Larry Dossey in December

New York Times best-selling author Dr. Larry Dossey will be with us for our December Transition Talk. Larry is one of those authors who always ends up on Oprah and those other big TV and radio shows when he writes a new book because the subjects are so interesting and important. He’ll talk to us…

Hurting Never Helps

Although I spent 29 years of my life actively associated with the military in one way or another, these days I find the notion of killing people in order to accomplish national goals to be a rather barbaric and ineffective approach to providing the quality of life that we all desire. Like the need for…

Penny Kelly Coming to Berkeley Springs

Penny Kelly Writer, speaker, teacher, publisher, consultant and Naturopathic physician Penny Kelly will be our featured speaker at the next Berkeley Springs Transition Talk. Returning for the second year, Penny impressed those fortunate folks who heard her last year with a fascinating review of how biology worked from the perspective of one who is on…

Trip to Damanhur and Findhorn

We just about have the website finished for our tour in October to Damanhur in Italy and northern Scotland’s Findhorn. This two-week trip will be a wonderful opportunity to experience two of the most interesting examples of emerging societies and learn what they might tell us about our own futures. Damanhur is considered the “eighth…

Freedom of Speech

When you grow up within a country, there are some very fundamental things about that society that become imprinted upon you. You become the product of those ideas. Those concepts become the grid – the framework – through which you operate and, at some level, assume to be “right”. That is certainly the case with…

Outernet

Now here’s something that could fundamentally change the world: Internet from space that would provide connectivity for the whole planet. Next year!

The Conspiracy Theorists Are the Sane Ones

Recent studies by psychologists and social scientists in the US and UK suggest that contrary to mainstream media stereotypes, those labeled “conspiracy theorists” appear to be saner than those who accept the official versions of contested events. The most recent study was published on July 8th by psychologists Michael J. Wood and Karen M. Douglas…

Headless Chicken Brigade

As I mentioned here in a previous post, I put my Transition Talk on climate change up here, where you can stream it. If you like it, share it with your friends. I got it up just in time for Prince Charles to label people like me “a headless chicken brigade” because we have a…