Evolutionary Roundtable:
Evolutionary Responses to Terrorism
On November 18th, Pedram Shojai hosted an Evolutionary Roundtable as a Google Hangout, where members of the Evolutionary Leaders circle discussed Evolutionary Responses to Terrorism. Offering their unique perspectives were Gregg Braden, Stephen Dinan, Barbara Marx Hubbard and Elza Maalouf.
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The terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday, November 13th, following on a twin suicide attack in Beirut the previous day, provoked many reactions around the world. The French President declared his country to be at war, and ordered air strikes in Syria.
Ervin Laszlo and Barbara Marx Hubbard published a different kind of response, based on forgiveness ( see it HERE). This sparked a lively discussion among the community of Evolutionary Leaders, prompting Pedram to offer his Urban Monk platform for an Evolutionary Roundtable focused on a variety of compassionate and creative responses to terrorism.
This Evolutionary Roundtable follows up on an idea suggested by Jack Canfield at an Evolutionary Leaders retreat to hold such dialogues in immediate response to a crisis situation.
New Books by Evolutionary Leaders - and New Editions
RESILIENCE FROM THE HEART: The Power to Thrive in Life's Extremes, by Gregg Braden
In this compelling updated and revised edition of his book The Turning Point, best-selling author and visionary Gregg Braden identifies the keys to thrive in life’s extremes. Drawing upon his expertise in leading-edge science and wisdom traditions of the past, he shares practical strategies for embracing big change in a healthy way.
SUPER GENES: Unlock the Astonishing Power of Your DNA for Optimum Health and Well-Being, by Deepak Chopra and Rudolph E. Tanzi
The new genetics has overturned the assumption that genes determined our biological destiny forever. Genes are dynamic, responding to everything we think, say, and do – our strongest allies for personal transformation. When you make lifestyle choices that optimize how your genes behave, you can reach for a state of health and fulfillment undreamed of even a decade ago. The impact on prevention, immunity, diet, aging, and chronic disorders is unparalleled. Learn how to shape your gene activity in this exciting and eagerly-anticipated book.
((AWAKENING)) GLOBAL ENLIGHTENMENT: Our Maturation as a Species, double audio CD by Ashok Gangadean
Journey with Ashok in this unprecedented dimensional crossing into the frontier of ((Global Enlightenment)). This is a deeper encounter with the ever-Present Source Field of Reality than we have thus far experienced. You will now enter an unfolding drama, an ultimate Mystery Story, the Mystery of Mysteries, the greatest ((Story)) never “told” – the perennial quest for the missing Source Code of Infinite Presence.
LIGHT READING: Poems from a Pilgrim Journey, by Charles Gibbs
A journey of spiritual awakening awaits in Charles P. Gibbs's insightful new collection of poems, Light Reading. Over the past four decades, Gibbs has undergone an intense transformation which saw the death of many false selves — and the rise of the true self, which is ultimately a reflection of the One. Light Reading will support and challenge you on your own sojourn into the heart.
THE EVOLUTIONARY TESTAMENT OF CO-CREATION: The Promise Will Be Kept, by Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard’s extraordinary book offers an evolutionary, future-oriented perspective on the Gospels of Jesus Christ. Barbara reveals that many of the miracles Jesus performed are actually similar to those acts that we currently aspire to achieve today, but so often without consciousness of Christ love. This book builds on the great themes in the New Testament, which are now coming true. The Promise is being kept. We have the power to destroy the world and we also can restore the Earth, evolve ourselves and all of society. The trumpet is sounding for our generation.
THE BIOLOGY OF BELIEF: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter & Miracles, 10th Anniversary Edition, by Bruce Lipton
Bruce Lipton’s seminal book on the relationship between mind and body changed the way we think about our lives, our health, and our planet. Ten years since its original publication, it is now widely recognized that genes and DNA do not control our biology, but are controlled by signals from outside the cell, including our thoughts. This anniversary edition, a profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology and quantum physics, puts the power to create a healthy, joyous life back in our hands.
