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12 Principles of Spirtual Leadership
Cultural Creatives
....an interview
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Spending Chart
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diagram
FGC/Atlanta Pledge of Allegiance
Instructuions (from Edge course
spring 2002)
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Drawing
The Art of Listening
18 Reasons Why
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Bioneers
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Astronomers tell us that all the galaxies
in our known universe are traveling away from each other, at
high speeds. Last week they were closer together than this week.
Last year they were even closer. 1,000 years ago they were closer
yet. The strong implication is that if we go back in time far
enough all the matter making up the universe would be very condensed.
It appears that we are living in the midst of an incredible explosion.
Astronomers estimate the beginning of our explosion to be 15
plus or minus billion years. In the course of this dizzying time
span, everthing we know came into being.
Physical Evolution begins with elementary
particles, proceeds to hydrogen, to helium, which condense into
short-lived stars, factories for the production of the remaining
elements, which then explode dispersing the elements widely,
which again coalesce into our galaxies and planets.
Biological Evolution builds on the
physical foundation and itself evolves, adapting to changes in
the environment, always toward greater complexity.
Cultural Evolution builds on biology,
evolving a consciousness that attempts to understand its own
origins and being. In the course of this attempt, a paradigm
is formed which includes a value system which guides behavior.
In the case of homosapian, the values we have embraced tend to
conceptualize ourselves as separate from the natural system,
to overlook our own dependency & interconnectedness. This
mistaken belief leads us to see nature, and each other, as something
we can dominate, with disastrous consequences for the life system
and our own well being.
Thus it gradually dawns on us that
we live in crisis, that we are despoiling the very system that
nourishes us by our voracious consumption habits and by our increasing
numbers. The need for an alternative, sustainable economic/social
set of relationships leads us to reexamine our basic values and
to begin to envision new ones.
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