Do you need a source of hope for the future? Do you wonder about the hidden, metaphysical causes of crises today? Is there a link between human thought, collective karma and world events such as natural disasters? This groundbreaking book will reveal many of these secrets, including the invisible government, the divine guidance behind America’s founding and the soul of each nation. It will give you spiritual tools to create a better world. You’ll find many practical examples of a new evolutionary politics today and innovative public policies –even in Washington D.C.!
Biography
Corinne McLaughlin is co-author of The Practical Visionary, Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out (Forward by the Dalai Lama) and Builders of the Dawn, and is Executive Director of The Center for Visionary Leadership, based in California and North Carolina. She is co-founder of Sirius, an ecological village in Massachusetts, and is a Fellow of The World Business Academy and the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. Corinne directed a national task force for President Clinton’s Council on Sustainable Development and taught politics at American University. She has lectured around the U.S., Europe and South America for over 25 years, and has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Fox News. She can be reached at: The Center for Visionary Leadership: http://www.visionarylead.org or at http://www.thepracticalvisionary.org or email corinnemc@visionarylead.org
Synopsis: Inspirational, best-selling authors of SPIRITUAL POLITICS, and renowned teachers of the Ageless Wisdom, Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson, explain the metaphysical side of the founding of America, the hidden causes of world events, collective karma, and the souls of nations. Lecture with historical and inspirational footage. Produced by Penny Price. “Sets out ways for creating a happier, more peaceful world.” -H. H. The Dalai Lama. “Compelling and inspirational.”- The Hartley Film Foundation
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About Dawn of the Akashic Age
A preview of the post-mechanistic, holistic world in 2020 and 2030 as well as a map of the obstacles we must overcome to get there
• Reveals how the youngest generation is seeding the shift in consciousness
• Explains how society will be reorganized into grassroots networks like those revealed by quantum physics and experienced through social media
• With contributions from futurist John L. Petersen, ex-CEO of Sanyo Tomoya Nonaka, media activist Duane Elgin, and other visionaries
The world is changing. The transition from the mechanistic worldview to one that recognizes the interconnectedness of all life is upon us. It is the dawning of the Akashic Age. The Akashic field that connects the universe is now recognized by cutting-edge science. What we know about communication, energy, and consciousness is rapidly evolving in tandem with the new quantum worldview. Many adults are consciously evolving to meet the transitional challenges at hand, while today’s youth have arrived already hard-wired with the new consciousness. Rising from the ashes of the old systems, this Phoenix generation of radical change agents is seeding our evolution and spiritual transformation, a process that will continue over the next few decades.
Authors Ervin Laszlo and Kingsley Dennis look at the chief engine of the coming changes–the growing global understanding of nonlocality–and the development of practical applications for it. They examine how the new values and new consciousness taking hold will reorganize society from top-down hierarchies into grassroots networks like those revealed through quantum physics’ understanding of energy and information waves and experienced daily by millions through social media.
With contributions from visionary thinkers such as futurist John L. Petersen, ex-CEO of Sanyo Tomoya Nonaka, media activist Duane Elgin, systems scientist Alexander Laszlo, and spiritual economist Charles Eisenstein, this book explores the future of education, spirituality, the media, economics, food, and planetary citizenship as well as the expansion of consciousness necessary to reach that future.
About the Author(s) of Dawn of the Akashic Age Ervin Laszlo is chancellor of Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University and the founder and president of the Club of Budapest. The author of 89 books, he lives in Pisa, Italy.
Kingsley L. Dennis, Ph.D., is a sociologist, writer, and a cofounder of WorldShift International. The author of several books, including New Consciousness for a New World, he spends his time between Andalusia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Waking the Global Heart articulates a guiding vision for the transformational passage of our time. Positing that we are an adolescent culture in search of our future humanity, our maturation into the next era of human civilization will occur through an initiatory process that is at once both personal and collective. The agents of our initiation are the very by-products of our culture––from population expansion and environmental degradation to scientific breakthroughs and the blossoming of the World Wide Web. Such rites of passage force a shift in identity and awaken a fundamental change in values. A new identity must emerge that is based on planetary stewardship and global community, rather than ego-based individualism.
This requires the enchantment of a new myth––a fundamental awakening to an inspirational vision. Lasting transformation cannot be generated by fear, guilt, or control, but must be motivated from the heart. This comprises a shift from our current values based on the love of power to those motivated by the power of love. What awakens the heart is the soul of the world itself and the very real possibility of a wondrous future.
The primary focus of the current era, oriented to power, aggression, and personal ego must change. The old story of warring empires struggling for power must give way to a new myth of interdependent reciprocity. An era of the heart, based on values of integration, compassion, human rights, and environmental sustainability, is essential if we are to survive into the future. This shift takes us from opposition to synthesis, competition to cooperation, separation to integration, markets to networks, and most importantly: from power to love.
Waking the Global Heart chronicles the story of this passage. It takes the reader through an examination of three basic questions: Who are we? Where did we come from? Where are we going? The answers take us on a tour through 30,000 years of the human story, examining the mythic themes that guided past eras. Each era is compared to stages of individual psychological development from birth to adolescence, and correlates these stages of collective evolution to the levels of consciousness related to the chakra system and to masculine and feminine archetypal dynamics.
