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Competition & Being Competitive: A National Treasure?

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Written by: Eldon Taylor

Competition: A National Treasure?

It seems that our world works very much on a competitive basis. Whether it’s the university you attend, the grades you get, the scores you receive, the wages you earn, your position on the job, or the games you play, competition is at the center, the very core of it all. Is there a way to be truly competitive and not become...

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Going Local: Cutting Out The Transportation

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Written by: Anthony Weston

Going Local: Cutting Out The Transportation by Anthony Weston

Today the average calorie travels something like 1,500 miles, were told, to reach our tables. Whole fleets of 747s exist just to fly kiwi fruits to the US from New Zealand. It is time to grow locally adapted varieties right at home, or...

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The Power of Metamorphosis: Being a Conscious Co-Creator

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Written by: Barbara Marx Hubbard

The Power of Metamorphosis: Being a Conscious Co-CreatorWe are on a long journey together, yet this is just the begin­ning of our new lives and of our work in co-creating new worlds. We are a growing band of pioneering souls scattered in every culture, field, discipline, age, and background. We can have compassion for all others and ourselves. We are...

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A Compassionate Revolution: From Breakdown to Transformation

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Written by: Sylvia Clute

A Compassionate Revolution: From Breakdown to TransformationIt is time for a compassionate revolution. Many revolutions have passed in history, but all have been violent. Violence is not part of the organizing principle of Oneness which will emerge, and major political and social change will occur as a natural unfolding of human evolution.

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General World Predictions (2012 - 2032)

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Written by: Diana Cooper

General World Predictions (2012 - 2032)

by Diana Cooper. A forecast is the likely outcome based on the situation and mindset of the people at a given time. There are many influences on the world that we are not aware of.  A forecast, therefore, is not set in stone. People are changing and moving rapidly in their ideas and consciousness, and this affects future outcomes.

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The New Plastics: Creating a Better World, A World That Works

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Written by: Alan Cohen

Creating a Better World, A World That Works

by Alan Cohen. In the years to come, many social systems and institutions will likely disintegrate. They will be replaced by new systems rooted in truth, vision, and service rather than fear, greed, and illusion.

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Vision of the Future: From Generation to Generation

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Written by: Barbara Hand Clow

Vision of the Future: From Generation to Generation

by Barbara Hand Clow. Many people who were born since 1965 seek ways to live in a less material world. They know this is the only possible next step, since Earth can’t sustain the current level of technological overload. We will be less materialistic in the next cycle as we remember how to...

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Growing Vegetables on the Sidewalk

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Written by: InnerSelf Staff

Growing Vegetables on the Sidewalk

A tempest in a tea pot? The English town of Todmorden mixes politics and growing lunch. Its guerrilla gardening group has reached a certain notoriety that transcends borders and continents.

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TSA Puts Americans at Risk While the Rest of the World Watches in Bewilderment

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Written by: R Jennings

TSA Scanners Put Travellers at Risk

As of the end of this year, the number of Americans traveling by road has increased and air travel has decreased. There is a higher fatality rate associated with traveling by car while this year is shaping up to have been the safest for air travel.

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How To Find Our Way Back to Balancing Inner and Outer Needs

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Written by: Kingsley L. Dennis

How To Find Our Way Back to Balancing Inner and Outer NeedsAccording to social commentator James Howard Kunstler, those of us who presently live in the comfortable Western countries are facing “the comprehensive downscaling, rescaling, downsizing, and relocalizing of all our activities, a radical reorganization of the way we live...”

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Good & Evil: The Big Picture

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Written by: Rev. Daniel Chesbro

The person that was convicted of the murder is ultimately proven to be innocent. Our modern DNA sampling proves that the person who was tried and convicted is not the murderer. Then all these people say, “Oh great! Did we mess up or what?” That changes things a bit, doesn’t it?

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Stuff, Stuff, and More Stuff

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Written by: Priscilla Short

Before moving to Taos, I owned a townhouse that was almost two thousand square feet and had a two-car garage, plus lots of closet space, all of it full. It was filled with the stuff accumulated after a decade or so in the working world. Long before I moved, I decided to clean out my garage. It took...

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Another Murder? We Get Exactly What We Put Into Society!

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Written by: Beth Vishnevsky

Another Murder?

by Beth Vishnevsky. These senseless tragedies should open our eyes really wide. Our children don't value each other because we don't value each other. Our children don't know what respect and responsibility are all about because we are not setting a good enough example. The value of life? Everyday, we see classic examples of just the opposite.

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Are Our Thoughts Our Own?

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Written by: Stuart Wilde

Are Our Thoughts Our Own?Questions and answers from the well-known and controversial author, Stuart Wilde who looks at life from the wild side.

 

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Limitations of Prophecies

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Written by: Werner Huemer & Micah Rubenstein

Although it seems to be human nature to want to see into the future, most of us don't have the ability to do so. And since there are no reliable scientific methods for predicting the future, people often satisfy their curiosity by listening to those who claim to have such a gift.

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The Millennium Myth Love and Death at the End of Time

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Written by: Michael Grosso

The American dream of the Millennium keeps evolving. Does the original power of the myth still live in the people? Our leaders seem little inspired by the vision of godliness and high destiny. The rhetoric is still present, to be sure, but one senses fatigue, hollowness, shrillness. The American dream is still alive, but for the most part, the dream has lost its spiritual content.

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The End Times: When?

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Written by: Gary Bonnell

At every hundred year mark, there has been an outcry of the prophesied end times. If there is to be a second coming of Christ, or an apocalypse, the question is when? Timing in all prophecy is difficult. The Mayans indicated the shifting into the fifth dimensional awareness for 2012 on the winter solstice.

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Crime & Violence

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Written by: Prema Baba Swamiji

Are you disheartened by the continued violence in the world among nations and individuals? What can you do to assist in the creation of peace on earth? Mahatma Gandhi provided the world with an example of spirituality in action to create social reform. Martin Luther King exemplified...

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