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SPIRITUALITY
LIFE TODAY – A WORLDVIEW
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I have listed various articles which I have read over the past 2 months which seem to emphasize the various crisis we continue to live in within our world, on a daily basis. Of course, we don’t all know or experience the same happenings which are occurring globally but we are all affected by them whether we are conscious of that reality or not. SPIRITUALITY AND PRACTICEwww.spiritualityandpractice.com
This multifaith and interspiritual website, founded by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, is devoted to resources for spiritual journeys. The site's name reflects a basic understanding: spirituality and practiceare the two places where all the world's religions and spiritual paths come together. While respecting the differences among traditions, we celebrate what they share in common. If you share our values, vision, and mission, we invite you to join one of our Circles of Support. They run many and various courses on-line which includes as they say above,“all the world’s religions” and list all of their Current: E-Courseswww.spiritualityandpractice.com/ecourses |
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GRATEFULNESS
www..gratefulness.org
Our international nonprofit organization provides resources for living in the gentle power of gratefulness, which restores courage, reconciles relationships, and heals our Earth.
A Network for Grateful Living is a worldwide community of grateful people … Gratefulness.org facilitates community interaction by providing a set of practices and tools for cultivating gratefulness
Our international nonprofit organization provides resources for living in the gentle power of gratefulness, which restores courage, reconciles relationships, and heals our Earth.
A Network for Grateful Living is a worldwide community of grateful people … Gratefulness.org facilitates community interaction by providing a set of practices and tools for cultivating gratefulness
WISDOM SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES
www.wisdomuniversity.org
An initiatory pathway to a deeper dialogue concerning life's mysteries
The Wisdom School of Graduate Studies (formerly Wisdom University) is a graduate school within Ubiquity University dedicated to catalyzing personal and professional renewal within the context of granting academic degrees.
We offer Masters and Doctoral programs, and we welcome wisdom seekers everywhere who simply wish to audit our courses. Our programs are designed to enable you to explore the deeper dimensions of yourself within the living universe in which all of us breathe and have our being. The Wisdom School’s uniqueness lies in the way it combines intellectual discernment and creative expression in the pursuit of wisdom in its many forms as a way of life
An initiatory pathway to a deeper dialogue concerning life's mysteries
The Wisdom School of Graduate Studies (formerly Wisdom University) is a graduate school within Ubiquity University dedicated to catalyzing personal and professional renewal within the context of granting academic degrees.
We offer Masters and Doctoral programs, and we welcome wisdom seekers everywhere who simply wish to audit our courses. Our programs are designed to enable you to explore the deeper dimensions of yourself within the living universe in which all of us breathe and have our being. The Wisdom School’s uniqueness lies in the way it combines intellectual discernment and creative expression in the pursuit of wisdom in its many forms as a way of life
SPIRITUAL DIRECTORS INTERNATIONAL
http://sdiworld.org/
Find a Spiritual Director
Explore the online Seek and Find Guide to locate a spiritual director. Also known as spiritual companions or spiritual guides, spiritual directors help people discover how God is truly with them every day and everywhere. Around the world, spiritual direction is cultivating communities of peace and compassion through the contemplative practice of sacred listening.
Would you like tips to seek and find a spiritual guide? RSVP for the FREE Teleconference: "How to Seek and Find a Spiritual Director." Everyone who is interested in spiritual care is welcome to participate.
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Find a Spiritual Director
Explore the online Seek and Find Guide to locate a spiritual director. Also known as spiritual companions or spiritual guides, spiritual directors help people discover how God is truly with them every day and everywhere. Around the world, spiritual direction is cultivating communities of peace and compassion through the contemplative practice of sacred listening.
Would you like tips to seek and find a spiritual guide? RSVP for the FREE Teleconference: "How to Seek and Find a Spiritual Director." Everyone who is interested in spiritual care is welcome to participate.
- See more at: http://sdiworld.org/node/77#sthash.HSq2U9U4.dpuf
The Rohr Institute’s Living School for Action and Contemplation
www.cacradicalgrace.org
The world needs places that equip individuals to serve with compassion, acknowledging our differences while valuing our one-ness. The Rohr Institute's Living School for Action and Contemplation provides such a course of study grounded in the Christian mystical tradition. Cultivating a contemplative mind through teachings and practices, students deepen their awareness of our common union with Divine Reality and all beings. Students emerge empowered to live out their sacred soul task in their homes, workplaces, and all relationships, within a more spacious stance that is at once critical, collaborative, and joyful.
The world needs places that equip individuals to serve with compassion, acknowledging our differences while valuing our one-ness. The Rohr Institute's Living School for Action and Contemplation provides such a course of study grounded in the Christian mystical tradition. Cultivating a contemplative mind through teachings and practices, students deepen their awareness of our common union with Divine Reality and all beings. Students emerge empowered to live out their sacred soul task in their homes, workplaces, and all relationships, within a more spacious stance that is at once critical, collaborative, and joyful.
JOAN CHITTESTER
http://benetvision.org/
Sister Joan Chittister, a visionary spiritual voice in our times and an advocate for peace and justice around the world, offers a full and rich perspective on prayer. Sister Joan is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, founder and executive director of BenetVision, and an internationally renowned speaker and author. Read the article below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-haag/what-is-prayer-a-conversa_b_603667.html
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/ Featuring fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPost's signature lineup of contributors
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/nigel-barker-interview/51b778942b8c2a59300009bb
from HUFFINGTON POST - RELIGION an article to read
Sister Joan Chittister, a visionary spiritual voice in our times and an advocate for peace and justice around the world, offers a full and rich perspective on prayer. Sister Joan is a member of the Benedictine Sisters of Erie, Pennsylvania, founder and executive director of BenetVision, and an internationally renowned speaker and author. Read the article below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/janet-haag/what-is-prayer-a-conversa_b_603667.html
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/ Featuring fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPost's signature lineup of contributors
http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/nigel-barker-interview/51b778942b8c2a59300009bb
from HUFFINGTON POST - RELIGION an article to read
DIARMUID O'MURCHU
http://www.diarmuid13.com
Diarmuid O'Murchu, a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order, and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, is a social psychologist most of whose working life has been in social ministry, predominantly in London, UK. In that capacity he has worked as a couple's counsellor, in bereavement work, AIDS-HIV counselling, and, in more recent times, with homeless people and refugees. As a workshop leader and group facilitator he has worked in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, The Philippines, Thailand, India, Peru and in several African countries, facilitating programmes on Adult Faith Development. His best known books include Quantum Theology (1996 - revised in 2004), Ancestral Grace (2008), Jesus in the Power of Poetry (2009), Christianity's Dangerous Memory (2011), In the Beginning was the Spirit (2012), and God in the Midst of Change (2013).
RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: http://www.ca.renewedpriesthood.org/page.cfm?Web_ID=531
Diarmuid O'Murchu, a member of the Sacred Heart Missionary Order, and a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin Ireland, is a social psychologist most of whose working life has been in social ministry, predominantly in London, UK. In that capacity he has worked as a couple's counsellor, in bereavement work, AIDS-HIV counselling, and, in more recent times, with homeless people and refugees. As a workshop leader and group facilitator he has worked in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, The Philippines, Thailand, India, Peru and in several African countries, facilitating programmes on Adult Faith Development. His best known books include Quantum Theology (1996 - revised in 2004), Ancestral Grace (2008), Jesus in the Power of Poetry (2009), Christianity's Dangerous Memory (2011), In the Beginning was the Spirit (2012), and God in the Midst of Change (2013).
RECOMMENDED ARTICLE: http://www.ca.renewedpriesthood.org/page.cfm?Web_ID=531
BISFT - Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology
www.bisft.org.uk
They offer conferences, journals and summer school. It was started in 1989 and aims to act as a platform for the creation and dissemination of feminist theological research. It is an ecumenical and interfaith organization which has as its central concern hearing women to speech. This concern fosters an environment of mutuality, creativity and accessible scholarship rooted in the lived experience of woman and men.
They offer conferences, journals and summer school. It was started in 1989 and aims to act as a platform for the creation and dissemination of feminist theological research. It is an ecumenical and interfaith organization which has as its central concern hearing women to speech. This concern fosters an environment of mutuality, creativity and accessible scholarship rooted in the lived experience of woman and men.
ANDREW HARVEY
http://www.andrewharvey.net/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyeSac8V3Go
Andrew Harvey is Founder Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants.
"A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness and rooted in divine truth, wisdom, and compassion will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions. When, however, the deepest and most grounded spiritual vision is married to a practical and pragmatic drive to transform all existing political, economic, and social institutions, a holy force - the power of wisdom and love in action - is born. This force I define as Sacred Activism." Andrew Harvey
Andrew Harvey is Founder Director of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization focused on inviting concerned people to take up the challenge of our contemporary global crises by becoming inspired, effective, and practical agents of institutional and systemic change, in order to create peace and sustainability. Sacred Activism is a transforming force of compassion-in-action that is born of a fusion of deep spiritual knowledge, courage, love, and passion, with wise radical action in the world. The large-scale practice of Sacred Activism can become an essential force for preserving and healing the planet and its inhabitants.
"A spirituality that is only private and self-absorbed, one devoid of an authentic political and social consciousness, does little to halt the suicidal juggernaut of history. On the other hand, an activism that is not purified by profound spiritual and psychological self-awareness and rooted in divine truth, wisdom, and compassion will only perpetuate the problem it is trying to solve, however righteous its intentions. When, however, the deepest and most grounded spiritual vision is married to a practical and pragmatic drive to transform all existing political, economic, and social institutions, a holy force - the power of wisdom and love in action - is born. This force I define as Sacred Activism." Andrew Harvey
TRANSFORMATION - Health and Wholeness
BERNIE SIEGEL
www.berniesiegelmd.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TwAHC4q2K4
For many, Dr. Bernard Siegel—or Bernie, as he prefers to be called—needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over the Planet. In 1978, he reached a national and then international audience when he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our Society grapples with today. In May 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet. He continues to break new ground in the field of healing, supporting changes in medical education to “humanize” medical practice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TwAHC4q2K4
For many, Dr. Bernard Siegel—or Bernie, as he prefers to be called—needs no introduction. He has touched many lives all over the Planet. In 1978, he reached a national and then international audience when he began talking about patient empowerment and the choice to live fully and die in peace. As a physician who has cared for and counseled innumerable people whose mortality has been threatened by illness, Bernie embraces a philosophy of living and dying that stands at the forefront of the medical ethics and spiritual issues our Society grapples with today. In May 2011, Bernie was honored by the Watkins Review of London, England, as one of the Top 20 Spiritually Influential Living People on the Planet. He continues to break new ground in the field of healing, supporting changes in medical education to “humanize” medical practice.
MARILYN SCHLITZ
www.marilynschlitz.com
Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D. is a social anthropologist, researcher, writer, and charismatic public speaker.
She is currently the President Emeritus and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she has also served as President and CEO. Additionally, she is a Senior Scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center, where she focuses on health and healing. For more than three decades, Marilyn has been a leader in the field of consciousness studies. Her research and extensive publications focus on personal and social transformation, cultural pluralism, and mind body medicine. She has a depth of leadership experience in government, business, and the not-for-profit sectors. Her broad and varied work has given her a unique ability to help individuals and organizations identify and develop personal and interpersonal skills and capacities needed by 21st century leaders. She is currently producing a feature film with Deepak Chopra.
Marilyn Schlitz, Ph.D. is a social anthropologist, researcher, writer, and charismatic public speaker.
She is currently the President Emeritus and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, where she has also served as President and CEO. Additionally, she is a Senior Scientist at the California Pacific Medical Center, where she focuses on health and healing. For more than three decades, Marilyn has been a leader in the field of consciousness studies. Her research and extensive publications focus on personal and social transformation, cultural pluralism, and mind body medicine. She has a depth of leadership experience in government, business, and the not-for-profit sectors. Her broad and varied work has given her a unique ability to help individuals and organizations identify and develop personal and interpersonal skills and capacities needed by 21st century leaders. She is currently producing a feature film with Deepak Chopra.
JOAN BORYSENKO
www.joanborysenko.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KvhVQTaw5
This distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine is a world-renowned expert in the mind/body connection. Her work has been foundational in an international health-care revolution that recognizes the role of meaning, and the spiritual dimensions of life, as an integral part of health and healing. Eloquent and inspiring in settings that range from hospitals to hospices, from theaters to conference venues, and from boardrooms to houses of worship, she is a credible bridge between faith and reason. Her brilliance, humor, and authenticity—in combination with the latest research—make her a compelling and inspiring speaker and writer.
