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Breaking with History
We are fortunate to live at a time when we have access to information that shakes us awake to the absolute need – and the fabulous opportunities – to change the course of human history. W...
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What Will Make America Great?
I was born in 1945, at the end of WWII, in New Hampshire. My dad lay in a Navy hospital bed in Texas until I was a year old – when I finally met him. I grew up steeped in patriotism. I kn...
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Good News and New Perceptions
I love good news. And these days it can often be found in talks and publications. Among the optimistic statistics cited in the popular book Factfullness are the following. Let’s call them...
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Is the US Imitating Venezuela?
I returned to my favorite bar in Mexico City. It was mid-afternoon and, other than a couple making out at a corner table, I was the only patron. Trying to forget about all the horrible ne...
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Why Is Football Popular Only in the US?
I walked into a bar in Mexico City. There were a few people scattered around at the tables, but the bar was empty. I was thinking about football, now that the season had ended. I’d grown...
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Stop Facebook? And Other Questions for the New Year
Questions you might ask yourself as you contemplate 2019: Should I stop using Facebook, given all the controversy around the sharing of information with other companies and possible colla...
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How to Trigger Change
When Dr. David Dao was dragged off a United Express Flight by police officers from Chicago’s O'Hare airport on April 9, 2017, the ensuing outcry resulted in policy changes at major airlin...
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This is the Moment: GAME ON!
Anyone who has ever played on or followed a sports team knows THE MOMENT. That crucial moment when the team is down, the clock is running out, and it looks like the game is over. At that...
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In Times of Crises
I just returned from lecturing at Tilton School, the NH school I attended as a student during my high school years and where my dad taught for nearly four decades. Being there now, talkin...
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Ayahuasca and Tobacco: Rebooting our systems
I’m recently back from another trip to indigenous shamans in the rainforests of Latin America and from teaching a “Sacred Plant” workshop at the Omega Institute in Rhinebeck NY. Now I am...
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Daily Practices for a Happier Life and Better World
The dangers of the corporatocracy and the Death Economy – a world created by economic hit men and now manipulated by many of our “leaders” – and the powers of the rising Consciousness Rev...
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Message from Immigrants and Plants
By John Perkins As I prepare for my August Omega workshop Sacred Plants: Touching the Jaguar and trips that I guide where participants learn from indigenous shamans in Latin America, I th...
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