The book then describes the elements of a new organizing principle based on self-organizing networks, values of compassion and cooperation, synthesis of divorced polarities, and the awakening of both transcendent and immanent forms of spirituality. Through a fundamental shift from seeing our world as an object to embracing it as a complex and divine subject, we can fall back in love with the world once again, and join together in balance and respect with the original partner in our evolutionary journey. By this act we can send the message through the global brain that it is time to awaken the global heart.
Anodea Judith, Ph. D.
Long concerned with the future of humanity, and passionate about awakening our collective potential, Anodea Judith has dedicated her life to healing the wounds in our personal and collective psyches, by addressing the archetypal splits in our guiding mythologies. With the recognition that our world is teetering on a dangerous precipice, Dr. Judith decided to step back from bandaging the wounds that paraded through her private practice as a therapist, and instead take a stand against the beliefs and assumptions that were causing those wounds. With a proclivity for perceiving patterns, honed by two decades in the therapist chair, she now takes her lifetime study of history, psychology, mythology, and religion, to illuminate a guiding vision for humanity’s future.
Anodea Judith holds a doctorate in Health and Human Services, with a speciality in Mind-Body healing, and a Master’s in Clinical Psychology. Her best-selling books on the chakra system, marrying Eastern and Western disciplines, have been considered groundbreaking in the field of Transpersonal Psychology and used as definitive texts in the U.S. and abroad. With under 1 million books in print, and translations in 15 languages, her books have won her the reputation of solid scholarship and international renown as a dynamic speaker and workshop leader.
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Winner of the 2007 Nautilus Book Award
-Best Book of the Year for Social Change
Winner of the 2007 Independent Publisher Award (IP)
-Silver Medal for Mind, Body & Spirit
Will we survive into the next age? If so, what will it look like and what will it take for us to get there? For the first time since the planet cooled, five billion years ago, humanity is capable of influencing—-for better or worse—-the trajectory of evolution. This requires a tremendous responsibility and maturity of the heart, and in this revolutionary book, best-selling author Anodea Judith charts the challenges and opportunities of our time.
Only through a rite of passage will humanity shift from the love of power to the power of love. This initiation will uproot and transform every aspect of human civilization. It will demand of humankind a new myth, one that insists on cooperation rather than competition, co-creation rather than procreation, networks rather than markets, and sustainability rather than exploitation. Waking the Global Heart is a handbook for this initiation, taking us on a journey through the twists and turns of our collective history to emerge with a guiding vision for our next awakening. Anodea Judith, Ph. D.
Anodea Judith, Ph.D., is a prophet for our time. Her books include Wheels of Life and Eastern Body, Western Mind, with 500,000 books in print in 12 languages, as well as several audio products, and an award-winning video. A former therapist, she now teaches workshops nationally and internationally on cultural evolution, human psychology, spirituality, and healing.
Anodea Judith – Template for Transformation
Join author Anodea Judith in this one-minute video as she describes humanity’s shift from the love of power to the power of love as a new organizing principle, combining personal and collective transformation using the map of the chakra system .
We live in difficult and stressful times. You’ve read books and done workshops, but you still have to face so many stubborn obstacles. Yet it’s often our pain and dissatisfaction that pushes us to seek a more conscious life.
Your Ultimate Life Plan is the missing “how to” for getting unstuck and moving past your problems into a richer and more meaningful life. It’s a roadmap to living your most happy, most authentic, most amazing life.
A practical guide that will help you improve every moment of your life and create changes that last, Your Ultimate Life Plan teaches you how to build:
Confidence: Remove what’s stopping you. Strength: Move from your wounded ego into your sacred self. Courage: Make smarter choices by embracing the Four Dimensions of Consciousness. Success: Rise to your next level of happiness, clarity, and transformation.
The distillation of Dr. Howard’s 20-plus years of experience as a licensed psychotherapist and spiritual teacher, this “workshop in a book” will help you do more than understand Wholeness–you will experience it.
Why settle for average, when the potential to live an amazing life is inside you, right now? This book will help you step boldly into your next, deeper level of happiness, wholeness, transformation, and success. Jennifer Howard, Ph.D., is the author of “Your Ultimate Life Plan,” winner of a 2013 Gold Nautilus Book Award, and finalist in the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Book Awards and the 2012 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards. The distillation of her 20-plus years of experience as an internationally known licensed psychotherapist, energy healer, and spiritual teacher, this “workshop in a book” is the missing “how to” for moving past your problems and stepping boldly into your next, deeper level of happiness, wholeness, transformation and success. “Your Ultimate Life Plan” asks, why settle for average when the potential to live an amazing life is inside you, right now?
A recognized thought leader on psychology and spirituality, Dr. Howard is a Huffington Post blogger, one of the featured experts in the national wellness campaign, Walk with Walgreens, and has appeared as an expert on numerous national network television shows. On her weekly radio talk show, “A Conscious Life,” she has inspiring, informative, and fun conversations with such distinguished guests as Sharon Salzberg, Gay Hendricks, Hale Dwoskin, Marci Shimoff, Andrew Harvey, Bruce Lipton, Ph.D., Sonia Choquette, Mathew Fox, Bernie Siegel, M.D., Lama Surya Das, and Rabbi Rami Shapiro, among others. A life and business coach, professional speaker, and co-founder of the Healing Path Center, Dr. Howard maintains a private practice with offices in New York City and Long Island, and has an extensive phone practice.
