Community and Society
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Meeting of the Minds
The purpose of the conference was to encourage a dialogue between a distinguished group of mainstream scientists and rigorous researchers working at the frontiers of science.
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Consciousness & Healing
We engaged in a study of barriers to the integration of mind-body medicine into healthcare, as well as an exploration of strategies used by leading healthcare professionals who are successfully integrating more consciousness-based approaches into medical education settings.
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A Twittering of Consciousness, Part II
Are we deluding ourselves into thinking that technology is the answer to the most persistent challenges of existence, or are we blessed by a tool that may only be at the cusp of its potential to help spark a global social and spiritual renaissance?
- Events
- Media and Consciousness
- Technology and Consciousness
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Are the Thought Police Knocking on Our Door?
"You can't go to jail for what you're thinking," wrote Frank Loesser in his 1956 hit song “Standing on the Corner.” His observation no longer applies in India ...
- In the News
- Technology and Consciousness
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Social Healing: Sri Lanka at a Tipping Point
Social—or societal—healing is an emerging field. It seeks to bring learning in a variety of adjacent fields such as peacemaking, peace building, conflict resolution, trauma recovery, and restorative justice together with insights from the new sciences including consciousness studies, neuroscience, and an integral approach to mind-body medicine...
- Global Shift
- In the News
- Worldview
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Engaging the Global Consciousness Community
Each day the world seems to grow smaller and more complex. Wars rage. Intolerance breeds contempt across races, ethnicities, and nations. Refugees wander, far from their homes. In too many ...
- Global Shift
- Worldview
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Marilyn Schlitz One Minute Shift | The Next Scientific Revolution
In this one-minute video, Dr. Schlitz explores the possibility that we are now going through the next scientific revolution, one every bit as profound as those created by Copernicus, Darwin, and Einstein.
- Video Shorts
- 00:01:13
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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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Swami Beyondananda One Minute Shift | The Upwising Begins
In this entertaining one-minute animation, you'll learn from an enlightening Master how to regrow the garden of our planet from the grassroots up.
- Video Shorts
- 00:01:33
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"Conscious Medicine" with Lee Lipsenthal and Marilyn Schlitz (part 3 of 5)
Lee Lipsenthal, MD, talks with Marilyn Schlitz in this segment about social interactions and group support positively effecting health.
- Video Interviews
- March 23, 2008
- 00:05:10
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Essential Shifts Interview: Van Jones
Van shares intimately about his formative years and his journey into becoming a social activist, as well as the story of Ella Baker, the "secret godmother" of the civil rights movement and mentor to Dr. King. Van advocates a "third way" between Islamic and corporate fundamentalisms and towards a vibrant, global pro-democracy movement that supports "green-collar jobs."
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-08-31
- 00:32:29
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"The Biology and Sociology of Good and Evil" with Van Jones and Thomas Lewis
Psychiatrist Thomas Lewis, who has studied the neurobiology of emotion, and human rights activist and lawyer, Van Jones present two perspectives on understanding good and evil. Is our perception of good and evil biologically or culturally based?
- Audio Lectures
- 2005-12-02
- 01:01:06
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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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Re-writing the Story of Who We Are
The consequences of our 500-year-old model of consumption, profit, and externalized costs in the form of environmental degradation and natural system collapse are mounting. The old story we keep telling ourselves...is evaporating, leaving in its place the frantic question “What comes next?”
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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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Rustum Roy: Ode to a Contrarian
Very few have heard of Dr. Roy, as his books and lectures focused on geochemistry, glass ceramics, and nanocomposites rather than low-fat diets and the number of steps to optimal health. But he was the consummate unsung hero of healthcare, and he passed away on August 26, 2010, at the age of 86, a true visionary in a realm where the word is applied a bit too freely and often with a taste of self promotion.
- In the News
- New Science
- Worldview
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Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and other Curiosities in Religion and Culture
The bulk of this new book, an effective balance of both the academic and the entertaining, profiles what apparently is a growing subculture of Americans who believe in such anomalous phenomena as those identified in its subtitle. The authors, all of whom are sociology professors, draw primarily from data generated by the seminal 2007 Baylor Religion Study but fill in the gaps with their own research as well as numerous case studies of everyday people and their direct experiences with the paranormal.
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Dawkins, Darwin, and Other Dogma: How the Tenets of Biology Are Crumbling
For the first time in modern human history, the cycle of knowledge is returning to what we knew in our distant past: we are connected to something deeper. We are not machines. Intelligent information flows through us and communicates with our environment, and this means that human survival is much more likely when we cooperate.
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"Whole Systems Transformation from Inside Out" with Monica Sharma
Dr. Sharma has been working internationally with groups from all levels of society, and shares with us her wisdom gleaned over the years. She discusses “whole systems transformation” and the cutting-edge transformational approaches she uses to facilitate large scale transformation.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-03-09
- 00:57:13
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"The Revolution Has Begun" with Kenny Ausubel
The story of today’s battle is above all the battle of the story. As human beings, we’re hard-wired for story, and when our story conflicts with the facts, we tend to stick with our story. Ausubel discusses how people around the world are working to help birth the transformation to a new story.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2011-03-23
- 00:57:43