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BOOKSPROMISE AHEAD: A Vision Of Hope & Action For Humanity's FutureBy Duane Elgin VOLUNTARY SIMPLICITY: Toward A Way Of Life That Is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich By Duane Elgin (Ram Dass, introduction) AWAKENING EARTH: Exploring The Evolution Of Human Culture & ConsciousnessBy Duane ElginNovember 1993, 382 pages William Morrow & Co. Description/Reviews | Complete Text | Purchase A Copy From The Simple Living Network Just as there are relatively distinct stages that characterize the development of an individual from infancy to early adulthood, so too are there discernible stages in the development of our species. While not predicting a sudden new age of social enlightenment, Awakening Earth does present the promising view that humanity is roughly halfway through seven major transformations in culture and consciousness required to build a planetary civilization that can endure into the deep future. LIVING LEGACIES: How To Write, Illustrate, & Share Your Life StoriesBy Duane Elgin & Coleen LeDrew (Angeles Arrien , foreword) January 2001, Conari Press Description/Reviews | Excerpts | Table Of Contents | Purchase A Copy From The Simple Living Network From grandparents to expectant parents, teens to retirees, Living Legacies is the perfect book for anyone who is looking to capture, record, and pass on the stories of their lives.It is the perfect guide for helping you and your loved ones share your unique and priceless experiences. This beautifully designed and illustrated guide leads you through the process of writing and illustrating your life stories. Living Legacies includes sample stories that inspire and demonstrate a variety of writing styles and illustration techniques, and questions that will draw out your stories and those of your family and friends. The collection and recording of your memories is not only a wonderful gift for yourself, but it can be the ultimate gift to pass on to every loved one in your life. Peril & Promise :An interview with Duane Elgin by Arnie Cooper, The Sun Magazine, August 2002 "Voluntary Simplicity means choosing our path through life consciously. It's not so much about living with less as it is living with purpose and balance." In this interview, Duane Elgin describes how simplicity lies at the intersection of spirituality and sustainability. The Breaking Point :An interview with Duane Elgin by Carter Phipps, What is Enlightenment? Magazine, Spring/Summer 2001 What does awakening look like as it moves into the world? Our entire future may depend on how we answer this question, on how effectively we are able to bring a spiritual perspective to bear on the urgent global challenges faced by our awakening species at this decisive juncture in our evolutionary journey. Upshifters :An interview with Duane Elgin by Sarah van Gelder, editor, Yes! A Journal of Positive Futures, Summer/Srping 1996 The Garden Of SimplicityBy Duane Elgin, Published Spring 2003, Emerging Lifestyles MagazineA quiet revolution in living has been underway for the past few decades in which as much as a quarter of the adult population has made significant changes toward simpler ways of living. This article describes ten different approaches that are thriving in the United States. Choosing A New Lifeway: Voluntary SimplicityBy Duane Elgin, from his book Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future (Morrow, 2000)An overview of the shift toward more sustainable and compassionate ways of living. Simplicity is not about a life of poverty and sacrifice but about a life of purpose and satisfaction. This is important because a sustainable future for the Earth will require much more than a surface change to a different style of life; it requires a deep change to a new way of life. Voluntary SimplicityBy Duane Elgin & Arnold Mitchell, Co-Evolution Quarterly, Summer 1977While working for the think-tank, Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) Duane Elgin co-authored a report with Arnold Mitchell in 1976 for the Business Intelligence Program. Titled Voluntary Simplicity, this was the most popular report published to that date by the program and it stirred national interest in the theme of simplicity. This article is an updated version of that catalytic report and was published in the summer, 1977 issue of the Co-Evolution Quarterly (which, in turn, was published by the Whole Earth Catalog). The Value Of Voluntary SimplicityBy Richard Gregg, originally published in August, 1936 in the Indian Journal Visva-Bharati Quarterly and by the Quakers at Wallingford, PA: Pendle Hill, 1936 This is the original article on voluntary simplicity that inspired Duane Elgin to write his book by the same name in 1981. Gregg was a Harvard graduate and a student of Gandhi's teachings. In this article, Gregg explores the spiritual, social, and economic reasons for choosing a life path of greater simplicity. ARTICLES: CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Global Consciousness Change: Indicators of an Emerging ParadigmBy Duane Elgin with Coleen LeDrew, May 1997, 38 pages. Collective Consciousness & Cultural HealingBy Duane Elgin, October 1997, 40 pages. The Limits to Complexity: Are Bureaucracies Becoming Unmanageable?By Duane Elgin & Robert A. Bushnell, The Futurist, December 1977 Transformational Leadership at the Pivot of HistoryBy Duane Elgin, December 2002, unpublished paper Transformational PhilanthropyCo-authored by Duane Elgin & Elizabeth Share, February 2002. Self-Guiding Evolution of CivilizationsBy Duane Elgin, to be published in a forthcoming issue on the conscious evolution of humanity in the Systems Research and Behavioral Science Journal (affiliated