he joined the National Association of Scholars, and founded and edited (1993--99) Virginia Scholar, newsletter of the Virginia Association of Scholars. Retired from teaching at the end of 1999, he became Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.
Bauer’s studies and writings in recent years have focused on the takeover of science and medicine by bureaucracies, resulting in the creation of knowledge monopolies and research cartels and in the suppression of substantively valid though heterodox approaches--regarding Big-Bang cosmology, “cold fusion”, global warming, HIV/AIDS. His latest book, The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory
(McFarland 2007), draws on official reports and data to demonstrate that almost everything that “everyone knows” about HIV/AIDS is plainly wrong.
Bauer’s earlier books include--as well as texts in electrochemistry and analytical chemistry-- Science or Pseudoscience: Magnetic Healing, Psychic Phenomena, and Other Heterodoxies (2001/2004); Fatal Attractions: The Troubles with Science (2001); Scientific Literacy and the Myth of the Scientific Method (1992/1994/2005); To Rise Above Principle: The Memoirs of an Unreconstructed Dean (1988, as ‘Josef Martin’); The Enigma of Loch Ness: Making Sense of a Mystery (1986/1988; U.K. edition, 1991); Beyond Velikovsky: The History of a Public Controversy (1984/1999).
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7 Noetic Steps to Surviving a Volcanic Ash Cloud
I was preparing for my lecture on consciousness transformation to the League of Optimists in Brussels, Belgium when I got the news: All flights from Europe were cancelled. I was due to go on stage shortly and nothing about the implications of this information had sunk in. I just wanted to be here tonight and home tomorrow...
- Inner Wisdom
- Personal Well-being
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Inner Space – Technology’s New Frontier?
It’s immersive, it’s interactive, it’s embodied (sort of), and it’s actually changing people’s lives, tapping into each individual’s potential to get beyond their conditioning and become engaged in transforming themselves and their world.
- Collective Intelligence
- Personal Well-being
- Technology and Consciousness