HEALING LIGHT: An Apprenticeship in Peruvian Shamanism, audio book by Oscar Miro-Quesada
In this full-length audio curriculum produced by Sounds True, respected healer and teacher don Oscar Miro-Quesada guides us into the direct teachings, practices, and profound worldview of Peruvian shamanism. Listeners are offered singular apprenticeship in: the principles and methods of Peruvian curanderismo; guided shamanic journeys of transformation and healing; empowering rituals; and a treasury of other insights, many shared here with a Western audience for the first time.
THE NEW CONFESSIONS OF AN ECONOMIC HIT MAN, by John Perkins
Featuring 15 explosive new chapters, this expanded edition of Perkins's classic 2004 bestseller brings the story of economic hit men up to date and, chillingly, home to the U.S. John Perkins shares new details about the ways he and others cheated countries around the globe out of trillions of dollars. Then he reveals how the deadly "EHM" cancer he helped create has become the dominant system of business, government, and society today. Finally, Perkins offers hope with a detailed list of specific actions each of us can take to transform what he calls a failing Death Economy into a Life Economy that provides sustainable abundance for all.
JOYOUS ABUNDANCE JOURNAL: 366 Days of Inspiration, by Christian Sørensen and Petra Weldes
Joyous Abundance Journal is an inspirational guide to 366 days of richer living. It is the third in the Joyous Living series by Christian Sørensen, a longtime member of the Evolutionary Leaders and Spiritual Leader of the Seaside Center For Spiritual Living, alongside his co-author Petra Weldes. These daily inspirations along with quotes and questions supporting personal self-exploration spark deeper contemplation encouraging and ushering the reader to find each day's rich blessings with ease.
ELs Attend SAND15 Science and Nonduality Conference
Nine members of our EL community - Margo King, Duane Elgin, Deepak Chopra, Elisabet Sahtouris, Peter Russell, Joshua Gorman, Jeff Vander Clute, Eve Konstantine, and Diane Williams - were at the SAND15 Science and Nonduality conference in San Jose, CA from October 21-25 with "leading scientists, renowned spiritual teachers, philosophers, artists and thriving international communities to explore a new paradigm emerging in spirituality, grounded in cutting-edge science and based on direct experience."
Peter Russell on the Primacy of Consciousness
Elisabet Sahtouris on Indigenous Science
Continuing the wave of synergistic engagement among members of our EL community, Source of Synergy Board member Eve Konstantine hosted a delightful Synergy Circle dinner at her home in Santa Barbara, CA with Diane, Rinaldo and Lala Brutoco, Barbara Fields, and other guests. Diane's trip to California also included special moments with Barbara Marx Hubbard and Katherine Woodward Thomas.
Join hundreds of task forces around the world in meaningful demonstrations of interfaith and intercultural understanding that are foundational to the global peace-building to which we are so deeply committed.
The menu at http://www.agnt.org/season-for-interfaith-celebration guides you through many general resources that will serve your program, dialogues, and projects.
Evolutionary Leaders at the Parliament of the World's Religions
By Dr. Desiree Hurtak
Hundreds of gifted speakers among almost 10,000 people from all over the world came together at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Salt Lake City from October 15-19 to emphasize the need for harmony, cooperation and love at a time when many challenging issues are being faced by the human race. The issues addressed ranged from environmental and ecological planning to the challenges of global problem solving through methods of discovering inner peace.
Yuka Saionji Matsuura, Charles Gibbs, Barbara Fields,
and Wendy Craig-Purcell
Evolutionary Leaders who spoke at the Parliament included:
• Dr. Michael B. Beckwith and Vandana Shiva presented keynote addresses;
• Yuka Saionji of Byakko Shinko Kai was a keynote speaker at the Women’s Assembly forum;
• Stephen Dinan and his Shift Network associate, Philip Hellmich, spoke on Vision 2050: Inner Peace to International Peacebuilding, Co-Creating a Global Culture of Peace;
• Drs. J.J. and Desiree Hurtak presented several sessions also on creating a Culture of Peace and spoke at the Women’s Assembly on the importance of the Divine Mother based on their new book, The 72 Names of the Myriad Names of the Divine Mother;
• Nina Meyerhof represented Children of the Earth with many young leaders from all over the world including Yuka Saionji, who spoke on the importance of recognizing youth;
• Barbara Fields of the Association for Global New Thought spoke on The Axial Age;
• Charles Gibbs, formerly of the United Religions Initiative, made presentations on My Life is My Message, Interreligious Dialogue and Peacebuilding, and Living in Harmony with the Earth Community;
• Dr. Michael B. Beckwith also moderated a panel of New Thought ministers including Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell on Spirituality for the 21st Century.