This distinguished pioneer in integrative medicine is a world-renowned expert in the mind/body connection. Her work has been foundational in an international health-care revolution that recognizes the role of meaning, and the spiritual dimensions of life, as an integral part of health and healing. Eloquent and inspiring in settings that range from hospitals to hospices, from theaters to conference venues, and from boardrooms to houses of worship, she is a credible bridge between faith and reason. Her brilliance, humor, and authenticity—in combination with the latest research—make her a compelling and inspiring speaker and writer.
CAROLINE MYSS
http://www.myss.com/
A five-time New York Timesbestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. Caroline established her own educational institute in 2003, CMED (Caroline Myss Education), which offers a diverse array of programs devoted to personal development and draws students from all over the world. In addition to hosting a weekly radio show on the Hay House network, Caroline maintains a rigorous international workshop and lecture schedule.
After completing her Master's degree, Caroline co-founded Stillpoint Publishing and headed the editorial department, producing an average of ten books a year in the field of human consciousness and holistic health. Simultaneously Caroline refined her skills as a medical intuitive, with the assistance of C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon.
Caroline developed the field of Energy Anatomy, a science that correlates specific emotional/psychological/physical/spiritual stress patterns with diseases. Her research proved so accurate that it became the subject matter of a book co-written by Caroline and Norm: THE CREATION OF HEALTH.
A five-time New York Timesbestselling author and internationally renowned speaker in the fields of human consciousness, spirituality and mysticism, health, energy medicine, and the science of medical intuition. Caroline established her own educational institute in 2003, CMED (Caroline Myss Education), which offers a diverse array of programs devoted to personal development and draws students from all over the world. In addition to hosting a weekly radio show on the Hay House network, Caroline maintains a rigorous international workshop and lecture schedule.
After completing her Master's degree, Caroline co-founded Stillpoint Publishing and headed the editorial department, producing an average of ten books a year in the field of human consciousness and holistic health. Simultaneously Caroline refined her skills as a medical intuitive, with the assistance of C. Norman Shealy, M.D., Ph.D., a Harvard-trained neurosurgeon.
Caroline developed the field of Energy Anatomy, a science that correlates specific emotional/psychological/physical/spiritual stress patterns with diseases. Her research proved so accurate that it became the subject matter of a book co-written by Caroline and Norm: THE CREATION OF HEALTH.
Hay House
http://www.hayhouse.com/
Hay House is committed to publishing products that have a positive self-help slant and are conducive to healing planet Earth..
Hay House is one of the fastest-growing self-help and transformational publishers in the world, selling to more than 35 countries around the world. Hay House is a medium-sized publishing house bringing in big-name authors: Louise Hay Wayne Dyer Suze Orman Doreen Virtue Jerry & Esther Hicks Jorge Cruise Marianne Williamson Caroline Myss Cheryl Richardson Christiane Northrup Tavis Smiley Cornel West who are attracted to our innovative approach to 21st century publishing.
Hay House launched its own radio station in early 2005. HayHouseRadio.com®--Radio for your Soul™—is broadcast worldwide via the Internet. Hay House also recently launched www.HealYourLife.com, the fastest growing personal growth and self-help Web site. Come discover the immense power of your thoughts and beliefs and learn that by changing just one thought, you can improve the quality of your life
Hay House is committed to publishing products that have a positive self-help slant and are conducive to healing planet Earth..
Hay House is one of the fastest-growing self-help and transformational publishers in the world, selling to more than 35 countries around the world. Hay House is a medium-sized publishing house bringing in big-name authors: Louise Hay Wayne Dyer Suze Orman Doreen Virtue Jerry & Esther Hicks Jorge Cruise Marianne Williamson Caroline Myss Cheryl Richardson Christiane Northrup Tavis Smiley Cornel West who are attracted to our innovative approach to 21st century publishing.
Hay House launched its own radio station in early 2005. HayHouseRadio.com®--Radio for your Soul™—is broadcast worldwide via the Internet. Hay House also recently launched www.HealYourLife.com, the fastest growing personal growth and self-help Web site. Come discover the immense power of your thoughts and beliefs and learn that by changing just one thought, you can improve the quality of your life
William Bloom
http://www.williambloom.com/
William Bloom is Britain’s leading author and educator in the mind-body-spirit field with over thirty years of practical experience, research and teaching in modern spirituality.
He is founder and co-director of The Foundation for Holistic Spirituality and the Spiritual Companions project.
His mainstream career includes a doctorate in political psychology from the LSE, ten years working with adults and adolescents with special needs, and delivering hundreds of trainings, many in the NHS. He was also a successful novelist and publisher.
His holistic background includes a two-year spiritual retreat living amongst the Saharan Berbers in the High Atlas Mountains, twenty-five years on the faculty of the Findhorn Foundation, and co-founder and director for 10 years of the St. James’s Church Alternatives Programme in London.
He is also a meditation master and his books include the seminal The Endorphin Effect, Feeling Safe, Psychic Protection and Soulution: The Holistic Manifesto. His latest book The Power of Modern Spirituality was recently published. His books are translated into sixteen languages.
William Bloom is Britain’s leading author and educator in the mind-body-spirit field with over thirty years of practical experience, research and teaching in modern spirituality.
He is founder and co-director of The Foundation for Holistic Spirituality and the Spiritual Companions project.
His mainstream career includes a doctorate in political psychology from the LSE, ten years working with adults and adolescents with special needs, and delivering hundreds of trainings, many in the NHS. He was also a successful novelist and publisher.
His holistic background includes a two-year spiritual retreat living amongst the Saharan Berbers in the High Atlas Mountains, twenty-five years on the faculty of the Findhorn Foundation, and co-founder and director for 10 years of the St. James’s Church Alternatives Programme in London.
He is also a meditation master and his books include the seminal The Endorphin Effect, Feeling Safe, Psychic Protection and Soulution: The Holistic Manifesto. His latest book The Power of Modern Spirituality was recently published. His books are translated into sixteen languages.
JACK KORNFIELD
http://www.jackkornfield.com/
Jack Kornfield is a teacher in the vipassana movement of American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, including as a student of the Thai monk Ajahn Chah.
