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What is our future?

What do we want?

What do we need to do?

Our Future

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If our future is determined by our beliefs and how we act on those beliefs, then how do we protect the integrity of our minds?  Protect yourself by knowing when and how the “perception managers” have you as a target.

The Battle For Our Minds

click above and watch 90 min. movie on the use of progoganda in modern culture

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Dramatic Presentation of Integrative Alternative Solutions

Problems to solve

One of television’s most critically acclaimed programs, the Peabody Award-winning drama series ‘The Wire’ continues to challenge viewers with a “cop show” unlike anything on air.

The fifth and final season of ‘The Wire’ centers on the media’s role in addressing – or failing to address – the fundamental political, economic and social realities depicted over the course of the series, while also resolving storylines of the numerous characters woven throughout the narrative arc of the show.

Explains series creator David Simon, “It made sense to finish ‘The Wire’ with this reflection on the state of the media, as all the other attendant problems of the American city depicted in the previous four seasons will not be solved until the depth and range of those problems is first acknowledged. And that won’t happen without an intelligent, aggressive and well-funded press.”

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Good Humor Helps Viewing the Future

YouTube – George Carlin – The Things That Bring Us Together

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See and Hear Professor Arthur Mutambara at the 2007 Aspen Ideas Festival suggest what we can do

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Buckminster Fuller.  “….we find that the spoken word, which took a minimum of two humans to develop, was the first industrial tool. It brought about the progressive integration of all individual generation-to-generation experiences and thoughts of all humanity everywhere and everywhen.”

Even a 1,000 mile journey starts with a single step.

Lao Tzu

There is a ‘Grand Integrator’ within everyone that is capable of integrating all the linked yet differentiated components that make us human.

MYERS

Wellness is the result of a human being becoming integrated

Siegel

Political/Future

If the content of this site is dear to your heart, we are around the camp fire together. If you are a stranger to this topic, it may be more like you are visiting a library or reading room, or even a museum.   A guided tour of this site is available on the “Meet” page.   The tour will introduce you to a sample of integrative thinkers from the five fires or gatherings.   

The future  is determined by what we do.  It is determined by the verbs. It is determined by what we believe (say to ourselves) and how we speak to each other.   Go!  Stop!  Be afraid!  Love!  Work together!  Connect! are words, that, when spoken lead us down disintegrating or integrating paths. 

“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.”~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)

“If you want to go quickly, go alone.  If you want to go far, go together.”  – an old African proverb, quoted by Al Gore when discussing his winning of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.   For us, now, Mr. Gore added, “We want to go far, quickly.”