Inspiration Corner
MOVING IN THE FACE OF FEAR: A Free 30-Minute Dance Jam by Panache Desai
Join Panache in person for DYNAMIC PEACE, a 6-Day Sacred Immersion in Santa Barbara, CA from January 31-February 1.
DETAILS HERE
The Millennial Quest
By Joshua Gorman
Our generation - known around the world as the Millennial Generation - is coming of age at one of the most critical and exciting moments in history. We are living amidst an epochal turning point in human civilization that eco-philosopher Joanna Macy calls The Great Turning, a time of transition from a dying industrial-growth society to an emerging life-sustaining society.
More than ever before, our global society is calling for soul-initiated adults and visionary changemakers who can contribute their unique gifts to creating a better world, yet we live in cultures that have largely forgotten the deeper purpose of adolescence and young adulthood and the practices of soul initiation that engender true adults who eventually become true elders.
Through a partnership between two visionary organizations dedicated to human development and cultural transformation - Generation Waking Up and the Animas Valley Institute - the Millennial Quest is designed to illuminate for the contemporary world the process and practices of soul initiation and to help actualize the life-transforming gifts of today’s rising generation - a generation called to renew, remake, and reimagine our world.
FOR DETAILS, SEE THE MILLENNIAL QUEST ON FACEBOOK
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Vandana Shiva Launches a People's Pact to Protect the Planet and Each Other
MAKING PEACE WITH THE EARTH
For the first time in human history our common future as a species is no longer certain. In just 200 years of a fossil fuel age, humanity has done enough damage to the Earth to ensure its own extinction. Our only option is to heal the earth and in so doing, create hope for our future – as one humanity and as part of one Earth community.
"Life is at stake, Earth’s life as well as ours. The governments under corporate influence may fail in Paris – but we as citizens cannot. As citizens of this beautiful and bountiful planet, we make a pact with the Earth, to protect her, care for her, and give back to her the gifts she provides us with, in gratitude and love."
-- Vandana Shiva
Lynne Twist Receives Goi Peace Award
GOI PEACE FOUNDATION FORUM 2015 "THE SOUL OF MONEY: LIVING A FLOURISHING LIFE"
The annual Goi Peace Foundation Forum brings together people in wisdom from various fields with the aim of promoting a sustainable and harmonious new civilization.
Under the theme “The Soul of Money: Living a Flourishing Life,” this year’s forum will feature the 2015 Goi Peace Award recipient, Lynne Twist, an American social activist, fundraiser and author, who has dedicated herself to alleviating poverty and hunger, and supporting social justice and environmental sustainability.
Lynne tells us, through her decades of experience as a fundraiser, that money is a tool to express our soul, but that in today’s economy-driven systems people continue to be controlled by money, bringing about environmental destruction, hunger, poverty and other social problems as a result. In the forum, we will explore how we can make the most of our material and spiritual wealth to live a meaningful life of true prosperity and create a sustainable and peaceful world for all.
Ms. Twist will receive the award at a ceremony, make a commemorative address and participate in a talk session with Mr. Ken Honda, bestselling author and financial expert, and Masami and Hiroo Saionji.
There will also be presentations by young people who have won first prize in the 2015 International Essay Contest for Young People.
Previous Goi Peace Award winners among the Evolutionary Leaders circle are Deepak Chopra, Duane Elgin, Ervin Laszlo, and Bruce Lipton.
Please join the Goi Peace Foundation Forum 2015 on Tuesday, December 1, 2015 at Nikkei Hall, Tokyo.
For more information, please click HERE.
Making the Invisible Visible in Business
Podcast Featuring Jeff Vander Clute and Maria Bäck
Jeff Vander Clute and Maria Bäck are the co-founders of Sourcing the Way, which launched in 2013 to deliver pioneering solutions for accelerating spiritual evolution and healing the souls of organizations and industries through energetic facilitation and advanced coaching and consulting services to visionary leaders, innovators and philanthropists looking to invest in the reinvention of human systems.
