Great Shift Dialogues
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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!
June 27, 2008 | 1676 reads
Author, 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.
May 27, 2008 | 1064 reads
Nine Rothschild Utne is the Editor-at-large for Utne magazine and Matthew Sanford is a paralyzed yoga teacher who authored the book Waking.
May 13, 2008 | 1164 reads
Van 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.
March 6, 2008 | 1417 reads
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.
March 3, 2008 | 1322 reads
How 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.
February 12, 2008 | 1491 reads
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.
February 12, 2008 | 1964 reads
In this dialogue, former IONS President, James O’Dea, and Sequoyah Trueblood discuss the great shift in the context of our universal oneness.
February 12, 2008 | 1447 reads
Lion 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.
February 12, 2008 | 1913 reads
Neale 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."
February 12, 2008 | 1335 reads
Wild 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.
February 12, 2008 | 1180 reads
What 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.
February 12, 2008 | 1672 reads
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. 
February 11, 2008 | 3215 reads
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.
February 10, 2008 | 2043 reads
Deepak 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.
February 7, 2008 | 1936 reads
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.
February 5, 2008 | 1480 reads
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.
February 5, 2008 | 1178 reads
Global Exchange and Green Festival co-founders Medea Benjamin and Kevin Danaher are masters of finding practical solutions that create systemic change.
February 5, 2008 | 1321 reads
In 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.
February 1, 2008 | 2156 reads
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.”
February 1, 2008 | 2443 reads
This dialogue pairs two of the most prolific and insightful big picture visionaries of our day: Ervin Laszlo and Peter Russell.
January 31, 2008 | 1816 reads
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.
