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A PLACE WHERE PEOPLE CAN COME AND RECONSTRUCT A NEW FUTURE FOR THE WORLD
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"Those of us who are taking up the challenge of accelerating the awakening and shaping the flow of transformative life energy thereby released are privileged to be engaged in the greatest and most creative adventure in all of the human experience. The time is now. We have the power. We are the ones we have been waiting for."
—David Korten—
EVOLVER INTENSIVE
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To Change the Future, Change the Story by David Korten Empire’s power depends on its ability to control the cultural stories and language that shape our collective understanding of our world and our choices as a species. Empire stories induce a kind of cultural trance that conditions us to accept the dominator relations of Empire as just and righteous and to dismiss talk of alternatives as naïve, dangerous, or even sinful. |
Once we recognize the truth that Empire stories deny, the trance is broken. To change the future, change the story.
Fundamental social change begins with a discussion of unrealized possibility. Fortunately, that conversation is already underway in localities all over the world, spreading the good news that the world we must now create to secure the human future is the same as the world most all the world's people want.
We are in a race against time between the awakening of an Earth Community consciousness and spreading social and environmental collapse. Whether by intent or neglect, we humans will within this decade make an irrevocable choice that will determine our children's future for millennia to come.
David Korten is author of Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community, and When Corporations Rule the World, founder of Living Economies Forum, co-founder of YES! Magazine, member of the Club of Rome.
DAVID KORTEN will be joining the live online video course "Shapeshifting Strategies for Positive Change"
Beginning 17 September 2011 with David Korten, John Perkins, Scott James and Llyn Roberts
Read more: http://evolverintensives.com/upcoming/jp-shapeshift-business.html
BOOKS
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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community by David Korten The Great Turning is an essential resource for those who understand the need for fundamental change. It cuts through the complexity of our time to illuminate a simple, but elegant truth. We humans live by stories. We are held captive to the ways of Empire by a cultural trance of our own creation--indeed, one need look no further than our popular culture and the way it is magnified in TV, movies, and other mass media to see how this paradigm is reflected back upon us all everyday. Changing our future begins with changing our stories in a way that includes our capacities for compassion, cooperation, responsible self-direction, and self-organizing partnership. This is a work already underway, and to succeed, it ultimately will call for the participation of every person on the planet. In The Great Turning, David Korten points the way to the inspiring outcome within our reach. |
—Danny Glover, activist and actor
Order online: The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
CAFE CODY MUSIC RECOMMENDATION
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Tosca - Suzuki http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU2Yp2Eqy_8 Shunryu Suzuki, respected Japanese Zen master and progenitor of American Buddhism, teaches that everyday life is our Zen training. "To study Buddhism is to study ourselves," he says, and Tosca's Suzuki is an aural testament to that edification. Suzuki is the second release from Vienna's Tosca, made up of Rupert Huber and Richard Dorfmeister (of famed electronica duo Kruder & Dorfmeister). |
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