Clear your mind of can’t

Clear your mind of can’t.

(Samuel Johnson)

Vision, Mission, Dedication

My Vision is to create a sustainable world with happy people, good business and a healthy planet.

My Mission is to change the world by being an active member of a Global Transformation Team.

My Dedication is to work with global business leaders, creating awareness and insight, connecting & integrating people and organisations to stimulate impactful actions.

(Carsten Ohrmann)

Religion, evolution and self-transcendence

Dr Quantum - Double Slit Experiment

The Double Slit Experiment and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle are key aspects of the Quantum Mechanics at the borderline between a materialistic world and the realm beyond. The video below provides a good explenation of this phanomenon.

Miles Hilton Barber - A blind adventurer and Motivational Speaker

This blind man is an astonishing example for what we can achieve, if we start to change our mind set.

He is a pilot - even flying supersonic jets, he drives cars around race circuits, he climbs mountains, he has been to the south pole, he's running extreme marathons, ...

The list is endless and you have to keep consciously remind yourself every second, that he is blind!

(See also Miles Hilton Barber's website)

One Life - BBC documentary

When you watch this movie, you'll start to feel that the story of every creature on our planet is our own story, which provides the relevance and urgency for all of us to care about sustainability.

See the trailer here and try to make every effort to also watch the entire BBC documentary.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

(Seneca)

A single conversation with a wise person...

A single conversation across the table with a wise person is worth a month's study of books.

(Chinese Proverb)

Racism is like judging a man by his spacesuit instead of the person inside it

Racism is the ultimate ignorance in that it relates 'self' to the body instead of the Consciousness - Awareness - animating and experiencing through the body. It is like judging a man by his spacesuit instead of the person inside it.

(see also David Icke)

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

(Albert Einstein)

Lack of faith in true self

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true self.

(William James)

To learn the causes of things

Happy the man who has been able to learn the causes of things.

(Virgil)

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

(William James)

We make a life by what we give

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

(Winston Churchill)

Fields

Fields are non-material regions of influence.

The Earth's gravitational field, for example, is all around us.We cannot see it - it is mot a material object - but is nevertheless real. According to Einstein, it is not in space and time: it is space-time.

Electromagnetic fields integrate all material systems, from atoms to galexies. We can see things around us, because we are connected to them through the electromagnetic field, in which the vibratory energy of light is travelling. Vibrating electromagnetic fields underlie the functioning of our brains and bodies, our cells and ourolecules.
All around us are countless vibratory patterns of activity within the electromagnetic field we cannot detect with our senses. We can tune into some of them through radio and TV receivers and mobile phones.

Objects affect each other through fields even when they are not in material contact. These fields exist, even if we cannot detect them with our senses.

It is therefore clearly possible that there are many more fields than those currently recognized by physics.

(from Rupert Sheldrake: The present of the past)

The whole and the role of integrators

At each level, the whole is more than the sum of its parts (Aristotle) and integrators help to (re-)establish this conscious awareness.

Philosophy of Organism / Systems Approach

The philosophy of organism is also called holistic or organismic philosophy, or 'Sytems approach'.

According to philosopher Alfred North Whitehead in 1925, organisms are 'structures of activity' at all levels of complexity. Even subatomic particles, atoms, molecules and crystals are organisms and hence in some sense alive.

From the organismic point of view, life is not something that has emerged from dead matter. All nature is alive. The organising principles of living organisms are different in degree but not different in kind from the organizing principles of molecules or of societies or of galaxies.

Whitehead put it as: "Biology is the study of the larger organisms, wheras phsics is the study of the smaller organisms." And in the light of new cosmology, physics is also the  study of the all-embracing cosmic organism, and of the galactic, stellar and planetary organisms that have come into being within it.

Think, for example of a termite colony:
A termite colony is an organism,
which is made of individual insects,
which are made up of organs,
which are made up of tissues,
which are made up of cells,
which are made up of subcellar systems,
which are made up of molecules,
which are made up of atoms,
which are made up of electrons and nuclei,
which are made up of nuclear particles.

At each level are organized wholes, which are made up of parts that are themselves organized wholes. And at each level, the whole is more than the sum of its patrs; it has an irreducible integrity.

In an evolutionary universe, the organising principles of all systems at all levels of complexity must have evolved. The organizing principles of gold atoms, for example, or of bacterial cells, or of flocks of geese, have all come into being in time. None of them was there in the first place, at the time of the Big Bang.

But were all these organizing principles already present as transcendent Platonic archetypes (ideas) waiting for their moment to first manifest in the physical universe? Or are these organizing principles more like habits that have evolved in time?!

(from Rupert Sheldrake: The presence of the past)

People can't be managed - they must be led

People cannot be managed. Inventories can be managed. People must be led.

Authority and respect

Your job gives you authority. Your behaviour gives you respect.

(Irwin Federman)

Not learning from mistakes

The only real failure is when you don't learn from your mistakes, and you keep repeating them.

(Tim Storm)

Real leaders...