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AEJMC	Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Aspen Ideas Festival	Aspen Ideas Festival – and the Aspen Institute
Barlow, John Perry	Cognitive Dissident interview in MotherJones
Barlow, John Perry	Electronic Frontier Foundation
Barnett, Thomas P.M.	WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: Thomas P.M. Barnett: The Worldchanging Interview
Barzun, Jacques	Amazon.com: The Culture We Deserve : A Critique of Disenlightenment: Books: Jacques Barzun
Berkana Institute	The Berkana Institute Of Margaret J. Wheatley
Boulding, Kenneth	Conversation with Kenneth Boulding, National Security Through Stable Peace
Braden, Gregg	Gregg Braden:Bridging The Wisdom Of Our Past With The Science Of Our Future   (NEW)
Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives	Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – Welcome to the CCPA
Carnegie Council	President’s Welcome: Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Policy
Carnegie Endowment	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carter Center	The Carter Center: A Model of Activism and Hope for Our Future
Center for Media and Democracy	human rights | Center for Media and Democracy
Chilton Pearce, Joseph	Waking Up To The Holographic Heart–Starting Over With Education, Joseph Chilton Pearce 1998 Interview
Chomsky, Noam	Amazon.com: Hegemony or Survival: America’s Quest for Global Dominance (The American Empire Project): Books: Noam Chomsky
Chomsky, Noam	The Noam Chomsky Website
City At Peace	City At Peace – National
City At Peace	City at Peace: Washington D.C.
Clinton Global Initiative	:: CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE ::
Cohen, Jeff	JeffCohen.org
Common Dreams	Common Dreams | News & Views
Common Ground News	Common Ground News Service
Consciousness	Conscious Enlightenment LLC
Council on Foreign Relations	Center for Preventive Action – Council on Foreign Relations
Creekmore, Marion .	A Moment of Crisis, by Marion V. Creekmore, Hardcover
Crosscurrents	Crosscurrents: Connecting The Wisdom of the Heart and The Life of the Mind
Cyber Elite	Who are the “Digerati?” The Cyber Elite, the “doers”
Daily Kos	Daily Kos: State of the Nation
Democracy Now	Democracy Now!: radio and TV news (Independent Media)
Digital Democracy	Center for Digital Democracy
Dostoyevsky	The Grand Inquisitor – Dostoyevsky: Human Nature and Freedom, Wikipedia   (NEW)
Dostoyevsky	The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky   (NEW)
Fisher and Ury	Getting to Yes: Work by Fisher and Ury
Fitts, Catherine      Austin	Solari – Navigating Towards a Financially Intimate World
Fitts, Catherine A.	Conspiracy Planet – – The PROMIS-Like Profits of Harvard Endowment, an article by Catherine A. Fitts
Fitts, Catherine A.	Catherine Austin Fitts: Drugwar.com
Paulo, Friere	Rage & Hope: Paulo Freire
Freedom Writers	Home – Freedom Writers Foundation
Friedman, Thomas	Thomas Friedman’s vision of the present and future. Advice for his and our children
Fuller, Buckminster	Full text of OPERATING MANUAL FOR SPACESHIP EARTH, by Buckminster Fuller    (A must read)
Fuller, Buckminster	What is the planet’s Critical Path ? – R. Buckminster Fuller –
Fuller, Buckminster	Synergy Can Help Us Create A Better Future: Buckminster Fuller
Fuller, Buckminster	Daily Celebrations ~ R. Buckminster Fuller, For the Sake of Others ~ November 20 ~ Ideas to motivate, educate, and inspire
Fuller, Buckminster	r-buckminster-fullers-synergetics-web-version
Fuller, Buckminster	» R. Buckminster Fuller: “Everything I Know” – Audio/Video of the historic 42-hour session!
Gandhi, Mahatma	WELCOME TO MAHATMA GANDHI ONE SPOT COMPLETE INFORMATION WEBSITE
Gardner, John W	Building A Future Seen By John W. Gardner
Gore, Al	An Inconvenient Truth
Gerges, Fawaz A	Fawaz A. Gerges – Faculty – Sarah Lawrence College: Politics of the Middle East
Global Exchange	Global Exchange – Building People-to-People Ties
Global Marshall Plan	Global Marshall Plan Initiative
Green Party	Green Party of the United States | Homepage
Greider, William	William Greider – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Greider, William	Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen William Greider on PBS
Harney , Corbin	Shundahai Network – About Us (featuring Corbin Harney, Native American Medicine Man)
Hartmann, Thom	Thom Hartmann’s Homepage – Renaissance Thinking about the Issues of the Day    (NEW)
Hartmann, Thom	Thom Hartmann – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia;  source to progressive conversation about world events   (NEW)
Henderson, Hazel	Hazel Henderson, Futurist, presents an informative web site on various topics from around the world!
Hoffer, Eric	The Eric Hoffer Resource
Hoffer, Eric	Freedom’s Nest Eric Hoffer Page
Home Schooling	A to Z Home’s Cool (Home school) – Home schooling Information
