What Is Flow Experience? Can We Help Each Other Experience Flow More Often Than What Is Described Here?
When you are really involved in this completely engaging process of creating something new, you do not have enough attention left over to monitor how your body feels, or your problems at home.
You cannot feel even that you’re hungry or tired.
Your body disappears, your identity disappears from your consciousness, because you don’t have enough attention, like none of us do, to really do well something that requires a lot of concentration, and at the same time to feel that you exist.
So existence is temporarily suspended.
This automatic, spontaneous process that is being described can only happen to someone who is very well trained and who has developed technique. And it has become a kind of a truism in the study of creativity that you cannot be creating anything with less than 10 years of technical-knowledge immersion in a particular field.
Whether it is mathematics or music, it takes that long to be able to begin to change something in a way that it is better than what was there before. Now, when that happens, he says the music just flows out.
This is the flow experience, and it happens in different realms.
–Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi in the TED Talk “Flow, The Secret to Happiness.” All quotes in this post are from this TED talk, which can be viewed also at the bottom of this post.
Flow Experience for a Poet
For instance, a poet describes it in this form. This is by a student of mine who interviewed some of the leading writers and poets in the United States. And it describes the same effortless, spontaneous feeling that you get when you enter into this ecstatic state. This poet describes it as opening a door that floats in the sky — a very similar description to what Albert Einstein gave as to how he imagined the forces of relativity, when he was struggling with trying to understand how it worked.
Flow Experience for an Athlete
But it happens in other activities. For instance, this is another student of mine, Susan Jackson from Australia, who did work with some of the leading athletes in the world. And you see here in this description of an Olympic skater, the same essential description of the phenomenology of the inner state of the person. You don’t think; it goes automatically, if you merge yourself with the music, and so forth.
Flow Experience for CEOs
It happens also, actually, in the most recent book I wrote, called “Good Business,” where I interviewed some of the CEOs who had been nominated by their peers as being both very successful and very ethical, very socially responsible. You see that these people define success as something that helps others and at the same time makes you feel happy as you are working at it. And like all of these successful and responsible CEOs say, you can’t have just one of these things be successful if you want a meaningful and successful job. Anita Roddick is another one of these CEOs we interviewed. She is the founder of Body Shop, the natural cosmetics king. It’s kind of a passion that comes from doing the best and having flow while you’re working.
This is an interesting little quote from Masaru Ibuka, who was at that time starting out Sony without any money, without a product — they didn’t have a product, they didn’t have anything, but they had an idea. And the idea he had was to establish a place of work where engineers can feel the joy of technological innovation, be aware of their mission to society and work to their heart’s content. I couldn’t improve on this as a good example of how flow enters the workplace.
Flow Experience during Work
Now, when we do studies — we have, with other colleagues around the world, done over 8,000 interviews of people — from Dominican monks, to blind nuns, to Himalayan climbers, to Navajo shepherds — who enjoy their work. And regardless of the culture, regardless of education or whatever, there are these seven conditions that seem to be there when a person is in flow. There’s this focus that, once it becomes intense, leads to a sense of ecstasy, a sense of clarity: you know exactly what you want to do from one moment to the other; you get immediate feedback. You know that what you need to do is possible to do, even though difficult, and sense of time disappears, you forget yourself, you feel part of something larger. And once the conditions are present, what you are doing becomes worth doing for its own sake.
7 Conditions of Flow Experience
1. Completely involved in what you are doing – focused, concentrated.
2. A sense of ecstasy – of being outside everyday reality.
3. Great inner clarity – knowing what needs to be done, and how well you are doing.
4. Knowing that the activity is doable – that our skills are adequate to the task.
5. A sense of serenity – no worries about oneself, and a feeling of growing beyond the boundaries of the ego.
6. Timelessness – thoroughly focused on the present, hours seem to pass by in minutes.
7. Intrinsic motivation – whatever produces flow becomes it own reward.
What Do You Think?
What could help people have a flow experience regardless of their profession or skill?
Is there a common flow experience we could all help each other achieve, and thus experience this exalted state much more often, and not in connection to our profession or skills? If there is, how could we achieve that?
