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Crossing over the Bridge (36 in Series) Panel Ashok Gangadean Professor
and Chair of Philosophy at Haverford College (Haverford, PA) and Kingsley
L. Dennis Author, Researcher & Futurist "Dialogue in Transition"
Radio
Streaming Broadcast: July 19, 2012 (Original Broadcast March 2012)
Kingsley Dennis, PhD, is a sociologist, researcher, and writer.
He co-authored 'After the Car' (Polity, 2009), which examines post-peak oil societies and mobility. He is also the author
of 'New Consciousness for a New World' (2011); as well as 'The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution & The Battle
to Control How We Think' (2012). He is also the co-editor of 'The New Science & Spirituality Reader'(2012). Kingsley
worked in the Sociology Dept. at Lancaster University, UK, and is now a visiting fellow at the Centre for Mobilities Research
(CeMoRe) at Lancaster Uni. He is now collaborating with the new paradigm Giordano Bruno GlobalShift University, is a co-initiator
of the Worldshift Movement and a co-founder of WorldShift International. Kingsley is the author of numerous articles on
complexity theory, social technologies, new media communications, and conscious evolution. As well as academic training
Kingsley has also lived and worked for many years overseas, including five years in Turkey. He currently lives in Andalusia
in Spain and is working on new book material. He continues to research, write, travel, grow his own vegetables, and seeks
answers to many questions.
New Consciousness for a New World
A call for a paradigm shift in human thinking in recognition
of the interconnectedness of all things—a new mind for a new world. For centuries, indigenous wisdom traditions have
talked of an epochal shift on the horizon, of a spiritual renaissance for the earth and her living family. Now the timelines
are converging and the potential for an energetic “upgrade” for humanity is here, but first we must survive and
evolve through the current period of transition. Explaining that evolution is not a gradual process but more like a “shock
to the system”--radical waves of transformation after a period of dormancy--author Kingsley Dennis reveals that we
are currently undergoing an evolutionary leap and shows not only how to survive but also thrive in this period of global
upheaval and change. Examining the nature of evolutionary cycles, he explains that the instability we are now experiencing--climate
change, economic meltdowns, and increasing political polarization--is the convergence of complex systems that have reached
a critical state. What we need in order to push through to the coming spiritual renaissance is a paradigm shift in human
thinking and perception, a conscious evolution in recognition of the interconnectedness of all things--a new mind for a
new world. Examining new findings in quantum physics and quantum biology on the interconnectivity of all life as well as
opportunities for us to reawaken our slumbering souls, this book offers a glimpse of the new global society to come, a renewed
humanity for the 21st century, and how each of us can best participate during the process of planetary transformation.
The Struggle for your Mind
Within society there exists a silent war.
The battlefield is our everyday lives: our education, our work, our leisure, our emotional and spiritual well-being, and
our thinking and perceptions. Our very sense of “reality” is deliberately engineered to work against conscious
evolution and preserve social norms. In short, we are all part of a war of consciousness. And the opportunity is at hand
for us to win. Assessing the ways modern societies limit consciousness and keep humanity obedient and distracted from their
inner lives, Kingsley Dennis presents an eye-opening investigation of the way our minds have been programmed to preserve
incumbent power structures and their rules. He exposes the tactics employed for thousands of years by the elite to control
our minds, including misinformation and propaganda, debt systems, consumerism, religious doctrine, scientific authority,
economic “uncertainties,” fear of terrorist attacks and armageddon, electromagnetic pollution from cell phones
and other devices, distraction through entertainment and technology, as well as the false belief that we are separate from
Nature and the Divine. Despite these obstacles, humanity is awakening to culture’s imposed limits on perception through
an accelerating rise in collective empathy and awareness. Exploring the biology of consciousness, Dennis reveals the emerging
mechanisms for neuro-genetic evolution within the brains of gifted individuals, psychics, and visionaries and the coming
increases in solar and magnetic energies that will activate them within all of us. Explaining how we can free up mental
and emotional energy to break through the barriers inhibiting conscious evolution, he shows that, by taking back our minds
and changing the way we think, we can restore our connection with Nature and the Divine and lead humanity into a new age
of harmony and awareness.
The New Science and Spirituality Reader
Edited by Nobel Prize nominee Ervin
Laszlo and WorldShift International cofounder Kingsley Dennis, this volume brings together 28 leading scientists and spiritual
thinkers for a game-changing conversation on bridging the gap between science and religion. With contributions by Michael
Beckwith, Deepak Chopra, Larry Dossey, Amit Goswami, Stanislav Grof, Jean Houston, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Jose Arguelles, Peter
Russell, and many other prominent visionaries, this collection explores phenomena at the crossroads of science and religion,
such as the nonlocal mind, conscious evolution, sticky particles, and quantum consciousness, and offers strategies to promote
the fusion of science and spirituality and develop a multi-person planetary consciousness. This book reveals that higher consciousness
is the bridge between science and spirit, passionate curiosity is the common ground among scientists and seekers, and an alliance
between science and the great traditions of spiritual wisdom is urgently needed to move our worldview forward to meet today’s
global challenges.