This book details the vision of interspirituality within a comprehensive and powerful synthesis of world religions and spirituality, the discoveries of modern science, and the developmental and evolutionary view of history. It is the first book to review and predict the ongoing history of world religions and spirituality in the context of developmental history, the evolutionary consciousness movement, and current scientific understandings of anthropology, human cognite development, brain/mind and scientific consciousness studies.
This book addresses Brother WayneTeasdale’s vision of “The Interspiritual Age,” a vision that parallels the equally well-known and publicized visions of the world’s developmental and evolutionary consciousness movements (known therein as coming “Integral Age” or “Age of Evolutionary Consciousness”) and the international humanist movement (known therein as the emerging “International Ethical Manifold”). As such The Coming Interspiritual Age is the first synthesis of interfaith and interspirituality with the popular writings of integral leaders Ken Wilber and Don Beck.
The book includes provocative sections regarding the inherent unity within the world’s religious and spiritual understanding (especially their shared mystical understandings), the relationship of these and modern scientific studies of consciousness and brain/mind, the developmental and evolutionary views of history, the inevitable ongoing processes of world globalization and multiculturalism, the emergent understanding of the Divine Feminine, the nature of spiritual experience and the reputed spirit realms, and the various predictions around and surrounding the year 2012. The book concludes with extensive “how-to” sections regarding the development and practice of interspirituality as it can happen both within the world’s current religious traditions as well as in new, creative, and entrepreneurial settings worldwide.
Kurt Johnson, PhD, is well known internationally as a scientist, comparative religionist, social activist and former monastic. PhD in evolution, ecology, systematics and comparative biology and extensive training in comparative religion and philosophy. Author of 7 books on ecology and evolution.
David Robert Ord is a former Presbyterian (USA) minister and Graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary. Coauthor with Dr Robert B. Coote of The Bible’s First History, In the Beginning, Is the Bible True, Understanding the Bible Today, Your Forgotten Self.
Dr. Kurt Johnson has worked in science and spirituality for over 40 years. This dual career in science and spirituality is detailed at WIKIPEDIA. In spirituality, Kurt is co-author of the recently published book The Coming Interspiritual Age, with David Robert Ord, the Editorial Director of Namaste Publishing (publishers of such spiritual teachers as Eckhart Tolle and Michael Brown). As a New Release, the book has been in Amazon’s Top Ten in Spirituality.
Kurt was originally a Christian monk and founded, with Br. Wayne Teasdale and others, the InterSpiritual Dialogue Association for discussion of contemplative experience across traditions. Ordained in three spiritual traditions, he works also with The Contemplative Alliance and Integral Communities.
In science, Kurt is the co-author of the best-selling Nabokov’s Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Genius, with Steve Coates of The New York Times, which was a Top Ten Book in science in 2000. Kurt’s PhD is in evolution, ecology, systematics and comparative biology. Associated with the American Museum of Natural History (30 yrs.). He published 200+ articles on evolution and ecology, including the 2011 Harvard DNA sequence study vindicating Vladimir Nabokov’s views of evolution. He is currently completing another book on Nabokov’s science and art for Yale University Press. However, Kurt’s primary interest is the simplicity of nondual spiritual practice.
A Collection of Essays: Available Summer 2013
Edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
The Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked
what we need to do to save our world.
“What we most need to do,” he replied,
“is to hear within us the sound of the earth crying.”
Our present ecological crisis is the greatest man-made disaster this planet has ever faced—its accelerating climate change, species depletion, pollution and acidification of the oceans. A central but rarely addressed aspect of this crisis is our forgetfulness of the sacred nature of creation, and how this affects our relationship to the environment. There is a pressing need to articulate a spiritual response to this ecological crisis. This is vital and necessary if we are to help bring the world as a living whole back into balance.
Contributors include: Chief Oren Lyons, Thich Nhat Hanh, Sandra Ingerman, Joanna Macy, Sister Miriam MacGillis, Satish Kumar, Vandana Shiva, Fr. Richard Rohr, Bill Plotkin, Jules Cashford, Wendell Berry, Winona LaDuke, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Brian Swimme, and others.
From the INTRODUCTION
The earth is in distress and is calling to us, sending us signs of the extremity of its imbalance through earthquakes and tsunamis, floods and storms, drought, unprecedented heat. There are now indications that its ecosystem as a whole may even be approaching a “tipping point” or “state shift” of irreversible change with unforeseeable consequences.
This book is a collection of responses to the call of the earth. It is not offered as a solution to a problem because the world is not a problem; it is a living being in distress. The signs of global imbalance, the tsunamis, the destruction of the coral reefs, are not just physical symptoms. As Thich Nhat Hanh writes, these are “bells of mindfulness,” calling us to be attentive, to wake up and listen. The earth needs our attention. It needs us to help heal its body, damaged by our exploitation, and also its soul, wounded by our desecration, our forgetfulness of its sacred nature. Only when we remember what is sacred can we bring any real awareness to our present predicament.
