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I would like to interview Mr. Mandela to see how he managed to maintain his calm, his peace, his creativity and his compassion in the face of real cruelty; in the face of apartheid; in the face of hatred and injustice. Because at no time did Mr. Mandela contribute to the melodrama by adding his anger to it. And that is why he is looked upon in the world as a hero. I’m not sure if there’s any other living person that I can think of right now that comes to that stature.

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If I had $100 billion to give away, I would spend it in creating immediately a network of people in the world that would engage in personal transformation, in collective transformation, and in creative problem solving to solve the four major areas in our world that need to be immediately healed: the environment, social injustice, conflict resolution, and poverty, which is the cause of so many other problems, including diseases. I think I would use the $100 . . . whatever million, billion . . . the $100 billion to create a worldwide net of consciousness much more than the Internet. It would be a net where I would be able to harness the collective creativity for problem solving. There is already great data in the fact that if you put a few people together in the room and you give them a problem, if they’re not specialists they will solve it. If they’re specialists, their minds will never go out of the box. So this is the opportune moment to harness the collective caring and the collective creativity, and recognize that human development is much more important than development in the classical sense. So no longer pouring money into, you know, solving a problem . . . one problem at a time. We would solve problems ______. We ______ medicine. As soon as you treat one disease, something else pops up. You have to create balance in the total mind-body system, and you know, establish that integration between body, mind, soul and spirit. And I think $100 billion could be used to just focus on one idea. And that idea is well being – well being of the individual; well being emotionally; well being of our relationships; well being of our businesses; well being of our economy; well being of our ecosystem; and well being of the world at large. It’s a broad term, but it . . . all it means is restoring balance. And if you can think of all the ways that we can harness the collective intelligence and the collective compassion . . . And one of the ways to do that, by the way, is through story telling. There is nothing more transformational than storytelling. So I would create a huge network – information network – which would take everything into account: educational institutions, entertainment, music, news networks, information technologies, the Internet, and saturate this network and these technologies with stories that have the power to transform us.

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Well this age will be regarded as very medieval, and primitive and barbaric; where we solved problems by killing each other; where we had no respect for the planet and totally desecrated the eco system; where we killed each other in the name of God most frequently – so it’s not an age to be proud of – where we created technologies of mechanized death.  That’s nothing to be proud of.  And yet maybe it’s in the proliferation of all this uncertainty and chaos, somehow the collective mind will take that next quantum leap that we need to for our evolution.  And if that happens, then this age will be remembered in a good way.

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I think the big issues of the next presidential election is to think totally out of the box. Instead of saying, “Can we win the war in Iraq?” the question should be, “Can we find a creative solution?” which exposes our vulnerability, but at the same time requests the help of the international community, including the Iraqis or people in the Islamic world. We have to really think of creative solutions for all the problems. Instead of using words like “war on terrorism, war on drugs, war on AIDS, war on poverty,” let’s understand that creativity is the solution, and that we have to get out of our extreme nationalism as well. Unfortunately, you know, people don’t realize, but nationalism is a very dangerous impulse. Einstein said that nationalism is an infantile disease. It’s the measles of humanity. Nationalism is a sophisticated form of tribalism. Eric _____, a great psychologist, said nationalism is our form of incest. It’s our idolatry, and patriotism is a cult. I think somebody has to be brave enough, risky enough to tell the truth and not worry about, you know, whether they will get the vote or not. If they’re authentic, they’ll get the vote.

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I think that the forces that have had the most powerful influence in bringing us where we are today, at least in recent times, have been the progress of science and technology.  Unfortunately that’s not been all good.  We have now modern capacities, including things like biological weapons, nuclear warfare, and other diabolical technologies that can destroy the planet and cause the extinction of other species and risk our own extinction.  So we have ancient habits which are still very tribal, ethnocentric, racist, bigoted, based on primitive ideas; and yet they rule our behaviors.  These ancients habits combined with our modern capacities are a very devastating combination and have brought us to a place of crisis.  And unless we combine our technologies, which are neutral by the way . . .  The same technologies that can create these diabolical behaviors, the same technologies can be used to heal the world.  We can create energies that . . . energy systems that are non-polluting.  We have enough intelligence now to remove radical poverty in all parts of the world; to actually holistically take care of all of the diseases; and through our harnessing of the collective consciousness, actually get rid of war and all the conflict in the world.  So technology is very useful.  The Internet, media, educational institutions, information networks can quickly create critical mass to heal the world; but we have to pay attention to our own spiritual development while at the same time acknowledging that technology by itself is unstoppable.  And we cannot stop our technological progress; but we must use that technology for useful purposes.