with AAAS and UNESCO). Your Media RightsBy Duane Elgin, Helen Grieco, & Kim Weichel, from website: www.ourmediavoice.org 2002How might the mass media nourish and strengthen our culture and democracy? Citizen feedback could be presented to representatives of television broadcaster in the context of citizen-initiated "electronic town meetings" thereby holding broadcasters publicly accountable for their legal responsibility to present a balanced diet of programming with diverse perspectives that serves the public interest. The Last Taboo on Televisionby Duane Elgin, November 1994Every forbidden topic imaginable has been covered on television, except for one. The last taboo on television is television itself -- and how it is profoundly biased toward high consumption ways of life that the earth cannot sustain. Awakening the Mass Media to Build a Sustainable FutureBy Duane Elgin, October 1995Although human societies have confronted major hurdles throughout history, the challenges of our era are unique. Never before has the entire human family been required to work together to imagine and consciously build a sustainable future. Revitalizing Democracy Through Electronic Town MeetingsBy Duane Elgin, Journal of the Council of State Governments, Spring 1993Each generation must renew its contract with democracy in ways that respond to the changing needs of the times. Our world is now changing so fast that democracy is endangered unless citizens are far more involved in setting the direction of public policy. Electronic Town Meetings hold the potential to dramatically revitalize our democracy at a time filled with great decision about our future. Let's Put the Vision in Television!By Duane Elgin, In Context Journal, Summer, 1983Virtually all of our problems are, at their core, communication challenges. Therefore, holding our vehicles of mass communication accountable for serving the interests of the public is not "just another issue." Robust and full social communication is an issue upon which virtually all other issues depend because only with an effective means of communication can we begin to grapple with the many serious challenges to our future. The Mass Media and the Mental Health of CivilizationsBy Duane Elgin, May 2003, unpublished paperIt will be our ability to communicate that will determine whether we are able to cope with the deep systems challenge posed by unprecedented human numbers, dwindling natural resources, and mounting ecological devastation. This paper presents five different ways of looking at the issue of the mass media and the mental health of civilizations. Citizen Feedback Forums and Communications LawBy Duane Elgin, adapted from book Promise Ahead, New York: Morrow, 2000 How do Citizen Feedback Forums or Electronic Town Meetings fit into U.S. communications law? Do these represent an inappropriate intrusion of the public into the affairs of broadcast TV stations or do these activities represent a fully legitimate exercise of the public's rights and duties in a modern democracy? Because most U.S. citizens are reluctant to act when not given the authority to do so, it is important to know that Citizen Feedback Forums are fully legitimate expressions of our democratic processes and are strongly supported across a broad spectrum of Constitutional law, Congressional legislation, and FCC regulation. We Live in a Living UniverseBy Duane Elgin, adapted from Promise Ahead, New York: Morrow, 2000One of the most fundamental -- and most unquestioned -- assumptions we humans make concerns whether we view the universe as dead or alive at its foundations. A stunning view of our universe as a living organism is emerging from the combined wisdom of science and the world's religious traditions. This new paradigm is, in turn, transforming our view of the world, the human journey, our sense of ethics, and our way of living. Our Living UniverseBy Duane Elgin, in IONS Review #54, December 2000 - February 2001I believe that the most far-reaching trend of our times is an emerging shift in our shared view of the universe -- from thinking of it as dead to experiencing it as alive. This insight -- that we are cousins to everything that exists in a living, continuously regenerated universe -- represents a new way of looking at and relating to the world and overcomes the profound separation that has characterized the industrial era. A "Central Project" for HumanityBy Duane Elgin, May 1996Are there deep "design principles" built into the universe? Is evolution "going somewhere?" Is there a "central project" that can mobilize the cooperation and creativity of the human family? The Living Cosmos: A Theory of Continuous CreationBy Duane Elgin, March 1988This paper develops the theory that our cosmos is a profoundly interconnected organism that is being continuously regenerated at a very high rate of speed. This theory assumes that the consistency of continuous regeneration at the cosmic scale results in the observed constancy of the speed of light at the local scale. A seven-dimensional cosmology is proposed for this dynamic view of the universe as a living, regenerative system. Continuous Creation and the Constancy of the Speed of LightBy Duane Elgin, 1988 to 2002, Published October, 2003 in the internet-based The Journal of Non-Locality and Remote Mental Interactions, See www.emergentmind.org Although relativity theory and modern physics are founded upon Einstein's insight that the speed of light is a limiting factor in our universe, we still do not have a clear explanation for this fact. This paper presents a unique hypothesis for explaining the puzzling nature of the constancy of the speed of light.
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