After the Car?
‘One of the toughest things
to do is to anticipate discontinuity, to envisage a world – a life – beyond the car. The authors practice this
art of the impossible in a fascinating way, opening up the social and sociological imagination for alternative paths of
modernization.’ Ulrich Beck, University of Munich
‘A persuasive and readable summary of why
motoring as we know it is doomed. The authors systematically chart the new technologies, oil shortages, environmental and
other pressures changing the way we travel and the world we live in. If you want to know what the future might look like,
this book is for you. Jeremy Clarkson is an endangered species!’ Steven Joseph, Executive Director, Campaign for
Better Transport
‘After the Car is a useful contribution to the debate about the role of the car which poses
some interesting questions about its future.’ Tony Bosworth, Friends of the Earth
It is difficult to imagine
a world without the car, and yet that is exactly what Dennis and Urry set out to do in this provocative new book. They argue
that the days of the current car system are numbered. Powerful forces around the world are undermining it and will usher
in a new system sometime in the next few decades. Specifically, the book examines how several major processes are reshaping
travel, including:
• Global warming and
its many global consequences • Peaking of oil supply • Increased digitization of most aspects of economic
and social life • Massive global population increases
The authors examine changes in technology, policy, economy and society, and make a convincing argument
for a future where, by necessity, the present car system will have been replaced. The book also suggests that there are some
bleak dilemmas facing the twenty-first century. The authors lay out what they consider to be possible ‘post-car’
future scenarios. These they describe as ‘local sustainability’, ‘regional warlordism’ and ‘digital
networks of control’. Some describe the twentieth-century as the century of the car. Now that century has come to
a close – and things are dramatically about to change.
Ashok Gangadean
Ashok
Gangadean is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Haverford College (Haverford, PA) where he has taught for the past thirty
nine years. He was the first Director of the Margaret Gest Center for Cross-Cultural Study of Religion at Haverford, and
has participated in numerous professional conferences on inter-religious dialogue and East-West comparative philosophy.
His primary concern throughout his career has been to clarify the universal logos or common ground at the heart of human
reason and rational life. He is Founder-Director of the Global Dialogue Institute which seeks to embody the dialogical powers
of global reason in all aspects of cultural life. His book, Meditative Reason: Toward Universal Grammar (Peter Lang, Revisioning
Philosophy Series, l993) attempts to open the way to global reason, and a companion volume, Between Worlds: The Emergence
of Global Reason (Peter Lang, l997) explores the dialogical common ground between diverse worlds. His forthcoming book,
The Awakening of the Global Mind further develops these themes for the general reader.
Professor
Gangadean has focused over the past four decades on tapping and clarifying the deeper common ground between diverse cultural,
religious and ideological worlds. In his many published essays and public lectures he has attempted to demonstrate that
human reason is essentially global, dialogical, holistic and intercultural. In his books he has attempted to demonstrate
that there is a fundamental Logos or Universal Grammar underlying all cultures, religions, philosophies and ideologies.
This discovery and clarification of the fundamental Logos in human cultures, experience and life has important implications
for effectively addressing the most pressing practical problems humans face today. His Global Dialogue Institute has developed
a powerful “Whole Child Education” Pilot Project that has been supported by UNICEF and the Ministry of Education
in Indonesia. This integral approach to education and teacher training uses the power of Deep Dialogue to renovate the
teaching and learning ecology of education.
While
his earlier books attempt to demonstrate that human reason is essentially grounded in the fundamental Logos that is the common
ground between diverse worlds, the Awakening attempts to communicate these findings to everyday people who have no background
in philosophy and who urgently need to understand and cope with the profound changes we now face in the globalization of
our cultures. He is Co-Convenor of the recently formed World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality which
brings eminent world leaders together in sustained deep dialogue to cultivate global vision and wisdom for the new millennium.
This high level Commission has been supported generously by the Breuninger Foundation and has held annual retreats in the
past three years at their Wasan Island Retreat.
Dr.
Gangadean has appeared in television interviews in the Philadelphia Region, and appeared in the national television series
Thinking Allowed with Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. These two interviews on his forthcoming book The Awakening of the Global Mind
continues to air in repeating cycles on the national scene. More recently he was featured in the forthcoming series –A
Parliament of Minds – produced by Michael Tobias and Patrick Fitzgerald. This series arose from the recent World Congress
of Philosophy in Boston (August l998) at which Dr. Gangadean helped convene and inaugurate the newly formed World Commission
on Global Consciousness and Spirituality. He appears in a half-hour interview on his work and participated in a one-hour
dialogue with Karan Singh, Robert Muller and Ewert Cousins. He is also Co-Chair of the newly formed World Wisdom Council.
Gangadean became the host of the Emmy Nominated “Philly Live: Your International Connection” on WYBE TV Public
Television (Philadelphia, Ch 35) which recently evolved into the prize winning “Global Lens”. This television
show seeks to cultivate global dialogue and a global perspective on vital issues of international interest.