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The measure of a good life in my opinion is the progressive realization of _____ goals. It’s the ability to have love and compassion. It is the ability to get in touch with the creative source within us. And it’s the ability to participate with others in their evolutionary process as well.

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The themes that run through all my work are that consciousness is the ultimate reality; and that by understanding consciousness, you understand everything about yourself, about perception, about creativity, about behavior, about relationships. So by understanding consciousness, you have the ability to create anything in your world. And you have the ability to influence also the collective consciousness to not only bring about personal healing, but social transformation; and ultimately healing our planet, which happens to be extremely wounded. So in the _______ which _______, they say, “Know that one thing by learning which everything else is known.” And that one thing is consciousness.

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The joy in what I do is mostly creativity. I think creativity is an ecstatic impulse that we all have. And there’s nothing more joyful than having a moment of creative insight and actually creating . . . or rather manifesting or incarnating your creative insight into actual, physical reality. The struggle is part of the creative process, and it’s very enjoyable to have the struggle. Without the struggle, there would be no joy in creativity. The one thing that is not enjoyable is if you get attached to the outcome. And if you’re constantly looking for approval and you are not immune to criticism, then you are in trouble and you will continue to be struggling and never find the creative impulse. Yes, I have a creative process.  It has nine steps: intended outcome, information gathering, information analysis, incubation, insight, inspiration, integration, implementation and incarnation.  I could talk all week about it. Through my own experiences, I came to realize that all creativity goes through these steps that I just mentioned.  And that includes scientific creativity, creativity in art, of music, of storytelling; but also biological creativity, which is healing.

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Well over the years, I’ve looked at the biological molecules of aging. And these include things like blood pressure, bone density, body temperature regulation, skin thickness, the number of wrinkles, immune function, sex hormone levels, hearing, vision. There are a number of ways you can measure what we call biological aging. Then there’s something called “chronological aging”, which is ______ when you were born – the date you were born. And then there’s “psychological age”, which is how young you feel psychologically. And there is more and more data that the biological molecules of aging are more under the influence of psychological factors than the chronological age that we usually associate with. Of course there are other things that influence our aging process, including how we perceive time. If you’re constantly running out of time, then your biological clock speeds up, and you do run out of time with a heart attack or something like that. The quality of our self-esteem determines how we age. Our perception of our bodies as fields of energy or fields of matter influence how our body ages. And there are many other things – the quality of our rest, as in sleep; the quality of our ability to manage stress through meditation; physical exercise; mind-body coordination through techniques such as yoga, and breathing, and martial arts; the quality of our relationships – whether we have toxic relationships or healing relationships; the quality of our emotions – toxic emotions or emotions that foster connectivity. These all influence how we age. Aging is subject to revision, so you’re gonna have somebody who is chronologically 80, but could be biologically 65. On the other hand you could have someone who is chronologically 25, but they are physically and mentally burnt out. And biologically they could be much older. The fastest growing segment of the population in the world right now is over the age of 90, and in some cases over the age of 100 in some countries. So people are living longer. And even though much of it is attributed to modern medicine, it’s not. It’s lifestyle. It’s nutrition. It’s the quality of exercise, the ability to manage stress, and some of the factors that I mentioned. I think everybody plays a role in their own aging. Some people accelerate it. Some people slow it down. Some people manage to reverse it. It all depends on how much you are invested in the hypnosis of our social condition. So if you believe that at a certain age you have to die and you become dysfunctional, then you will.

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My medical training was in the field of internal medicine, and then in the field of endocrinology and euron endocrinology. Neuro endocrinology is the study of brain chemicals, and brain chemicals are the mechanics through which our thoughts express themselves. So when you have a thought, or a feeling, or an emotion, or an idea, you make a very specific chemical. It’s called a euron peptide. And these euron peptides are messenger molecules that then go to the rest of the body and influence the activity of the immune system and actually almost every biological activity in the body. So your body, which is very physical, is under the influence of your thoughts, your feelings, your emotions, your dreams, your fantasies, your desires, your instincts, your drives, your imagination. All these things orchestrate themselves – all these internal activities that are in the invisible domain that we call consciousness actually have very precise physical effects both in our biology, but they also influence our perception of the world.

Recorded on: 08/17/07