I just watched a video clip of two formerly racist, convicted felons, one black and one white, describe a turning point in their lives. Both men in this video refer several times to a feeling they are feeling, yet they have no name for it. You might be tempted to call it pride, happiness, love or some combination of these, but those are only approximations to describe this distinct human...
Read More“In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer The Visionary Mind is not just a continually learning mind, but a mind not organized around psychological positions. Anyone can continually learn within the walls of their positions. The Nazi, the Roman...
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Read MoreHow can you see what your “enemy” is saying at such a level that you have the power to call them to stand with you? This seemingly impossible task is not only possible, it’s quite simple…
Read MoreA First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army has taken a stand. Ehren Watada, a 28-year-old Hawaii native, faces a court martial next month and up to 6 years in prison. He is the first commissioned officer in U.S. to publicly refuse deployment to Iraq.
Many of his peers call him a traitor and a coward. Others think he’s anything but that. It’s easy to take a position on this young man’s decision, and that’s one of the fundamental problems with the world we live in. Actually, the problem lies within our methods of thinking, our consciousness. Yesterday’s consciousness is insufficient for…
Read MoreDemocracy for visionless people of different blind faiths is a formula for civil war and destruction. For a free society to function now and in the future, it needs free thinkers, not blind followers.
Consider that it is no longer enough for us to tolerate each others’ faiths. Instead it is time for each of us to rise to the level of vision. Every person of faith can rise to the level of vision, and at the level of vision a person of faith only becomes more virtuous, conscious, humane, tolerant, peaceful, prosperous and integrous at the level of vision.
Read MoreWhat does it mean to live your life from a stand? How do people who try to stand for something fall into the trap of forming a position, from which they lose their vision, passion, compassion and power to cause the kind of change they intended? What does it mean to live a visionary life–to think, speak and operate from a place of authentic power? Embark on this journey inside of our...
Read MoreWe all have ideals and values we want to uphold, and as we encounter resistance, we begin to form and strengthen our ideological positions.
Watch this video of a pastor in Ohio, who is standing up for what he believes. In his mind he is fighting the “secular jihadists!” It’s good against evil and god is on his side.
He is fighting “evil,” just as George Bush is doing, just as Osama Bin Laden is doing, just as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is doing, just as Hugo Chavez is doing…
Isn’t it wonderful we have so many people fighting evil? If we keep it up, all the evil will be gone in no time! lol…
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