Please write your answers in the comments below!
Watch Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi – Flow, The Secret to Happiness [TED Talk] »
Image: "The Flow of Water" by "John T. Howard."
12 Ways Positive Social Connections in the Workplace Increases Business Success
1) More Positive Emotions = More Productivity & Creativity
Whether we looked at entrepreneurial startups or large, established enterprises, the same holds true: People are more productive and creative when they have more positive emotions.
–Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work, 2011.
2) Negative Emotions Have the Opposite Effect
We find that human happiness has large and positive causal effects on productivity. Positive emotions appear to invigorate human beings, while negative emotions have the opposite effect.
–Economist Team led by Andrew Oswald, Warwick Business School, July 2010, in “A New Happiness Equation: Worker + Happiness = Improved Productivity.”
3) Positive Workplace Interactions = Improved Employee Health
Positive social interactions at work have been shown to boost employee health, e.g. by lowering heart rate and blood pressure, and by strengthening the immune system. Happy employees also make for a more congenial workplace and improved customer service. Employees in positive moods are more willing to help peers and to provide customer service on their own accord. What’s more, compassionate, friendly, and supportive co-workers tend to build higher-quality relationships with others at work. In doing so, they boost co-workers’ productivity levels and increase coworkers’ feeling of social connection, as well as their commitment to the workplace and their levels of engagement with their job.
–Emma Seppala, “Why Compassion in Business Makes Sense,” Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, April 2013.
4) Business Success Depends on Empathetic Leaders
Business success depends on empathetic leaders who are able to adapt, build on the strengths around them, and relate to their environment.
–Jason Boyers, “Why Empathy Is the Force That Moves Business Forward,” Forbes, May 2013.
5) Happy Employees = Happy Customers and Happy Shareholders
Loyal, passionate employees bring a company as much benefit as loyal, passionate customers. They stay longer, work harder, work more creatively, and find ways to go the extra mile. They bring you more great employees. And that spreads even more happiness — happiness for employees, for customers, and for shareholders.
–Rob Markey, “Transform Your Employees into Passionate Advocates,” Harvard Business Review, January 2012.
6) The Frequency Employees Help One Another Predicts Sales Revenues
Evidence from studies led by Indiana University’s Philip Podsakoff demonstrates that the frequency with which employees help one another predicts sales revenues in pharmaceutical units and retail stores; profits, costs, and customer service in banks; creativity in consulting and engineering firms; productivity in paper mills; and revenues, operating efficiency, customer satisfaction, and performance quality in restaurants.
–Adam Grant, “Givers Take All: The Hidden Dimension of Corporate Culture,” McKinsey & Company, April 2013.
7) 5 Ways Organizational Effectiveness Is Increased When Employees Freely Contribute Their Knowledge and Skills to Others
Across these diverse contexts, organizations benefit when employees freely contribute their knowledge and skills to others. Podsakoff’s research suggests that this helping-behavior facilitates organizational effectiveness by:
- enabling employees to solve problems and get work done faster
- enhancing team cohesion and coordination
- ensuring that expertise is transferred from experienced to new employees
- reducing variability in performance when some members are overloaded or distracted
- establishing an environment in which customers and suppliers feel that their needs are the organization’s top priority
–Adam Grant, “Givers Take All: The Hidden Dimension of Corporate Culture,” McKinsey & Company, April 2013.
8) More Cooperative Work Teams = More Accuracy in the Work Done
In a landmark study led by Michael Johnson at the University of Washington, participants worked in teams that received either cooperative or competitive incentives for completing difficult tasks. For teams receiving cooperative incentives, cash prizes went to the highest-performing team as a whole, prompting members to work together as givers. In competitive teams, cash prizes went to the highest-performing individual within each team, encouraging a taker culture. The result? The competitive teams finished their tasks faster than the cooperative teams did, but less accurately, as members withheld critical information from each other.
–Adam Grant, “Givers Take All: The Hidden Dimension of Corporate Culture,” McKinsey & Company, April 2013.