Real leaders are ordinary people with extraordinary determination

Morphogenesis and Formative Causation

The coming into being is called Morphogenesis, from Greek words morphe, form, and genesis, coming into being.

An understanding of morphogenesis is essential for a deeper comprehension of the nature of life, but currently only very little is understood about it.

Any satisfactory theory of morphogenesis has to take into account the fact that all biological forms have evolved. Morphogenesis is rooted in ancestral history.

The conventional explanation of the evolutionary basis of morphogenesis is in terms of the inheritance of chemical genes.

The hypothesis of Formative Causation takes a broader view of heridity, and sees the inheritance of organic form - including the forms of molecules themselves - in terms of the inheritance of organizing fields that contain a kind of inbuilt memory. Living organisms inherit not only genes but also habits of development and behaviour from past members of their own species, and also from the long series of ancestral species from which their species has arisen.

(Rupert Sheldrake - The presence of the past)

It is amazing what you can accomplish...

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

(Harry S. Truman)

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words

Much wisdom often goes with fewer words.

(Sophocles)

9-Word Description

Authenticity
Business Professional
Coach
Conscious Human Being
Change Agent
Philanthropist
Philosopher
Visionary Leadership
World Citizen

Education is the most powerful weapon...

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

(Nelson Mandela)

Combining Technology and Consciousness

Combining Innovative Technology with a Higher Consciousness, which feels interconnectedness and responsibility, will bring the creative solutions to address the world's most significant problems.

3 Characteristics of Great Leaders

We find that great leaders usually have 3 characteristics:

• They have great self-esteem (...and they don't confuse this with self-image)
• They live up to their own personal values
• They use their personal strengths

(see also video of Deepak Chopra at Google)

States of human intelligence

Wisdom traditions say about the different States of Human Intelligence...

• The highest state of human intelligence is "Being"
• The second highest state of human intelligence is the "Feeling" called Love and Compassion
• The third highest state of human intelligence is the "Thinking" that can create new meanings, new context, new relationships and new themes
• The least intelligent state of human intelligence is "Doing"

Best is to do things based on the right thinking, feeling and being. In eastern traditions this is called Karma-Yoga: The right thing at the right time. Process-Orientation and not Outcome-Orientation.

(see also video of Deepak Chopra at Google)

Holding a resentment

Holding a resentment is like drinking poison and hoping it would kill your enemy.

(Nelson Mandela)

Questions that create a vision

The following kinds of questions and reflections can start a process in you that creates a vision:

• Who am I?
• What do I want?
• What's my purpose?
• What kind of contribution do I want to make to my family, to my community, to the world?
• What are my unique skills and talents? How do I put them to use?
• What's really fun for me?
• What are my peak experiences?
• What do I look for in a good friendship?
• What do I bring to a relationship?
• Who are my archetypes, my heros in history, mythology and religion?

(see also video of Deepak Chopra at Google)

Multiple Intelligence - Howard Gardner

According to Howard Gardner there are multiple types of intelligence:

• Spatial Intelligence
• Linguistic Intelligence
• Logical-mathematical Intelligence
• Bodily-kinesthetic Intelligence
• Musical Intelligence
• Interpersonal Intelligence
• Intrapersonal Intelligence
• Naturalistic Intelligence
• Existential (Spiritual) Intelligence

(see also video of Deepak Chopra at Google)

World Economic Forum - Energy Vision Update 2012

World Economic Forum Energy Vision Update 2012

Turn the "m" around...

People need to change their perspective. They have to turn the "m" around. From "m" to "w". From "me" to "we".

(Deepak Chopra)

Work on nothing less than epic scale

Work on nothing less than epic scale

(Francis Ford Coppola)

Sex education in school is good...

Sex education in school is good but I don't believe kids should be given home work.

(Bill Cosby)

God loves each of us...

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

(Saint Augustine)

3 types of people

There are 3 types of people in this world:

• Those who make things happen
• Those who watch things happen
• Those who wonder what happened

(Mary Kay Ash)

Sir Isaac Newton and Buddha

If Sir Isaac Newton and the Buddha found themselves sitting beneath the same tree, what questions might they explore together?

• Why does consciousness matter?
• Can we know the future?
• Do our thoughts have the power to heal?
• ...

(inspired by IONS bookmark)

You can't wake up a person who is pretending to sleep

You can't wake up a person who is pretending to sleep.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

(Abraham Lincoln)

Great minds have purposes...

Great minds have purposes. Little minds have wishes

(Washington Irving)

What physical eyes can see...

Many people still belief, that what their physical eyes can not see does not exist.

The purpose of time...

The purpose of time is to enable us to learn how to use time constructively. It is a teaching device and a means to an end. Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

(from "A course in miracles")

Alter life by altering thinking

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

(William James)

The world is a book...

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

(Saint Augustine)

Patience is the companion of wisdom

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

(Saint Augustine)

Deepak Chopra

The truely faszinating aspect about Deepak Chopra's story is the fact, that today an ever increasing number of people are following their intuitive individual journeys, all converging into the same insight. This is what's going to change our world.