Ubuntu

Two Views

What Would It Look Like?

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge was the Deputy Minister of Health of South Africa under President Thabo Mbeki until she was dismissed by him on August 8, 2007, after which she was automatically reduced to her role as a member of Parliament representing the African National Congress. From 1999 to April 2004 she was the Deputy Minister of Defence. She has also been a member of the South African Communist Party since 1984 and became Deputy Minister of Defence in 1999. Madlala-Routledge is well known for helping combat AIDS in South Africa, and is considered by many to have resisted government denial of the severity of the epidemic. She was also an opponent of the use of alternative medicine treatments of HIV in place of scientifically tested methods.

Videos featuring Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge

  • Ubuntu

    Ubuntu, a traditional African philosophy, 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.

    (8 min 14 sec)

  • What Would It Look Like?

    What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions?

    Or are we being called to question a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our civilization?

    This 25-minute retrospective asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves, and to listen more closely to what is being asked of us at this time of unprecedented global transformation.

    (24 min 54 sec)

  • Learning From One Another

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge describes our capacity to make peace. Using Nelson Mandela as an example, she explains how we can resolve conflicts by uncovering our shared humanity.

    (3 min 40 sec)

  • Ubuntu: Part 1

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge describes the concept of Ubuntu, or a spirit of sharing. Practicing Ubuntu creates relationships and understandings between people, something that is being lost as urbanization increases.

    (5 min 53 sec)

  • Ubuntu: Part 2

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge talks about our responsibility to look after the planet and to carry forward positive values. Using gender relations as an example, she says that it is important that women who move into positions of power traditionally held by men continue the spirit of sharing as they take this new role.

    (3 min 7 sec)

  • Ubuntu: Part 3

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge applies the concept of Ubuntu, or a spirit of sharing, to international relations. She explains how the dismantling of Apartheid in South Africa was an example of nations working together for a value they share.

    (4 min 51 sec)

  • Leading by Example

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge describes the importance of taking a leadership role in addressing the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Living by example, she says, shows others that this is something we can overcome.

    (3 min 11 sec)

  • Commonly Shared Values

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge explains how our commonly shared values are the basis on which we can build a common coexistence.

    (3 min 31 sec)

  • Working for Peace

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge shows the contradiction in working for peace while preparing for war. She gives examples of how to achieve peace in a different way, by changing your own thinking, cooperating with others, and making informed choices that serve the common good.

    (6 min 54 sec)

  • Reevaluating our Relationships

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge discusses the importance of continual dialogue across nations and religions to understand our most positive shared values.

    (2 min 35 sec)

  • A More Humane World

    Former South African Deputy Minister of Health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge suggests the need for large numbers of people to get involved in creating a more humane world.

    (1 min 10 sec)
"You can't today be violent and say you are working for peace."
From
Working for Peace
On the web

Ubuntu: Part 1

Ubuntu: Part 2

Dean Radin

Dean Radin, Ph.D., is a researcher and author in the field of parapsychology. His professional career has focused on experimentally exploring far reaches of human consciousness, primarily phenomena like intuition, gut feelings and psi phenomena. He is Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, in Petaluma, California, and on the Adjunct Faculty at Sonoma State University. Dean's research has been featured in numerous magazines and he has appeared on several radio and television programs. He is the author of Entangled Minds and The Conscious Universe.

Videos featuring Dean Radin

  • What Would It Look Like?

    What if the world embodied our highest potential? What would it look like? As the structures of modern society crumble, is it enough to respond with the same tired solutions?

    Or are we being called to question a set of unexamined assumptions that form the very basis of our civilization?

    This 25-minute retrospective asks us to reflect on the state of the world and ourselves, and to listen more closely to what is being asked of us at this time of unprecedented global transformation.

    (24 min 54 sec)

  • East Meets West

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin describes the relationship between mind and body as seen through both Eastern and Western sciences. If East meets West, could science verify our deep union with the universe that mystics have been talking about for thousands of years?

