When Twitter first appeared, I responded to their idealistic side, which aimed to form a global community that could create change beyond national boundaries.  Tweets are now used for a million reasons that don’t aim as high. But it occurred to me that tweeting might be an excellent way to test the shift in consciousness…

By Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP  Commencement Speech at Hartwick College Today as you celebrate this major milestone in your life and commence a new stage of your life journey, I ask you to reflect on the gift of life itself. And life, in essence, is nothing but awareness. Furthermore human life, considered the pinnacle of biological…

Modern society has done much to ravage the environment, and by now there is a numbing effect.  When PBS recently ran a program on how the oceans are dying, who could watch without a sinking heart? Besides feeling gloomy and guilty, however, there’s a deeper sense that Nature has turned against us. Has it, and…

No one doubts that social networking produces results in politics, from the Arab Spring to the 2012 election, where President Obama’s ground game made the difference. That ground game was an extension of the 2008 strategy for involving millions of small donors. Suddenly there was a grass-roots movement that made individuals feel as if their…

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