Arjuna Ardagh

If you’ve watched the television news in the last few months, or listened to the radio, or been on the internet, or looked at a magazine… or even just talked to well… anybody, you must be aware that the general consensus is that this is a time of unprecedented challenge and transition. Economically, that often gets focused onto the United States, but actually in the wider implications, the transition that we are passing through is global.

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Willis Harman, President of The Institute of Noetic Sciences from 1975 to 1996

Last Week we published an article from The Institute of Noetic Sciences entitled "A World In Transition", examining how the world is shifting from our current values and behavior--and how it is maturing, out of its adolescence and growing into the future. Thousands of FinerMinds readers read the article, and it created a lot of reaction and comments that prompted us to look into this realm further.

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In an enlightening short 12-minute talk, Sherwin Nuland, a practicing surgeon for 3 decades, discusses hope and the human spirit. According to Sherwin Nuland, hope is often offered as an abstract idea, and not a concrete word. Hope is about the human spirit--which is the ability that each of us has to be greater than him or her self. Hope does not consist of the expectation that things will come out exactly right--but the expectation that they will make sense when they come out.

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Hi there! This week in Part 17 of our FinerMinds series on Becoming Just Awesome is all about Self-Actualization – the term popularized by American psychologist Abraham Maslow, the father of humanistic psychology.

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory placed self-actualization at the final level of psychological development, something that can be achieved when all other basic and meta needs--physiological, safety, love/belonging, and esteem--are fulfilled. When these basic needs are met, the ‘actualization’ of a person’s full personal potential can take place.

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