9) Diversity in the Workforce Is Necessary to Drive Innovation and Promote Creativity
A diverse and inclusive workforce is necessary to drive innovation and promote creativity – 85% of respondents agreed (48% strongly so) that diversity is crucial to gaining the perspectives and ideas that foster innovation.
–Debbie Weathers, “Forbes Insights Study Identifies Strong Link between Diverse Talent and Innovation,” Forbes Insights, July 2011.
10) Different Experiences and Different Perspectives Build the Foundation Necessary to Compete on a Global Scale
Companies have realized that diversity and inclusion are no longer separate from other parts of the business. Organizations in the survey understand that different experiences and different perspectives build the foundation necessary to compete on a global scale.
–Debbie Weathers, “Forbes Insights Study Identifies Strong Link between Diverse Talent and Innovation,” Forbes Insights, July 2011.
11) The Ability to Deal with People = the Highest Value
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee, and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
–John D. Rockefeller Senior, stated while setting up the Standard Oil Company.
12) Effective Engagement of Employees = Higher Productivity and Better Financial Outcomes
The most successful organizations effectively engage their employees, leading to higher productivity and better financial outcomes. …
When organizations successfully engage their customers and their employees, they experience a 240% boost in performance-related business outcomes compared with an organization with neither engaged employees nor engaged customers. …
Actively disengaged employees alone cost the U.S. between $450 billion to $550 billion each year in lost productivity, and are more likely than engaged employees to steal from their companies, negatively influence their coworkers, miss workdays, and drive customers away.
–Gallup research, “The State of the American Workplace: Employee Engagement Insights for U.S. Business Leaders.” Gallup, 2013.
Image: "Corporate Express Meeting" by Office Now.
15 Reasons Why More Positive Social Connections are Good for Your Health
Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
—The World Health Organization’s Definition of Health
1) The Problem of Overseeing the Importance of Social Connection
We often do not recognize the importance of social connection. Our culture values hard work, success, and wealth, so it’s no surprise some of us do not set aside enough time for social ties when we think security lies in material things rather than other people.¹
2) The Problem of Loneliness
Olds and Schwartz (Associate Clinical Professors of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School) argue in The Lonely American that loneliness is often mistaken for depression. Instead of connecting with others, we consume a pill. Being lonely is outside of our individualistic world view so we don’t even see it as a problem. ¹
3) More Social Connection = More Active Democracy
Harvard’s Robert Putnam writes about social capital in his book, Bowling Alone, and shows how social ties are not only important for personal well-being, but also for our democracy. To paraphrase Putnam, “the culture in which people talk to each other over the back fence is the culture in which people vote.” Apparently, when you feel part of a group, you’re more likely to contribute to it — such as by voting. ¹
4) Social Connection Is Central to Progressive Social Change
UC Berkeley’s George Lakoff has said that we can only bring about progressive social change by evoking empathy. You can’t get people to change by loading them up with facts or shaking your finger at them. You must talk to others with respect and caring — and then you connect. Social capital is thus central to progressive social change. ¹
5) More Social Connection = Better for the Environment
Environmentalist and author Bill McKibben says that we won’t have sustainability without community. Until we see other people as our main source of security, we’ll keep turning to things, using up oil and other resources and heating and polluting the planet. Until we have community in our neighborhoods, we’ll keep going to the mall for our evening’s entertainment. ¹
6) More Social Connection = More Happiness
In the book The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies, by Robert E. Lane, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale, he brings together much of the research done on social capital over the last several years and shows how social ties not only affect our personal health, but also our societal health. He observes that as prosperity in a society increases, social solidarity decreases. Happiness not only declines, people become more distrustful of each other as well as their political institutions. Lane argues that we must alter our priorities; we must increase our levels of companionship even at the risk of reducing our income. ¹
7) Social Integration = Reduced Mortality Risks and Better Mental Health
