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eNewsletter
Vol. 2, No. 1
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WORLDVIEWS
The World on a 10-Inch Screen
Perception, they say, is reality. Which is precisely why San Francisco Chronicle columnist Stephanie Salter is so worried about the size of George W. Bush’s television. Click to read more
Osama on the Couch
Ever notice that whenever Osama bin Laden is photographed, he has an AK-47 assault rifle nearby? A visitor to one of the Arab world’s largest web sites wonders what the terrorist leader is compensating for. Join the discussion – or just lurk – for a perspective on the world you’re not likely to find on AOL. Click to read more
Enron & the Patriots
On the surface, it’s hard to see a connection between the travails of Enron’s management and the Superbowl triumph of the New England Patriots. But, writes Harvard psychiatrist and Center co-founder John E. Mack, M.D., it all comes down to how you look at the world. Click to read more
To Have and Have Not
Variations on the formula have been kicking around the email lists for years: If there were only 100 people in the world, a half dozen would be North Americans gobbling up three quarters of the world’s resources, 70 would have no running water, etc. But it took Italian artist Allysson Lucca’s moving Web film to bring home the stark disparities that divide the world’s people.
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HEALTH & SPIRIT
Now Cluck Like a Chicken…
Some readers may not need a brain scan printout to know this, but scientists recently used exactly that tool to “prove” that hypnosis is not just a carnival sideshow but can actually improve the health of our bodies and our minds.
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Kiddie Profiling
It may sound like something out of Orwell’s 1984, but with one out of three kids reporting that they don’t feel safe in school, one crime expert has taken the controversial position that profiling children as young as six could be the key to preventing youth violence. Click to read more
ENVIRONMENT
hq w/ a vu
A "race to be green" has broken out among communities across the U.S. But the prize isn’t anything as boring as clean air or pristine water; it’s the chance to win all those tax dollars that come with being chosen as the site of a major corporate headquarters.
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An Oily Quagmire
Washington is warning Americans that drug addicts help support terrorists. But what about the nation's other habit -- cheap oil?
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BUSINESS & ETHICS
When Crime is Part of the Cost of Doing Business
Ken Lay may have earned a diploma in corporate greed, but here’s a story about two guys at the University of Chicago who wrote the syllabus.
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The Spiritual Argument Against Globalization
After a career at places like Harvard, the Ford Foundation and the U.S. Agency for International Development, David C. Korten is an outspoken critic of global capitalism. Economic principles and political ideology are only part of the reason. For Korten, author of When Corporations Rule the World, globalization is a violation of the Spirit.
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THE ARTS
Politically Correct Publishing
How the stupid white men at HarperCollins tried to kill Michael Moore’s new book, Stupid White Men
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RELIGION
Head in the Sand
“There’s a bloody line in the sand,” commentator Paul Harvey recently intoned on his daily radio show. Two million Moslems had gathered in Saudi Arabia, the self-proclaimed Voice of the Millennium reported, “to pray for the triumph of their religion and the destruction of ours.” But Harvey conveniently left out “the rest of the story.” For a slightly less Apocalyptic explanation of the annual Moslem pilgrimage to Mecca, check out one of the Islamic world’s leading websites. Click to read more
The Meaning of Lent
“Redemption basically is about holistic health, if you want to translate it into modern parlance,” says Father Thomas Keating, co-founder of the Centering Prayer movement. “Lent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy…It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.” Click to read more
All the News and Enlightenment, Too.
News, sports, business and weather. The Times of India provides all that. But it also gives its readers a daily teaching on the nature of consciousness. Read about Hindu perspectives on illusion and reality in this latest installment in our ongoing exploration of religion and consciousness. Click to read more
SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE
Out of the Closet
Despite prevailing wisdom in some quarters, scientists do have souls. And some of them even connect with that spiritual dimension. But acknowledging that they have done so is not usually the best career move – which is why noted consciousness researcher Dr. Charles Tart founded The Archives of Scientists’ Transcendent Experiences (TASTE). In this interview, Dr. Tart talks about altered states of consciousness, science and the tricky issue of “coming out.”
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THE COSMOS
ET Go Home
Think the world is a wonderful place and that, deep down inside, your fellow human beings are all basically good? Then the odds that are your image of aliens would fit neatly in a Steven Speilberg movie. But if you take a dim view of the world and its inhabitants, you probably figure any visitors from beyond will be wielding death rays. That’s the conclusion of a new Internet poll conducted by the SETI Institute and Space.com, which found that how we look at the world shapes how we look at the worlds beyond.
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SUPPORT CHANGE – AND IMPROVE YOUR SELF
The Center is pleased to offer a workshop with life coach Sean Casey Leclaire in West Concord, MA March 21-23. The event will offer principles and skills of life-affirming leadership and natural health practices; insights into your soul-based identity and values; a body-centered approach to living; and techniques to manage the inner critic.
Crossroads readers can take advantage of a $50 discount off the $295 seminar price. For details, contact Sean at thebest.practices@verizon.net or (978) 369-6031.
Visit our new re-vamped website, featuring a discussion area where you can interact with others interested in social change: www.centerchange.org
THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY & SOCIAL CHANGE
The Center’s online Journal features contributions from some of the leading experts in the fields of psychology, spirituality and social change. New articles are added every two weeks. The latest include:
Looking Beyond Terrorism: Transcending the Mind of Enmity
by John E. Mack, M.D.
Nothing will change, says Center co-founder and Pulitzer Prize-winning Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, until we change our minds.
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Wanted: A More Global Forum
by Mark Gerzon
In this small and interdependent world, argues this noted mediator and Center consultant, the goals of the north and south can only be achieved if they work together.
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Toxic Regions: Disorder in the World and in the Mind
by Joseph Montville
The wealthy and the powerful may not have to really like or genuinely care about the weak, but, observes this former State Department Middle East expert, it is clearly in their national security interest to ameliorate the circumstances in which murderous terrorists thrive. Click to read more
A Meditation on Terror
by Michael E. Zimmerman
A Center board member and Tulane University professor of philosophy offers a meditation designed to prevent us from falling into the trap of dehumanizing the terrorists, as they have done to us. Click to read more
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About the Center for Psychology & Social Change
Founded in 1982 by Dr. John Mack of Harvard and Dr. Robert J. Lifton of Yale, the Center runs programs in a wide variety of areas, such as ecopsychology, alternative healing, spiritually-based mental health counseling, and extraordinary experience.
The thread that links the Center’s diverse work is the search for knowledge that expands our worldview and allows us to apply solutions that might otherwise lie outside the boundaries of our consciousness. For more information, visit our Web site Click to read more or email info@centerchange.org.
To suggest items for future issues of Crossroads, please email the editor, Lawrence Pintak, at lpintak@centerchange.org
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