The Shadow Effect, a visually stunning and cutting-edge documentary, will inspire you to step out of the self that you've known and break free from the bonds of the past. Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, Dr. David Simon, and other world-renowned thinkers join Debbie Ford to reveal the transformative power of your shadow -- the parts of yourself that you dislike and disown, the past that you regret and repress, and the future that is waiting to be birthed.

God's Ecology is deeply inspired by a holistic vision that is firmly grounded in practical experience and a wide acquaintance with science and the healing arts. There is a new culture emerging that joins together the fragmented strands of modernity into a unity of thought and practical action, to which this book is a major contributor. --Prof. Brian Goodwin - Schumacher College

Within the framework of a project on “Preventive Diplomacy in the Middle East,” the Gulf Research Center (GRC) with the support of the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies of Kobe University, Japan held the first day of a two-day workshop on Monday to look into various conflict prevention mechanisms that can be applied to the volatile Middle East region. The project aims to explore the potential for applying preventive diplomacy in the Middle East region by bringing together academics and policy practioners from the Middle East, Asia, Europe and the US in a collaborative effort to examine numerous case studies.

As alarm about the Iranian election and the outrage around the world about what is presumed to be election fraud continues, I struggle to understand how Islam can be used to justify persecution, silencing, and violence. Iran is an Islamic country as are Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others.

Whenever we see the kinds of images that have been coming out of Iran over the past two weeks, we tend to think back to 1989 and Eastern Europe. That time, when people took to the streets and challenged their governments, those seemingly stable regimes proved to be hollow and quickly collapsed. What emerged was liberal democracy. Could Iran yet undergo its own velvet revolution?

Down in a basement meeting room of the Holiday Inn Oxford Circus…that’s where the Centre for Human Emergence UK was born on the afternoon of Friday 26 July 2009. Spiral Dynamics co-developer Don Beck, Jon Freeman (author of ‘God’s Ecology and the Dawkins Challenge’), Rachel Castagne, Lynne Sedgemore CBE, Ian MacDonald of the Integral Centre, the veteran activist and author Rosemary Wilkie and myself harmonising an intent – creating a spirit, if you will. That intent is to build MeshWORK alliances to design natural solutions to local problems in the context of a globalised world.

The media today are undergoing the most dramatic change since Gutenberg invented movable type printing. The digitalisation and networking processes encouraged by the Internet have changed the market. Media consumers become media entrepreneurs, websites become brands, and garage companies become media corporations. These are exciting times, offering many chances and challenges, but also risks. MEEDIA is a source of information for anyone interested in the media sector. It is a highly progressive media portal that draws on the advantages of the Internet. MEEDIA is updated several times a day and features numerous videos, provides links to the most important national and international news articles and offers innovative tools that would have been impossible just a few years ago.

More and more often, global leaders are asking us the same simple, yet colossal, question: "Does anyone know for sure what the world is thinking?"

With respect to Western policy on the Middle East, the most significant events of the year may not be the Iranian election protests, or the US-Israel spat over settlements, or Palestinian unity or lack thereof. The most significant events may be the bankruptcy of General Motors, the world economic crisis, and the death of Michael Jackson.

What will the world be like in the year 2030? What trends can we expect? What can we do to shape them now? That's the agenda of the Young Global Leaders. They come from a diversity of countries and sectors - politicians, scientists, artists and entrepreneurs. The international "Young Global Leaders" platform was started by Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.