He is one of the leading Buddhist teachers in America. A practitioner for over 40 years, he is one of the key teachers to introduce mindfulness and vipassana meditation to the West. His approach emphasizes compassion, lovingkindness and the profound path of mindful presence, all offered in simple, accessible ways in his books, CD’s, classes and retreats.CANDICE PERT
CANDACE BEEBE PERT
http://candacepert.com/
Candace Beebe Pert is an internationally recognized American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.
She has published over 250 scientific articles. Dr. Pert appeared in the feature film What the Bleep Do We Know!?? and Bill Moyer’s TV program Healing and the Mind. She is the author of the book Molecules of Emotion: The Scientific Basis Behind Mind-Body Medicine (Scribner, 1997), Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d (Hay House, 2006), and the musical guided imagery CD Psychosomatic Wellness: Healing your Body-Mind.
THE SHIFT NETWORK
http://theshiftnetwork.com/main
“The Shift Network has boldly stepped into global prominence as one of the most creative and visionary activators of global transformation. In every sphere of its work it convenes practical visionaries engaged in birthing a new planetary civilization. It works on a scale that is breathtaking as it enrolls people across the world to participate in evolutionary change and masterful peacemaking. Finally, an organization that provides the spiritual, intellectual and skill-building tools for humanity’s next adventure in applied consciousness!”
It empowers a growing global movement of people who are creating an evolutionary shift of consciousness that in turn leads to a more enlightened society, one built on principles of sustainability, peace, health, and prosperity. Through our online Summits and Courses we have already served more than 200,000 worldwide who are committed to shifting our world’s operating system. Please join us as we create events, programs, and activities that help us evolve! The Shift Network was founded and launched its first event in February of 2010.
You can view our big-picture vision years here: www.theshiftnetwork.com/vision2020
IONS – INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
http://www.noetic.org/
The Institute of Noetic Sciences™, founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research, education, and membership organization whose mission is supporting individual and collective transformation through consciousness research, educational outreach, and engaging a global learning community in the realization of our human potential. “Noetic” comes from the Greek word nous, which means “intuitive mind” or “inner knowing.” IONS™ conducts, sponsors, and collaborates on leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness, exploring phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor.
The Institute’s primary program areas are consciousness and healing, extended human capacities, and emerging worldviews.
HUMANITY’S TEAM UNIVERSITY
http://humanitysteamuniversity.org/
www.livinginone.com
If you are looking to learn how to live your life in a more coherent way, then you will be pleased to learn about HT University! Established in 2012, Humanity’s Team University is dedicated to offering the finest education and learning opportunities for those people who want to live their lives from a place of oneness. We offer support for our team members to live all aspects of their lives- from family to work- in a mindful and community based way. Like our parent organization, Humanity’s Team, we look forward to a new future for our planet that includes collaboration and love.
http://www.jackkornfield.com/
Jack Kornfield is a teacher in the vipassana movement of American Theravada Buddhism. He trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India, including as a student of the Thai monk Ajahn Chah.
He is one of the leading Buddhist teachers in America. A practitioner for over 40 years, he is one of the key teachers to introduce mindfulness and vipassana meditation to the West. His approach emphasizes compassion, lovingkindness and the profound path of mindful presence, all offered in simple, accessible ways in his books, CD’s, classes and retreats.CANDICE PERT
CANDACE BEEBE PERT
http://candacepert.com/
Candace Beebe Pert is an internationally recognized American neuroscientist and pharmacologist who discovered the opiate receptor, the cellular binding site for endorphins in the brain.
She has published over 250 scientific articles. Dr. Pert appeared in the feature film What the Bleep Do We Know!?? and Bill Moyer’s TV program Healing and the Mind. She is the author of the book Molecules of Emotion: The Scientific Basis Behind Mind-Body Medicine (Scribner, 1997), Everything You Need to Know to Feel Go(o)d (Hay House, 2006), and the musical guided imagery CD Psychosomatic Wellness: Healing your Body-Mind.
THE SHIFT NETWORK
http://theshiftnetwork.com/main
“The Shift Network has boldly stepped into global prominence as one of the most creative and visionary activators of global transformation. In every sphere of its work it convenes practical visionaries engaged in birthing a new planetary civilization. It works on a scale that is breathtaking as it enrolls people across the world to participate in evolutionary change and masterful peacemaking. Finally, an organization that provides the spiritual, intellectual and skill-building tools for humanity’s next adventure in applied consciousness!”
It empowers a growing global movement of people who are creating an evolutionary shift of consciousness that in turn leads to a more enlightened society, one built on principles of sustainability, peace, health, and prosperity. Through our online Summits and Courses we have already served more than 200,000 worldwide who are committed to shifting our world’s operating system. Please join us as we create events, programs, and activities that help us evolve! The Shift Network was founded and launched its first event in February of 2010.
You can view our big-picture vision years here: www.theshiftnetwork.com/vision2020
IONS – INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES
http://www.noetic.org/
The Institute of Noetic Sciences™, founded in 1973 by Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research, education, and membership organization whose mission is supporting individual and collective transformation through consciousness research, educational outreach, and engaging a global learning community in the realization of our human potential. “Noetic” comes from the Greek word nous, which means “intuitive mind” or “inner knowing.” IONS™ conducts, sponsors, and collaborates on leading-edge research into the potentials and powers of consciousness, exploring phenomena that do not necessarily fit conventional scientific models while maintaining a commitment to scientific rigor.
The Institute’s primary program areas are consciousness and healing, extended human capacities, and emerging worldviews.
HUMANITY’S TEAM UNIVERSITY
http://humanitysteamuniversity.org/
www.livinginone.com
If you are looking to learn how to live your life in a more coherent way, then you will be pleased to learn about HT University! Established in 2012, Humanity’s Team University is dedicated to offering the finest education and learning opportunities for those people who want to live their lives from a place of oneness. We offer support for our team members to live all aspects of their lives- from family to work- in a mindful and community based way. Like our parent organization, Humanity’s Team, we look forward to a new future for our planet that includes collaboration and love.
