Teachers’ Retirement Board September 2014 – Regular Board Meeting Part 2 of 2 – Video
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Teachers #39; Retirement Board September 2014 - Regular Board Meeting Part 2 of 2
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Treasurer Kennedy Reacts to Court Ruling Striking Down State Police Retirement Law – Video
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Treasurer Kennedy Reacts to Court Ruling Striking Down State Police Retirement Law
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I Wanna Know – A Time To Ask – Life, Personal Development, spiritual, Person, People, Human – Video
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USANA Personal Development: Motivation and Mindset – Free Course (IG #105) – Video
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CAPRICORN OCTOBER 2014 – Astrology Forecast – Barbara Goldsmith – Video
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Why Personal Development is So Important in Your Beachbody Business – Video
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John Raatz, Executive Director of the David Lynch MA in Film Program is SCALING CHANGE, For Social Good.
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Boston, Massachusetts (PRWEB) September 16, 2014
The idea that film, TV, and web content can have far reaching implications for transforming humanity and the future of social good will take center stage at the 9th Annual Independent Television and Film Festival (ITVFest) in Dover, Vermont, September 26-28. Veteran marketing and PR professional, and transformational entertainment and media pioneer, John Raatz, will lend his considerable leadership in this arena as social entrepreneurs and socially conscious filmmakers alike explore how their messages for improving the world can reach a broader audience by working together. We want to empower entertainment and media professionals and companies to produce and distribute content that inspires new awareness-based world-views for global audiences, said Raatz.
Raatz will be advising social entrepreneurs with a vision for changing the world and encouraging them to connect with the more than 1,000 expected filmmakers who will be attending the event. A change-maker himself, Raatz understands the need to amplify powerful stories about new initiatives to solve social problems. Those of us who create entertainment and media content must think about the impact our work has on people and try to make that impact as positive and meaningful as possible, continued Raatz.
John brings incredible depth and leadership to this conversation, said Valerie Vandermeer, founder and President of Scaling Change, the organization that conceived and developed this collaborative event. Raatz founded, along with co-founders author Eckhart Tolle and actor Jim Carrey, the Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment, a non-profit organization dedicated to mobilizing and supporting entertainment and media professionals, who want to express their own transformational vision and values through their work.
An entertainment industry veteran, Raatz has represented scores of clients, many of them foremost transformational authors and performers and thought leaders including Eckhart Tolle, Fritjof Capra, Peter Russell, Daniel Quinn, Madonna, Kenny Loggins, Donovan and films including Mindwalk, A Brief History of Time, What the Bleep Do We Know!?, Peaceful Warrior, The 11th Hour, and Tom Shadyacs I AM.
Since 2004, Raatz has served as a member of a Grammy Awards screening committee, was a judge on the Blue Ribbon panel of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Gold Quill awards, was a producer and industry judge at the Inspiration Film Festival in Los Angeles, and co-produced the 2006 Inspiration Film Festival. Most recently John was appointed Executive Director of the David Lynch Masters in Film Program at Maharishi University of Management. Raatz and GATE have joined with Pacifica Graduate Institute to create the world's first certificate program in transformational storytelling.
We want to help passionate content creators find stories that will inspire them and also create social good, said ITVFest Executive Director Phil Gilpin. Indie filmmakers are redefining the medium and revolutionizing the industry. They are a natural fit for collaborating with social entrepreneurs because they are already putting themselves out there on the edge of creativity.
Scaling Change, the organization responsible for bringing together social entrepreneurs and filmmakers at this event, believes that these two highly energized groups have enormous untapped potential for working together. This concept and the collaborative nature of the workshops being offered, are unprecedented, but we have to be willing to try new things and see where they lead us, said Scaling Change President Valerie Vandermeer.
This is an opportunity for content creators and change-makers to find each other and connect based on what really matters deeply to them and join together to amplify that. These passionate change-makers will be converging on the tiny town of Dover, Vermont, September 26-28, hopefully to launch a new era in using filmmaking for social good.
We are so grateful to have John speaking to this critical group. Social entrepreneurs are solving daunting human problems, but they are also transforming how we relate to each other and changing the process of how we transact social good through business endeavors. We expect our attendees will be quite moved by Johns closing remarks and are very excited about the attention he is bringing to their work, said Vandermeer.
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Is Atheist Awe A Religious Experience?
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Falls at Letchworth State Park in New York.
"Where were you?" my beloved asked as I walked through the door caked in mud and sweat. "I was communing with my gods," I responded and proceeded to tell her about the exquisite hike I'd had that morning in New York's Letchworth State Park (the Grand Canyon of the East).
Earlier in the day, looking down the rim of a canyon cut over thousands of years by the Genesee River, I felt a profound sense of awe that cut me to the quick. But in that sense of awe, was I communing with anything extending beyond just a particular state of my neurons? My joke about the gods aside, was there anything religious about the feeling I, an atheist, felt looking across that vast expanse of river, stone and still blue air?
During the last week we've been having a fascinating conversation here at 13.7 on exactly this topic of atheists and awe and science and religion.
Barbara King started us out using two books she'd recently finished to dispel the notion that atheists can't feel awe. She further argued that it's an experience that need have nothing to do with the "sacred" but can be a pure response to science's own unpacking of the world's richness. Then, Tania Lombrozo picked up the ball by looking at psychological research showing how the feeling of awe has two characteristics: an experience of vastness and the need for an accommodation with that experience. Both the religious and non-religious have this experience of vastness, she argued. The real difference between them arises with how the subsequent accommodation is accomplished.
Marcelo Gleiser then drew from the ancient Greeks to explore how reason could be a gateway to a profound sense of spirituality but only if that sense eschews mysticism. In this way, Marcelo argued we might "rid spirituality of its supernatural prison." Alva No finished the week taking a different path. In his meditation on the limits of rationality, he argued it's imperative to see meaning and value as real in and of itself, something perhaps rationality can't do.
I loved the insights in all of these posts and am thankful to my colleagues for pushing me in my own thinking. If there's one word I'd emphasize in my response to their discussions it would be this:
Experience. Experience. Experience.
OK, that was three words. But like my moment standing at the edge of Letchworth's deep cliffs, I believe that it's experience that should come first and foremost in our discussions of awe. In fact, it is exactly that emphasis on what happens in experience that makes awe a proper pivot point for deeper discussions of science and spirituality.
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