1
December
2008

The Living Hero show is honored to present an interview with author, speaker, and thought leader Riane Eisler. She is recognized as one of the most original minds of our time, and has been included among the world’s 20 great thinkers and peacemakers. She is president of the Center for Partnership Studies and is best known for her international bestseller The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future. Riane holds degrees in sociology and law from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) and has done pioneering and transformative work in the fields of human rights and relations, history, sociology, economics, psychology, and education. She is the author of over 200 essays and articles and five books.
We talked about:
• The redistribution and redefinition of power
• What is the real wealth of nations?
• Political ironies and transformation
• Playing economics with a full deck
• The psychological underpinnings of domination and control
• Gender relations and notions of male and female power
• Is human nature fundamentally flawed?
• Riane’s own path of transformation
• The neurochemistry of pain and pleasure
• Creativity as a force for leadership and change
Visit Riane Eisler’s websites at www.rianeeisler.com and The Center for Partnership Studies (partnershipway.org)
Enjoy the show and please add your comments! These interviews are presented in audio format only–sorry no transcripts at this time! You may download the mp3 file, which will play in iTunes, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and other media players or listen to it right here by double clicking on the purple media player below. (The interview is 50 minutes)
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jari
psychology, language, interviews, education, future, human potential, feminine values, culture, philosophy, politics, books, creativity, parenting, love, economy, global forces, values, power, sex, reality, early childhood, neuroscience, wealth, human nature
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17
June
2008

With great pleasure the Living Hero program presents an interview with author and cultural historian, Morris Berman, Ph.D.
Our interview includes conversation about:
● What motivated Berman’s writing of the trilogy on human consciousness ● The mind-body split and the creative process ● The decline of America ● The dialectical principle in our lives ● A new monastic individual and the masses ● Progress, consciousness, and power ● What societies of hunter-gatherers and nomads had that we don’t have ● Berman’s sociological perspectives and suggestions ● Problems of “progress” and power ● American social conditions prompting Berman’s move to Mexico
Dr. Berman is the author of a trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness–The Reenchantment of the World (1981), Coming to Our Senses (1989), and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality (2000). In 2000, his Twilight of American Culture was named a “Notable Book” by the New York Times Book Review. During 2003-6 he was Visiting Professor in Sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and has held endowed chairs at several other American and Canadian universities. Dr. Berman relocated to Mexico in 2006, and in 2008 was appointed Visiting Professor at the Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico City. His most recent book is Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire. He maintains an interesting blog with related resources at morrisberman.com where you will also find his complete bio.
Enjoy the show and please add your comments! You may download the mp3 file, which will play in iTunes, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and other media players or listen to it right here by double clicking on the purple media player below. (The interview is about 57 minutes.)
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Instructions for Windows Right click on the link that says “Download this episode (right click and save)”. Click on “Save Target as”. The file will start downloading. A window will pop up and the name of the file will be filled in, as well as the file format. Just choose to save it to your desktop in the left bar.Then you will have an mp3 file sitting on your desktop. Right click on that and choose Open with: iTunes (or your chosen player). Or, alternatively, open iTunes and just drag the mp3 into iTunes.
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jari
psychology, consciousness, interviews, future, human potential, wisdom, philosophy, politics, books, mind-body, global forces, mental health, values, vision, power, reality
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16
April
2008

It is my distinct pleasure and honor to present a conversation with author, coach, entrepreneur, speaker and process designer Maria Nemeth, Ph.D., MCC.
Maria is a heroic personality whose work actually centers around teaching and encouraging people to become heroes to themselves.
Our interview includes conversation about:
● The transcendent power of an open heart ● The story behind The Energy of Money ● Shifting your relationship with money ● Maria on Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett ● The distinction between physical and metaphysical reality ● The three most powerful words you can utter● Maria’s journey as a breast cancer survivor ●Taking your body to a couples counselor● The peduncle we’re in
Maria is a clinical psychologist with more than twenty-eight years’ experience, a former clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of California-Davis School of Medicine, and a former columnist for the Sacramento Business Journal.
She is the founder of the Academy for Coaching Excellence where she trains other coaches in her program Mastering Life’s Energies, a personal and professional development seminar that supports people in shifting their relationship with money from scarcity to abundance. Her widely acclaimed work has recently been brought to the attention of a broader audience through an appearance on the Oprah Show.
Enjoy the show! You may download the mp3 file, which will play in iTunes, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and other media players or listen to it right here by double clicking on the purple media player below. (The interview is about 45 minutes.)
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jari
psychology, interviews, future, human potential, wisdom, books, creativity, meaning, mental health, values, coaching, self-esteem, heroic, money
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17
March
2008
With great pleasure and enthusiasm I bring you this interview with Caroll Michels, artist advocate, coach and author of How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself Without Selling Your Soul, now in its 5th edition.
The interview includes conversation about:
Artist and art dealer relationships ● The self-esteem of artists ● Artists and ADD ● Art schools and career advice ● Caroll’s history as an artist ● The heroic nature of saying no ● Coaching and therapy ● Donations and taxes ● Fallacies of the art world
Enjoy the show! You may download the mp3 file, which will play in iTunes, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and other media players or listen to it right here by double clicking on the purple media player below. (The interview is about 38 minutes.)
Listen at your convenience! Use this link for download, not the one below the player. Download this episode (right click and save)
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Click through to buy Caroll’s book on Amazon right from this site in the sidebar to the left. It’s an empowering read and invaluable reference book.
jari
creative arts, interviews, culture, books, creative, values, art, coaching, self-esteem, heroic, expose
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19
February
2008
Living Hero is pleased to present an interview with author and futurist Daniel Pink
• The increasing value of right brain skills and capacities • The global forces giving rise to A Whole New Mind • The one cognitive skill common among corporate star performers • Reckoning with unfulfillment • Dan’s own creative process and methods • The Adventures of Johnny Bunko
Enjoy the podcast! You may download the mp3 file, which will play in iTunes, RealPlayer, Windows Media Player and other media players or listen to it right here by double clicking on the purple media player below. (The interview is about 32 minutes.)
Listen at your convenience! Use this link for download, not the one below the player. Download this episode (right click and save)
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Link to Dan Pink’s Feb 2005 Wired magazine article “Revenge of the Right Brain”
Click through to buy his books on Amazon right from this site in the sidebar to the left. Don’t miss them!
jari
interviews, meditation, education, future, culture, synthesis, a whole new mind, books, creativity, creative, mind, mind-body, economy, global forces, right brain
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6
February
2008

