A Better World with Mitchell J. Rabin

Mitchell’s guest today is NYC Council Member Dan Garodnick.  Garodnick was praised by the New York Times for his “independent streak,” In his first year on the Council, Garodnick established himself as a leader in the fight for affordable housing, spearheading the $4.5 billion tenant-backed bid for the purchase of Stuyvesant Town/Peter Cooper Village.

With a background in civil rights and education advocacy,  Dan represented the Partnership for New York City in the landmark Campaign for Fiscal Equity lawsuit. Before joining the City Council, he also directed the New York Civil Rights Coalition’s “Unlearning Stereotypes: Civil Rights and Race Relations Program” in 42 New York City public schools, teaching students non-violent ways to combat racial discrimination, and how to use the processes of government to affect social change. Additionally, Garodnick represented thirteen same-sex couples seeking marriage equality in New York State, and sought and received funding to rebuild African-American churches in Virginia and Georgia burned by racially-motivated arson.

Garodnick holds a J.D. from University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, and a B.A. in Government from Dartmouth College.

Mitchell holds Dan as a Councilman “for the people”. What goes on in NY is often applicable to other municipalities in the country.

Time allowing, today’s interview will look at the ongoing polarized conflict between landlords and tenants in NYC, rehabilitating NY’s criminal justice system, water, the greening of NYC and other pressing issues time allows for. Dan’s website is: http://council.nyc.gov/html/home/home.shtml

Wednesday, July 8, 6pm EDT:  Mitchell Rabin, host of A Better World Radio & TV,  holistic psychotherapist, life & communications coach, workshop leader, speaker and President of A Better World Foundation Unlimited, will speak on the fundamental idea we premise our lives on, our purpose, how we perceive this, how we construct this, what assumptions we make in order to conceive this.  And as we are in relationship to everything, from which we derive our sense of purpose and meaning, he will speak aboutrelationships, to life, to Earth, to each other as the ground of being.  Why are we the way we are?

Mitchell is in private practice in NYC in relationship and life coaching, counseling and stress management consulting. He is also an advanced facilitator of Higher Brain Living, a technique designed to further activate the pre-frontal cortex and the heart.

Mitchell facilitates a bi-monthly group called Mitchell's Heaven on Earth Salon downtown near Wall St.

Mitchell writes for Natural News and the Huffington Post while working on a book on the subject of creating a friendly, compassionate, sustainable Better World.

Visit www.mitchellrabin.com and www.abetterworld.tv

Mitchell’s guest today is Sam Daley-Harris, founder of RESULTS and author ofReclaiming Our Democracy.. Since 1980, RESULTS has identified and advocated for effective solutions to the causes of poverty and worked successfully to increase political will and funding for these solutions through powerful citizen action.Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Muhammad Yunus said: “…no other organization has been as critical a partner in seeing to it that microcredit is used as a tool to eradicate poverty and empower women than RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campaign.”Daley-Harris is author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government, which, according to President Jimmy Carter “provides a road map for global involvement in planning a better future.

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Tune in to hear Sam and Mitchell discuss citizenship being expressed as it was meant to be.

This week on A Better World Radio show is a Round Table about the Institute for Noetic Sciences (IONS) and the upcoming Conference in Chicago, July 22-26.  Joining Mitchell in the Round Table are IONS Founder, astronaut Edgar Mitchell, IONS current President Cassandra Vieten and the internationally-renowned visionary evolutionist Barbara Marx Hubbard.

IONS is an outstanding organization with a global reach, educating people about the relationship between science and spirituality, a favorite subject here at A Better World.  Through Conferences, publications and more, IONS is helping to upgrade our understanding of phenomena which have been passed on by conventional science, such as parapsychology, yet the implications of this kind of human potential opens up vistas paralleled, well, as Edgar Mitchell suggested when he was in space, by the beauty and mystery of Earth from the point of view of the Moon.  IONS work in this sphere is helping humanity come to a new understanding about itself and “who” we really are.

The annual Conference, in Oak Brook, just outside Chicago, is a venue for this kind of dialogue and many similar ones, so certainly worth looking into and attending.  Go to: www.noetic.org.  Marianne Williamson, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Edgar Mitchell, Dean Radin, Cassie Vieten are among a stellar group of speakers at the Conference.  I will be there as well representing the NY chapter of IONS, known as FIONS.  Please join us for this special Conference.  Edgar Mitchell was a guest on A Better World TV back in in 1996 and Barbara in 2010, as well as numerous times over the years on A Better World Radio.

Listen on-line at www.abetterworld.tv or by phone!  602 753-1860.

Wednesday, June 17, 6pm EDT:  Mitchell’s guest this evening is internationally-recognized psychoanalyst, wellness educator, Jane G. Goldberg, Ph.D.

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Dr.Goldberg, Is also author of seven books, including the acclaimed The Dark Side of Love, as well as numerous articles both lay and scholarly. She has appeared as an “expert” guest on various TV and radio shows, including NPR. She is the owner of La Casa Spa and Wellness Center, a holistic health center that is now in its 22nd year of operation, making it the oldest spa/wellness center in NYC. Dr. Goldberg has specialized in working with cancer patients both psychoanalytically and holistically, and brings to her clinical practice as well as her writings a wealth of experience with bodily and psychic afflictions of all kinds, but most especially cancer.

Jane and Mitchell are old friends and colleagues, whose interests and paths have run parallel for decades, from psychology to holistic healing  and wellness centers and media.  Mitchell is delighted to have Jane on to discuss a good portion of her pioneering work with his audience.

