A Better World with Mitchell J. Rabin

Tibetan Buddhist teacher who is credited for having ‘planted the seeds’ of Tibetan Buddhism in the West (as described in the book When the Swans Came to the Lake), Chogyam, Trungpa Rinpoche“the student of meditation, the spiritual warrior, lives with a broken heart…” he was suggesting that while so much of life can be so rich, vibrant and alive, there remains a fundamental suffering across the planet, the heartbreak of humanity.  People without water, food, shelter, medicine. 

There are many other aspects of suffering but the above are fundamental to virtually all humans.  So when one sees this, we appreciate the joy that is also available, the love and the beauty that is also all around us.  When we understand the suffering however, one can understand some of the bizarreness and pathology that shows up virtually everywhere in our society–the body politic, business, religion, even science and sports!  What’s the common denominator?  Humans!!  Wonderful as we can be, as a whole and with brilliant exceptions, we lack balance between the elements, we lack reason and emotional intelligence, which is actually the basis of reason. 

In today’s show, Mitchell and environmental health journalist will explore this level of psyche as well as both practical issues and solutions we have in hand to those issues.

Wed., Nov. 14, 6pm EST: Mitchell’s guest this evening is author and meditation student and teacher Joshua Pollack as we continue one of A Better World’s seminal themes and values of inner peace, mental health, fitness, and well-being, all aspects of creating the space of a healthful “inner ecology”.

Josh is a Heartfulness trainer and practitioner from the United States and co-author of The Heartfulness Way. . An accomplished Western classical violinist, he hasperformed and taught throughout the world, including multiple collaborations with composer A.R. Rahman. Pollock is a dedicated spiritual aspirant, and is enthusiastic about sharing his passion for meditation, frequently lecturing at private seminars, holding practical demonstrations in corporate, educational and governmental settings, and providing ongoing individual support to local seekers. Pollock holds a Bachelor of Musical Arts degree from Indiana University and two master’s degrees from Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He currently resides in India with his wife and their two children.  Mitchell met Josh in July and invited him to be a guest on A Better World.  We’re pleased to have him during his current visit in NYC.

Mitchell’s guest this evening is renowned author of Do You QuantumThink, Dianne Collins.  Dianne is a highly acclaimed leader of new consciousness, a popular media personality and creator of QuantumThink®, the groundbreaking system of thinking offering us a methodology – 21 specific, advanced principles where Dianne blends scientific insight and spiritual knowledge into practical modern wisdom – to create real solutions for our modern lives – from inner serenity to relationships, business results, and global affairs – through awakening awareness and expanding the way we think. 

Dianne is an 8-time award-winning author of bestseller, Do You QuantumThink? New Thinking That Will Rock Your World, considered a “must-read” for our changing times. She’s been interviewed on more than 500 radio and TV shows, is a featured blogger on The Huffington Post, and a recipient of the Top 20 Conscious Entrepreneurs award.

Dianne works with people to master their innate genius using the physics of mind – what she calls the 5 Natural Faculties of Mind: Intent, Intuition, Subtle Energy, Resonance and Meditation. She combines her powerful intuitive faculty with knowledge of planetary cycles, universal spiritual law, and a mastery of quantum principles made practical – with the intent that we live in an awakened state as a way of life – in the fullest expression of our purpose and greatness.

Tune in to hear Dianne and Mitchell discuss Quantum Thinking and how important it is for the future of our planet and society.

Mitchell Rabin speaks this evening about the idea of Mind over Matter & imaging the world we most want..  On one hand, this could be called psychokinesis parapsychologically, and it is also the activation of will, jettisoning the body, heart, mind and soul into action.  When one learns or knows how to center, and align, when one has one’s values ‘in hand’ and then sense of meaning and purpose alive as well, magic can and does happen. 

When we look sociologically, psychologically, anthropologically and spiritually at our species in particular and the state of our habitat and all its sentient life in general, we see that we are at, well, another precipitous moment in simultaneously planetary-climatic and human history.  It’s not the first juncture of these but it may be one of the most life-threatening on a mass scale.