On August 26, they were interviewed on VITAL PRESENCE, a show for trailblazers, meaning-makers and creative leaders of all kinds hosted by Sally Fox, Ph.D.
Hear an important conversation about intuition in business and making the invisible visible as we feel into what's important now for our business, our practices, and our lives.
Learn more about Sourcing the Way's Offerings for Conscious Evolutionaries!
Listen to the Podcast HERE
The QUESTion Project Enters Education
By Gerard Senehi
Last spring the first three QUESTion Courses were taught at Bronx Center for Science and Mathematics, a public high school in the South Bronx, NY. For a full semester, students engaged daily with questions about life, their future and the bigger picture they are a part of. This project of Open Future Institute was designed in collaboration with university and high school students who, together with educators and Open Future Institute staff, identified key human topics that are foundational to shaping our lives and future with inspiration, meaning and purpose. Through daily lesson plans, students engage with creative activities that provide the necessary space for them to learn from their own experiences and from each other.
The QUESTion Course’s value is that it supports students to explore their humanity through topics that are concrete and relatable. These topics influence how they understand themselves, how they interact with others, and how they choose to shape their direction in life. Built into the approach is a fundamental paradox: we don’t ask leading questions, and we don’t ask questions that don’t lead anywhere. Similarly students learn that although they might not arrive at final answers to the topics they explore, they can deepen their understanding in a way that will give them profound confidence about life.
The QUESTion Course’s value is that it supports students to explore their humanity through topics that are concrete and relatable. These topics influence how they understand themselves, how they interact with others, and how they choose to shape their direction in life. Built into the approach is a fundamental paradox: we don’t ask leading questions, and we don’t ask questions that don’t lead anywhere. Similarly students learn that although they might not arrive at final answers to the topics they explore, they can deepen their understanding in a way that will give them profound confidence about life.
Our mission is to support students internationally to shape their lives with purpose, and to create an example for education to recognize this area of development as a foundational subject. Our vision is that the world of education will formally support students with these core human subjects at all stages of their development.
In this very moving podcast, students from the South Bronx share the impact of participating in a full semester class, in a spontaneous interview with Open Future Institute board member David Adler:
Listen to Podcast HERE
Gerard Senehi is Founder and President of Open Future Institute.
The Evolutionary Testament of Co-Creation: The Promist Will Be Kept
A Video from Barbara Marx Hubbard
Futurist and author Barbara Marx Hubbard discusses the genesis of her new book, "The Evolutionary Testament of Co-creation: The Promise Will Be Kept."
Barbara will host a webinar from January 6 to March 23. In this series, she will offer evolutionary insight inspired by passages from Scripture and discuss their meaning with Michael Bernard Beckwith, Neale Donald Walsch, and to her distinguished guests. This exploration will draw new guidelines for our generation, seeking to discover from the New Testament and the life of Jesus a radical evolutionary vision for action in the 21s century.
Join together with Barbara and her colleagues to consider and deepen the guidance for the meaning of our new Christ-like powers to be used for a positive future for all Earth life.
COURSE INFORMATION AT THE ACADEMY FOR EVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP
Essentials of Awakening
By Jeff Carreira
The audio recording of the Essentials of Awakening virtual workshop that Craig Hamilton and I taught together is now available to listen to or download.
During this two-hour virtual event we discussed what we see as three essential elements that empower us to sustain the delicate awareness of the awakened state:
- Spiritual Activation – The experience of being awakened, usually through a teacher or more experienced practitioner, to the reality of our own true self.
- Spiritual Immersion – The experience of spending enough time in expanded states of awakening that we begin to forget our previously limited sense of self.
- The 8 Inner Postures of Awakened Awareness – Inner orientations or attitudes, such as receptivity, inclusivity and surrender, that fine-tune our experience of consciousness.
In this presentation you will also hear details about a new yearlong program called Opening to the Infinite that Craig and I are teaching together in 2016.
Featured Video
Beyond the Horizon, Episode 1:
DEEPAK CHOPRA
Musician, director, and Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto has been sitting down with some of the top minds from entertainment, business, tech, and fashion over ten weeks in a new online series entitled Beyond the Horizon on AOL’s Build, a live interview platform.
In the first 7-minute episode, Deepak Chopra gives insight into spirituality, technology and his hopes for life on earth.
