The ancient Chinese hexagram for crisis means both danger and opportunity. But what determines the outcome? Is it in our hands? Do we have the power to choose?

Danger naturally focuses our minds, and when faced with it we instinctively contract, withdraw, or pull-in to protect and defend. Individuals do it, and so do countries.

Is there another way?

This month our Dialogues explore the theme of crisis and its opportunities. We invite you to engage with these questions and share your thoughts, insights, concerns and ideas with others.

Join Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, founder and director of the Global Oneness Project, today, Dec 3rd at 5:00pm PST for a live teleseminar with the Institute of Noetic Sciences.

Instructions For Call:

Dial 1-605-475-6401 and enter the Participant code: 1002850#.

The capacity of the call is 200, so call in early to participate! Also, please note that the call is not toll-free; you will charged according to your existing long-distance calling plan.

The teleseminar is part of IONS' Shift in Action program, an exciting way to connect with some of the most brilliant thinkers, innovative leaders, and inspiring change agents of our day. They offer a large media library on conscious change, with leaders such as Deepak Chopra, Marianne Williamson, and Michael Beckwith, as well as two live teleseminars each week and a global network of more than 10,000 allies.

For more information: www.noetic.org.                 

We have just added a new short film about the traditional African philosophy of Ubuntu, and a series of new clips from our recent interview with spiritual teacher Adyashanti . Ubuntu recognizes how we are inextricably bound in each other's humanity. Translated as, "I am because you are," Ubuntu describes a sense of unity between people through which we each discover our own strengths and virtues. Featuring healer Credo Mutwa, GreenHouse Project director Dorah Lebelo, and former Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, this glimpse of South Africa shows compassion as a way of life. Adyashanti, the author of Emptiness Dancing, The Impact of Awakening, and My Secret is Silence, offers spontaneous and direct nondual teachings that have been compared to those of the early Zen masters and Advaita Vedanta sages. In these interview clips , he describes how in the development of human consciousness, there comes a shift from a sense of a separate self toward the experience of unity, and suggests that reaching a point of crisis can allow an opportunity for consciousness to shift, individually and collectively.