We are a non-profit organization Humanity Integrated that is comprised of people who find themselves in the most interesting yet trying times of human evolution – the time of global crisis, which is the first stage of a profound change.
Happy to share with you this profound conversation we had with one of our favorite sages, Elisabet Sahtouris, during the Thanksgiving holidays. Hear her comment on the “ecstasy of unity and connection.” An incredible person, scholar, scientist, and a woman, from whom we draw so much insight and wisdom. An interview worth your time…
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:
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
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:
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!
Be there to connect with us!
We have only 100 seats available.
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.
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.
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.
There are only 100 seats.
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].
Prepare. Find out more about Elisabet here:
With the current globalization of our problems, we need to extend our circle of empathy and view humanity as a worldwide extended human family. As long as we refrain from facing that challenge, divisiveness and unsolvable conflicts will persist.”
Professor Rodrigue Tremblay is an author and Emeritus professor of economics at Université de Montréal. In addition to his writings on economics, he has also written extensively on the subject of ethics; and most recently, on the urgent need for a new level of universal ethics, morality, and empathy to be developed and maintained in the world.
[In a more universal civilization], first and foremost, the scope of human empathy would be more universal and more comprehensive, and would not merely apply to some chosen people, to members of a particular religion or to persons belonging to a particular civilization. In practice, this would require that we establish a higher threshold of human morality, beyond the traditional norm of the Golden Rule (‘Treat others as you would have others treat you.’)
It would require that we adopt what I call a Super Golden Rule of humanist morality that incorporates the humanist rule of empathy: ‘Not only do to others as you would have them do to you, but also, do to others what you would wish to be done to you, if you were in their place.’ — Of course, the corollary also follows: ‘Don’t do to others what you would not like to be done to you, if you were in their place.’”
Three interrelated moral imperatives that have always been sound moral values, but which I feel will become increasingly required for humanity to go forward and survive. And I refer to:
- More human EMPATHY.
- More interpersonal TOLERANCE.
- More interpersonal SHARING (altruism and generosity) as a foundation for a more harmonious, for a freer and for a more prosperous world.”
According to the empathy principle, one must aim at treating others as if one were in their place, and not necessarily expecting reciprocity as is the case in the traditional Golden rule of morality that one finds in virtually all moral systems (‘Do to others as you would have them do to you’).
The empathy principle can thus be framed this way: “Do to others what you would wish to be done to you, if you were in their place.
That is why I say that empathy can be the solid foundation of a more civilized global society based on the solidarity of all human beings. It is the awareness that other people can suffer, be happy and flourish just as one does, and that one should treat others accordingly.”
Lastly, here is Tremblay’s ten commandments for the creation of global humanism, a foundation for the building of a global extended family:
Here is Professor Tremblay speaking further on the necessity for the development of universal global ethics:
[seeing as the video is an extended interview, many topics are covered throughout—fast-forward-to (20min. 53seconds) for content of the Professor speaking specifically on the topic of global humanism]
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4404833
Quotes of Professor Tremblay courtesy of The Code for Global Ethics, and his blog.