ENVIRONMENT
Our Global Earth Home – Ecological Awareness
GREEN SPIRIT
http://www.greenspirit.org.uk/
GreenSpirit is a network of people who celebrate the human spirit in the context of our place in the natural world and Earth's own evolutionary journey. Our radical vision brings together the rigour of science, the creativity of artistic expression, the passion of social action and the wisdom of spiritual traditions of all ages. Attracting those of many faith traditions, we are a body of people who believe that human life has both an ecological and a spiritual dimension.
DAVID SUZUKI
http://www.davidsuzuki.org
We work with government, business and individuals to conserve our environment by providing science-based research, education and policy work, and acting as a catalyst for the change that today's situation demands.
Our mission is to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future.
Our vision is that within a generation, Canadians act on the understanding that we are all interconnected and interdependent with nature.
Our top goals
Protecting our climate
— ensure that Canada is doing its fair share to avoid dangerous climate change and is on track to achieve a safe level of greenhouse gas
emissions.
Transforming the economy
— make certain that Canadians can maintain a high quality of life within the finite limits of nature through efficient resource use.
Protecting nature
— work to protect the diversity and health of Canada's marine, freshwater, and terrestrial creatures and ecosystems.
Reconnecting with nature
— ensure that Canadians, especially youth, learn about their dependence on a healthy environment through outdoor education.
Building community
— engage Canadians to live healthier, more fulfilled and just lives with tips on building Earth-friendly infrastructure, making smart energy choices, using
efficient transportation, and being mindful of the products, food and water we use.
DAVID ABRAM
http://www.wildethics.org/david_abram.html
David is a cultural ecologist, philosopher, and performance artist – is the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics.
He is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (Pantheon/Vintage), for which he received the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. An accomplished storyteller and sleight-of-hand magician who has lived and traded magic with indigenous sorcerers in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas, David lectures and teaches widely on several continents. His essays on the cultural causes and consequences of ecological disarray have appeared often in such journals as Orion, Parabola, Environmental Ethics, Tikkun, Wild Earth, Resurgence, and The Ecologist, as well as in numerous edited anthologies. David’s work engages the ecological depths of the imagination, exploring the ways in which sensory perception, poetics, and wonder inform our relation with the animate earth. Named by the Utne Reader as one of a hundred visionaries currently transforming the world, he has been recipient of numerous honors and fellowships. David’s is also profiled in the recent book Visionaries: the 20th Century’s 100 Most Inspirational Leaders (Chelsea Green Press, 2007).
JOANNA MACEY
www.joannamacy.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlXTAT8rLk
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements for
peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, she has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application.
Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the
fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (New Society Publishers, 1983); Dharma and Development (Kumarian Press, 198); Thinking Like a Mountain (with John Seed, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess; New Society Publishers, 1988; New Society/ New Catalyst, 2007); Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (SUNY Press, 1991); Rilke's Book of Hours (1996, 2005) and In Praise of Mortality (2004) (with Anita Barrows, Riverhead); Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown, New Society Publishers, 1998); Joanna's memoir entitled Widening Circles (New Society, 2000); World as Lover, World as Self (Parallax Press, 2007), A Year With Rilke, (with Anita Barrows, Harper One, 2009); and Pass It On: Five Stories That Can Change the World (with Norbert Gahbler, Parallax Press, 2010).
SCHUMACHER COLLEGE
www.schumachercollege.org.uk
Through an innovative approach to learning, with experts from around the world, Schumacher College has helped thousands of organisations and individuals to understand and find solutions for the most pressing ecological and social concerns of modern life
We bring together the leading thinkers, activists and practitioners internationally, to deliver a unique brand of small group learning experiences. This learning takes place in the classroom, the gardens, the kitchen – it pervades everything we do.
With a focus on interactive, experiential and participatory learning, we offer the practical skills and strategic thinking required to face the ecological, economic and social challenges of the 21st Century.
http://www.greenspirit.org.uk/
GreenSpirit is a network of people who celebrate the human spirit in the context of our place in the natural world and Earth's own evolutionary journey. Our radical vision brings together the rigour of science, the creativity of artistic expression, the passion of social action and the wisdom of spiritual traditions of all ages. Attracting those of many faith traditions, we are a body of people who believe that human life has both an ecological and a spiritual dimension.
DAVID SUZUKI
http://www.davidsuzuki.org
We work with government, business and individuals to conserve our environment by providing science-based research, education and policy work, and acting as a catalyst for the change that today's situation demands.
Our mission is to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life, now and for the future.
Our vision is that within a generation, Canadians act on the understanding that we are all interconnected and interdependent with nature.
Our top goals
Protecting our climate
— ensure that Canada is doing its fair share to avoid dangerous climate change and is on track to achieve a safe level of greenhouse gas
emissions.
Transforming the economy
— make certain that Canadians can maintain a high quality of life within the finite limits of nature through efficient resource use.
Protecting nature
— work to protect the diversity and health of Canada's marine, freshwater, and terrestrial creatures and ecosystems.
Reconnecting with nature
— ensure that Canadians, especially youth, learn about their dependence on a healthy environment through outdoor education.
Building community
— engage Canadians to live healthier, more fulfilled and just lives with tips on building Earth-friendly infrastructure, making smart energy choices, using
efficient transportation, and being mindful of the products, food and water we use.
DAVID ABRAM
http://www.wildethics.org/david_abram.html
David is a cultural ecologist, philosopher, and performance artist – is the founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics.
He is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World (Pantheon/Vintage), for which he received the international Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. An accomplished storyteller and sleight-of-hand magician who has lived and traded magic with indigenous sorcerers in Indonesia, Nepal, and the Americas, David lectures and teaches widely on several continents. His essays on the cultural causes and consequences of ecological disarray have appeared often in such journals as Orion, Parabola, Environmental Ethics, Tikkun, Wild Earth, Resurgence, and The Ecologist, as well as in numerous edited anthologies. David’s work engages the ecological depths of the imagination, exploring the ways in which sensory perception, poetics, and wonder inform our relation with the animate earth. Named by the Utne Reader as one of a hundred visionaries currently transforming the world, he has been recipient of numerous honors and fellowships. David’s is also profiled in the recent book Visionaries: the 20th Century’s 100 Most Inspirational Leaders (Chelsea Green Press, 2007).
JOANNA MACEY
www.joannamacy.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwlXTAT8rLk
Eco-philosopher Joanna Macy PhD, is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. A respected voice in the movements for
peace, justice, and ecology, she interweaves her scholarship with five decades of activism. As the root teacher of the Work That Reconnects, she has created a ground-breaking theoretical framework for personal and social change, as well as a powerful workshop methodology for its application.