A search of the literature published since the mid-1970s (under the MEDLINE key words, “social ties,” “social network,” “social isolation,” “social environment”) presented strong evidence that social integration leads to reduced mortality risks, and to a better state of mental health. … Available data suggest that, although social integration is generally associated with better health outcomes, the quality of existing ties also appears to influence the extent of such health benefits. Clearly, individuals’ networks of social relationships represent dynamic and complex social systems that affect health outcomes.²
8) Social Isolation and Nonsupportive Social Interactions = Lower Immune Function and Higher Heart Rate
Social isolation and nonsupportive social interactions can result in lower immune function and higher neuroendocrine and cardiovascular activity while socially supportive interactions have the opposite effects. ²
9) Strong Social Relationships = A Longer Life
Researchers analyzed 148 studies that examined the effect of social relationships and death risk. Together, these studies included 308,849 people who were followed for about 7.5 years on average. People were 50% more likely to be alive if they had strong social relationships. This finding held regardless of age, gender, or health status and for all causes of death.³
10) Seniors Living in Better Social Conditions are Also Physically More Mobile
In a study of 14,000 adults in Southeastern Pennsylvania, after measuring the levels of mobility among the seniors living in those neighborhoods, it was found that those living in areas with greater social capital had significantly higher physical mobility scores than those living in lower social capital neighborhoods.4
11) More Social Connection in Your Neighborhood = More Likely to Treat Diseases Earlier
In a study looking at how social capital related to positive health-seeking behavior – specifically getting recommended cancer screenings – although this study was not focused only on the elderly, it was found that in neighborhoods with higher levels of social capital, adults were 10-22 percent more likely to get screened at the recommended ages, suggesting earlier diagnoses and treatment for serious diseases.4
12) More Social Connection = Better Cognitive Functioning
In a study that looked at how social activity affected cognitive decline, over 1,100 seniors without dementia at baseline were measured on their social activity levels and then tested periodically on their cognitive functioning over a 12-year period. The rate of cognitive decline was 70 percent less in people with frequent social contact than those with low social activity.4
13) More Social Connection = Lower Levels of Disability
In a study that looked at a community-based cohort of older people free of dementia and measured social activity levels and their disability levels—in terms of their ability to care for themselves, findings showed that those with more frequent social activity maintained lower levels of disability in several areas, suggesting that they would be able to live independently longer than their less social counterparts.4
14) Social Isolation = Increased Mortality Risk
There is now a substantial body of evidence that indicates that the extent to which social relationships are strong and supportive is related to the health of individuals who live within such social contexts. A review of population-based research on mortality risk over the last 20 years indicates that people who are isolated are at increased mortality risk from a number of causes.
–Source: Lisa F. Berkman, “The Role of Social Relations in Health Promotion.” Psychosomatic Medicine.
15) 12 Ways Loneliness Is Bad for Your Health
According to the research of Dr. John Cacioppo, loneliness has a major impact on your overall health – both mental and physical.
In his research, Dr. Cacioppo employed brain scans, monitoring of autonomic and neuroendocrine processes, and assays of immune function to test the influence that social connection has upon our health. His research showed how our perceptions, behavior and physiology are strongly affected by a loss of that connection.
Dr. Cacoppo’s research has shown that loneliness can cause:
- an increase in your blood pressure
- an increase in your level of stress and cortisol production
- a negative impact on your immune system
- an inability to get a good night’s sleep
- an increased level of depression and anxiety
- an increased risk of developing Alzheimer’s Disease
- a reduction in your will to exercise
- an increase in your cravings for comforting foods high in processed carbohydrates
- an increase in caloric consumption
- an increase in alcohol consumption
- an increase in the consumption of a variety of drugs…both legal and illegal, and…
- a feeling of sadness that feeds upon itself, causing even more isolation and an even greater sense of loneliness.
Source: Douglas Robb, “Loneliness Worse for Your Health than Smoking and Obesity.” Health Habits.
Sources:
¹ Cecile Andrews, “Social Ties are Good for You.” Stanford University.
² Teresa E. Seeman, “Social Ties and Health: The Benefits of Social Integration.” Annals of Epidemiology: The Official Journal of the American College of Epidemiology.
³ Denise Mann, “Social Ties Can Add Years to Your Life.” WebMD.