While so much is going on these days socially, politically and ethically that makes us want to grab the Creator’s sleeve and say “What’s up, how imperfect did you make this human creature?” we have ourselves to turn to in order to transform the species before we indeed are “transformed’ in the old sense of “ash-to-ash….”  Doesn’t sound good?  Great!  Let’s roll our sleeves up and get to it, forming partnerships with our indigenous brothers and sisters, with enlightened government officials and with socially-minded, eco-minded captains of finance and industry.  Even after all the damage our species has inflicted on our habitat and on itself, we will not all that to deter us, unspeakably horrific as it is and work diligently to turn this ship around.

Wed., Oct. 24, 6pm EDT: Mitchell’s guest today is founder and President of the organic health-food company, Purium, David Sandoval.  

David is a world-recognized expert and in-demand lecturer and radio talk show personality, as well as an entrepreneur, nutritionist, activist, personality, author, and one of the leading authorities on whole food nutrition and disease prevention.

Because of his passion for helping people recognize the relationship between diet and health, David Sandoval Co founded and is the CEO of Purium Health  puriumProducts. Believing that there is most definitely a relationship between diet and disease, Sandoval has dedicated himself to providing real solutions for reclaiming health through nutritious, real, whole foods, organically grown.

A Better World ‘got the message’ from David about Purium and has since been making it available to our students, clients & listeners. (see below).

“God and Mother Nature have provided everything the human body needs to live a long, disease-free life.” ~ David Sandavol

This evening, is Part 2 of Mitchel'sl interview with Julia Mossbridge, PhD,, Scientist at IONS and the Director of the IONS Innovation Lab. She is also a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern  mossbridge bookUniversity as well as the Science Director at Focus @ Will. She is best known for her work on presentiment. Her research interests are: time and the unconscious mind, intuition, dreaming, soundscape influence on mood, and models of transformation and transcendence. Dr. Mossbridge received her PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University, her MA in Neuroscience is from UCSF, and her BA with highest honors in neuroscience from Oberlin College.

Dr. Mossbridge has received funding from the National Institutes of Health in her role as post-doctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She is a peer reviewer for Brain Research, Perception, Cognition, PLoS One, Explore, and Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Mossbridge is also the author of Unfolding: The Perpetual Science of Your Soul’s Work  and writes about her attempts to find the soul in science on her blog Unfolding Science. In addition to continuing to pursue her research interests and continue creating innovative apps, she is co-author of a book with Imants Baruss titled Transcendent Mind: Re-thinking the Science of Consciousness.

On Tuesday, Oct. 30, 7-9pm EST at Ascension Church,, 12 W. 11th St., NYC, Mitchell will have a public conversation with Julia, followed by a robust Q&A.  Only $10. in advance. $15. at the door.  Please join us if you are anywhere within 100 miles of NYC!  And if not, please forward to your friends who are. 

Go to:  http://abetterworld.tv/reading-the-future-a-public-conversation-neuro-scientist-julia-mossbridge-holistic-therapist-mitchell-rabin-oct-30-7-9-nyc/

Mitchell's guest today is environmentalist, entrepreneur, author and activist Paul Hawken, who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is one of the environmental movement’s leading voices, and a pioneering architect of corporate reform with respect to ecological practices. His work includes founding successful, ecologically conscious businesses, writing about the impacts of commerce on living systems, and consulting with heads of state and CEOs on economic development, industrial ecology, and environmental policy. Paul is Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. The organization maps and models the scaling of one hundred substantive technological, social, and ecological solutions to global warming. 

Paul has appeared in numerous media including the Today Show, Larry King, Talk of the Nation, Charlie Rose, and has been profiled or featured in hundreds of articles including the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Washington Post, Business Week, Esquire, and US News and World Report. His writings have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, Resurgence, New Statesman, Inc, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, Orion, and many other publications.

