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First sight: back to the future

July 30th, 2010 · 21 Comments

I’m back home from my Transformational Leadership Council meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  During the week-long event, and the various meetings with remarkable men – and women – one particular connection stood out: a dinner my husband and I had with Larry Dossey, during which we’d had a fascinating chat about the power of [...]

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Transcending the self

July 16th, 2010 · 40 Comments

When astronaut Edgar Mitchell was returning from his flight to the moon, he had an epiphany that would change his life. Staring out the window of the Kittyhawk, he experienced a feeling of connectedness, as if all the planets and all the people of all time were attached by some invisible web. It was an [...]

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Time’s pencil

July 9th, 2010 · 36 Comments

One of the most vexing problems to most physicists is the notion of time and its absolute relativity, depending on the subjectivity of the observer. In the normal course of events, we experience time as a flow, or arrow. But during extraordinary experiences — during a mystic revelation, while taking a mind-altering drug, in a [...]

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50 Ways to Leave Crude Oil (with apologies to Paul Simon)

July 2nd, 2010 · 47 Comments

So many of you have written in with brilliant comments to my blog last week about the Gulf oil spill that I thought I’d carry on the conversation this week. As I wrote, it’s no good all of us demonizing BP. The bloodjet of oil pouring out of the earth now symbolizes something far deeper.  [...]

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Well, after all, it was you and me

June 25th, 2010 · 80 Comments

Last week I watched the spectacle of US Senators behaving very righteously, as they scrambled over each other to shoot BP chief executive Tony Hayward, with Hayward clumsily dodging their bullets. The culpability for the Gulf Oil spill is being laid at Hayward’s door, as an example of individual corporate irresponsibility in the drive for [...]

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