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Next on 'The Hero Series'

March 23, 24, 29 & 30, 2011 - Scientist/Astronaut Dr. Brian O'Leary

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Brian O'Leary is a scientist-philosopher with fifty years of experience in academic research, teaching and government service in frontier science and energy policy.  He was a NASA scientist-astronaut during the Apollo program, the first to be selected for a planned Mars mission, and participated in unmanned planetary missions as an Ivy League professor. Over the past four decades, Dr. O’Leary has been an international author, speaker, peace activist, founder of non-profits, and advisor to progressive U.S. Congress members and presidential candidates. Brian’s latest book, “The Energy Solution Revolution”, describes the enormous potential of breakthrough clean energy technologies, their suppression and their logical necessity for our survival.  Zero-point (vacuum) energy, cold fusion, and advanced hydrogen and water chemistry could provide us all an abundant future for all of humanity. In 2004, he and his wife, the artist Meredith Miller, moved to the Andes in Ecuador, where they co-created Montesuenos – an eco-retreat and educational center dedicated to creativity and the rights of nature.
 
 
 

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What does it take to be a Hero?

After participating in this interview, like all the others before it, in terms of what does it take to be a hero, I have come to know it's all about choice points...
 
Let's all ask ourselves, when the call comes to step out of the 'do have consume... distract' to find a higher purpose in life... to live a more meaningful life, am I willing to COMMIT to this?
 
Am I willing to take the risks and make the sacrifices to live 'the hero way'?
 
Am I willing to humbly follow and respect the guidance my mentor provides to learn to live 'the Hero way'?
 
Am I willing to see the tests, the loss, the betrayal, the setbacks and life or death ordeals, as character building stuff along the way, blessing these opportunities for growth?
 
Am I willing to shed the skins of my old life, fully, fully, in order to embrace a new life...?
 
Am I willing to choose love, strength and balance instead of comfort profit and greed?
 
Am I willing to follow my passion to find my bliss, regardless of any reward?
 
Am I willing to begin making choices from heart and love, even though they may look wrong, bad, stupid or foolish?

The hero (after all the study, mentoring, training and disciplines) knows however, which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn...  

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A CHOICE POINT... where the only way forward is 'we' thinking instead of 'me' thinking...

'Many are called and few are chosen' is a phrase from the Bible that kept coming to mind when I considered initiation. I didn't know what that meant previously. Now I realize that we are all called to reconnect to spirit when we experience some kind of awakening (initiation), but not all of us choose to respond to it. In fact only a courageous few take action to change and actually become spiritual.

Each and every one of us has at least one life changing event, be it the death of a loved one, divorce, redundancy or something that causes the personality to meet the spirit, and at this time we are given the opportunity to choose which voice we are going to listen to in order to live the second part of our life in a much bolder more powerful way, embracing greatness. When we choose spirit we will find an unfoldment of a life much greater than we could have anticipated, which we definitely, in the ordinary scheme of things, didn't see coming or dream could ever be possible. Loss, pain and suffering are, therefore, ultimately gifts. They put us back in touch with others and their pain and loss and suffering. That's where our greatness is.
 
Martin Luther King said, 'We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind.' Greatness isn't fame and fortune. True greatness is serving others.
 
Susan Anthony - Extract from 'A Map to God'

 

Guests on In Discussion's Hero Series

Past Programs on the Hero Series

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December 27 & 28, 2010 - January 6 & 7, 2011 Dr. Susie Anthony's work makes clear the understanding of the difference between knowledge not applied, which is just so much mental excess baggage, what she calls ‘the conceit of wisdom’, as opposed to wisdom, which is the living of the knowledge and which will change our world. Oscar Wilde said, "Every saint has a past and every sinner a future." Susie shares that the most meaningful experiences in life normally come from mistakes, heartbreak, and pain. This has been her direct experience and this concept forms the core of this particular synthesis of spiritual teachings. Susie's saga of personal spiritual awakening is a journey that commences with the pain and hardship of a difficult and impoverished childhood. Determined to break free from these circumstances Susie successfully enters the world of high society, amassing her own personal fortune. This change is not wholly satisfying however for Susie merely ends up exchanging one set of problems for another. Despite her increasing affluence her lifestyle begins to spiral down into a superficial world of pursuing pleasure, resisting change and avoiding pain at all costs. This hedonistic pathcaused her to lose everything and reach rock bottom, the victim of drug addiction. The loss of control and temporary insanity in addiction led Susie to series of ‘divine interventions’ during which she is visited by angelic guides and other super-luminal beings, which guide her on a higher path of true spiritual awakening.

Nearly twenty years later and her life has changed immeasurably - Susie now leads a happy and harmonious existence that reflects her higher calling, working tirelessly as spiritual teacher, healer, award winning and acclaimed author. Susie is an initiate of the Shamanic Path and has studied many of the most powerful energetic healing modalities of the world. As a result of her various near death experiences, Susie has been blessed to receive through 'direct knowing' vital spiritual knowledge (gnosis) at this crucial crossroads in human evolution. This has enabled her to develop a very practical formula for transformation, which she's calling The Hero's Journey. Today she regularly consults to people from all walks of life, the homeless and the destitue at one end of the scale and at the other end, she mentors pillars of society, monarchy, heads of billion dollar corporations, commissioners of police, heads of government agencies, MP's and celebrities. Like the phoenix rising from the ashes, fully reconnected to her own hero inside, living these higher spiritual values and ideals, Susie has once more built a dynamic reputation for success. This time, however, her success is based on leadership through serving others.

