Dawn of an Era of Well-Being: The Podcast

In this episode, Ervin and Alison are joined by Michael Beckwith, Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center. Agape is a term from ancient Greek meaning “unconditional love” and since its founding in 1986, the Agape Center has pursued a mission of fostering a living environment for individuals to realize that they are unique emanations of God, the Love-Intelligence governing the Universe.

Today Michael and our hosts discuss the distinction between our ego and the subtle voice of guiding consciousness, and how to navigate between the two. From there, we also engage in a conversation about intentionality, the costs and benefits of new technology, and how to lead a meaningful life.

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Michael Bernard Beckwith is the Founder and Spiritual Director of the Agape International Spiritual Center. Agape is a trans-denominational community headquartered in Los Angeles comprised of thousands of local members and global live streamers.

Highly regarded for his teachings on the science of inner transformation, Dr. Beckwith embraces a practical approach to spirituality utilizing meditation, affirmative prayer, and Life Visioning™, a process he originated. These practices teach us to take the experience of inner peace and awakened awareness into our everyday lives.

In 2012, Dr. Beckwith addressed the UN General Assembly during its annual World Interfaith Harmony Week. As co-founder and president of the Association for Global New Thought, he hosts conferences featuring harbingers of world peace including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and had the distinguished honor of presenting to Nelson Mandela the Gandhi King Award.

Dr. Beckwith is a sought after meditation teacher, conference speaker, and seminar leader on the Life Visioning Process™.  Three of his most recent books: Life Visioning, Spiritual Liberation, and TranscenDance Expanded are recipients of the prestigious Nautilus Award. He has appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Network (Super Soul Sunday, Super Soul Sessions, and Help Desk), Dr. Oz, CNN, The Oprah Show, Larry King Live, Tavis Smiley, and in his own PBS Special, The Answer Is You. He is a member of Oprah’s prestigious inaugural Super Soul 100 and Oprah has named his book, Life Visioning in the top 15 Books to Solve a Problem. Every Friday at 1pm PT, thousands tune into his radio show on KPFK, "WAKE UP! The Sound of Transformation".

Dr. Jude Currivan is a cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, author, previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld-View. Having grown up as the daughter of a coal miner in the north of England, she has since journeyed to more than eighty countries around the world and for the last twenty -five years has lived in the sacred landscape of Avebury. She has experienced multidimensional realities since early childhood and worked with the wisdom keepers both incarnate and discarnate of many traditions.

Jude integrates leading edge science, research into consciousness and universal wisdom teachings into a wholistic world-view. This underpins her work aimed at enabling transformational and emergent resolutions to our collective planetary issues, raising awareness and empowering fundamental change and sustainable solutions to global problems.

She holds a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Reading in the UK researching ancient cosmologies and a Masters Degree in Physics from Oxford University specializing in cosmology and quantum physics.

She is the author of six non-fiction books currently available in 16 languages and 26 countries including CosMos – a co-creator’s guide to the whole-world co-authored with Dr Ervin Laszlo. Her first fictionalized e-book Legacy is available at amazon.

Her latest is The Cosmic Hologram- In-formation at the Center of Creation, the first book of the Transformation trilogy and which won a silver Nautilus Book Award for 2017. She is currently writing book two Gaia: Her-Story.

Roger Nelson, Ph.D., was Coordinator of Research at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) laboratory at Princeton University from 1980 to 2002, and has directed the Global Consciousness Project (GCP), since its inception in 1997.

Interests in psychology, physics, philosophy and the arts have given opportunities to collaborate with creative interdisciplinary teams at PEAR and elsewhere developing ways to study consciousness and intention. Roger's work integrates science and spirituality, including research that is directly focused on numinous communal experiences.

Building on years of laboratory experiments, Roger began using random event generator (REG) technology in the field to study effects of special states of group consciousness. This led naturally to the GCP, which is designed to register indications of a coalescing global consciousness responding to major world events such as 9/11, the beginnings of war, or New Year's Eve.

Speculative interpretations suggest that we may be looking at some form of consciousness field. Though we don't have a full explanation, this frontier research provides evidence of interconnection and interaction of our minds with the environment. It is consonant with ancient and modern ideas about a nascent greater consciousness.

LINKS:
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/
http://www.global-mind.org
http://noosphere.princeton.edu/media.html. 

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https://www.thepoweroftheheart.com

Howard Martin is one of the original leaders who helped found HeartMath in 1991. A key spokesperson for the HeartMath Companies, Howard Martin is deeply passionate about the topics he presents. 

Through his talks Howard illuminates the intelligence of the heart, describing how we can access it to create positive and sustainable change. 

His presentations provide a unique clarity and sense of ease about the evolutionary changes many are experiencing personally, collectively and socially. 

Howard shows us how we can actively participate in the creation of our individual and collective future. His Southern roots play into the palpable warmth and gentle humor you will experience when you meet him. 

He is a co-author of the highly acclaimed book The HeartMath Solution and contributing author of Heart Intelligence. Most recently, Howard helped to co-create The HeartMath Experience, a new online video program introduced by HeartMath in January 2020. 

