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Creativity, Imagination & Systems Thinking

“The most interesting and important thing I learned from this class is “system thinking.” Through this way of thinking, I learned that everything, for example humans, nature and society, is connected. These days, human beings tend to ignore the surrounding … Continue reading

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Environmental Problems in the 21st Century

The following is a replica of the first of three units of an Integrated English course presented online via Moodle forums and Zoom meetings, for Science students at Kyushu University during the second semester of 2020, in Fukuoka, Japan. Most … Continue reading

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The Evolution of Human Consciousness

See how you resonate with the 16 characteristics of this evolved level of human consciousness, as described by Ervin Laszlo… 1. I am part of the world. The world is not outside of me, and I am not outside of … Continue reading

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“Billionaires Have the Money, We Have the People.”

  “Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people who are hurting.   The struggle to create a nation and world of economic and … Continue reading

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The Global Butterfly Effect

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.” ―Richard Bach, Illusions     We are living now during one of the most important time periods in human history. Our global species is at a turning point, the … Continue reading

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We Must Take Care of the Earth ~ John Trudell

“The people who have created this system, and who perpetuate this system, they are out of balance. They have made us out of balance. They have come into our minds and they have come into our hearts and they’ve programmed … Continue reading

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The Perpetual Curse of Feudalism, Reinvented

“Washington has become our Versailles. We are ruled, entertained, and informed by courtiers — and the media has evolved into a class of courtiers… We are captivated by the hollow stagecraft of political theater as we are ruthlessly stripped of power. … Continue reading

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A New Vision of Reality – Fritjof Capra

“Systems thinking has a certain simplicity and elegance to it — basically, a shift from seeing the world as a machine to understanding it as a network… To deal with nonlinear systems requires a change of perspective from objects to … Continue reading

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The Emergence of Connected Consciousness

“A key feature of distributed intelligence is that no one part has to have the whole answer. Rather, the intelligence of the whole emerges through the actions and interactions of its parts.” ~Joanna Macy & Chris Johnstone The following is … Continue reading

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Beyond Capitalism – Albert Einstein, 1949

“Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands… The result is an oligarchy the enormous power of which cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organised political society.”
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