By Stuart J. Whitley | Bio
Einstein is supposed to have said that the
most important decision we ever make is whether the world is a good
place or a bad place. I don’t believe that we consciously make that
decision—we are taught to believe it, one way or the other, and the
most difficult lesson of all to unlearn is that we live in a hostile
universe. There are just too many confirmatory events that tend to
erode our courage to think differently. Current strategies in[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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By Jim Selman | Bio
I
want to create a new organization to stamp out stupidity and
indifference and restore common decency and goodwill into society. I
think I'll call it the National Organization of Pissed-Off Elders
(N.O.P.E.).
What’s pissing us off?
A lot more than just ‘aging’ issues like Social Security, pharmaceuticals and our sex lives.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Fearless Aging
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By Adrienne Sharp The world is operating on a huge misconception that excessive garbage,
extensive use of fossil fuels and other forms of pollution are causing
global warming. I have discovered the true cause of global warming:
[ Read More]
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By David Korten | Great Turning website
Read more posts in The World We Want series.
So what’s our problem? Why are we in such a
mess? Why didn’t we long ago just get together to create the world we
really want? What are the real barriers to creating the world in which
we measure our progress against a national happiness index rather than
by an index of how fast we are turning stuff into garbage?[ Read More]
Written by eldering at The Great Turning
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 By Charles E. Smith | Bio
Read the first post and second post in this series.
During the second year in my transition from a static world to an
energetic-based point of view, I took a training program with a Mexican
teacher, Victor Sanchez, who had studied and lived with the Toltec
Indians in northern Mexico. Victor had developed a coherent conceptual
framework that was very much based on energy. Lorin Smith didn’t have a
lot of explanation for what he did. He just did it, and I saw that he
was working with fundamental energies. Victor Sanchez, in contrast, was
a scholar as well as a teacher. He said that the Toltec Indians
believed that the world does not consist of objects. Rather, they
believe the world consists of interacting energy fields and that the
systems with greatest available energy will prevail. [ Read More]
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By Don Arnoudse
Bio
I
get paid, and quite handsomely, for listening and talking to people. As
a Personal and Executive Coach, I’ve engaged daily for the past six
years in the most intimate, often surprising, and always intense
dialogues with very interesting people who are dealing with high-stakes
dilemmas in their professional and personal lives. Part of my process
is to intentionally provoke them. Provoke them into thinking in
unconventional ways, into getting in touch with deep feelings they’ve
been avoiding, and coming to grips with uncomfortable realities they’ve
been deferring. And they provoke me, in turn. By surfacing issues they
haven’t discussed with anyone (in some cases, not even their spouses).
They invite me to dive into the complexities of their situations and
help simplify their choices, generate new possibilities and shine a
light on their blind spots.[ Read More]
Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t encounter or hear about
some nasty or absurd bit of bureaucratic/governmental non-sense. With
media people talking to other media people who are speculating on what
might or might not be true or relevant and an ever-increasing wave of
right versus left propaganda filling cyberspace, it’s just too much.
And when it comes to contacting me directly, there must be more
productive and satisfying avenues of expression than just passing the
stuff I agree with on to ten people under the threat of having the sky
fall on me. Come on—who writes and reads all this stuff anyway? I guess
I do, or I wouldn’t get so annoyed at it.[ Read More]
Written by Jim Selman at Personal Empowerment
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