Stretching the Perimeters of the Possible with Jean Houston

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We live in a time of such rapid change that sometimes it feels like we might wake up one morning, walk outside the front door and be facing a future we didn’t prepare for. Jean Houston, one of the early point riders of the human potential movement says : “It’s time to wake upólearn to cook on more burners,” because we have “come to the edge of our tolerance and it’s time to jump.” Because “we’re all encoded with a dynamic purpose,” Houston believes we can “create a new order of social artistry that reflects righteousness between people, creativity, health and spiritual power.” Find out how to begin in this inspiring dialogue.

Houston is co-director of the Foundation of Mind Research, a consultant to the United Nations, UNICEF, and other international agencies and a bestselling author whose books include The Possible Human (Tarcher/St. Martin’s Press 1982), A Mythic Life (HarperSanFrancisco 1996), A Passion for the Possible (HarperSanFrancisco 1997), and Jump Time: Shaping Your Future in a World of Radical Change (Putnam 2000).

Topics Explored in this Dialogue:

• “Jump time” and how it relates to our place in history today
• What to do when the map no longer fits the territory
• Going from “this is me” to “we are”
• How the Internet relates to the “Inner-Net”
• Whole body learning
• Why it is so crucial to keep our cultural diversity alive
• Houston’s hilarious five year old singing debut at Hollywood Bowl and how it changed her life
• Amazing stories of everyday people who changed the world
• The spiritual impulse behind technology

Host: Michael Toms Interview Date: 6/18/2000