Howard is also a member of The Transformational Leadership council, an organization founded by author Jack Canfield, and The Evolutionary Leaders, a group of select global visionaries founded by Deepak Chopra.

Recent Work 

Howard helped produce The HeartMath Experience, an interactive program that is especially appropriate during these times for maintaining emotional balance, mental clarity and sustaining resilience. The content is uplifting and provides scientifically validated tools for managing stress and anxiety — which we need now more than ever.

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are now offering the program completely free. 

Audience members can click here to register https://www.heartmath.com/experience/ 

Lynne McTaggart is an award-winning journalist and the author of seven books, including the worldwide international bestsellers The Power of Eight, The Field, The Intention Experiment and The Bond, all considered seminal books of the New Science and now translated into some 30 languages.

She’s consistently voted one of the world’s top 100 spiritual leaders for her ground-breaking work with consciousness and the power of intention. Lynne is known for the quality of her writing and in-depth research, her inspirational speaking style and her uncompromising role as New Thought leader and spiritual change agent. In 2020, she was singled out with a special Walden Award for being a ‘Champion of Change.’

She’s also architect of the Intention Experiment, a global ‘laboratory’ involving thousands of readers around the world testing the power of group thoughts to heal the world. Lynne, her book and the web-based experiment were prominently featured in Dan Brown’s book The Lost Symbol, and Brown even created a character partly based on her.

lynnemctaggart.com

The Power of Eight on Amazon  

Michael Tobias is an ecologist, author, filmmaker, historian, explorer, anthropologist, educator and non-violence activist. His work encompasses ecological anthropology and aesthetics, the history of ideas, environmental psychology, comparative literature, philosophy and ethics, global biodiversity field research, systematics, deep demography, animal rights and animal liberation. In addition, he focuses on aspects of zoosemiotics and ethology, and the critical links between human demographic pressure (various population issues) and the genetic corridors and diverse, remaining habitats on Earth.

He has received The Courage of Conscience Award, the Parabola Focus Award, in addition to countless film awards, nominations, and accolades.

http://www.michaeltobias.org/Michael_Tobias.html

Welcome to the special Holiday edition of Dawn of an Era of Well-Being: the Podcast. This program includes holiday messages from:
Marianne Williamson, bestselling author, spiritual leader, and political activist; Democratic candidate in the 2020 United States presidential election
Michael Tobias, author, environmentalist, and filmmaker; Producer of the ten-hour dramatic television series, Voice of the Planet
Michael Beckwith, founder and spiritual director of the Agape International Spiritual Center
Jude Currivan, cosmologist, planetary healer, futurist, and author; previously one of the most senior business women in the UK and co-founder of WholeWorld-View
Kingsley Dennis, researcher and futurist; author of several books including Unified - Cosmos, Life, Purpose: Communicating with the Unified Source Field & How This Can Guide Our Lives and The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution & The Battle to Control How We Think
Garry Jacobs, author, researcher, and business and economic consultant; he is President, Chief Executive Officer and former Chairman of the Board of the World Academy of Art & Science
Ervin Laszlo, co-host of Dawn of an Era of Well-Being
Fred Tsao, co-host of Dawn of an Era of Well-Being
Alison Goldwyn, moderator of Dawn of an Era of Well-Being, founder of Synchronistory

Hazel Henderson D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, founder of Ethical Markets Media, a Certified B Corporation. She is a world-renowned futurist, syndicated columnist, and author of award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006); Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age (2014) now in 800 libraries. Her earlier books are worldwide in 20 languages. Ethical Markets TV series distributed globally at www.films.com. She created the EthicMark® Awards, the Green Transition Scoreboard®,  EthicMarkGEMS®.com and co-created Ethical Biomimicry Finance®. Henderson served as a science policy advisor to the US Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation and National Academy of Engineering, and she has many honorary degrees. Her articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, LeMonde Diplomatique, and journals in Japan, Venezuela, China, France, and Australia. An Honorary Member of the Club of Rome and a Fellow of The World Academy of Art & Science, she shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow to Britain’s Royal Society of Arts. In 2012, she received the Reuters Award for Outstanding Contribution to ESG & Investing; was inducted into the International Society of Sustainability Professionals Hall of Fame in 2013, and in 2014 was again honored as a “Top 100 Thought Leader in Trustworthy Business Behavior” by Trust Across America.

https://hazelhenderson.com/
https://www.ethicalmarkets.com/

Thank you for listening to Dawn of an Era of Well-Being: The Podcast. Please subscribe to the program as we have more guests joining Ervin and Fred and Alison for more fascinating conversation. If you enjoyed our program, here are a few links that may be of further interest:

ERVIN LASZLO
https://thelaszloinstitute.com/
https://ervinlaszlobooks.com/

FREDERICK TSAO
https://www.aitiainstitute.org/
https://www.octaveinstitute.com/en

ALISON GOLDWYN
https://www.synchronistory.com/

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