The use of the word efficiency is starting to appear everywhere. This week I came across three examples: Harvard University Professor Marc Hauser writing for The American Scientist in its September 2009 special issue on ‘Understanding origins’ referred in his article on ‘The origins of the mind’ to human beings as “exchanging information in a [...]
In 2004 I gave a talk at the Australian Institute of Management (AIM) in Perth Western Australia on the four key driving forces in the world. Looking back on this talk I can see that these forces have intensified since 2004. Three are big wave forces and one is a newly emerging force with the [...]
In the previous blog on efficiency we saw that this concept has become one of the most powerful values in economics and in our society today. One could argue that efficiency is an evolutionary trait that is linked to our amazing ability to survive as a species in at times horrendous climatic conditions over the [...]
What is consciousness and why is our urgent contemplation of its nature such a vital catalyst in our transformation- not just for our survival but for our evolutionary leap into a higher stage of development as a species?
Edgar Mitchell was the sixth astronaut to walk on the moon and founder of the Institute of Noetic [...]