Awakening Mind
Gangadean recently formed his ((Awakening))
Productions to begin work on producing a six-part series for television on the narrative of his forthcoming book The Awakening
of the Global Mind Also, his book Meditations on Global First Philosophy: The Quest for the Missing Grammar of Logos has
just been accepted for publication by SUNY Press and will appear next year.
Ashok K. Gangadean: Awakening the Global Mind
Awakening Mind is intended to be an introduction to the
global worldview and the idea that the key to our survival as a species is the discovery of a universal dialogue through
which we can learn to understand and communicate with one another. This universal dialogue, or Logos, is comprised of the
inherent threads of commonality which we all possess.
Through this website you can read, watch, listen and learn about many aspects of this profound new philosophy. You will find
links to information on ((Awakening Mind))'s founder, Dr. Ashok Gangadean, including biographical information, published
works, television programming, radio interviews, essays and the like. You will also find links to affiliated organizations
and resources which promote the global ideal. We invite you to explore, learn and, when you quit your browser and leave
your computer - take the lessons with you.
The
insights of leading-edge science indicate a very different understanding of God and our place and purpose in creation than
the ways of thought with which we were traditionally familiar. In the main this is because in the churches' theologies,
cosmological views about the nature of reality have never been distinguished properly from the religious beliefs themselves.
This is also as true of Judaism and Islam as it is of Christianity. During this search and reassessment Dr. Ledwith found
the vast body of sophisticated teachings from Ramtha's School of Ancient Wisdom, and he has been a student of those teachings
for many years since, applying them to all the fundamental areas of human concern.
This
series of DVDs, of which The Great Questions in the Hamburger Universe is the first, starts to put words on the problems
most thinking people have found with the traditional proposals about God, religion, and human destiny. It is intended to
chart a different course for human hopes and aspirations, based on the deepened and improved insights into the nature of
reality which we have gained today. The DVD series will serve as an introduction to some of the ideas more extensively explored
in his forthcoming book Forbidden Truth.
Meditations of Global First Philosophy
In Meditations of Global First Philosophy, Ashok K.
Gangadean builds on decades of research on the emergence of global reason to trace the roots of logos in different cultural
milieux. Gangadean crosses into the uncharted frontier of global consciousness, global wisdom, and global first philosophy
to illustrate that there is a primal force—a global logos—that is the generative source of our diverse worldviews,
cultures, religions, philosophies, perspectives, and disciplinary orientations.
Club of Budapest
Founded in 1993, the global Club of Budapest is an informal
international association dedicated to developing a new way of thinking and a new ethics that will help resolve the social,
political, economic, and ecological challenges of the 21st century. With its roster of internationally renowned members
the Club initiates a dialogue between different belief systems and world views in order to co-create and develop effective
strategies for responsible and sustainable action with a global focus.
The idea of the
Club of Budapest was developed in 1978 in a discussion between Aurelio Peccei, founder and first president of the Club of
Rome, and Ervin Laszlo, systems philosopher and also member of the Club of Rome at that time. They were convinced that the
enormous challenges to humanity can only be dealt with through the development of a cultural and cosmopolitan consciousness.
Based on these ideas, the Club of Budapest was founded by Dr. Laszlo in 1993. The founding city and namesake of the Club
lies at the heart of Europe and is spread out over both banks of the River Danube. The successful merging of the two cities
Buda and Pest is symbolized by the famous Chain Bridge. It visualizes our ambition to build bridges between generations,
disciplines and cultures. Therefore, it was selected as the logo and signet for the objectives of the Club. The main essence
of the global efforts lies in the initiation of dialogue.
Since 2008 the operational platform of the
Club of Budapest is the WorldShift Network, which was established by Ervin Laszlo, Wolfgang Riehn and Johannes Heimrath
in 2007 as an international foundation. It has its seat in Germany. In future the WorldShift Network will be responsible
for the international projects of the Club as well as for the coordination of the National Clubs.
World Wisdom Council
The World Wisdom Council (WWC) has been convened by the
Club of Budapest in cooperation with the World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality in the conviction that
the paramount requirement in this age of discontinuity and transformation is to recognize that, through the development
of a new dimension of consciousness, the world can be constructively changed by women and men wherever they live and whatever
their interests and lot in life.
The task of the Council is to build on the power and creativity
innate in all people by:
bringing to the attention of the widest layers of the public both
the dangers and the opportunities inherent in the human condition in its global dimension;
identifying priority areas where individual and cooperative action is needed in order to reinforce
progress toward peace and sustainability, locally as well as globally;
offering guidance for developing the individual and collective wisdom that empowers action capable
of bringing about constructive change in the local and the global economic, social, and ecological environment.
The World Wisdom Council realizes that there is already a growing range of initiatives aligned with its mission.
In consequence it is taking as one of its highest priorities the formation of networks, partnerships, and collaborations
in the interest of mobilizing the forces required for constructive transformation on a global scale.
The World Wisdom
Council is politically, socially, and culturally non-partisan, championing the joint interest of all humans and all life
on this planet, informing people so that they can move toward a world where they can live in peace with each other and in
harmony with nature.