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December 2010 - Dr. Jude Currivan PhD is a cosmologist and previously the most senior businesswoman in Britain. She now works world-wide as a planetary healer, internationally acclaimed author and inspirational speaker. In a well-grounded, accessible and inspiring way, her global work reconciles leading edge science, research into consciousness and spiritual wisdom aiming to empower others, raise awareness and facilitate practical and sustainable harmony and wholeness on personal and collective levels. In addition to her writing and healing work with people and places, she speaks regularly at international conferences, leads workshops and appears on television and radio.

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May 17, 2010 - As a recognized leader in psychology and human potential, Dr. Lee Jampolsky has served on the medical staff and faculty of respected hospitals and graduate schools. He has contributed to the personal and spiritual growth of countless individuals around the globe, and has consulted with management and CEOs of businesses of all sizes. His inspirational books, distance learning, workshops and presentations, and individual programs span the fields of health, business, education, spirituality, and psychology. His books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies around the world, and have been published in more than a dozen languages....

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June 21, 2010 - John Perkins has lived four lives: as an economic hit man (EHM); as the CEO of a successful alternative energy company, who was rewarded for not disclosing his EHM past; as an expert on indigenous cultures and shamanism, a teacher and writer who used this expertise to promote ecology and sustainability while continuing to honor his vow of silence about his life as an EHM; and as a writer who, in telling the real-life story about his extraordinary dealings as an EHM, has exposed the world of international intrigue and corruption that is turning the American republic into a global empire despised by increasing numbers of people around the planet. FIND OUT WHY JOHN BELIEVES WE NEED ANOTHER HERO GENERATION...

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September 29, 30 & October 1, 2010 - Dr. Irving Dardik is a true maverick and a thinker of vast proportions. His background includes an illustrious career as a vascular surgeon, almost a decade of work with the U.S. Olympic  Committee’s Sports Medicine Council (which he founded), an award-winning career as an amateur sprinter, and the culmination of all of this – Dardik’s formulation of SuperWave Theory. Dr. Dardik spent four years as a surgical resident at the Montifiore Medical Center in New York City. In 1972, early in his medical career and while in private practice as a vascular surgeon, Dr. Dardik invented the Dardik Biograft™, a vascular bypass graft that uses tissue from the umbilical cord. Told by his superiors that this would never work, Dardik persisted and within years the procedure was being performed by surgeons around the world and, to date, has helped tens of thousands of people. This innovative technique earned Dr. Dardik the American Medical Association’s most prestigious award for research, the Hektoen Gold Medal, in 1977.

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October 11, 12 & 13 - Dr. Bruce Piasecki Author & Business Advisor is the president and founder of AHC Group, Inc a management consulting firm specializing in energy, materials, and environmental corporate matters since 1981. He is the author of seven seminal books on business strategy, valuation, and corporate change, including the Nature Society's book of the year, In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond Blame. Notably his book World Inc has reached over eight foreign editions since its release in 2007. It has won awards in globalization and in the Japanese edition. It is now available in English at The Surprising Solution. His articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Baltimore Sun, Technology Review, and the Christian Science Monitor. His latest book, The Surprising Solution, was published this year. Since 1990, Dr. Piasecki and his staff have run hundreds of benchmarking workshops for numerous multinational Corporate Affiliates, involving key executives in site remediation, power markets, emerging issues, and governance concerns since Enron. The Corporate Affiliate workshops have now reached over 3,000 leaders over the last twenty years. Dr. Piasecki has moved the field of environmental and energy strategy closer to financial markets and mainstream financial diagnostics. The AHC Group has done this through a series of key alliances, including a multiyear agreement with Innovest and Island Press.

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Future Guests

 

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Brian O'Leary is a scientist-philosopher with fifty years of experience in academic research, teaching and government service in frontier science and energy policy.  He was a NASA scientist-astronaut during the Apollo program, the first to be selected for a planned Mars mission, and participated in unmanned planetary missions as an Ivy League professor. Over the past four decades, Dr. O’Leary has been an international author, speaker, peace activist, founder of non-profits, and advisor to progressive U.S. Congress members and presidential candidates. Brian’s latest book, “The Energy Solution Revolution”, describes the enormous potential of breakthrough clean energy technologies, their suppression and their logical necessity for our survival.  Zero-point (vacuum) energy, cold fusion, and advanced hydrogen and water chemistry could provide us all an abundant future for all of humanity. In 2004, he and his wife, the artist Meredith Miller, moved to the Andes in Ecuador, where they co-created Montesuenos – an eco-retreat and educational center dedicated to creativity and the rights of nature.
 
