SPIRITUALITY & CULTURE

Thom Hartmann: Cracking the Code Thom talks about his new book ‘Cracking the Code’ and answers questions from the audience.

Madeleine Tobias: Cult Recovery Madeleine Tobias. Former cult member, exit counselor, therapist and author talks about mind control, cults and cult leaders. Captive Hearts Captive Minds and Take Back Your Life are written by Madeleine Tobias and Janja Lalich

Frank Visser: Ken Wilber & the Integral Circus Frank Visser, webmaster of www.integralworld.net, speaks out on Ken Wilber and the value of criticism. Interview by Randi Cecchine in Amsterdam April 2008.

Maya Angelou speaks at San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church.

Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it.

The Authors@Google program was pleased to welcome author and professor George Lakoff to Google’s New York office to discuss his new book, “The Political Mind”. George Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Rockridge Institute, a think …

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Chittister, a Benedictine nun, discusses how culture changes and the implications those changes have for contemporary spirituality. She focuses on the stages of revitalization, global definitions of the seven capital sins, and American society as it moves into the 21st century.

Michael Lerner, a rabbi in the Aleph Alliance for Jewish Renewal, has been an outspoken advocate for rejecting what he considers to be ethnocentric interpretations of the Torah. Lerner’s publications promote religious pluralism and liberal approaches to political problems. He has worked to build bridges with Muslim leaders around such issues as attacks against immingrant …

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People want to be religious, says scholar Karen Armstrong; we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. She asks the TED community to help her build a Charter for Compassion — to help restore the Golden Rule as the central global religious do For more videos and a full biography click here.

Summary: Arun Gandhi, the fifth grandson of Mohandas “Mahatma” Gandhi and founder of the M.K. Institute for Nonviolence, sits down for an interview with FORA.tv. He discusses his overcoming anger using the lessons of his grandfather, nonviolent peace building in the Middle East, and the controversial comments he made on his Washington Post Blog. Discussion …

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