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Arianna Huffington - The Better Angels of Our Nature
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In our highly polarized political climate, it is rare to find an individual who is as familiar with both sides of the aisle as Arianna Huffington is. A bestselling author, a nationally syndicated columnist, and named by Time magazine as one of the one hundred most influential people in 2006, ... more
Audrey Kitagawa - Stepping into Global Citizenship
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Audrey Kitagawa works as a full-time volunteer for the United Nations in the rescue and rehabilitation of child combatants forced to fight in civil wars and insurgencies throughout the developing world. Formerly a successful attorney in Honolulu, Kitagawa is also the sole heir to the spiritual ... more
Brian Robertson - Holacracy: An Organizational Paradigm for the Future
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Holacracy. It rhymes with democracy but refers to a system for governing businesses and organizations that is as radically new and every bit as exciting as democracy was a couple hundred years ago. Brian Robertson, a young software entrepreneur, coined the term to describe what he calls “the ... more
Chip Conley - Creating a Transformative Business Culture
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In this presentation, EnlightenNext executive editor Carter Phipps talks to California hotel mogul Chip Conley about how he transformed his fledgling hospitality company, Joie de Vivre, into America’s second largest independent boutique hotel business. What makes Conley’s success unique ... more
Daniel Burrus - Living in a World of Accelerating Change
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Daniel Burrus has an uncanny eye for the future. As one of the world’s most accurate forecasters of up-and-coming technologies and an advisor to many Fortune 500 companies, he has an unusual ability to see what changes are on the horizon and how they will influence the way we live. In this ... more
David Gershon - Enlightened Social Action
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David Gershon, an internationally recognized authority on behavioral and large system change, is applying his innovative transformational techniques and vast organizational experience to bring the war against global warming right to your doorstep. His book, Low Carbon Diet, is both a personal ... more
Dennis Ford - The Quest for Meaning
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In this engaging exchange with EnlightenNext senior editor Elizabeth Debold, author Dennis Ford explores the perennial human quest to find order and meaning in an often chaotic world. Touching on a wide range of philosophical, religious, and scientific approaches to the search for meaning throughout ... more
Donna Zajonc - Igniting a Spark of Power
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As part of a government sponsored, nonprofit initiative, author and political consultant Donna Zajonc traveled to Tunis to meet with sixty prominent Islamic women from Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. Donna’s intimate account of her experience is a part hopeful, part cautionary tale of modern ... more
Dr. Munawar Anees - Muslims and Global Enlightenment—Partners or Pariahs?
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The fate of the Muslim world is inextricably linked to both the basic development of the Islamic East and the continued growth of the industrialized West. In this audio, Dr. Anees stresses the need for intellectual, economic, and cultural reform within Islam and for greater tolerance and ... more
Edward Artis - Chivalry Lives: Portrait of a Warrior-Saint
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Edward Artis is one of the three big, brash men featured in the documentary film, Beyond the Call, which chronicles the rough and tumble international aid work undertaken by Artis and his associates. Part ruffian, part saint, Artis aspires to a kind of modern day chivalry that compels him to ... more
Elza Maalouf - The Future of the Middle East
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“We’re entering a requiem for the age of oil,” says Lebanon-born cultural development expert Elza Maalouf, “one that will no doubt push oil-rich countries to look for other ways to enrich themselves.” Maalouf, who heads up the Center for Human Emergence—Middle ... more
Ethan Zuckerman - Bright Green Technology for the Developing World
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If you’re like us, you’re still in awe of the internet’s amazing capacity to provide a window on people, places, ideas, and information from around the world, with only a few clicks of a mouse button. At EnlightenNext, the web has changed virtually every aspect of our lives, from ... more
Gary Lachman - Politics and the Occult
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Utopian communes, alternative spirituality, and radical political activism. In the minds of many, these social phenomena first burst into being during the cultural ferment of the sixties. But according to author and historian Gary Lachman, the countercultural characteristics usually associated with ... more
Howard Bloom - In Praise of Consumerism: The Spiritual Fruits of Materialism
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Materialism. Consumerism. Words with bad reputations, invoking images of conspicuous consumption and squandered resources. But what if our innate compulsion to endlessly produce and consume is actually a natural and, in fact, critical part of a higher evolutionary process? In this talk recorded at ... more
Jakob von Uexkull - Building the Global Future: A Call to Action
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Visionary social activist Jakob von Uexkull has earned the respect of global thinkers and activists across the globe for his unceasing commitment to a better world. Founder of the prestigious Right Livelihood Award (the “alternative Nobel Prize”), he has spent the last twenty-five years ... more
Jeremy Rifkin - Into the 21st: The Future of Commerce, Economy, and Culture
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In this interview, bestselling author and global policy shaper Jeremy Rifkin speaks with EnlightenNext associate editor Melissa Hoffman about some of the far-flung possibilities likely to transpire as our future fast approaches. A brief preview: As the age of information progresses, machines will ... more
Jim Garrison - America as Empire
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America was founded on the principles of equality, liberty, and justice—revered as a place of unlimited potential for those possessing little more than the will to succeed. In Garrison's view, America has grown far beyond these characteristics, beyond what the Founding Fathers—and most ... more
Jim Garrison - Bush vs Kerry: The Deeper Dimensions of the Choice Before America
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In this talk, Jim Garrison discusses the critical choices and profound consequences that define the 2004 U.S. Presidential election. The stakes far exceed any particular issue or personality. It is as if America has arrived at a great fork in the road, facing a choice between two candidates, two ... more
Jim Garrison - Creating a New Cultural Renaissance
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Is Barack Obama’s success in the 2008 presidential campaign an indication that we’re on the verge of a new cultural and political paradigm? Are the world’s socially and environmentally conscious citizens—the “cultural creatives”—starting to find a larger ... more
Jim Garrison – An Integral Approach to Climate Change
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It is a rare individual who is willing to face into the overwhelming complexity of humanity’s biggest challenges and then, with unyielding optimism, dedicate his life to overcoming them. Jim Garrison, religious scholar, geopolitical activist, and founder of Wisdom University, is one such ... more
Joel Garreau - Radical Evolution
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We live in one of the most tumultuous and exciting times in human history. With our cultural, political, economic, and spiritual systems colliding, breaking down, and transforming in the mixing bowl of the twenty-first century, it is very difficult to predict what the world or our lives might look ... more
John Petersen - A Future of Extraordinary Change
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A quick scan of the shelves at any New Age bookstore would likely reveal a plethora of books dedicated to 2012, that infamous year when, according to many ancient mythologies, the world is going to change forever. Some say it will be the end of civilization. Others say it will be the beginning of a ... more
Jonathan Granoff - The Power of Love
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Author, attorney, and nuclear disarmament activist Jonathan Granoff speaks with EnlightenNext exectuive editor Carter Phipps about the future of the world's religions and their potential contribution to the shaping of moral and ethical standards at the national and international levels. Granoff is ... more
Joseph Jaworski - Harnessing Group Intelligence
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Occasionally we find interviews in our archives that are as fresh and pertinent today as when they were originally recorded. This gem from 2004 is a dialogue with international business consultant and entrepreneurial mastermind Joseph Jaworski, who spoke with EnlightenNext senior editor Elizabeth ... more
Juanita Brown - Collective Dialogue, Collective Wisdom
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Her delivery is emphatic and sincere. “If you're not in the conversation, then how can anything happen?” It is something she has taken deeply to heart. Indeed, it is the power of conversation that has literally defined Juanita Brown's life and career. As a Farm Workers Union organizer, ... more