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Do Not Go Quietly is an extraordinary and important book for all Gen Xers (40 to 45), baby boomers (46 to 64), and elders (65 and older). It is also valuable for those under 40 who want to better understand and assist their parents, older friends, and relatives. Discover how to harvest the fruits of our past and turn them into gold we can invest in the present and future. Learn how to live with greater mindfulness in each moment so that we can more fully celebrate our lives, live our dreams, and heal any wounds that may encumber us. See how to chart a more harmonious, joyful, and successful course so that we’ll be able to say with pride, “We have run the course to the best of our abilities, and we will leave behind a legacy of genuine value.”
George and Sedena Cappannelli are popular authors; speakers; and co-founders of AgeNation, a digital-media company and social enterprise, and The Age of Empowerment,a nonprofit organization that supports people and organizations serving vulnerable sections of our aging population. They are experts on individual, organizational, and societal change and well-known consultants, coaches, and keynote presenters who have worked with thousands of individuals and hundreds of the world’s leading institutions in both the private and public sectors, including Boeing, NASA, The Walt Disney Company, Oracle, PepsiCo, the Los Angeles Times, U.S. Navy, and more.
George and Sedena have appeared on hundreds of television and radio programs during two national book tours and in conjunction with their other projects and programs, including their own radio talk show, Talk About Your Life, in Phoenix, Arizona. George is also an Emmy Award–winning film and television producer/director, and Sedena has been a member of the Screen Actors Guild since 1979, having appeared in numerous films, television programs, and theatrical productions. She is also the founder of About Life, Inc, a company she created to bring personal empowerment to women.
In addition, George was the co-founder of The International Integrity Program; served as executive director of The Sedona Institute; and was the director of The Society for the Advancement of the Human Spirit, an organization chaired by the Dalai Lama. He has worked on special projects with Golda Meir, Lech Walesa, Desmond Tutu, Mother Teresa, and other world leaders. In 1991, George managed Jerry Brown’s U.S. Senate campaign in California, and he served as a special strategist and consultant in the 1992, 1996, and 2008 presidential campaigns. He has also served as creative director and eventually chief operating officer for Allerton, Berman & Dean, a New York–based marketing and public-relations agency.
George’s political blog It’s About Time explores the themes covered in his book, I Dream of a New America. Together, the authors have written two previous books: Say Yes To Change: 25 Keys to Making Change Work for You and Authenticity: A Guide to Greater Meaning and Purpose at Work and at Home.
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AgeNation – Living Consciously, Aging Wisely
All our lives will be deeply impacted by our aging population and AgeNation seeks to draw on the inspiration, creativity & idealism that will help redefine what it means to live consciously & wisely in the 21st century. Our activities are centered around our AgeNation.com website which contains both our rEVO online magazine & AgeNation Radio podcast sites.
AgeNation also produces entertainment events, conferences, leadership workshops, consulting and are developing unique television, publishing and travel divisions to help to teach & learn about how to achieve our mission. We are the generations that need to save our world – we cannot wait for a future generation to do it for us. We need you to help us reinvest value, care and heart into a world that is so desperately in need of it.
A practical guide to conscious evolution for personal, spiritual, and global transformation
• Provides spiritual practices to manifest a meaningful connection between Self and God/Source/Creator and psychological exercises to heal the shadow self
• Offers an in-depth overview of religion and spirituality, both the old paradigm and the evolving new one
• Includes the first fully written account of the First Nations Peoples’ oral wisdom teachings on the 7 Dark, 7 Light, and 7 Rainbow Arrows for evolving consciousness
We are living in an unprecedented time of change, a new epoch with a new consciousness. We have reached Zero Point in our personal and collective consciousness and are now in a phase of accelerated conscious evolution and manifestation of personal and collective vision. As the current political, economic, and social systems begin to collapse, people are instinctively and intuitively reevaluating their lives and asking what has real meaning and value and what brings them true peace and happiness. Humanity is now poised to establish a unified, co-creative new world that reflects the evolved consciousness of awakened hearts and minds, of collaboration, and of peace.
Presenting a guide for these auspicious times, Nicolya Christi offers psychological and spiritual tools to accelerate conscious and global evolution and initiate a New Consciousness for the post–December 21st, 2012, epoch. She gives an in-depth overview of religion and spirituality, both the old paradigm and the evolving new one, and explains how all trauma results from “empathic disconnection,” which hinders our spiritual growth. She provides spiritual practices to manifest a meaningful connection between Self and God/Source/Creator as well as psychological exercises to heal and integrate the shadow self and dissolve psychological wounds. She offers the first fully written account of the First Nations Peoples’ oral wisdom teachings on the 7 Dark, 7 Light, and 7 Rainbow Arrows for evolving consciousness. She also writes in depth about the evolution of relationship and aspiring to a higher love and sexuality.
Detailing several maps and models for conscious and global evolution, this handbook inspires each of us toward a consciously evolving spirituality and a true and authentic relationship with God/Source/Creator.