This evening, Mitchell interviews Julia Mossbridge, PhD, is a Scientist at IONS and the Director of the IONS Innovation Lab. She is also a Visiting Scholar in the Psychology Department at Northwestern  mossbridge bookUniversity as well as the Science Director at Focus @ Will. She is best known for her work on presentiment. Her research interests are: time and the unconscious mind, intuition, dreaming, soundscape influence on mood, and models of transformation and transcendence. Dr. Mossbridge received her PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders from Northwestern University, her MA in Neuroscience is from UCSF, and her BA with highest honors in neuroscience from Oberlin College.

Dr. Mossbridge has received funding from the National Institutes of Health in her role as post-doctoral fellow in the Psychology Department at Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. She is a peer reviewer for Brain Research, Perception, Cognition, PLoS One, Explore, and Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Dr. Mossbridge is also the author of Unfolding: The Perpetual Science of Your Soul’s Work  and writes about her attempts to find the soul in science on her blog Unfolding Science. In addition to continuing to pursue her research interests and continue creating innovative apps, she is co-author of a book with Imants Baruss titled Transcendent Mind: Re-thinking the Science of Consciousness.

On Tuesday, Oct. 30, 7-9pm EST at Ascension Church,, 12 W. 11th St., NYC, Mitchell will have a public conversation with Julia, followed by a robust Q&A.  Only $10. in advance. $15. at the door.  Please join us if you are anywhere within 100 miles of NYC!  And if not, please forward to your friends who are. 

Go to:  http://abetterworld.tv/reading-the-future-a-public-conversation-neuro-scientist-julia-mossbridge-holistic-therapist-mitchell-rabin-oct-30-7-9-nyc/

This evening Mitchell Rabin discusses the interface of reality & hope Part 2.  We are not approaching the precipice, we are standing on top of it.  On one hand, arctic ice is melting at an exponential rate, permafrost in Siberia hasn’t been freezing and species are going extinct at a rate so rapid we can barely keep count and probably can’t.  Yes folks, it’s the Titanic all over again.  Are we just re-arranging the chairs on deck?  Are we toasting and enjoying our last sips of bubbly, or are the efforts we are making—that are being made world-wide–going to be able to sequester sufficient carbon and methane, change our consumption, lifestyle, dietary, driving, carbon-spewing habits quickly and radically enough to shift the physics (and geology), chemistry and biology so that sentient life, including human, will survive the predicament we’ve created? 

What’s true?  Well, we’ll explore that too along with the importance to the human psyche of this unknown quantity but which has a brilliant quality, called hope.  Hope sometimes pulls people through disasters and stage 4 cancer.  Hope is a life-raft and to dash it is virtually synonymous with snuffing out the life-force itself.  It’s almost like having ‘two deaths’.  The death of hope and the death of the body.  Isn’t oneenough?!!   Isn’t knowing how to cultivate hope in the midst of crisis what really shows (and builds) character?  Tune in today for what will be a reality-check on one hand, and how to build hope that leads to loving and meaningful action.

This evening Mitchell Rabin discusses the interface of reality & hope.  We are not approaching the precipice, we are standing on top of it.  On one hand, arctic ice is melting at an exponential rate, permafrost in Siberia hasn’t been freezing and species are going extinct at a rate so rapid we can barely keep count and probably can’t.  Yes folks, it’s the Titanic all over again.  Are we just re-arranging the chairs on deck?  Are we toasting and enjoying our last sips of bubbly, or are the efforts we are making—that are being made world-wide–going to be able to sequester sufficient carbon and methane, change our consumption, lifestyle, dietary, driving, carbon-spewing habits quickly and radically enough to shift the physics (and geology), chemistry and biology so that sentient life, including human, will survive the predicament we’ve created? 

What’s true?  Well, we’ll explore that too along with the importance to the human psyche of this unknown quantity but which has a brilliant quality, called hope.  Hope sometimes pulls people through disasters and stage 4 cancer.  Hope is a life-raft and to dash it is virtually synonymous with snuffing out the life-force itself.  It’s almost like having ‘two deaths’.  The death of hope and the death of the body.  Isn’t oneenough?!!   Isn’t knowing how to cultivate hope in the midst of crisis what really shows (and builds) character?  Tune in today for what will be a reality-check on one hand, and how to build hope that leads to loving and meaningful action.

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