Nina Meyerhof - Planting the Seeds of Spiritual Activism
Children of the Earth
"If there is to be a new leadership model for building a better global society it must have spirituality as its base." – Nina Meyerhof
Nina Meyerhof, founder and president of Children of the Earth, has been described as an educator, a visionary, an inspiration, and a peace activist. But I think Nina is best described as a gardener – a gardener who plants the seeds of compassion, insight, authenticity, and inspiration in young people all over the world and watches them grow.
Dr. Meyerhof believes that global peace starts with inner wisdom and that the process of discovering that inner wisdom should begin during childhood. Young people must be given the tools to discern what their purpose is and to recognize that we are all grounded in common humanity. [...]
Read Full Article HERE
EL News: A Baby Girl for Pedram Shojai
We congratulate Pedram Shojai and his wife on the birth of their daughter, Sophia Aria Shojai on November 2nd.
Pedram says, "When my folks brought my son Sol over to meet his sister, it made me weep. These pure innocent kids are the light of my light and they are the reason I work so hard everyday to make the world a healthier, happier, and safer place. Looking at her has renewed my enthusiasm to help make the world a better place for all the children."
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Neighbor to Neighbor - a Post-9/11 World
By John Perkins
Originally seen on CSRWire Talkback, October 16, 2015
It’s been more than a month since we observed the anniversary of September 11, 2001. I spent that weekend at a 9/11 event in New York City where I was privileged to speak. It forced me to look more deeply at where we’ve come since that tragic day – to ask questions, such as:
What have we experienced since September 11, 2001 Is our world better, more just, and more unified? Do we have more freedom and equality? Do impoverished people around the planet have greater access to basic necessities? Is there less violence? Less destruction of the environment? Less pollution? Less war and terror?
The answers to these, and similar, questions are of course not the ones any of us like to hear. However, if we want a future that is peaceful, prosperous and emotionally fulfilling, we must ask such questions – and we must commit to a new era that changes the answers. We as citizens cannot step back from the responsibility to do all we can to create better solutions – not only for ourselves but also for our neighbors at home and abroad.
After September 11, 2001, we in the US were told we had to unite in a spirit of “patriotism” and unity against an enemy. We were told to come together so that we could be stronger against “them,” and we’ve allowed this polarized perspective to poison our foreign policy, our choices for elected officials, and the way we treat each other. We didn’t ask questions or insist on evidence. We allowed ourselves to be terribly deceived. And the result has been a Death Economy that has all but destroyed the American middle class, widened the gap between rich and poor, and negatively impacted the entire world. It has also seeded and nurtured the growth of that which we were told we should most fear, Islamic extremism.
Our government and the corporatocracy have been quick, overly quick, to point fingers and lay blame on specific groups and ideologies for the attacks on 9/11. It is time for us all to understand that the actions which followed gave them ever increasing power and profits. They convinced us to aim at a distant target. Better a target in a foreign land then people and companies in our own backyard. By keeping us divided from our brothers and sisters in other parts of the world, they bolster their ability to remain in power. By keeping us afraid of an illusionary enemy, they keep us dependent on their imaginary – yet very costly – protection against that enemy.
As long as we continue to hate whomever they tell us to hate and to fight against others in the interest of “patriotism,” we are playing into their hands, helping their bottom lines, and sabotaging the future of our shared planet.
Speaking at that 9/11 event and hearing the other speakers – one after another pointing out the many abuses we have suffered following 9/11 – I saw how what has happened to us is exactly what we were told Osama bin Laden wanted to have happen to us. I saw too that now it is time for us to wake up. It’s time to realize that this “us versus them” story is a misleading and self-destructive story. The age-old “we are the victims of evil forces” myth serves the corporatocracy, not we the people.
All of us, all life forms that inhabit this fragile space ship, our Living Earth, share the same basic human rights to food, water, clean air, shelter, health care, and essential freedoms. We must accept responsibility to care for each other, and stop turning a blind eye to the reality that actions which divide us are not solutions.
By shifting the worn-out old story, we empower ourselves to take power back from the giant corporations and politicians who want to run the world at our expense. This Death Economy they are selling us day in and day out can be shifted to a Life Economy. We can do it, you and me, by joining together and applying our energies with diligence, perseverance, and the joy that comes from doing good work.
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