• Reveals how a hierarchy of initiates, evolved spiritual intelligences, and devas actively influenced the musical compositions of geniuses to transmit great truths through music
• Explores the influence of the classical composers Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, and Strauss–from Beethoven’s influence on the creation of psychoanalysis to Chopin’s musical influence on the emancipation of women
Composer and author Cyril Scott explores the role of music in the evolution of humanity and shows how it has pushed human evolution forward. He explains that music has a profound effect on history, morals, and culture and is a more potent force in the molding of character than religious creeds or moral philosophies. Whereas mediocre musicians reflect only their own times, inspired ones help determine the character of the future.
Exploring the works of classical composers such as Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Wagner, and Strauss, Scott reveals how their compositions were actively influenced by a hierarchy of initiates, evolved spiritual intelligences, and devas to make the way fertile for human spiritual evolution. Scott explains how humans are composed not only of a physical body, emotional body, and a mental body but also a sensation body that acts as the bridge between the physical realm and the hierarchy of initiates. Scott shows how the music of great composers affects not only those listening but also society as a whole–from Beethoven’s influence on the creation of psychoanalysis to Chopin’s musical influence on the emancipation of women. Cyril Scott(1879-1970) was an English composer, writer, and poet. The youngest student of his time accepted to The Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt, Germany, Scott was hailed at the beginning of the 20th century as the father of modern British music. He wrote several other books, including An Outline of Modern Occultism, The Great Awareness, and The Initiate trilogy.
At this moment in history, we’re faced with one of the biggest choice points we have ever encountered. Individuals are making choices to change their nations; nature is giving us a wake-up call; economies are struggling; and for many of us, the future looks uncertain. Yet people are also rallying to have a voice, awakening from their apathy of previous decades. Collectively and individually, we are being given the opportunity to make extraordinary choices in order to change where we are headed.
Based on the extraordinary film Choice Point, which features insights from some of the world’s leading change-makers-including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson, Arielle Ford, Tony Benn, James Caan, Gregg Braden, Dr. Larry Dossey, and His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa, this inspiring book reveals exclusive material not seen in the film, and explores its exciting discoveries in greater depth. It shows you how to understand your world like never before, how to align your own true purpose with the patterns of the universe, and finally, how to be the change that you want to see in the world around you.
Harry Massey
Harry Massey is a writer, director, entrepreneur, and visionary. He directed the full-length documentary film Choice Point and wrote the accompanying book. He also founded the Choice Point foundation to bring his vision for transforming the world to the general public. Its mission is both to inspire people to transform themselves—and so to be the change they want to see in the world—and to develop paradigm-changing technology that can assist us in solving some of the world’s most pressing problems. In addition, Massey co-founded NES Health Limited (www.neshealth.com), a company dedicated to furthering a 21st-century system of natural holistic health care based on integrating physics and biology. He has created several leading-edge health-related technologies, including the NES miHealth. His passion for changing the face of health care arose from his own health challenge as he sought to overcome a serious illness in his youth. Massey was also executive producer and co-writer of the 2009 best-selling documentary DVD The Living Matrix: A New Science of Healing, which championed the rise of a new kind of medicine based on energy and information fields.
Dr. David Hamilton
David R. Hamilton acquired an honors degree in biological and medicinal chemistry, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry before working as a scientist in the pharmaceutical industry for several years. His research into the mind-body connection ultimately led him to leave that profession and become a motivational speaker. He went on to co-found an international relief charity, and he appears regularly in the media. He spends most of his time writing, giving talks, and leading workshops.
Website: http://www.drdavidhamilton.com
Explore the second underlying principle of Choice Point: Align Your Purpose.
Learn how aligning your purpose with the patterns of the universe can help you to realise your dreams and make a difference in the world. Featuring wisdom from visionaries and change-makers including Sir Richard Branson, Desmond Tutu, Jack Canfield, Barbara Marx Hubbard, HH Dalai Lama, James Caan and many more. Learn more at http://www.choicepointmovement.com and join movement to align your purpose and make a real difference in the world. Enjoy!
A Q&A With Harry Massey, Founder of Choice Point
1. What inspired you to start the Choice Point Movement and create the Choice Point movie?
Barbara Marx Hubbard said, “Crises often precede transformation and innovation,” and that’s exactly what happened to me. Twelve ago I was bedridden with a debilitating case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome that left me broke and unable to take care of myself. After years of going from one practitioner to another I came to my own Choice Point. I had this idea of creating a home wellness system so anyone could self-diagnose and get better from home. I had no idea how I’d do it, but I had nothing to lose by trying. I managed to build a successful health business that has helped thousands of people. I thought that if I could do this, then we could help other people align their purpose so they could help themselves and help solve some of the world’s problems along the way.
2. What is the Choice Point Movement?
Choice Point Movement helps empower the individual to help global solutions happen. It does this in three ways:
–It provides the wisdom to Understand Your World in the form of movies, courses and books from global visionaries,
–It gives you the tools to align your purpose by making self-growth fun and it provides an exchange of idea’s to make change happen in our social network.
If you imagine the world is a jigsaw puzzle composed of all of us individually. If we can help people be the best puzzle piece they can be and then help those pieces connect to each other effectively, then we’ll be able to bring forward the solutions the world so desperately needs. Choice Point Movement helps that happen.
