These blog entries are all about paradigm shifts – new ways of thinking and experiencing the world – that we can add to our repertory of radical interventions for the personal and global future. Having looked at tools of social transformation I want to return to the new attitude that fosters the life of a cultural/spiritual activist: the place from where s/he directs his/her attention towards the world, the cultivation of his/her inner life.
From accumulated experience over 15 years I want to introduce the Bach Flower remedies, basically an extension of homeopathic art, producing remedies that act on our emotions and attitudes. The premise of the way the flowers work is that we become first ill in our soul (the way we think, the emotions we let take hold of our soul), then in the expression of lessened vitality, and finally in our body proper at the stage of illness. So why not take care of our core beliefs, attitudes and emotions before they reach the organic stage? For some basics about how the flower remedies work see the Wikipedia entry. Read the rest of this entry »

As I get ready to write this blog, Rio de Janeiro makes the news on more than one account. The city has snatched olympic status from Chicago, Madrid and Tokyo for the 2016 games; in addition it will host key games of the Soccer World Cup in 2014. But Rio is also known as one of the most violent cities on earth. Week-end before last violence erupted between two rival drug gangs has left 21 dead, and downed a police helicopter. In this spiraling violence the government at least partly realizes that all purely punitive interventions only serve to feed a growing spiral of violence.
Since 2007 only slightly above 1% of all money issued is used for world trade. The rest is for the most used for speculative pursuits. To give an idea of the trends: at the end of the ‘70s 10% of money was used for world trade. That percentage was close to 50% thirty years earlier. For those of us who harbor illusions or hopes that the stock market can mend its ways and reform itself the Wall Street Journal article 
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“…all of us around the world participate in two different social types of connection, two different bodies of the social field. One of them is governed by the mechanics of antiemergence and destruction. The other is governed by the dynamics of emergence and collective creativity; it’s the emerging new social body that is about to be born.” Otto Scharmer
The technology has three wide categories of use: