Elisabet Sahtouris – Interview With Mutual Responsibility

Elisabet Sahtouris – Interview With Mutual Responsibility

Happy to share with you this profound conversation we had with one of our favorite sages, Elisabet Sahtouris, during the Thanksgiving holidays. Hear her comment on the “ecstasy of unity and connection.”  An incredible person, scholar, scientist, and a woman, from whom we draw so much insight and wisdom.  An interview worth your...
Plug Into Our Conversation With Elisabet Sahtouris on November 27, 2014

Plug Into Our Conversation With Elisabet Sahtouris on November 27, 2014

Elisabet Sahtouris, M.S., Ph.D is an evolution biologist, futurist, professor, speaker, author and sustainability consultant to businesses, government agencies and other organizations. She is a US and Greek citizen living in Spain while lecturing, doing workshops and media appearances in Europe, North, Central and South America, the MidEast, Asia and Australia/New Zealand. Dr. Sahtouris received a B.F.A. from Syracuse University, an M.S. from Indiana University and a Ph.D. from Dalhousie University in Canada. She held post-doctoral research grants at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and at Massachusetts General Hospital, taught at the Mass. Institute of Technology (MIT), the University of Massachusetts and the Bainbridge Graduate Institute´s MBA program. Dr. Sahtouris was a science writer for the NOVA-HORIZON TV series, (WGBH Boston/ BBC London), a UN Consultant on indigenous peoples, in China under the auspices of the Chinese National Science Organization, is a Fellow of the World Business Academy and holder of its Elisabet Sahtouris Chair in Living Economies and is an advisor to Ethical Markets. She was a regular columnist for Mitsubishi ex-CEO’sTachi Kiuchi’s newsletter The Bridge, published in Tokyo for the Japanese Parliament and business leadership and co-convened two international symposia on the Foundations of Science in Hokkaido, Japan and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Dr. Sahtouris participated in two invitational dialogues with HH the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India and in the Vatican, Rome, and is one of the people identified as Cultural Creatives in the book of that title by Paul Ray and Sherry Anderson. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders and of Rising Women; Rising World. Speaking/Consulting Venues include: United...
Our Upcoming Interview With Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist Elisabet Sahtouris November 27, 2014

Our Upcoming Interview With Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist Elisabet Sahtouris November 27, 2014

We have created a perfect storm of crises and we have to grow up, it’s as simple as that. It is time for humans to reach the mature cooperative phase. Mutual Responsibility’s panelists will be talking to Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist Elisabet Sahtouris on: Thursday, November 27, 2014 at 3:00 PM till 4:00 PM EST (NY Time) [Time Zone Converter] In this interview with Mutual Responsibility, Elisabet will be revealing the secrets to human co-existence. Elisabet inspires us to understand the universe as a conscious, living system.  She draws on the world of living systems to give examples of how change is ever-occurring in nature, and how we are all interconnected in ways that we have only just begun to understand. She has studied algae which has covered the Earth in its first 2 billion years, to find that there’s a maturation cycle of all life, and is trying to use this information as a blueprint for how humans should live. Don’t miss out on this one! Be there to connect with us! We have only 100 seats available. Go Here to Register »   What Is It? This is a 60 minute live interview broadcast with Elisabet Sahtouris, Evolutionary Biologist and Futurist. With Q&A, we’ll dive right into the secrets of human co-existence in a way that’s easy to understand. If time allows, this event will also give you the opportunity to ask your own questions, share your thoughts, Ideas and struggles in the chat and leave with even greater ideas and solutions. Go Here to Register »   What Topics Will be Covered? This broadcast is an example of a more dynamic interview with Elisabet. Elisabet inspires us to understand the universe as a conscious, living system. She draws from the...
Big Love. Big Hearts. A Plan For The Creation Of One Global Extended Family

Big Love. Big Hearts. A Plan For The Creation Of One Global Extended Family

With the current globalization of our problems, we need to extend our circle of empathy and view humanity as a worldwide extended human family. As long as we refrain from facing that challenge, divisiveness and unsolvable conflicts will persist.” Professor Rodrigue Tremblay is an author and Emeritus professor of economics at Université de Montréal. In addition to his writings on economics, he has also written extensively on the subject of ethics; and most recently, on the urgent need for a new level of universal ethics, morality, and empathy to be developed and maintained in the world. The Super Golden Rule [In a more universal civilization], first and foremost, the scope of human empathy would be more universal and more comprehensive, and would not merely apply to some chosen people, to members of a particular religion or to persons belonging to a particular civilization. In practice, this would require that we establish a higher threshold of human morality, beyond the traditional norm of the Golden Rule (‘Treat others as you would have others treat you.’) It would require that we adopt what I call a Super Golden Rule of humanist morality that incorporates the humanist rule of empathy: ‘Not only do to others as you would have them do to you, but also, do to others what you would wish to be done to you, if you were in their place.’ — Of course, the corollary also follows: ‘Don’t do to others what you would not like to be done to you, if you were in their place.’”  Three Interrelated Moral Imperatives Three interrelated moral imperatives that have always been sound moral values, but which...