Her wide-ranging work addresses psychological and spiritual issues of the nuclear age, the cultivation of ecological awareness, and the
fruitful resonance between Buddhist thought and contemporary science. The many dimensions of this work are explored in her books Despair and Personal Power in the Nuclear Age (New Society Publishers, 1983); Dharma and Development (Kumarian Press, 198); Thinking Like a Mountain (with John Seed, Pat Fleming, and Arne Naess; New Society Publishers, 1988; New Society/ New Catalyst, 2007); Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory (SUNY Press, 1991); Rilke's Book of Hours (1996, 2005) and In Praise of Mortality (2004) (with Anita Barrows, Riverhead); Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World (with Molly Young Brown, New Society Publishers, 1998); Joanna's memoir entitled Widening Circles (New Society, 2000); World as Lover, World as Self (Parallax Press, 2007), A Year With Rilke, (with Anita Barrows, Harper One, 2009); and Pass It On: Five Stories That Can Change the World (with Norbert Gahbler, Parallax Press, 2010).
SCHUMACHER COLLEGE
www.schumachercollege.org.uk
Through an innovative approach to learning, with experts from around the world, Schumacher College has helped thousands of organisations and individuals to understand and find solutions for the most pressing ecological and social concerns of modern life
We bring together the leading thinkers, activists and practitioners internationally, to deliver a unique brand of small group learning experiences. This learning takes place in the classroom, the gardens, the kitchen – it pervades everything we do.
With a focus on interactive, experiential and participatory learning, we offer the practical skills and strategic thinking required to face the ecological, economic and social challenges of the 21st Century.
SCIENCE – Physics - Quantum Physics
RUPERT SHELDRAKE
http://www.sheldrake.org
He is one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers, is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.
He has appeared in many TV programs in Britain and overseas, and was one of the participants (along with Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Oliver Sacks, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) in a TV series called A Glorious Accident, shown on PBS channels throughout the US. He has often taken part in BBC and other radio programmes. He has written for newspapers such as the Guardian, where he had a regular monthly column, The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Times Educational Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement and Times Literary Supplement, and has contributed to a variety of magazines, including New Scientist, Resurgence, the Ecologist and the Spectator.
AMIT GOSWSMI
http://www.amitgoswami.org/
Join the revolution going on in science. Quantum Activism is the idea of changing ourselves and our societies in accordance with the principles of quantum physics. The Center for Quantum Activism seeks to educate, support and facilitate the transformation from the current materialist worldview to one based on the primacy of consciousness.
He is a Professor of physics at the University of Oregon’s Institute of Theoretical Science for over 30 years, (now retired) Dr. Goswami is a revolutionary in a growing body of renegade scientists who in recent years have ventured into the domain of the spiritual in an attempt both to interpret the seemingly inexplicable findings of their experiments... and to validate their intuitions about the existence of a spiritual dimension of life
KEN WILBER
http://www.integralinstitute.org/
Integral theory is an all-inclusive framework that draws on the key insights of the world’s greatest knowledge traditions. The awareness gained from drawing on all truths and perspectives allows the Integral thinker to bring new depth, clarity and compassion to every level of human endeavor — from unlocking individual potential to finding new approaches to global-scale problems.
http://www.integrallife.com/ Ken is co-founder of Integral Life
"I'd like to personally invite you to become a member of Integral Life, and join a world-wide net of dedicated, caring, idealistic, integral souls. This is truly an extraordinary period in human history—completely unprecedented in its depth, profundity, and significance. Won't you come and join us in a conscious membership in this radically integral transformation? We would love to have you as part of this rapidly growing network of conscious evolution. And I promise you, your life will truly never be the same in this community of friendship and super-abundance...." –Ken Wilber
BARBARA MARX HUBBARD
http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com
Foundation For Conscious Evolution
Barbara Marx Hubbard is a futurist, author and public speaker. She is credited with the concepts of ‘The Synergy Engine’ and the 'birthing' of humanity.
She (1929) has been called "the voice for conscious evolution of our time" by Deepak Chopra and is the subject of Neale Donald Walsch's book "The Mother of Invention." A prolific author, visionary, social innovator, evolutionary thinker and educator, she is co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She is the producer and narrator of the award-winning documentary series entitled Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together and partnered with The Shift Network as a global ambassador for the conscious evolution movement; a shift from evolution by chance towards evolution by choice. Along with Shift, she launched the “Agents of Conscious Evolution” training and formed a global team to co-produce a global multi-media event entitled, "Birth 2012: Co-Creating a Planetary Shift in Time" on Dec. 22, 2012 - a historic, turning-point event; awakening the social, spiritual, scientific, and technological potential of humanity
7 videos by Barbara available on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPcWymMM4LY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ittg2cbVeg
ERVIN LASZLO
http://ervinlaszlo.com/
IRVIN LASZLO CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
We can't solve our problems with the same kind of thinking that gave rise to them...
Welcome To New Thinking
Ervin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.
Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.
For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy.
Club of Budapest International Foundation
http://www.clubofbudapest.org/
http://www.worldshiftnetwork.org/declaration/index.html
Prof. Dr .Dr. Ervin Laszlo
Founder of the Club of Budapest
Founded in 1993, the global Club of Budapest is an informal international association dedicated to developing a new way of thinking and a new ethics that will help resolve the social, political, economic, and ecological challenges of the 21st century. With its roster of internationally renowned members the Club initiates a dialogue between different belief systems and world views in order to co-create and develop effective strategies for responsible and sustainable action with a global focus.
THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK
https://www.scimednet.org/
Exploring and expanding the frontiers of science, medicine and spirituality.
Founded in 1973, The SMN is an interdisciplinary networking forum and educational charity exploring science, medicine, philosophy and spirituality. It hosts conferences, dialogues and talks in the UK and on continental Europe.
We are a membership organisation. Our members form part of a worldwide community of individuals who are searching beyond conventional scientific and religious paradigms for new answers and new questions. Membership is open to all who agree with our mission, aims and values.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt-QRkunZC0 - a video to look at
PETER RUSSELL M.A., D.C.S., F.S.P.
http://www.peterrussell.com
Peter is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, of The World Business Academy and of The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest.