    (4 min 12 sec)

  • A Tribe the Size of the Entire World

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin suggests that civilization is going through a developmental stage. Describing the world as made up of adolescent-like tribes, he says that it may take some great threat to force these tribes to work together.

    (2 min 15 sec)

  • Are You Nothing but a Pack of Neurons?

    According to laboratory scientist Dean Radin, research suggests that our moral sense is deeply tied to our worldview. If you saw yourself as nothing but matter, how would that affect the way you live right now?

    (3 min 2 sec)

  • The Convergence of Science and “Spirituality”

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin explains how science tends to give rise to a fractured system of disciplines, while spirituality serves to connect. He suggests that systems science may be the best example we currently have of how science can begin to embrace something as vaguely defined as connectivity and still remain science.

    (3 min 26 sec)

  • The Philosophy of Science

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin explains that because scientific study involves getting into details, scientists have difficulty maintaining a wider perspective in the laboratory. Because scientists aren't typically trained in the philosophy or history of science, Dean says they don't usually think on a daily basis about how the particular thing they're studying fits into the larger context of our evolution, though such a view would be helpful, he says.

    (2 min 1 sec)

  • Dealing with a Global Crisis

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin describes how children growing up in this time of global environmental crisis may, out of necessity, behave in a radically different way and make a significant difference.

    (2 min 33 sec)

  • An Electronic Membrane

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin discusses the possibility of a global mind and questions whether that global mind could wake up? Radin poses that, with the Internet, we may be approaching a physical system interconnected enough and recursive enough to be the "brain" of a global self-awareness.

    (3 min 3 sec)

  • Necessity is a Mother

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin believes that humankind will be able to change its behavior rapidly enough to avoid its total destruction, because necessity will drive us to do it. And he suggests that something like a global mind could be pulling us or forcing us to make the changes needed.

    (3 min 1 sec)

  • The Global Consciousness Project

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin describes an experiment testing the relationship between mind and matter. In this experiment, random number generators are used to test whether collective human attention corresponds to a change in the physical environment.

    (9 min 43 sec)

  • A Quantum View of the World

    Laboratory scientist Dean Radin suggests that civilization is going through a developmental stage. Describing the world as made up of adolescent-like tribes, he says that it may take some great threat to force these tribes to work together.

    (3 min 51 sec)
"When you dive down deeply enough into the nature of matter, everything we know about the everyday world dissolves."
From
A Quantum View of the World
On the web

Nipun Mehta

Nipun Mehta is the founder of CharityFocus.org, a fully volunteer-run organization that has delivered millions of dollars of web-related services to the nonprofit world for free. The recipient of the Jefferson Award for Public Service and the President's Volunteer Service Award, his work creatively leverages web technologies for collaborative and transformational giving, lending him insight into service, leadership, organizational design, and spirituality. He serves on the advisory boards of the Seva Foundation, Dalai Lama Foundation, and Airline Ambassadors.

Videos featuring Nipun Mehta

  • The Values of Charity Focus

    Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta talks about the values behind his organization, like selfless volunteering and focusing on small things, which allowed his team to discover the power of many.

    (6 min 29 sec)

  • A Strand in the Collective Quilt

    Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta explains how, when you see yourself connected to all life, you can't help but express your joy.

    (1 min 33 sec)

  • Smile Cards

    Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta describes a project encouraging random acts of kindness that demonstrates the power of small things to transform society.

    (5 min 51 sec)

  • The Seed of a Revolution

    Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta describes one example of kindness that illustrates how small acts coming from one's goodness of spirit are what make up a revolution.

    (3 min 43 sec)

  • Sweeping the Streets

    Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta gives an example of an act of kindness that illustrates how generosity connects us to other people.

    (3 min 23 sec)

  • A Shift from "Me" to “We”

    Charity Focus founder Nipun Mehta comments on how modern culture makes people think they need to acquire things in order to feel complete and recalls the ancient idea that in giving you are fulfilled.

    (3 min 19 sec)
"The transformation in that moment when that person with anger is confronted with generosity, with goodness of the spirit, that moment is the seed of a revolution."
From
The Seed of a Revolution
On the web

The Values of Charity Focus

A Strand in the Collective Quilt

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