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Tom Atlee: Potent hope dances with passive hope and spectatorism

Collective Intelligence, Cultural Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Tom Atlee
Tom Atlee

Potent hope dances with passive hope and spectatorism

Optimism and pessimism are kind of like spectator sports: things are getting better – or – things are getting worse. Passive hope is wishing or believing things will turn out ok. Potent hope, in contrast, is active, intentional, and grounded in the positive potential we can observe in people and the world. When we have potent hope, we don’t claim to know what will happen, but we do claim good reason to take action and find rich meaning in our lives. This post concludes with more than two dozen inspiring quotes about potent hope.

Dear friends,

Given the number of discouraging trends in the world, it is easy to feel hopeless and pessimistic. So I want to take a few moments to look at these very human feelings – optimism and pessimism, hope and hopelessness.

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Neal Rauhauser: SImmering Maghreb

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Neal Rauhauser
Neal Rauhauser

The Simmering Maghreb Starting in Tunisia with the self immolation of Mohammed Bouazizi in late December of 2010, Arab Spring spread like wildfire, bowling over four governments and straining all their neighbors. Three years have passed and a wave of weapons from Libya, coupled with fighters from all over, have destabilized the ring of nations adjacent to those which have already revolted.

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Hamilton Bean: The Paradox of Open Source: An Interview with Douglas J. Naquin with Letter from Robert Steele

Collective Intelligence, Commercial Intelligence, Earth Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Peace Intelligence
Hamilton Bean
Hamilton Bean

The Paradox of Open Source: An Interview with Douglas J. Naquin

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International Journal of Intelligence and Counterintelligence

Volume 27, Issue 1, 2014

PDF (16 Pages): Bean Interview of Naquin Clean

Letter from Robert Steele

PDF (3 Pages): IJIC Steele on Bean-Naquin As Published

Full Text of Letter Below the Fold

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Berto Jongman: John Mearsheimer on Power

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman
Berto Jongman

John Mearsheimer on Power as the Currency of International Relations, Disciplining US Foreign Policy, and Being an Independent Variable

Structural realism has lost ground to other theories of International Relations since the end of the Cold War, but not with John Mearsheimer. In today’s Theory Talk he explains why he has stuck with it, despite its obvious problems.

Prepared by: Peer Schouten for Theory Talks

QUESTIONS:

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Michael Kearns: Pope Francis Condemns Racism And Declares That “All Religions Are True” At Historic Third Vatican Council

Civil Society, Cultural Intelligence, Ethics, Peace Intelligence
Michael S. Kearns
Michael S. Kearns

Pope Francis Condemns Racism And Declares That “All Religions Are True” At Historic Third Vatican Council

Diversity Chronicle, 5 December 2013

For the last six months, Catholic cardinals, bishops and theologians have been deliberating in Vatican City, discussing the future of the church and redefining long-held Catholic doctrines and dogmas. The Third Vatican Council, is undoubtedly the largest and most important since the Second Vatican Council was concluded in 1962. Pope Francis convened the new council to “finally finish the work of the Second Vatican Council.” While some traditionalists and conservative reactionaries on the far right have decried these efforts, they have delighted progressives around the world.

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Tikkun Rabbi Michael Lerner: Conflict of Two Judaisms — Judaism of Love and Judaism of Conquest

Cultural Intelligence, Peace Intelligence
Michael Lerner
Michael Lerner

A Jewish State Would Not Be Oppressive or Racist Toward the Powerless, the Immigrants, the Homeless, The Other–an essay by Uri Avnery

Editor’s Note: Uri Avnery, a committed atheist, and chair of Israel’s peace movement Gush Shalom,  recognizes that the real problem in Israel today is not that it is a Jewish state, but that it is not Jewish at all in the values it embodies in many respects.

I have argued in my book Jewish Renewal:A Path to Healing and Transformation a similar thesis–with one qualification: there are two competing Judaisms, from the Torah onward, one a Judaism of love (“You shall love the stranger–remember that you were strangers in the land of Egypt”), a Judaism of generosity (share what you have with the poor, and don’t take advantage of those in need–so do not take interest on any loan you give to others), a Judaism of justice (justice, justice shal thou pursue), a Judaism of environmental sanity (stop all work on transforming the earth every Sabbath and also every seventh year the entire year, everyone the same year, be stewards of the earth recognize that you don’t “own” the earth but are merely wayfarers here for a short period of time but while you are here share the earth and its bounties with those in need) and  the other what I call “settler Judaism” committed to conquest and “power over.”

These two Judaisms are the different ways that people have heard God’s voice for thousands of years, and these two voices are in the secular and non-Jewish consciousness of every other people on the planet as well

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