In the mid-seventies Peter Russell joined forces with Tony Buzan and helped teach "Mind Maps" and learning methods to a variety of international organizations and educational institutions.
Since then his corporate programs have focused increasingly on self-development, creativity, stress management, and sustainable environmental practices. Clients have included IBM, Apple, Digital, American Express, Barclays Bank, Swedish Telecom, ICI, Shell Oil and British Petroleum.
His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. He has written several books in this area -- The TM Technique, The Upanishads, The Brain Book, The Global Brain Awakens, The Creative Manager, The Consciousness Revolution, Waking Up in Time, and From Science to God.
As one of the more revolutionary futurists Peter Russell has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences, in Europe, Japan and the USA. His multi-image shows and videos, The Global Brain and The White Hole in Time have won praise and prizes from around the world. In 1993 the environmental magazine Buzzworm voted Peter Russell "Eco-Philosopher Extraordinaire" of the year.
RUPERT SHELDRAKE PhD
http://www.sheldrake.org
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University.
While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots.
From 1968 to 1969, based in the Botany Department of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants. From 1974 to 1985 he was Principal Plant Physiologist and Consultant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he helped develop new cropping systems now widely used by farmers. While in India, he also lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life.
DANAH ZOHAR
www.danahzohar.com
Danah Zohar is a management thought leader, physicist, philosopher and author. Her best-selling books include Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By and SQ – Spiritual Intelligence, The Ultimate Intelligence, which constitute ground-breaking work on SQ, spiritual intelligence and spiritual capital; ReWiring the Corporate Brain, The Quantum Society and The Quantum Self, previous work which extends the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousness, psychology and social organization, particularly the organization of companies.
Danah regularly speaks at leadership forums and works with corporate leadership teams worldwide. She has worked with the leadership initiatives of both local and national governments. She established The Oxford Academy of Total Intelligence as an educational centre and consultancy, with a mission to create a sustainable future for society through the development of corporate and organizational leadership, purpose and motivation.
She currently lives in Oxford, England with her extended family. She also lectures widely throughout the world at conferences
Newsletters - Spirituality in Higher Education UCLA ... Letter From the Editor By Leslie M. Schwartz. Exploring Spiritual Capital:
An Interview with Danah Zohar http://spirituality.ucla.edu/publications/newsletters/
BRIAN SWIMME
http://www.storyoftheuniverse.org/
Inspired by the work of Thomas Berry, Brian Thomas Swimme founded the Center for the Story of the Universe. The current self-destructive trajectory of society can be redirected, where actions realize a vibrant community that transcends individual, human and geo-political boundaries. Read more
Brian Thomas Swimme is Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics. He brings the context of story to our understanding of the 13.7 billion year trajectory of the universe. Such a story, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community.
Journey of the Universe won the Northern California regional Emmy for Best Documentary, 2011.
Swimme is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe is a Green Dragon. He is co-author of The Universe Story, which is the result of a ten year collaboration with cultural historian, Thomas Berry. Swimme is also the creator of three educational video series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth’s Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe. Most recently he co-wrote and hosted the 60 minute film Journey of the Universe, broadcast on PBS television stations nationwide.
http://www.sheldrake.org
He is one of the world’s most innovative biologists and writers, is best known for his theory of morphic fields and morphic resonance, which leads to a vision of a living, developing universe with its own inherent memory.
He has appeared in many TV programs in Britain and overseas, and was one of the participants (along with Stephen Jay Gould, Daniel Dennett, Oliver Sacks, Freeman Dyson and Stephen Toulmin) in a TV series called A Glorious Accident, shown on PBS channels throughout the US. He has often taken part in BBC and other radio programmes. He has written for newspapers such as the Guardian, where he had a regular monthly column, The Times, Sunday Telegraph, Daily Mirror, Daily Mail, Sunday Times, Times Educational Supplement, Times Higher Education Supplement and Times Literary Supplement, and has contributed to a variety of magazines, including New Scientist, Resurgence, the Ecologist and the Spectator.
AMIT GOSWSMI
http://www.amitgoswami.org/
Join the revolution going on in science. Quantum Activism is the idea of changing ourselves and our societies in accordance with the principles of quantum physics. The Center for Quantum Activism seeks to educate, support and facilitate the transformation from the current materialist worldview to one based on the primacy of consciousness.
He is a Professor of physics at the University of Oregon’s Institute of Theoretical Science for over 30 years, (now retired) Dr. Goswami is a revolutionary in a growing body of renegade scientists who in recent years have ventured into the domain of the spiritual in an attempt both to interpret the seemingly inexplicable findings of their experiments... and to validate their intuitions about the existence of a spiritual dimension of life
KEN WILBER
http://www.integralinstitute.org/
Integral theory is an all-inclusive framework that draws on the key insights of the world’s greatest knowledge traditions. The awareness gained from drawing on all truths and perspectives allows the Integral thinker to bring new depth, clarity and compassion to every level of human endeavor — from unlocking individual potential to finding new approaches to global-scale problems.
http://www.integrallife.com/ Ken is co-founder of Integral Life
"I'd like to personally invite you to become a member of Integral Life, and join a world-wide net of dedicated, caring, idealistic, integral souls. This is truly an extraordinary period in human history—completely unprecedented in its depth, profundity, and significance. Won't you come and join us in a conscious membership in this radically integral transformation? We would love to have you as part of this rapidly growing network of conscious evolution. And I promise you, your life will truly never be the same in this community of friendship and super-abundance...." –Ken Wilber
BARBARA MARX HUBBARD
http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com
Foundation For Conscious Evolution
Barbara Marx Hubbard is a futurist, author and public speaker. She is credited with the concepts of ‘The Synergy Engine’ and the 'birthing' of humanity.
She (1929) has been called "the voice for conscious evolution of our time" by Deepak Chopra and is the subject of Neale Donald Walsch's book "The Mother of Invention." A prolific author, visionary, social innovator, evolutionary thinker and educator, she is co-founder and president of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. She is the producer and narrator of the award-winning documentary series entitled Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together and partnered with The Shift Network as a global ambassador for the conscious evolution movement; a shift from evolution by chance towards evolution by choice. Along with Shift, she launched the “Agents of Conscious Evolution” training and formed a global team to co-produce a global multi-media event entitled, "Birth 2012: Co-Creating a Planetary Shift in Time" on Dec. 22, 2012 - a historic, turning-point event; awakening the social, spiritual, scientific, and technological potential of humanity
7 videos by Barbara available on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPcWymMM4LY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ittg2cbVeg
ERVIN LASZLO
http://ervinlaszlo.com/
IRVIN LASZLO CENTRE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
We can't solve our problems with the same kind of thinking that gave rise to them...
