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Western society has blown past 'crisis' and is resting solidly in 'emergency'. Much of this is the result of an approach to education designed to turn-out compliant personalities merely prepared to serve industrial-era needs.

Words matter. They really matter. And the specific meaning behind the words matter even more. Few have successfully defined consciousness in clear language that a 10 year old can understand and apply.

The one direction that determines outward progress, requires a 180. To adjust course, respond to changes and adapt in a shifting world, we have to go in. Constantly.

It's not the drugs that get us high, they just facilitate the concentration of feel good chemicals already within us so we can experience them in a new way.

Organizations are equipped to develop strategy. They can describe where they want to go, identify attractive opportunities and produce an ambitious plan. The trouble begins once the strategy is approved.

We're losing the rhythm our biology expects. Our ancestors experienced intense stress like storms, predators and famine. But those events ended. Modern humans are enduring continuous, low-grade uncertainty.

We are more beautiful and more brilliant than we can imagine, but 7 generations of humans have been steadily programmed into the machine-like behavior that has resulted in the apocalyptic.

The independent thinkers may be harder to categorize, but they're also the ones most likely to retain originality.