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"New Money for a New World" with Bernard Lietaer
Join host Matthew Gilbert and his guest Bernard Lietaer, an economist and author who was one of the designers of the European currency, the Euro. His consulting experience spans four continents and ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-02-14
- 01:06:41
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"Beyond Reasonable Leadership" with John Renesch
Join IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert and his guest, businessman-turned-futurist John Renesch for an insightful dialog on business leadership and transformation. John speaks to the prevailing feeling in all sectors that money is not being spent responsibly, and to our need for leaders who know how to invent new mental models.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-08-15
- 00:55:56
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"Navigating Uncertain Times" with Catherine Austin Fitts (sample)
Solari President Catherine Austin Fitts, has seen the distortions, corruption, and challenges built into our economic system as a high-level insider on Wall Street and in the first Bush administration. From these days, she has developed a sophisticated understanding of how money actually flows in our world.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2008-10-20
- 00:03:00
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"Changing The Dream" with Lynne Twist (sample)
Personal and Collective Shifts Which Will Transform Our World
Global activist, fundraiser, author, and founder of the Soul of Money Institute, Lynne Twist was recorded live from IONS 12th International Conference in Palm Springs, California. She speaks with former IONS president James O'Dea about "Changing The Dream: Personal and Collective Shifts Which Will Transform Our World".
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2007-08-08
- 00:10:42
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Great Shift Dialogue: Maria Nemeth and Mary Manin Morrissey (excerpt)
Maria Nemeth and Rev. Mary Manin Morrissey explore the dark night of the soul and how it connects to a collective dark night, as well as the importance of finding one’s core life intentions and using them as the basis for all decisions.
- Audio Shorts
- 2008-02-10
- 00:03:07
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"Building True Wealth" with Catherine Austin Fitts
IONS Editorial Director Matthew Gilbert and guest Catherine Austin Fitts engage in a thought provoking conversation which includes the analogy of big business as a tape worm. Catherine describes what we need to be aware of in our investments to insure that we are not unintentionally feeding the 'tape worm.'
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2006-01-03
- 01:01:01
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Essential Shifts Interview: Elisabet Sahtouris
In this talk, Elisabet draws inspiration from the extraordinary designs provided by nature showing how we can live more lightly and sustainable. She sees abundant evidence for us transitioning from a primarily competitive and egocentric era, which is typical of young populations of any species, into an era in which we learn to cooperate and communicate as one global family.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-04-10
- 00:25:06
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Essential Shifts Interview: Julia Butterfly Hill
Julia Butterfly Hill is known for her environmental activism, but she is also a deeply spiritual and reflective being. In this dialogue, she reveals her sense that the most important thing we can do is to hold an image of our world as whole, connected, and complete.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-09-06
- 00:29:18
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"UFOs and the National Security State" with Richard Dolan (sample)
UFO researcher, author and historian, Richard Dolan, discusses his book, which describes the history of the UFO phenomenon and coverup from 1973 until the end of the cold war in 1991, with host Dean Radin.
- Audio Teleseminars
- 2009-03-25
- 00:03:00
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Essential Shifts Interview: Brian Johnson
From discussions of Greek arete and the necessity for "both/and" thinking to practical advice on creating organizations that unleash our full potential, Brian ranges freely across myriad domains in his reflections on the keys to creating an outstanding life that makes a difference.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-17
- 00:29:23
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Intention Downloads Interview: John Hagelin
In this interview, quantum physicist and former Presidential candidate John Hagelin explains the difference between intention and consciousness, which opens the door on a fascinating discussion of how spending time in deep meditation in the “nuclear” level of thought can multiply the efficacy of intentions.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-06-01
- 00:23:12
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Essential Shifts Interview: Thom Hartmann
Air America radio host Thom Hartmann is rising quickly as a voice for societal progress, economic justice, and spiritual awakening. In this interview, he explores a wide range of subjects, from the vital importance of small acts of compassion to stopping the corruptive influence of corporate personhood.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-09-01
- 00:36:22
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Essential Shifts Interview: Michael Bernard Beckwith
In this interview, Michael turns the spotlight on the root assumptions of scarcity and fear that underpin war, sustainability, and other collective crises. He shares his insights into community building, leadership and spiritual living through connecting to a larger source of intelligence, abundance, and healing.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:27:37
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Essential Shifts Interview: Arjuna Ardagh
For the author of The Translucent Revolution, the question of how we create a new world boils down to one shift: wake up! At the root of all the societal ills and dangers we experience lies a fundamental feeling of separation that fuels hatred, greed, overconsumption, destruction, and war. Instead of remaining in this dream, if we drop the filter of separation by investigating our true nature, we discover ...
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:26:51
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Essential Shifts Interview: Arisika Razak
In this interview, professor, dancer, and midwife Arisika Razak shares her unique angle on the essential shifts our world now requires. She explores how we can each activate our "lineage of the heart," thereby linking us into the larger vision of what we are creating.
- Audio Interviews
- 2006-05-15
- 00:34:44
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Essential Shifts Interview: Andrew Harvey
In this interview, scholar and mystic Andrew Harvey blazes a path straight into the sacred heart, shying away from none of the horror of the world’s situation while calling us into our most naked and vulnerable core.
- Audio Interviews
- 00:52:49
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Perceiving Beauty: The Interdependence between Consciousness & Knowledge
A man sat at a metro station in Washington DC and started to play the violin; it was a cold January morning. He played six Bach pieces for about 45 ... -
Winston Franklin
After several years as a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, Winston Franklin joined the Institute of Noetic Sciences. He spent nearly 20 years at the institute, first as its vice president and CEO and later as its president, before retiring in 2003.
Under his leadership, the institute's membership swelled to more than 50,000 worldwide and its budget grew from $300,000 to $4.5 million. Much of the money went to grants for holistic health care pioneers, including Deepak Chopra and Dr. Dean Ornish, to help further their research.
Mr. Franklin's work on mind-body health led to two major television projects – "The Heart of Healing," a documentary produced by Turner Broadcasting, and "Healing and the Mind With Bill Moyers," an Emmy Award-winning series.
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Bernard Lietaer
Bernard Lietaer is an economist and author who was one of the designers of the Euro. He has been active in the domain of money systems for over 25 years in a wide variety of functions. While at the Central Bank in Belgium he co-designed and implemented the convergence mechanism (ECU) to the single European currency system. During that period, he also served as President of Belgium's Electronic Payment System.
His consultant experience in monetary aspects on four continents ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries. He co-founded one of the largest and most successful currency funds becoming its General Manager and Currency Trader, and is the originator of a complementary currency called the Terra. He is the author of The Future of Money
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His academic history includes a Professorship of International Finance at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He is currently a Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley, and is co-founder of ACCESS Foundation, (www.accessfoundation.org ), an educational non-profit whose objective is to communicate best practices in the domain of complementary currencies.