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COMMUNICATING THE WISDOM THAT'S CHANGING THE WORLD
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John Renesch, business visionary and Leadership expert, says, "The quality of the life and work of modern human beings—and the legacy they leave to successive generations—can be incredibly improved by making everyday choices more consciously." The following is taken from a longer article by John entitled "A Conversation with the Future" As we all know, there is much work ahead of us. In order to engage this future we must rev-up our imagination, our energy, our wisdom, and our deep listening skills. We will need all these and more in order to create a sustainable future for life on this precious planet. Some might say, "The problems are too big and I'm just one little person. I can't possibly make a difference." Here, in the voice of those yet to be born, is a reply to that lament by John Renesch. What's that you say? You can't do these things? Why's that? Because you are only one person? Get over it! Get together with a group and start insisting on major changes now. Start with yourselves. Yes, start with your own life and habits. You will soon see you are really part of the problem, not the detached observer of a sick society but one of the sick ones. Self reflection will reveal the complicity in your own heart. Be ruthlessly honest, please. Our lives are at stake as well as your own. Because you don't know what to do? Get over this too! There are many people who have good strategies for systems change that can provide course corrections in just about every aspect of society. There are thousands maybe millions of people and groups you can join and help work toward cleaning up the mess you've made. It is time to grow up and account for your actions and the consequences you've created or allowed to be created while you did nothing. Take responsibility for being an adult and clean up your mess! You don't have the time? This is ridiculous! You must get over this one, now! You are busy because you want to be busy. You make yourself busy and you can make yourself less busy. Stop doing that meaningless crap that occupies your consciousness so much of the day. Stop listening to talk radio, stop watching reality TV, stop going to coffee five times a day, stop surfing the Internet so much. After stopping these things you will find time to do something really meaningful and get into action that moves the course of the future toward a more positive outcome. Get over all your petty little ideological differences and political spats. Get over this perverse nationalism so many of you wallow in. It is time to think like globalists about the well-being of the commons – the air, water and climate we all share – conservative and progressive, Arab and Jew, Christian and Muslim, blacks and whites, all petty foibles that pale within the context of the future of humankind. You are all in the same boat squabbling like the children we hope to be some day. It looks so silly from where we sit - like a knife fight in an inflatable raft in the middle of the ocean! Stop it for our sake. Please allow us to be born into a world that allows us to find meaning and joy and engage in our passions. Don't leave us a trash heap to clean up, water we cannot drink, air we cannot breathe and people intent on hating us even before we are born. Don't do this to us. PLEASE! John Renesch, is a writer and thinker on matters of social and organizational change. His most recent book is: Getting to the Better Future: A Matter of Conscious Choosing. You may also subscibe to his monthly newsletter: Future Shapers Monthly – Bridging Wisdom and Practice for a Better Tomorrow. This newsletter is emailed monthly from www.renesch.com |
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December 2008 Broadcast Schedule
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| The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, December 3-9, 2008
Pour yourself a cup of hot tea, throw another log on the fire, and settle back into your favorite chair for—well, not a story exactly, but a conversation about stories. Molly Dwyer is on a first-name basis with the likes of Goethe, Byron, Aesop, and especially Mary Shelley, creator of Frankenstein. She takes us inside the minds of these literary icons to explore the seeds of creativity and imagination, and the way story both defines and fashions who we are. Most fascinating is Dr. Dwyer's ability to bring us into her own writer's world, where she not only tells her stories but inhabits them, savors them, luxuriates in them—and of course, like every good writer she connects to something much larger than herself. She says, "There's a collective unconscious, a zeitgeist, so that we're moving with energy that’s already there to support us. We're drawing on it without understanding that we are. It's supporting and encouraging us to move in a certain way. We're following it all the way back to indigenous people, back to the beginning, and we carry it forward to the next generation." (Hosted by Justine Willis Toms) Molly Dwyer, Ph.D., has studied literature at the National Writing Project, England's Arvon Project, and Oxford University. She holds a Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies, has taught writing and literature for twenty years in workshop and college settings, and was co-director of Satyana Institute's Gender Reconciliation Project in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Dwyer is co-author with Will Keepin and Cynthia Brix of Divine Duality: The Power of Reconciliation between Women and Men (Hohm Press 2007), and author of the award winning Requiem for the Author of Frankenstein (Lost Coast Press 2008). To learn more about the work of Molly Dwyer go to www.mollydwyer.com Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, December 10-16, 2008
We've made great strides in the last couple of centuries toward moving beyond the most familiar 'isms'—racism, sexism, ageism. But rankism is at the root of all the many ways we threaten the dignity of others, and it continues to undermine the happiness and productivity of people everywhere. Robert Fuller sees overcoming rankism as the next great step in our cultural evolution, and believes we're at the threshold of making dignity for all a fundamental tenet of our personal relationships, our business ethics, even our government. He explains, "It sounds ridiculous even utopian, but we happen to live in a time when the Golden Rule is no longer optional. It's becoming mandatory. We're going to begin living up to it in the next twenty or thirty years all over the world. It's one of those things which arises everywhere simultaneously. It's in the air." With this interview you'll find hope for a world that brings dignity to people of all colors and genders and tax brackets, inspiration to help turn the tide of rankism when it colors your day, and a new sense of your own dignity, so that you walk a little taller wherever you happen to be going. Robert Fuller, Ph.D., is a president emeritus of Oberlin College and an internationally recognized authority on the subject of rankism and dignity. His books and ideas have been widely covered in the media, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Voice of America, National Public Radio, C-SPAN, and the BBC. Dr. Fuller has given more than 300 talks to a variety of organizations, including Princeton University, Microsoft, and Kaiser Hospital. He is the author of Somebodies and Nobodies: Overcoming the Abuse of Rank (New Society Publishers 2003); All Rise: Somebodies, Nobodies, and the Politics of Dignity (Berrett Koehler 2006); and co-author with Pamela Gerloff of Dignity for All: How to Create a World Without Rankism (Berrett-Koehler 2008). To learn more about the work of Robert Fuller go to www.dignityforall.org Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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| The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, December 17-23, 2008
Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is a revered Tibetan teacher who loves to translate complex Eastern principles into terms and images that are accessible to the Western mind. He'll even explain how you can rid yourself of anger much as you would eliminate a file on your computer using the "select" and "delete" functions. But he also acknowledges that it's part of a lifelong journey, and offers a range of tools and practices, such as sound, movement, and dreams, to help you gain understanding of your emotions and access the power of your own loving spirit. After all, he says, your loving energy is the vibration that can clear away all clouds, and allow the light of the divine to break through. Rinpoche explains, "We all have love. But when there is no inner fire, it doesn't ripen. So if there's some way to generate those inner fires with the sound, with the breathing, with the movement, qualities that exist in you will rapidly ripen. The sun's heat ripens the flower. The inner heat ripens the inner flower of love." Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche is the founder and spiritual director of Ligmincha Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing the Bon Buddhist tradition to the Western world. Rinpoche is a beloved teacher throughout the United States, Mexico, and Europe, and a prolific author. His books include The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep (Snow Lion Publications 1998), Healing with Form, Energy, and Light: The Five Elements in Tibetan Shamanism, Tantra, and Dzogchen (Snow Lion Publications 2002), and Tibetan Sound Healing: Seven Guided Practices for Clearing Obstacles, Accessing Positive Qualities, and Uncovering Your Inherent Wisdom (Sounds True 2007). To find out more about the work of Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche go to www.ligmincha.org Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, December 24-31, 2008
Mirabai Starr was raised in a secular Jewish household, has maintained a Buddhist meditation practice since the age of sixteen, has engaged the ecstatic mystical traditions of Sufism, and now lives within the indigenous spiritual traditions of Taos, New Mexico. And, she has spent the past several years sitting in the presence of the great Christian mystics—or so it seems. As a translator of the works of St. John of the Cross, Theresa of Avila, Our Lady of Guadalupe, the archangel Michael, St. Francis of Assisi, and Hildegard of Bingen, Starr immersed herself in their essence, and found herself forever altered. She brings a rare breadth of understanding to their teachings, and now brings their message of wisdom, comfort, empowerment, and grace to people of all spiritual traditions. She echoes their familiar words, "Not my will but thine," "Be present," and "Open your heart," and infuses them with the sensitivity and perspective of a gifted modern-day teacher. This interview is an opportunity to be inspired along with her, to hear stories of the ancient visionaries, and be "plunged into this delicious body of water, and surrounded and immersed in the teachings and the flavor and the quality of each of these beings." Mirabai Starr is an adjunct professor of philosophy and religious studies at the University of New Mexico. She is a certified bereavement counselor, and travels the world speaking and giving workshops on contemplative practice and the teachings of the mystics. Her books include the critically acclaimed translations Dark Night of the Soul: St. John of the Cross (Riverhead 2003) The Interior Castle: St. Teresa of Ávila (Riverhead 2004), and the six-volume series Devotion, Prayers & Living Wisdom (Sounds True 2008), translations of the writings and poetry of six Christian mystics. To find out more about the work of Mirabai Starr go to www.mirabaistarr.com Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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The Broadcast Week Beginning Wednesday, December 31 - January 6, 2009
For over 300 years, science and religion have been in a heated debate. And here in the early years of the 21st century, the battle only seems to be intensifying. With a barrage of new atheistic books with titles like The God Delusion flooding the bookstore shelves, it might appear there is little hope that this long-standing split can be resolved. But according to physicist Amit Goswami, contrary to appearances, the split between science and religion may finally be on the verge of being healed. Science may at last be rediscovering God. Goswami states, "Materialist scientists posit that there is no source of causality other than material interaction in this world. This is what is known as 'upward causation.' In contrast, all spiritual traditions agree that there is another causal power in the world. That causal power is what is called God, or 'downward causation.' But let's not confuse this with a picture of God in outer space sitting on a throne. Downward causation is something that is scientific, because we can show that there is a scientific source of causality other than upward causation. This is being demonstrated by science." In this compelling dialogue, Goswami lays the groundwork for a new scientific paradigm that unites matter and spirit in a larger unifying embrace. Amit Goswami, Ph.D., is a theoretical nuclear physicist and professor emeritus of the University of Oregon Institute for Theoretical Physics. He is best known as one of the interviewed scientists in the 2004 film classic, What the Bleep Do We Know? He is also the author of numerous books including The Self-Aware Universe, The Visionary Window, Physics of the Soul, and two newly released titles: God is Not Dead and Creative Evolution. He speaks and gives workshops throughout the world on the subjects of quantum creativity, quantum healing, physics of the soul and science and spirituality. To learn more about the work of Amit Goswami go to www.dramitgoswami.com Topics Explored in this Dialogue:
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