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Genuine Sustainable Abundance with Bernard Lietaer and Jacqui Dunne

New Dimensions — Wed, 22 May 2013 07:05:14 +0000

Free Listening Through June 4, 2013: Has our present economic system been designed for another age? Does it truly serve the needs of the 21st century world? What are the stepping stones to a new economic structure? The answers to these and many other questions are addressed in this informative dialogue. In taking out a loan or a mortgage under the current system, Lietaer and Dunne point out, “When you pay back interest, you’re actually using [...]

Designing Products Toward Sustainability with Tom Darden

New Dimensions — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:05:08 +0000

Free Listening Through May 28, 2013: Tom Darden and others like him are seriously looking at products that have positive environmental effect. He’s been able to help companies, such as sawmills, to change the way they produce their products. He’s been working in the field of investing in developing technology, products, and services that are environmentally safe. One of his personal interests is connecting companies with China to help address environmental problems there. He is also [...]

Forgiveness Is The Path with Ronita Johnson

New Dimensions — Wed, 08 May 2013 07:02:26 +0000

Free Listening Through May 21, 2013: Johnson is an African American daughter of a preacher who grew up initially in Louisiana and later in Northern California. Here she tells her story of a severe childhood which left her feeling shame, guilt, bitterness, and a general sense of unworthiness. She shares her journey from a devastating childhood to one of forgiveness and wholeness. Her first discovery of healing was provided by sitting in a women’s circle. She [...]

Finding Our Own Authenticity

New Dimensions — Tue, 07 May 2013 09:00:22 +0000

One of my circles keeps in touch by email and a monthly conference call. We rotate leadership and each leader suggests a topic for our check-in. This month a circle sister from Canada suggested we focus on the word authenticity and what it means to each of us. The sharing was both deep and diverse. Becoming conscious of our authentic self is no less than a revolution of the soul. It requires a commitment to go [...]

Mindfulness Practice: Slowing Down – Tapping Into Our Inner Resources with Congressman Tim Ryan

New Dimensions — Wed, 01 May 2013 07:05:49 +0000

Congressman Ryan has a dream for America which is to create a society that has healthcare for all, a sustainable eco-system, fosters creativity at the highest levels, and time to connect with family and friends. He sees us slowing down and becoming more kind and more aware. To help us do this, he advocates training ourselves in mindfulness awareness. He, and others, are successfully introducing this practice in many of our institutions like schools, the military, [...]

Beyond Humans, Widening Our Circle Of Friends with Priscilla Stuckey, Ph.D.

New Dimensions — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 17:24:29 +0000

Stuckey begins this conversation by telling three stories — how an eagle, a bougainvillea bush, and the birch tree of her childhood all communicated with her in some way. We think we are alone but Stuckey points out “we are deeply connected with all others with whom we share our lives.” She encourages us to be aware of our connection with all the life that surrounds us, even in cities. In response to the idea that the world [...]

Asking Better Questions with Robert Fuller, Ph.D.

New Dimensions — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 07:41:49 +0000

From traveling across Russia on the Trans-Siberian railroad to the “Golden Rule” in religion, Fuller takes us on a wide and deep adventure, always returning to the idea that learning to ask better questions is one of the keys to truly improving our lives and improving society. In Fuller’s varied career from serving as a college president and consultant to Presidents he always comes back to the fundamental practice of striving to ask better questions. Even in the [...]

Music: Celebration of the Soul

New Dimensions — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 06:50:22 +0000

This is a warning; I’m getting up on my soapbox in advocating the arts, especially music, in our schools. Music has been a thread woven into the fabric of my soul. In early childhood, on Saturday mornings I eagerly opened my album of Prokovief’s picturesque score of Peter and the Wolf. It contained three 78 rpm records which I never tired of listening to with rapt attention. I believe it was narrated by Richard Hale. Then [...]

The Four Seasons Of Moving Through Tough Times with Deidre Combs, Ph.D.

New Dimensions — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 07:05:11 +0000

In challenging times, our experience cycles through four phases, which Combs equates to the seasons. We get a medical report, we’re facing a divorce, or coping with the death of a loved one. It’s in the autumn when things are falling apart. Combs describes the other seasons thusly, “We recognize there’s some period where things get really dark. We are feeling helpless; that’s the winter of tough times. If we can make it through the winter and pull [...]

Poetry: The Unfolding Of What Is Hidden with Jane Hirshfield

New Dimensions — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 07:05:58 +0000

Hirshfield points out that many people turn to poetry at great life transitions. She says, “You know when people fall in love, or when they lose love, or lose someone they loved, that is when they want a poem. When they get married they want a poem. These great transitions are larger than the normal, ordinary consciousness. And what poems do is give us a vocabulary for understanding things, which aren’t available through any other use [...]