4 Jill Suttie, “How Social Connections Keep Seniors Healthy.” Greater Good: The Science of a More Meaningful Life.
Four Quotes from the Four Horsemen Documentary to Inspire Support, Love, Assistance & Cooperation
1. We Can Be the Best Source of Support, Love, Assistance & Cooperation
In any species, in almost any animal, there is always the potential for huge conflict, because with any species, all members of that species have the same needs. So they might fight each other for food, shelter, nest sites, territory, sexual partners, all those kinds of things. But human beings have always had the other possibility. We have the possibility to be the best source of support, love, assistance and cooperation, much more so than any other animal… and so other people can be the best or the worst. You can be my worst rival, or my best source of support.
“Four Horsemen – Feature Documentary – Official Version.” 1:07:27 – 1:08:10
2. What Really Makes Us Happy?
What’s really suffered is human relationships, family life, the things that really matter to us. In the end, the only thing that makes human beings happy isn’t money, it’s very clear that you only get marginal gains from wealth. What really makes us happy is other people. It’s our relationships with other people that are really being damaged by the last thirty years. We trust them less; we have less interaction with them; we bond less than ever before; we marry less and marriages are under more threat than ever before, and all the associations that represent permanent unconditional human affection are being eroded or damaged. That’s the real legacy of the last thirty years. In some sense, we’ve got to recover and rehumanize our lives, otherwise not only will they be nasty, brutish and short, but they’ll be lonely.
Phillip Blond, Director of ResPublica in “Four Horsemen – Feature Documentary – Official Version.” 1:10:08 – 1:11:05
3. Human Beings are Alive because they Seek Attachment & Because they’re Propelled by Affection
The West is coming to the realization that its human project is failing. The West was so convinced that if you push people to achieve as individuals, that accumulated achievement of individuals would make for a successful society. And what the West is now beginning to realize is that the individual achievement, without incorporating the vulnerable community, is a myth. The idea was, “Make your own life. Be individually aspiring, and then you’ll be individually achieving, and then you’ll be individually prosperous, and then you’ll be individually happy.” You end up doing that in a glass jar, and the glass jar has a limited height, and it’s encapsulating, and in the end, you die of lack of oxygen. Human beings are alive because they seek attachment, and because they’re propelled by affection. So the isolated achieving individual, in the end, implodes.
Camila Batmanghelidjh, Founder of Kids Company in “Four Horsemen – Feature Documentary – Official Version.” 1:11:06 – 1:12:21
4. Purpose in Life has to be Outside Yourself
In order to find a purpose in life, it has to be outside yourself. It matters not how you construct it outside yourself, as long as it is a positive value added to society pursued. But it has to be outside yourself. It can’t be yourself. If you’re pursuing yourself, you’re pursuing the abyss, as Nietzsche said, you’re going to wind up in the abyss.
“Four Horsemen – Feature Documentary – Official Version.” 1:12:21 – 1:12:45
Watch ‘Four Horsemen – Feature Documentary’ Here »
World Economic Forum Global Risks Infographic
The Global Risks report published by the World Economic Forum presents an astonishing risks interconnection map. It clearly reveals how all global risks are interrelated and interwoven, so that economic, environmental, geopolitical, social and technological risks are hugely interdependent.
A crisis in one area will quickly lead to a crisis in other areas. The interconnection and complexity in this map compared, to our surprise, at the impact and speed of the recent financial crises illustrates the discord that exists in all systems we’ve built and shows just how disconnected we’ve become.
Humanity’s attempts at managing these systems are fragmented and simplistic and not up to the challenges that we face today.
Dave Sherman, PhD
Business strategist, sustainability expert
Source: Global Risks 2012: Seventh Edition.
Mountain Spring Music – Family Tree [Music]
Mountain Spring Music describe themselves as,
… explorers searching for that new culture. On a mission from somewhere far away to remember what is going to be.”
On their newest single [available for free download], Family Tree, they sing of this new culture as a place where love is ubiquitous and humanity is united as one.