3. How did you ever get so many world change-leaders to commit to being a part of this project?
There’s a story behind every single one of them. I think the first question you have to ask yourself is what are you prepared to give that others will be open to hearing that request. Desmond Tutu was doing his last-ever public appearance in the UK which we offered to film. With Richard Branson, one of his nephews actually targeted our health company for a job, which we gave him, but it still it took six months for Branson to agree to do it.
I think ultimately though it comes down to persistence combined with an aligned purpose. Is your purpose worthy of other people’s time and energy? It isn’t just a case of thinking and attracting it, as that doesn’t take into account the value of your idea. I think these leaders came on board because the purpose aligned not only with their own interests, but also has significant benefits to people all around the globe, too.
4. The people who have made a positive global impact and those who have made billions have a secret we can all learn? What is it?
Patterns, global patterns.
In doing my research, I came across the idea of fractals both in nature and in time. And that these fractals had branching points where different possibilities exist. And I couldn’t help but to see a common pattern between physics and the science of fractals and also what happens in people’s lives. The branching of a fractal is the same thing as a Choice Point in someone’s life. And that if you could both identify a Choice Point and also recognize where those possibilities go, then you’re suddenly able to make much better choices which can have huge affects on your life. A major Choice Point is often recognized as a crisis, but you also get minor Choice Points, too, where you might just feel a bit uncomfortable and have that desire to do something different.
5. How can people know when they are at a Choice Point and what can they do to change their lives?
Once you’re at a Choice Point, the best thing to do is start to Understand Your World.
6. You say that “understanding your world” is vitally important. How does one go about doing that?
Your world is a tarot deck example of reading signs. Another way to look at it is put a question in your head and you can then tune into a random radio stations to get the answers.
Let me just talk you through that. You’re at a Choice Point, your life is in crisis and you don’t know what to do. First step, start to Understand Your World. Examine what your skills and passions are. Ask questions, Do research. Develop empathy and intuition and you’ll start to build up a picture of a particular part of your world.
From that knowledge, it becomes much easier to make choices that patterns in nature will support. In other words, from Understanding your World, you can define and then Align Your Purpose. Once your purpose is aligned with where the patterns are going, it can be like sailing with the wind behind you. You will have the world’s support, rather than always battling uphill –and you’ll achieve success using much less energy than before.
7. “Be the Change” is of course a famous quote from Mohandas Gandhi. How does it figure into the Choice Point paradigm?
Those two principles I previously mentioned—Understand Your World and Align Your Purpose– go an incredibly long way to success and are really the key to it. However there’s also a third principal, which is to Be The Change. To truly Align Your Purpose, you have to truly live it in every aspect. Being The Change helps you to overcome the finer detail of what might be getting in the way of your success, information that is all covered in our membership on the movement site. For instance, you may have a limiting belief over success, For example–although you want everyone to have integrity, deep down you feel you may have let others down yourself. For you to actually achieve your goals, you have to be what you want in others and totally live to those principles. Gandhi’s example is quite hard to follow, but luckily we don’t all have to go as far as he did in order to succeed and make a difference.
8. You were critically ill when you were young? Tell us about that and how it led you to where you are today?
Well, when I was I young I had chronic fatigue syndrome, which was entirely self-inflicted, due to too many years of destructive hedonistic lifestyle, with all the negative beliefs and poor self-worth that lifestyle often entails.
It was a horrible time – lying in bed, staring up at the ceiling, barely having enough energy to think, constant headaches, in a lot of pain all around your body and only being able to move just a few short steps each day. I had no clue what to do with myself or know what would happen to me. I had to live with my parents because I couldn’t earn a living or take care of myself. Imagine being like this day after day, week after week, month after month and year after year.
After the first four years of trying any and all kinds of treatments–however painful they were and with no results–I started to doubt that I would ever recover.
So I started to ask myself questions – questions like: How is this happening? And why is it happening to me?
I just wanted to understand what was going on from as many angles as possible. And asking questions seemed to me the most logical thing to do. I simply decided that the way to get myself better was to try to understand what was really behind health, how the body really worked and wouldn’t it be great if I could make a “home wellness system” that would give people the ability to work out what was wrong with them and– more importantly–to give them a way of getting themselves better again.
I didn’t realize it at the time, but that was the biggest Choice Point in my life. I decided to align with a purpose that was bigger than my own self-centric desire to get myself well. I chose to make a home wellness system that added value to other people’s lives – and in doing that, I started to recover myself.
A few years into building NES Health, our practitioner business, I thought to myself – no one really understands how information and energy can help people or how any of it works. So I decided to make a film called The Living Matrix with Greg Becker which went on to do really well. After that film, I started to wonder if this had happened to other people; if once they shifted the focus of what they were doing to something that the universe would support, did incredible things start to happen to allow them to reach their goal? Once I began to investigate and interview the world’s leading visionaries, change-makers, scientists, philosophers and spiritual leaders I noticed a pattern developing over and over that once we are able to align our purpose with patterns that are supported by others, then the universe works with you to make it happen. I made the movie to show the world how this happens and spread the message that if we align our purpose, we will not only be happier and more successful, but we’ll be helping the world as well.