Humergence	Humergence®
Illich, Ivan	Ivan Illich: Writing on the Web
Illich, Ivan	Ivan Illich: deschooling, conviviality and the possibilities for informal education and lifelong learning
Independent Sector	Independent Sector: A Vital Voice For Us All
Independent World TV	Independent World Television
Integral Thinking	Vision In Action and The Journal of Integral Thinking
International Policy Attitudes	American attitudes: Program on International Policy Attitudes
Ivie, Robert	Ivie, Robert: Professor of Rhetoric for Peace
Johnson, Chalmers	Chalmers Johnson – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Johnson, Chalmers	Amazon.com: Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic (American Empire Project): Books: Chalmers Johnson
Johnston, David Cay	David Cay Johnston – Wikipedia, investigative journalist for NY Times
Justice, Network for	Global Communications Network for Justice
Kennedy, Robert F	Robert F Kennedy Memorial
Kilcullen, David	Exceptional strategist David Kilcullen, | The Nation | The Australian  (NEW)
Kilcullen, David	Article by David Kilcullen on counter-insurgency (NEW)
Klein,Naomi	Naomi Klein – Wikipedia on this author and political activist
Kor, Eva	The Forgiveness Project | stories | Eva Kor
Lakoff, George	George Lakoff : Home (A linguist on framing discussion)
Lakoff, George	AlterNet: MediaCulture: A Man of His Words: George Lakoff
Lewis, John	The Online Office of Congressman John Lewis – Biography of John Lewis
Link TV	Link TV | Experience Link TV
Macy, Joanna	JoannaMacy.net – Welcome to All Beings
McFate, Montgomery	Graduate School of Operations and Information Sciences: Montgomery McFate on cultural anthropology and national security   (NEW)
Media and Democracy	SourceWatch – From Center for Media and Democracy
Miller, Mark Crispin	News From Underground by Mark Crispin Miller
Milojevic, Ivana	Metafuture.org: Futures studies by Ivana Milojevic, Sohail Inayatullah and other leading futurists
Mitchell, George	NPR : Former U.S. Senator George Mitchell on Making Peace
NetFuture	NetFuture: Technology and Human Responsibility
New Humanist	newhumanist.com
New Humanist	Freeze Frame: We will not be silenced
Olberman, Keith	Bloggermann: Bush owes us an apology – Bloggermann – MSNBC.com
OneWorld,net	News and Views from Around the World: OneWorld.net
Ovshinksy, Stanford	Energy Conversion Devices Inc | leader in the fields of alternative energy generation and storage and advanced information technologies
Ovshinksy, Stanford	A Biography: Stan Ovshinsky and the HYDROGEN ECONOMY. . .Creating a Better World. Stanford Ovshinsky and late Dr. Iris Ovshinsky co-founded ECD Ovonics in 1960 to use science to solve serious societal problems.
Pachamama Alliance	Awakening the Dreamer
P2P	P2P Foundation » About Peer To Peer Foundation
Potts, Michael	The Caspar Institute & Solar Utilities Network: About An Environment In Which To Live In The Future
Propaganda	Propaganda – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  What you need to know to sort out the truth from lies.
Prospect Magazine	Prospect (magazine) – Wikipedia,  about the British Political and Current Affairs Magazine
Reclaim the Media	Reclaim the Media – Stop the Video Choice Act (H.R.3146/S.1349)!
Reporting, Fairness and …	Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
Rodriguez,Gregory	Gregory Rodriguez | The New America Foundation
Rodriguez,Gregory	Social Integration | The New America Foundation
Schwarz, Jack	Aletheia Institute: Jack Schwarz
Simple Living Network	The Simple Living Network
Slate Magazine	Slate Magazine – Current events, news, politics, culture, and more.
Smith, Rupert	General Sir Rupert Smith Interviewed by Jeffrey McCausland
Social Change	ZNet: A Community of People Committed to Social Change
Spence, Gerry	Gerry Spence, attorney, poet, photographer, truth teller, political guide
Sports and Culture	International Society for Sports and Culture
Talking Points Memo	Talking Points Memo
Tao Te Ching	About the Tao – Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching
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Tides Center	Home | Tides Center
Toffler,Alvin	Alvin Toffler: Preeminent Global Forecaster
Van Dieren, Wouter	Powell’s Books – Taking Nature Into Account: A Report to the Club of Rome by Wouter Van Dieren
VotersUnite	VotersUnite! Non-partisan Voters Organization
Washingston Watch	The Washington Stakeout
Water	Is water and it’s governance an embedded Grand Integrator ?
Westen, Drew	The Political Brain by Drew Westen
Whybrow, Peter	Peter C Whybrow – American Mania: When More Is Not Enough
Wire, The	HBO drama about society’s faulure to meet political, cultural, challenges
Wisdom Civilization	The Global Academy: Toward a Wisdom Civilization
WorldChanging	WorldChanging: Another World Is Here
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