“. . . the greatest economic competition in the world going forward is not going to be between countries and countries. And it’s not going to be between companies and companies. The greatest economic competition going forward is going to be between you and your own imagination. Your ability to act on your imagination is going to be so decisive in driving your future and the standard of living in your country. So the school, the state, the country that empowers, nurtures, enables imagination among its students and citizens, that’s who’s going to be the winner.”
–Tom Friedman (The World is Flat)
from an interview with Daniel Pink (A Whole New Mind)
We are a people longing to see beyond our current dilemmas and dangers to a future that is reasonable and sustainable. But we need more than reason to get to reasonable. We need imagination.
How can we become visionaries and nurture our visions in the reality of community? How can we recognize a vision worth pursuing when one comes along?
The world’s best and brightest leaders, philosophers, artists and inventors have always relied on imagination to envision a better future and to bring it to life through creative expression and invention.
Now it is time for all of us to actively put our imaginative powers to work, to open our minds and to face the imperative of envisioning a future that will truly work for the global community.
This means strengthening and nurturing a healthier balance of thought and feeling, which will bring more wisdom to bear as we imagine, work, create. Getting to this healthier balance in the midst of our high-pressured, busy days is a real challenge and we are all in this together.
Our next podcast (scheduled for late February) will feature futurist Daniel Pink talking with us about how he sees practices such as yoga, art and meditation contributing to the shift he describes in his latest book A Whole New Mind: Why Right Brainers will Rule the Future. He’ll explain how he came to use the creative genre of manga (Japanese for “comics”) for his upcoming business book The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need, due to be released on April 1st.
He’ll also speak about the early adopters and also any resistors of the whole new mind he describes and share what’s on the creative horizon for him after The Adventures of Johnny Bunko.
To make the most of the podcast, please enjoy A Whole New Mind prior to listening! Get it right here!
jari
Uncategorized, education, future, human potential, a whole new mind, wisdom, books, creativity, creative, feeling
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3
January
2008
Let’s be bold and talk with each other about our culture holistically. I’ve started this blog and the Living Hero podcast to enter into an integrative conversation that brings the formerly cloistered and private work of Jariscope into public discourse in a new way.
This is a place where we don’t have to think outside of the box because there is no box—whatever box there was, was in somebody’s mind and here the boxes were smashed to smithereens a long time ago and we’re with Reality. That’s where we have to look at it, consider it, and handle it all at once, the way life really is, where you can’t really cubbyhole and compartmentalize and fragment and label, but you’re up against the task of either keeping your eyes, mind, senses and heart open to the way things are or not. And if you are, you have to navigate by virtue of virtue itself.
So, since it’s an election year, let’s go into the politics of the inner life, where this Reality I’m talking about meets the road. I’d like to introduce you to a book by
Alexander Lowen entitled Narcissism: Denial of the True Self. If you are not familiar with Lowen’s many books, I’d like to suggest that you join me in reading them all. I call Lowen “The Truth Bomb”.
I am always on the lookout for wisdom, sanity, and truth. Lowen is the real deal. He is a direct protégé of the late Wilhelm Reich and Lowen has taken the best of what Reich set in motion and brought a great deal more balance and wisdom to it. You may know Lowen through the term Bioenergetics, which is his name for the form of body-centered psychotherapy he pioneered.
I would like to have an ongoing discussion here about this book with you. I am seeking the best representative of Lowen’s work to join us on Living Hero a little later in the year. Dr. Lowen is still alive, but I’m told he is not well. I’m hoping to have this podcast while he is still alive, so he can listen in.
Chapter titles from Narcissism: Denial of the True Self;
A Spectrum of Narcissism;
The Role of the Image;
The Denial of Feeling;
Power and Control;
Seduction and Manipulation;
Horror: The Face of Unreality;
The Fear of Insanity;
Too Much, Too Soon;
The Insanity of Our Time
Buy the book here, start reading, and let’s start talking about it!
jari
Uncategorized, psychology, holistic health, integrate, human potential, synthesis, wisdom, politics, books, narcissism, holistic
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