9. Tell us about the miHealth? You call it a portable health system in everyone’s pocket.
The miHealth is the manifestation of the dream I had 12 years ago to make a home wellness system. I met this incredible scientist Peter Fraser who had spent the last 25 years mapping out the information of the human body – the energy field. With this map, which is a bit like a blue print of how the body works when it’s working perfectly, we were able to create a device that could then both read the information and energy of the body, but also trigger a healing response back in it, too. The miHealth is a hand–held device similar to a smartphone with a touchscreen. Just by putting it next to your skin, it can both give you information about your body, but also trigger the healing response. The Hungarian Olympic team, from a very small country, won eight medals at the Olympics. And they attribute their speedy recovery and added performance to the miHealth. You can read about that on our site http://www.neshealth.com
10. What do you see as the future of where this technology is going and how will it affect healthcare?
We’ve had various technological evolutions which have changed everything – like the industrial age, telecommunications, computers and now the Internet age. However what’s coming really daunts it all. We are actually right now at The Dawn of The Quantum Age. Already industries have been creatively destroyed or radically altered because of the rise of the Internet age. You can point to publishing, communications, music, retail and the film industry, to name a few.
The healthcare industry, though, is as yet untouched, but will go through a similar creative destruction process as technology digitizes human beings and brings health monitoring and information to the fingertips of the individual, rather than holding it in the hands of a few, using outdated expensive tests.
The ability for the individual to know what’s going on in his body and monitor the effect of his health choices and treatments is here today. This then also enables the ability to share that data collectively for the benefit of all. The combination of technology and social networks, I believe, is going to change everything.
This however is only a precursor to where the future is going. The Quantum Age is the age where companies develop products based on the practical application of Quantum Physics. Specifically, that it’s possible to transfer information–and some believe energy–through space instantaneously. Already today we have health technology in our miHealth that uses these ideas.
Ultimately The Quantum Age will creatively destroy the existing healthcare, telecommunications, computing and energy industries. When I don’t know–as this is complex technologically and also politically.
However as these ideas take hold – just as the Internet has changed the world forever in only two decades – we can be pretty certain that such a major transformation will happen again.
11. Why is Choice Point so vital in this time of world shift?
As Einstein said, “The world’s problems cannot be solved by the same consciousness that created them.” The solution therefore lies in finding a way to help us all make better choices – after all, collectively we are the people who caused the problems in the first place.
And why is it so important now?
I think humanity is currently facing its biggest Choice Point ever, because of both the rapid rise in population combined with a shrinking of resources. Rather than doing the same things we’ve always done, now is the moment that we can all make better choices for our collective future… And while we may not individually be able to make a great impact, by aligning our purposes, connecting and working together, we’ll be able to make a massive, positive difference on the global outcome. Choice Point Movement is a social network which can bring us all together, supporting each other and learning from those who’ve trodden the path before us, while we can also collaborate on the solutions. Choice Point Movement helps us to Understand our World, Align our Purposes and collectively Be the Change.
13. What can people do once they see the film or read the book?
Join the movement and tell all your friends. We’d love everyone listening to help us create the tipping point that the world gets behind it. Start learning from the incredible visionaries in 41 separate mini films we have on the site and start sharing your ideas with everyone else. Everything you need to know is on the site – just check it out.
14. What does Choice Point’s social network do that’s needed by the world that others don’t?
Well, it’s a social network with a social mission – which means that when you join, you can share your personal transformational journey with lots of other like-minded people from all around the world.
By helping others to transform, we end up thinking about our own behavior and actually start to Be the Change. It also enables our friends to transform as we help them by seeing things that maybe they can’t see themselves. And it helps the world, as the Choice Point social network ripples out positive change…
On our social network, not only are you able to connect with other visionaries, but you’re also able to inspire, support and collaborate with others on specific projects, too!
How it’s different is that you are able find other like-minded people, connect, exchange ideas, learn from one another, and inspire positive change across the planet.
16. What is your ultimate vision for the world and what do you see as Choice Point’s contribution to it?
Over the past 12 years I’ve met so many talented people with so many great solutions for the planet, yet so many of them have been blocked by themselves. Or they are not able to connect to the people they need and get the resources.
As the social network gains momentum, I’d like to form a fund to help promising individuals who have the best solutions. We’d leverage our R&D and business experience to help them. Ultimately, I’d like to see the balance tipped so that more of the solutions are able to come through with Choice Point playing its piece in the jigsaw of transformation.
17. What was Richard Branson like?
Well, he was surprising. I was really nervous to interview him. He was one of my childhood heroes. I think I read his book Losing My Virginity just around the time I was loosing mine. His nephew had told me that he was quite a shy person, but you don’t really believe that when someone has that kind of media presence. He was very humble and actually more nervous about the interview than I was.
I also hadn’t really realized just how much of his time he devotes to global issues. He told me that eight years ago he came to a Choice Point of his own, when he decided to dedicate most of his time to working on global issues (non-profit vs. profit). For example, now all of the profits from his transportation businesses, including Virgin Air, go towards global warming issues AND he’s also been changing all of the fuel on his airlines to algae biofuel instead of petro jet fuel. After the interview, I really wanted to film him being involved in these projects directly. He sent me four of the projects he was working on and I got his schedule for the following six months. I’ve NEVER seen anything like it. He was flying everywhere and it was true! Most of his time was committed to these philanthropic projects rather than business. Whereas, I had assumed he mostly spent his time running his empire.