‘Family Tree’ Lyrics
I have seen the future and you’ll love me
Like you love yourself
Not through ethics and not from guns because
Love cannot be compelled
And, I have seen the future
And I have felt the light on my face
And unity is so natural
We’re one big family
And after all, we’re all brothers
If you trace back your family tree
History’s not repeating it just
It just rhymes so well
Empires rise and
Empires Fell
And, I have seen the future
And I have felt the light on my face
And unity is so natural
We’re one big family
And after all, we’re all brothers
If you trace back your family tree
I know you’ve heard about it
2012
This is your official invitation and I’m
I’m here to tell you that
I have seen the future
And I have felt the light on my face
And unity is so natural
We’re one big family
And after all, we’re all brothers
If you trace back your family tree
Nothing’s coincidental
Now it’s up to you and me
It’s a whole new world
Where one and one is three
And unity is so natural
We’re one big family
And after all, we’re all brothers
If you trace back your family tree.”
Emerging Humanity
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This video, METAPHORmosis, translates a message that was originally put forth by the author/public speaker/creative consultant, Norie Huddle, and further substantiated by the biologist and futurist, Elisabet Sahtouris. Using imagery, music and words it tells the story of a great shift in consciousness and reality that is occurring on planet earth. Following an example from the biological world, this video parallels the transformation that occurs in the metamorphosis from caterpillar to butterfly with the socio-eco-spiritual transformation that is occurring all over the world as we speak.
Plug Into Our Conversation With Elisabet Sahtouris on November 27, 2014
Elisabet Sahtouris, M.S., Ph.D is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, speaker, author and sustainability consultant to businesses, government agencies and other organizations. She is a US and Greek citizen living in Spain while lecturing, doing workshops and media appearances in Europe, North, Central and South America, the MidEast, Asia and Australia/New Zealand.
Dr. Sahtouris received a B.F.A. from Syracuse University, an M.S. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in Canada. She held post-doctoral research grants at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and at Massachusetts General Hospital, taught at the Mass. Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Massachusetts and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute´s MBA program.
Dr. Sahtouris was a science writer for the NOVA-HORIZON TV series, (WGBH Boston/ BBC London), a UN Consultant on indigenous peoples, in China under the auspices of the Chinese National Science Organization, is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and holder of its Elisabet
Sahtouris Chair in Living Economies and is an advisor to Ethical Markets. She was a regular columnist for Mitsubishi ex-CEO’sTachi Kiuchi’s newsletter The Bridge, published in Tokyo for the Japanese Parliament and business leadership and co-convened two international symposia on the Foundations of Science in Hokkaido, Japan and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Dr. Sahtouris participated in two invitational dialogues with HH the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India and in the Vatican, Rome, and is one of the people identified as Cultural Creatives in the book of that title by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders and of Rising Women; Rising World.
Speaking/Consulting Venues include:
- United Nations, New York
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
- Environmental Protection Agency, Washington DC
- The World Bank, Washington, DC
- The Santa Fe Institute
- Siemens International Management Seminar, Stanford University
- Boeing Management, St. Louis
- State of the World Forums in San Francisco and New York.
- Tokyo Dome Stadium
- Sao Paulo’s Getulio Vargas Business University
- UNIMED Foundation in Brasilia
- National Tax Office of Australia, Canberra
- New Zealand Gov’t Dept of Environment
- Australian Public Relations Institute
- TamChang University in Taiwan
- World Futures Society and Foundation for the Future
- Bahrain Banking Conference
- World Parliament of Religions, S. Africa
- First Rand Banks, S. Africa
- Netherlands Government, all Depts
- TEDx Hamburg, Germany
- TEDx Marrakech, Morocco
- Sri Lanka Ethical Clothing Design Conference
- London Alternatives (and other venues in London)
- Knight-Ridder Publications
- Scientists & Sages Conference, San Diego
- Science & NonDuality, San Francisco and Amsterdam
- Voyage of Aloha Conference, Honolulu, by Wld. Bus. Acad & J. Campbell Fdn
- Xynteo Foundation’s annual retreat for corporate execs and board members
Books:
— EarthDance: Living Systems in Evolution, iUniverse, 2000
— Biology Revisioned, co-authored with Willis Harman, North Atlantic & IONS, 1998
— A Walk Thru Time: From Stardust to Us, Wiley: New York 1998
— GAIA: the Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmos, Pocketbooks NY 1989, editions in English, Greek, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Danish.