Welcome To New Thinking
Ervin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.
Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.
For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy.
Club of Budapest International Foundation
http://www.clubofbudapest.org/
http://www.worldshiftnetwork.org/declaration/index.html
Prof. Dr .Dr. Ervin Laszlo
Founder of the Club of Budapest
Founded in 1993, the global Club of Budapest is an informal international association dedicated to developing a new way of thinking and a new ethics that will help resolve the social, political, economic, and ecological challenges of the 21st century. With its roster of internationally renowned members the Club initiates a dialogue between different belief systems and world views in order to co-create and develop effective strategies for responsible and sustainable action with a global focus.
THE SCIENTIFIC AND MEDICAL NETWORK
https://www.scimednet.org/
Exploring and expanding the frontiers of science, medicine and spirituality.
Founded in 1973, The SMN is an interdisciplinary networking forum and educational charity exploring science, medicine, philosophy and spirituality. It hosts conferences, dialogues and talks in the UK and on continental Europe.
We are a membership organisation. Our members form part of a worldwide community of individuals who are searching beyond conventional scientific and religious paradigms for new answers and new questions. Membership is open to all who agree with our mission, aims and values.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt-QRkunZC0 - a video to look at
PETER RUSSELL M.A., D.C.S., F.S.P.
http://www.peterrussell.com
Peter is a fellow of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, of The World Business Academy and of The Findhorn Foundation, and an Honorary Member of The Club of Budapest.
In the mid-seventies Peter Russell joined forces with Tony Buzan and helped teach "Mind Maps" and learning methods to a variety of international organizations and educational institutions.
Since then his corporate programs have focused increasingly on self-development, creativity, stress management, and sustainable environmental practices. Clients have included IBM, Apple, Digital, American Express, Barclays Bank, Swedish Telecom, ICI, Shell Oil and British Petroleum.
His principal interest is the deeper, spiritual significance of the times we are passing through. He has written several books in this area -- The TM Technique, The Upanishads, The Brain Book, The Global Brain Awakens, The Creative Manager, The Consciousness Revolution, Waking Up in Time, and From Science to God.
As one of the more revolutionary futurists Peter Russell has been a keynote speaker at many international conferences, in Europe, Japan and the USA. His multi-image shows and videos, The Global Brain and The White Hole in Time have won praise and prizes from around the world. In 1993 the environmental magazine Buzzworm voted Peter Russell "Eco-Philosopher Extraordinaire" of the year.
RUPERT SHELDRAKE PhD
http://www.sheldrake.org
Rupert Sheldrake is a biologist and author of more than 80 scientific papers and ten books. A former Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he studied natural sciences at Cambridge University, where he was a Scholar of Clare College, took a double first class honours degree and was awarded the University Botany Prize. He then studied philosophy and history of science at Harvard University, where he was a Frank Knox Fellow, before returning to Cambridge, where he took a Ph.D. in biochemistry. He was a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, where he was Director of Studies in biochemistry and cell biology. As the Rosenheim Research Fellow of the Royal Society, he carried out research on the development of plants and the ageing of cells in the Department of Biochemistry at Cambridge University.
While at Cambridge, together with Philip Rubery, he discovered the mechanism of polar auxin transport, the process by which the plant hormone auxin is carried from the shoots towards the roots.
From 1968 to 1969, based in the Botany Department of the University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, he studied rain forest plants. From 1974 to 1985 he was Principal Plant Physiologist and Consultant Physiologist at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) in Hyderabad, India, where he helped develop new cropping systems now widely used by farmers. While in India, he also lived for a year and a half at the ashram of Fr Bede Griffiths in Tamil Nadu, where he wrote his first book, A New Science of Life.
DANAH ZOHAR
www.danahzohar.com
Danah Zohar is a management thought leader, physicist, philosopher and author. Her best-selling books include Spiritual Capital: Wealth We Can Live By and SQ – Spiritual Intelligence, The Ultimate Intelligence, which constitute ground-breaking work on SQ, spiritual intelligence and spiritual capital; ReWiring the Corporate Brain, The Quantum Society and The Quantum Self, previous work which extends the language and principles of quantum physics into a new understanding of human consciousness, psychology and social organization, particularly the organization of companies.
Danah regularly speaks at leadership forums and works with corporate leadership teams worldwide. She has worked with the leadership initiatives of both local and national governments. She established The Oxford Academy of Total Intelligence as an educational centre and consultancy, with a mission to create a sustainable future for society through the development of corporate and organizational leadership, purpose and motivation.
She currently lives in Oxford, England with her extended family. She also lectures widely throughout the world at conferences
Newsletters - Spirituality in Higher Education UCLA ... Letter From the Editor By Leslie M. Schwartz. Exploring Spiritual Capital:
An Interview with Danah Zohar http://spirituality.ucla.edu/publications/newsletters/
BRIAN SWIMME
http://www.storyoftheuniverse.org/
Inspired by the work of Thomas Berry, Brian Thomas Swimme founded the Center for the Story of the Universe. The current self-destructive trajectory of society can be redirected, where actions realize a vibrant community that transcends individual, human and geo-political boundaries. Read more
Brian Thomas Swimme is Director of the Center for the Story of the Universe and a professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Oregon in 1978 for work in gravitational dynamics. He brings the context of story to our understanding of the 13.7 billion year trajectory of the universe. Such a story, he feels, will assist in the emergence of a flourishing Earth community.
Journey of the Universe won the Northern California regional Emmy for Best Documentary, 2011.
Swimme is the author of The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos and The Universe is a Green Dragon. He is co-author of The Universe Story, which is the result of a ten year collaboration with cultural historian, Thomas Berry. Swimme is also the creator of three educational video series: Canticle to the Cosmos, The Earth’s Imagination, and The Powers of the Universe. Most recently he co-wrote and hosted the 60 minute film Journey of the Universe, broadcast on PBS television stations nationwide.