18. You’ve covered a lot of people and issues in the movie. Which one struck you the most?
Pakistan. You think philanthropy is writing a check, but it can also be an opportunity to use your individual skills to help other people, regardless of how much money you have. On Christmas Day, I flew to Pakistan with James Caan, the successful British entrepreneur-turned-prominent- philanthropist. I witnessed first-hand the flood devastation that left 20 MILLION people homeless. You can see very vivid images in our Choice Point movie of the situation there.
James wasn’t just giving money, he had been flying out once a month for the past year using his entrepreneurial skills working with the people there–building villages, free schools, roads for the teachers and students to reach the schools, etc. In that moment, surrounded by these people, it struck me that the majority of the world’s population has really simple needs and people are incredibly appreciative when you help them. They take pride in carrying on building their villages and local economy, and need only a small hand up to get that started. I wanted to do more.
James takes volunteers and if more people knew that, they could volunteer and that would be great for them — AND the people they are helping. This was one of the seeds for Choice Point’s social engine so that we could help connect people who have skills to offer with projects that need those skills.
19. Brett’s story is pretty dramatic. Tell us how he came to his ChoicePoint.
Brett was a crack addict and armed robber who turned into a life coach. He had his Choice Point in jail while he was doing a drug deal. He was hiding heroine in the prison library behind some books when one fell out – The Art and Practice of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh. He picked it up and took it back to his cell and read the book over the next few weeks. Something in it hit him. That was the start of his journey that led him to explore meditation and Buddhism over the next few years. His impetus to change was really his daughter whom he didn’t see when he was a drug addict. Fast forward to today. Now he’s an addiction specialist and life coach and has a fantastic relationship with his daughter who simply adores him. I’ve never seen such a strong father-daughter relationship; it’s really something quite special.
20. You say no one is too young to start making a difference. Burke Baehr, who is 11, is a great example. What’s his story?
When he at six, Burke wanted to be a famous basketball player, but that all changed one day at the supermarket. He started reading the labels on the food and when he didn’t recognize the words, he began asking “Mom, what’s isopalminate fructose syrup?” His mum didn’t know what it was either, so he went home and looked up the words on the Internet. He was horrified! And the more he learned the worse it was. He ended up convincing his family to buy local organic food. And he decided he wanted to be an organic farmer, and to educate his generation about food and making healthy choices. He was featured on a TED-x video that got more than a million views on YouTube and now he’s being invited all over the world to spread his message. What really struck me when he flew over to be filmed was how incredibly moral he is. It was like speaking to a 60-year-old wise person, but with the innocence and purity of youth. He’s keeping to his mission and is the most incredibly passionate person I’ve ever met, young or old. He’s a shining example to the next generation coming along.
About Dawn of the Akashic Age
We live in difficult and stressful times. You’ve read books and done workshops, but you still have to face so many stubborn obstacles. Yet it’s often our pain and dissatisfaction that pushes us to seek a more conscious life.
This book details the vision of interspirituality within a comprehensive and powerful synthesis of world religions and spirituality, the discoveries of modern science, and the developmental and evolutionary view of history. It is the first book to review and predict the ongoing history of world religions and spirituality in the context of developmental history, the evolutionary consciousness movement, and current scientific understandings of anthropology, human cognite development, brain/mind and scientific consciousness studies.
Kurt Johnson, PhD, is well known internationally as a scientist, comparative religionist, social activist and former monastic. PhD in evolution, ecology, systematics and comparative biology and extensive training in comparative religion and philosophy. Author of 7 books on ecology and evolution.
David Robert Ord is a former Presbyterian (USA) minister and Graduate of San Francisco Theological Seminary. Coauthor with Dr Robert B. Coote of The Bible’s First History, In the Beginning, Is the Bible True, Understanding the Bible Today, Your Forgotten Self.
A Collection of Essays: Available Summer 2013
Do Not Go Quietly is an extraordinary and important book for all Gen Xers (40 to 45), baby boomers (46 to 64), and elders (65 and older). It is also valuable for those under 40 who want to better understand and assist their parents, older friends, and relatives. Discover how to harvest the fruits of our past and turn them into gold we can invest in the present and future. Learn how to live with greater mindfulness in each moment so that we can more fully celebrate our lives, live our dreams, and heal any wounds that may encumber us. See how to chart a more harmonious, joyful, and successful course so that we’ll be able to say with pride, “We have run the course to the best of our abilities, and we will leave behind a legacy of genuine value.” 
A practical guide to conscious evolution for personal, spiritual, and global transformation
Music and Its Secret Influence
Cyril Scott(1879-1970) was an English composer, writer, and poet. The youngest student of his time accepted to The Hoch Conservatorium in Frankfurt, Germany, Scott was hailed at the beginning of the 20th century as the father of modern British music. He wrote several other books, including An Outline of Modern Occultism, The Great Awareness, and The Initiate trilogy.
At this moment in history, we’re faced with one of the biggest choice points we have ever encountered. Individuals are making choices to change their nations; nature is giving us a wake-up call; economies are struggling; and for many of us, the future looks uncertain. Yet people are also rallying to have a voice, awakening from their apathy of previous decades. Collectively and individually, we are being given the opportunity to make extraordinary choices in order to change where we are headed.