Book Chapters in:
— A New Renaissance: Transforming Science, Spirit and Society, edit. D. Lorimer and O. Robinson, Floris Books, London, 2010
— Five Questions that Change Everything, Scherer, John, Imagine Books, 2009
— Mind Before Matter: Visions of a New Science of Consciousness, edit. T. Pfeiffer and J. Mack, O Books 2007
— Be the Change: Action and Reflection from People Changing Our World, Trenna Cormack, Love Books, Bristol, UK 2007
— Science and the Re-enchantment of the Cosmos, Laszlo, Ervin, Inner Traditions 2006
— When Worlds Converge, Matthews, C.N., Tucker, M.E., Hefner, P.E., Open Court, Chicago 2002
— Gaia in Action, edit. P.Bunyard (The Gaia Controversy: A Case for the Earth as an Evolving Organism) 1996.
— Roads to Ecology, Quest books, Wheaton Illinoi, 1994s
— Visions for the 21st Century, Ed. Moorcroft, Adamantine Press, London, 1992
— CHINA: Science Walks on Two Legs, Avon, NY 1975, co-authored
Articles & Interviews (too numerous to list , see www.sahtouris.com for a selection
Films:
—Dalai Lama Renaissance
—I AM the Documentary by Tom Shadyac
—The Money Fix
—Death by Medicine
—Thrive —Occupy Love
—Femme —Money & Life
—Love Thy Nature
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Contact:
Elisabet Sahtouris, Ph.D.
Cami es Verger 7-C
Deia, Mallorca 07179 Spain
tel: +34 971 636 234
e-mail: [email protected]
website: www.sahtouris.com
Our Upcoming Interview With Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist Elisabet Sahtouris November 27, 2014
We have created a perfect storm of crises and we have to grow up, it’s as simple as that. It is time for humans to reach the mature cooperative phase.
Mutual Responsibility’s panelists will be talking to Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist Elisabet Sahtouris on:
- Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 3:00 PM till 4:00 PM EST (NY Time) [Time Zone Converter]
In this interview with Mutual Responsibility, Elisabet will be revealing the secrets to human co-existence.
Elisabet inspires us to understand the universe as a conscious, living system. She draws on the world of living systems to give examples of how change is ever-occurring in nature, and how we are all interconnected in ways that we have only just begun to understand.
She has studied algae which has covered the Earth in its first 2 billion years, to find that there’s a maturation cycle of all life, and is trying to use this information as a blueprint for how humans should live.
Don’t miss out on this one!
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What Is It?
This is a 60 minute live interview broadcast with Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist.
With Q&A, we’ll dive right into the secrets of human co-existence in a way that’s easy to understand.
If time allows, this event will also give you the opportunity to ask your own questions, share your thoughts,
Ideas and struggles in the chat and leave with even greater ideas and solutions.
What Topics Will be Covered?
This broadcast is an example of a more dynamic interview with Elisabet. Elisabet inspires us to understand the universe as a conscious, living system.
She draws from the world of living systems to give examples of how change is ever-occurring in nature, and how we are all inter-connected in ways that we have only just begun to understand.
She has studied algae which has covered Earth in its first 2 billion years to find that there is a maturation cycle of all life, and is trying to use this information as a blueprint for how humans should live.
The schedule will be driven by Q&A from Mutual Responsibility’s panelists addressed to Elisabet.
Elisabet will be happy to answer your questions. You will have your chance to write down your question in the chat and our friendly moderator will select the questions and read them out should time allow.
Who Is This For?
This interview brings together other like-minded people from all walks of life, members of the MR community.
We are all driven by the same desire to help build and facilitate global integral education, helping humanity to adapt to the integral natural system.
All panelists have interest in “Systemic thinking”, looking at our world as an interconnected, integral system.
This interest brought these people together to MR.
Reserve Your Seat
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You can reserve your seat starting today and join us as soon as we kick-off on Thursday, November 27 at 3:00 PM till 4:00 PM EST (NY Time) [Time Zone Converter].
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