June 10, 6pm EDT: On this week’s radio program Mitchell focuses on a special project taking place in a medium-security prison in upstate NY where inmates are learning classical Yoga, meditation and ancient Vedantic teachings and training to become Yoga instructors, an innovative program which is the first of its kind in the country.Discussing this project with Mitchell are  Executive Director of Sivananda Yoga Ranch in Woodbourne, NY, Sri Nivasan, and Manager of the Ashram, Mahadev Chaitanya.

Sri Nivasan, Director and senior teacher (archarya) of Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch served with his guru and yoga master, Swami Vishnudevananda.

Mahadev Chaitanya, manager of the Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch, has been dedicated to the practices for nearly a decade. As the main Hatha yoga teacher for Teacher Trainings at the Ranch and in the prison, he is a wonderful teacher who effortlessly weaves classical yoga teachings into today’s modern lifestyle.

 The Sivananda Ashram Yoga Ranch is currently leading a yoga Teachers Training Course at Otisville medium-security correctional facility in New York State, training 15 inmates to become yoga teachers. The initiative – the first one of its kind in the US – is taking place in April-October of 2015.

Listen on-line at www.abetterworld.tv

Wednesday, May 27, 6pm EDT: On this week’s radio program Mitchell interviews renowned author and co-founder of the non-profit organization, Partnerships for Change, Jacqueline Miller.

Jackie is the author/anthologist originally with Jack Canfield of the book Heart at Work.Jackie spearheaded this pioneering book, which tells stories and provide strategies for building self-esteem and reawakening the soul at work.

Buy the book  Heart at Work here.

Jackie Miller  is an internationally recognized expert, consultant, and speaker in the arena of self-esteem. With her husband, Andrew Michael, she co- founded and currently serves as the President of Partnerships for Change. This organization is dedicated to the acceleration of social, economic, environmental and personal transformation as well community self-reliance. She has deepened her understanding and appreciation of workplace issues.Heart at Work has recently been newly released with entirely new stories of inspiration and will be available through A Better World. Mitchell has written a chapter in this latest edition as well..Tune in for this re-airing of an inspiring dialogue between these two colleagues and good friends.

Jackie co-founded Patnerships for Change, a remarkable org. helping children and others all over the world, discussed in this interview as well.

Listen on-line at www.abetterworld.tv or by phone!  602 753-1860.

Wednesday, May 27, 6pm EDT: On this week’s radio program Mitchell interviews renowned author and co-founder of the non-profit organization, Partnerships for Change, Jacqueline Miller.

Jackie is the author/anthologist originally with Jack Canfield of the book Heart at Work.Jackie spearheaded this pioneering book, which tells stories and provide strategies for building self-esteem and reawakening the soul at work.

Buy the book  Heart at Work here.

Jackie Miller  is an internationally recognized expert, consultant, and speaker in the arena of self-esteem. With her husband, Andrew Michael, she co- founded and currently serves as the President of Partnerships for Change. This organization is dedicated to the acceleration of social, economic, environmental and personal transformation as well community self-reliance.She has also served as an executive for several U.S. corporations such as Sara Lee Corporation, Shasta Beverages and Capri Sun, Inc., and PHH Corporation, she has deepened her understanding and appreciation of workplace issues.Heart at Work has recently been newly released with entirely new stories of inspiration and will be available through A Better World. Mitchell has written a chapter in this latest edition as well..Tune in for this re-airing of an inspiring dialogue between these two colleagues and good friends.

ABW on Blog Talk Radio, Wednesdays 6pm EDT   Listen on-line at www.abetterworld.tv or by phone!  602 753-1860.

How does passage of TPP, or its blockage, relate to ethics, humanitarian thinking, our economy, political sovereignty and spirituality?

Wednesday, May 27, 6pm EDT: This week’s radio program is regards the multi-layered nature of reality. Mitchell  Rabin will address going from the inner sanctum of subjective equanimity to the  outer world’s hustle-bustle, to the efforts to harmonize and remedy conflicts inwardly and outwardly, to soberly addressing the pathology of the TPP and Fast-Track and the future of civilization as we know it.  What is emotional maturity in the context of business, politics and building a society, a world that feeds, shelters and serves all?  The mikes will be open at a certain point for intelligent discourse and what actions need to occur to protect and preserve our Earth & the good aspects of our current world.

Adam Weissman of Global Trade Watch and Executive Vice President MICHAEL GENDRON of Communications Workers of America will be joining Mitchell later in the show.

Wednesday, May 20, 6pm EDT:  This week Mitchell conducts a Round Table of outstanding thought leaders in and around the global spiritual community who are gathering at Radford University, Radford, VA. May 28-31 for the first Building the New World Conference open to the public.  Economists, futurists, scientists, teachers of all stripes will be speaking to a wonderfully diverse audience.  Today’s show will be a peek behind the curtains of the Conference.  

Educators, scientists, economists, peace activists, and futurists will join Barbara Marx Hubbard, et al..  

Today's Round Table: 

Glen Martin, Ph.D. – President, World Constitution and Parliament Association.  Dr. Martin is Professor and Department Chair of  philosophy & Religious Studies, Radford University.

Rev. Laura M. George, J.D.– Founder & Executive Director, The Oracle Institute.   Rev. George is a Virginia-based author, attorney, and interfaith minister. In 2004, she founded The Oracle Institute, which operates an award-winning publishing house, a multi-faith spirituality school, and a peace-building practice.Oracle’s icon is the Pentacle,

Kurt Johnson, Ph.D. – Founder, InterSpiritual Dialogue in ActionDr. Johnson is known internationally as a scientist, comparative religionist, social activist and former monastic. With a Ph.D. in evolution, ecology, systematics, and comparative biology, plus training in comparative religion and philosophy, he was associated for 20 years with the American Museum of Natural History and the One Spirit Interfaith Seminary in New York City. Ordained in three spiritual traditions,