Mini-Keynote Editorials

March 2016 People resist attempts to get them to change yet they spend lifetimes changing themselves. From a very early age we tend to make adjustments to who we are, trying to fit in, to be better liked, to be loved, to get along, etc. While we come into the world magnificently unique souls, unlike […]

  Feb 2016 Recently I have been researching exemplar candidates for inclusion in our Conscious Leadership Yearbook that we plan to publish soon for FutureShapers. One of the individuals I was researching was described by Wikipedia as an “iconoclast” and, curious, I decided to get to know that word a bit better. Here’s how Wikipedia […]

January 2016   I belong to a spiritual group that meets monthly at different members’ homes and focuses on a different theme each time. Our host this month suggested the following: In this period of challenging contradictions abroad and at home, please come and share your thoughts about “what sustains your hope.” What spiritual truths […]

December 2015 Yesterday I was on a call with Diana Chapman (pictured below), a highly valued colleague in the field of conscious leadership to which I have been committed for several decades. Diana is a cofounder of the Conscious Leadership Group and a co-author of The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership. I haven’t known Diana […]

November 2015 I recently attended my favorite 12 Step meeting where I was moved to tears by the speaker’s share, not necessarily a new experience at this particular meeting. What was new for me was an insight that accompanied my emotional state. While I felt very moved by the speaker, I knew it wasn’t her […]

Oct 2015   Defining consciousness has been a perennial challenge for the human mind, enchanted as it is with explicit definitions and materialistic descriptions. Behavioural Brain Sciences says “…if it is explained so that you understand it, it hasn’t been explained correctly.” The International Dictionary of Psychology says, “The term is impossible to define except […]

Sep 2015 [This month I want to direct readers to my recent blog post at FutureShapers.com – a response to Pope Francis’ May 2015 Encyclical – ” ‘LAUDATO SI’ OF THE HOLY FATHER FRANCIS ON CARE FOR OUR COMMON HOME” – calling for a grass roots revolution in the way we humans are treating Mother […]

August 2015 [The following editorial was initially published on my blog for The Great Growing Up at the beginning of the year.] Science is showing us what philosophers and sages have been telling us for centuries – that we are not only connected, as in members of the same human family, but we are one. […]

July 2015 I just finished reading The Future of the Mind, by Michio Kaku, a hugely successful New York Times bestselling author and futurist. While well written and most interesting in so many ways, I was very disappointed that the author remains rooted in the reductionist perspective that sees the brain and mind as synonymous. […]

  June 215 Years ago, before television, there was a radio mystery show called “Inner Sanctum.” Yes, I am old enough to remember listening to the show which was quite scary for a youngster with a great imagination shivering under the sheets at night. The author* of a book I was just reading used the […]