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For the Great Shift dialogues, we asked leaders from a range of disciplines to answer the question: "How can we create a great shift on planet earth in the years ahead?"
Their answers span the spectrum from the practical to the philosophical, from green living to key shifts in our belief system, from embodiment to sacred action. It's the richest and most insightful set of dialogues we've done. Enjoy!
Great Shift Dialogues: Bill Plotkin and David Abram 
Bill Plotkin & David Abram | 06.27.08 |Not yet ratedAuthor, Bill Plotkin explores great shifts with cultural ecologist, David Abrams. They examine western culture’s disconnect from nature, the consequences and potential solutions. Many societies, communities and individuals are stuck in perpetual early adolescence. Our current educational system tames the authentic self out of children and teaches the restricted life style of linear time. We need to reconnect with nature and ourselves to culturally mature.
Great Shift Dialogues: Neale Donald WalschNeale Donald Walsch is renowned for pioneering a new and more personal approach to questions of God and spirituality. In this interview, he shares his deepest understanding of how we can shift our collective beliefs around God and spirituality to create a great shift in the years ahead. An evolutionary, open-ended approach to spirituality allows us to create an entirely new cultural story based on a different assessment of "what God wants."
Great Shift Dialogues: Anodea JudithLion Goodman interviews Anodea Judith, Ph.D. on the topics in her award-winning book, Waking The Global Heart: Humanity’s Rite of Passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love.
Great Shift Dialogues: Sequoyah Trueblood and James O’DeaSequoyah Trueblood & James O’Dea | 02.12.08 |(2 ratings)In this dialogue, IONS President, James O’Dea, and Sequoyah Trueblood discuss the great shift in the context of our universal oneness.
Great Shift Dialogues: Howard Martin and Deborah RozmanHoward Martin & Deborah Rozman | 02.12.08 |(1 rating)HeartMath has pioneered a path the merges high technology and heart-intelligence. In this dialogue, Howard Martin and Deborah Rozman share the latest frontiers of this work and how it can contribute to a global shift in consciousness.
Great Shift Dialogues: Margaret Paloma Pavel and Carl AnthonyMargaret Paloma Pavel & Carl Anthony | 03.03.08 |Not yet ratedHow can our cities go through a great shift and become models of sustainability and social justice? In this dialogue, Carl Anthony, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley, talks with Dr. Margaret Paloma Pavel, founder of Earthhouse, about how we can make changes at the grassroots level across multiple sectors of society.
Great Shift Dialogues: Charlotte Shelton and James TrappCharlotte Shelton & James Trapp | 03.06.08 |(3 ratings)Charlotte Shelton, CEO of Unity, and Rev. James Trapp, CEO of Unity Churches, participate in a dialogue that explores our personal participation in the Great Shift.
Great Shift Dialogues: Van Jones and Majora CarterVan Jones & Majora Carter | 05.13.08 |Not yet ratedVan Jones and Majora Carter are two pioneers of the sustainability revolution, bringing a social justice sensibility and practical solutions that benefit disenfranchised people to the discussion of how to green out planet. Together they have launched the Green for All program, a national initiative dedicated to creating green jobs that are good for people, planet, and profits.
Great Shift Dialogues: Nina Rothschild Utne and Matthew SanfordNina Rothschild Utne & Matthew Sanford | 05.27.08 |(1 rating)Nine Rothschild Utne is the Editor-at-large for Utne magazine and Matthew Sanford is a paralyzed yoga teacher who authored the book Waking.
Great Shift Dialogues: Kurt SmithWild Divine CEO Kurt Smith has been at the forefront of innovative technologies that expand consciousness and enhance health. In this interview on creating a great shift, he first urges patience: deep changes take time.
Great Shift Dialogues: Michael Gelb and Marcia WiederMichael Gelb & Marcia Wieder | 02.12.08 |Not yet ratedWhat would our future look like if dreamed up by bold visionaries? This dialogue offers answers from a leading teacher of innovation, Michael Gelb, and the leader of a "dream movement," Marcia Wieder.
Great Shift Dialogues: Maria Nemeth and Mary Mannin MorrisseyMaria Nemeth & Mary Mannin Morrissey | 02.12.08 |(1 rating)Imagine how impossible it must have seemed to Nelson Mandela, sentenced to life without parole, to dream that apartheid would ever end, much less that he would become president. And yet, that seeming miracle required a shift in consciousness that prepared him for what was to come.
Great Shift Dialogues: Ervin Laszlo and Peter RussellErvin Laszlo & Peter Russell | 02.01.08 |(3 ratings)This dialogue pairs two of the most prolific and insightful big picture visionaries of our day: Ervin Laszlo and Peter Russell.
Great Shift Dialogues: Bruce Lipton and Steve BhaermanBruce Lipton & Steve Bhaerman | 02.01.08 |(3 ratings)Bruce Lipton is a pioneering biologist who has partnered with uncommentator and comedian Steve Bhaerman for an upcoming book called “Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future Now.”
Great Shift Dialogues: Brian Johnson and Gay HendricksBrian Johnson & Gay Hendricks | 02.05.08 |Not yet ratedIn this dialogue, two pioneers of a more enlightened form of business look at what it will take to create a great shift on planet earth, concluding that we have to begin with bringing our own lives into full alignment with our ideals.
Great Shift Dialogues: Kevin Danaher and Medea BenjaminKevin Danaher & Medea Benjamin | 02.05.08 |(1 rating)Global Exchange and Green Festival co-founders Medea Benjamin and Kevin Danaher are masters of finding practical solutions that create systemic change.
Great Shift Dialogues: Barbara Marx Hubbard and Stephen DinanBarbara Marx Hubbard & Stephen Dinan | 02.05.08 |(1 rating)Futurist Barbara Marx Hubbard is on a mission of conscious evolution, one that was templated in her cells in an experience of what she calls the planetary birth.
Great Shift Dialogues: Dean Radin and Lynne McTaggartDean Radin & Lynne McTaggart | 02.07.08 |(1 rating)In this dialogue, pioneering scientist Dean Radin and author Lynne McTaggart explore the frontiers of science and how shifts in the scientific paradigm can contribute to shifting our world. Together they examine the social pressures to conform to an older scientific worldview as well as the exciting elements of what is emerging, such as energy medicine, intentional technology and the power of setting intentions on a planetary scale.
Great Shift Dialogues: Deepak ChopraDeepak Chopra is renowned as a pioneer in the field of mind-body medicine. In this Great Shift interview, he dives into the evolution of Christianity, a subject explored in his newest book The Third Jesus.
Great Shift Dialogues: Michael Bernard Beckwith and David HawkinsMichael Bernard Beckwith & David Hawkins | 02.11.08 |(10 ratings)In this lively dialogue between Power vs. Force author David Hawkins, and Agape International founder Michael Bernard Beckwith, they describe the shifts in perception that are the foundation of making shifts in the world.
Great Shift Dialogues: Andrew Harvey and Shiva ReaAndrew Harvey & Shiva Rea | 01.31.08 |(2 ratings)Mystic scholar Andrew Harvey and renowned yoga teacher Shiva Rea have come together in this dialogue to illuminate a path towards sacred embodiment and activism.
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