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The bad effects of good conscience
German therapist Bert Hellinger makes the case for knowing your dark side Tijn Touber | July/Aug 2006 issue How can people humiliate, torture or kill each other without feeling guilty? How can members of whole population groups plunder and exterminate one another without remorse? German therapist Read More...
"Why not capitalism for developing countries?"
GrameenPhone architect Iqbal Quadir saw potential for success--from both a business and humanitarian perspective--in his idea of introducing mobile telephones to the remote villages of Bangladesh. He was born in Bangladesh and is now a fellow at Harvard's Center for Business and Government, where Read More...
Water of life
Three simple inventions bring clean water to the poorest corners of the planet Andi McDaniel | November 2005 issue Throughout wide stretches of the developing world, clean water can’t be taken for granted. Too often, it’s the source of deadly bacterial diseases like typhoid, cholera, and e. Read More...
This I believe
Novelist Isabel Allende endured the most wrenching experience a human can suffer: the death of child. She describes here what she learned. Isabel Allende | September 2005 issue I have lived my life with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think Read More...
Don't just do something, stand there
Next time you want to fix someone's problems, try listening instead Kim Ridley | July/Aug 2006 issue On a summer day, longtime youth worker John Bell was walking down the street when he saw a boy fall off his bicycle and skin his knee. The boy grimaced in pain as he clutched his knee, but he Read More...
Understanding the universe on its own terms
Satish Kumar--who has led a remarkable life as a monk, activist, teacher and magazine editor--addresses one of the most central, yet often ignored, subjects of our time: how the universe transcends its own divisions to exist as a glorious whole. Satish Kumar | June 2005 issue Matter and spirit Read More...
White knights of the sub-atomic age
Humans create their own reality. This is the conclusion of physicist Danah Zohar based on her research into the tiniest particles of matter. An interview with Zohar, who claims we need modern knights who will lead humanity to a change in consciousness. Tijn Touber | May 2005 issue In the living Read More...
Your world in 2015
Here are 10 emerging trends that could reshape your world over the next 10 years. The Editors | December 2005 issue In a rapidly changing world it is hard to see the future. Most predictions are linear projections of today’s reality. Forecasts for tomorrow promise more technology, more Read More...
To tell or not to tell?
Should every secret be revealed? Is it always a good thing to tell the truth? Can it really be so wrong to simply keep quiet about certain things? According to a number of authorities, everyone has an inalienable right to an inner world all their own. Lisette Thooft | March 2005 issue We now Read More...
We must reinvent ourselves
In 1980, she wrote "the handbook for the New Age." Twenty-five years later, what has become of her predictions for a new world? Ode spoke with Marilyn Ferguson. "The world only changes because we do." Jurriaan Kamp | October 2005 issue “Our society must be remade, not just mended.” So wrote Read More...