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Wednesday Apr 14 2010

By Jim Selman | Bio

Last Friday night I had the pleasure and the privilege of attending an “Awakening the Dreamer, Changing the Dream” Symposium, an event offered by the Pachamama Alliance. This short program has each of us examine ourselves and our relationship to a world “in crisis”. The purpose of the Symposium and the Alliance is to change our collective vision (dream) and to “bring forth an environmentally sustainable, socially just and spiritually fulfilling human presence on this planet” as the guiding principle of our times. Lynne Twist, the author of The Soul of Money, an old friend and constant source of inspiration, led the evening.[Read More]

Written by eldering at The Great Turning

Tagged with: awakening_the_dreamer blessed_unrest breakthrough disaster environmentally_sustainable four_years_go lynne_twist pachamama_alliance paradox serene_ambition socially_just soul_of_money spiritual

Why Don't We Ever Learn?

Monday Jan 25 2010

By Jim Selman | Bio

As we watch the devastation in Haiti on television, the world recoils at the horror and the suffering, mobilizes its resources and tries to clean up the mess and help the survivors. The media forages, looking for who to blame (usually corrupt or incompetent politicians). We’ve witnessed this scene following earthquakes countless times: in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake 2008 when 69,000 died in China; in the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake when 230,000 died in Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand; in the 2005 Kashmir earthquake where 86,000 died in Pakistan; in the 1923 Great Kanto earthquake when 142,800 died in Japan; and even in 1908’s Messina earthquake when 100,000 died in Italy. If we think about the hurricanes, volcanoes, fires, tsunamis and famine, it seems the “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” are doing a fabulous business these days. The fact is[Read More]

Written by eldering at Learning

Tagged with: apathy disaster earthquake haiti haiti_earthquake ignorance learning poverty resignation responsibility