 
 

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Jeffrey S. Wigand born December 17, 1942 is a former vice president of research and development at Brown & Williamson in Louisville, Kentucky, who worked on the development of reduced-harm cigarettes. He lectures around the world as an expert witness and consultant for various tobacco issues, and devotes time to his non-profit organization Smoke-Free Kids Inc, an organization that attempts to help children of all ages make better decisions and healthy choices regarding tobacco use.
 
 
 
 
 

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Robert Alexander Farrar Thurman born August 3, 1941 is an influential and prolific American Buddhist writer and academic who has authored, edited or translated several books on Tibetan Buddhism. He is the Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, holding the first endowed chair in this field of study in the United States. He also is the co-founder and president of the Tibet House New York and is active against the People's Republic of China's control of Tibet.
 
In 1987 Thurman created Tibet House, U.S. with Richard Gere and Philip Glass at the request of H.H.XIV Dalai Lama. Tibet House is a non-profit organization whose mission is to help preserve Tibetan Culture in exile. In 2001, a 320-acre (1.3 km2) retreat center (formerly the Pathwork Center) on Panther Mountain in Phoenicia, NY was donated to Tibet House. Thurman and Schlebrugge renamed the center Menla Mountain Retreat and Conference Center. Menla (the Tibetan name for the Medicine Buddha) is currently being developed into a state-of-the-art healing arts center grounded in the Tibetan Medical tradition in conjunction with other holistic paradigms.
 
Time Magazine chose Dr Robert Thurman as one of the 25 most influential Americans of 1997.
 
 

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Michael W. Lynch was born in Pennsylvania in 1959 living in Cleveland Ohio until the age of ten. As a young boy, he was a voracious reader and alongside athletics very intrigued with news in print and on television.  He was fascinated with Business success stories and Entrepreneurial ventures and believed in these pursuits as the American Way; anything ventured with determination breeds success. In 1991 he married his wife Kimberlee and later had two daughters Shannon and Paige. He subsequenly purchased Michigan Avenue Partners before establishing McCook Metal's Group. In 1998, he acquired the Scottsboro, Alabama plant Aluminum Rolling Plant from the Canadian mining and minerals company, Noranda. In 1999 after Alcoa made its offer to purchase Reynolds Metals (Lynchl’s primary metals plants supplier) he with his team sued Alcoa in Federal Court in Washington, DC on antitrust to preserve his companies and his 2000 employees jobs. The following year his son Shane was born. In 2000, he won the anti-trust case in the EU, in Brussels. Alcoa was forced to sell him the Longview Smelter, in Longview Washington. Lynch closed on the acquisition in January 2001. With this acquisition, Michigan Avenue Partners, Inc was to become the 27th largest privately held company in Chicago. He was then 39 years old. In August 2001, his lender, GE Capital sue Michael & his partners on a alleged fraud compliant in Federal Court. Mr. Lynch was removed as Chairman of McCook Metals on September 7th, 2001. A year later he won the case against GE Capital. McCook assets were sold to a French company Pechiney who in turn sold the assets to Alcoa. The McCook plant was eventually shut down. In 2002, upon reviewing evidence that his on law firm conspired with GE to take his companies away, he sued Seyfarth Shaw for $226 million dollars in damage. This lawsuit was to change his life forever.

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Professor of physics at the University of Oregon’s Institute of Theoretical Science for over 30 years, (now retired) Dr. Goswami is a revolutionary in a growing body of renegade scientists who in recent years have ventured into the domain of the spiritual in an attempt both to interpret the seemingly inexplicable findings of their experiments... and to validate their intuitions about the existence of a spiritual dimension of life.

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Lynne McTaggart is the award-winning author of five books, including the international bestselling sensations The Field and The Intention Experiment. She is an internationally recognized spokesperson on the science of spirituality.

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Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Ph.D., is the founding director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center and the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies. She is also adjunct professor at Emory University’s Institute for Women’s Studies where she teaches graduate courses. Her most recent publication is a book coauthored with Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women’s Equality in African American Communities (Random House, 2003). In 1983 she became founding co-editor of Sage: A Scholarly Journal of Black Women which was devoted exclusively to the experiences of women of African descent.

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In Discussion Programs Featuring Dr. Susan Anthony

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The Western Series on "In Discussion" with David Gibbons "The Hero Character" - Guests Kevin Sorbo, Todd Allen & Dr. Susan Anthony. Western Films define an incredible genre in the American film industry. It's power explained everything about the determination of those that believed in the American dream and the conquering of an unknown frontier. The intensity of the Western films during the period of the 1960's to the 1960's has been somewhat diluted and holds less interest to the film community. However, there mystique and message of an incredible fortitude in the people who founded America, has resurfaced again with films like The Searchers (1956), High Noon (1952), Unforgiven (1992), The Wild Bunch (1969), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Wyatt Earp (1994), Broken Trail (2006) made for TV series with Robert Duval, Thomas Hayden Church and Todd Allen, and of course Dances with Wolves (1990) which although not exactly falling within the same genre was a masterpiece of storytelling and cinematography featuring Kevin Costner.
 
 
 

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