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Communicating with Plants and Animals

SARA BUBBER is interviewed by ANANYA PATEL about her experiences of communicating with plants and animals, and how they have enriched her life and her sense of humor.

My Mother's Hands

ANNA MONARDO is coming to terms with her parents' traditional arranged marriage and their struggles to settle in the US and provide a good life for her family. In this brave account, she exposes the problems that many new immigrants face, and honors the roles her parents played in giving her a life free from the shackles of war-torn Europe.

Why Not Artificial Consciousness?

VICTOR KANNAN explores the debate oround whether AI hos consciousness. He comes up with 0 very compelling logic for how it can easily be solved.

Treating Insiders Like Outsiders

DR. ICHAK ADIZES explores the need for effective internal communication and decision-making within organizations, and how we can all contribute to that.

Master yoga 2024 UNESCO PARIS

The Master Yoga exhibition, held at UNESCO House in Paris from June 14 to 21, 2024, marked the 10th anniversary of International Day of Yoga proclaimed by the United Nations. Organized by the \"Yoga for Unity\" collective under the aegis of the Heartfulness Foundation, the event brought together around twenty partner organizations and thirty renowned teachers. CLAIRE BIGAND was the exhibition coordinator, and here shares an overview of the week-long celebration.

Serve, Share, Sacrifice

BAWA JAIN, the Secretary-General for the World Council of Religious Leaders, shares his perspective on the greatest blessing, and his own grounding philosophy that guides him through life.

Becoming Better Communicators

DAAJI shares some tips on how to improve your communication skills, to bring harmony and compassion to daily interactions with others in the workplace, in the family, and everyone you meet.

Conscience with Love for Peace - Loveforce can be learned, and I guide people to experience it in the "Be the Love"

Sofia Stril-Rever shares her experience of the Mahotsav in Kanha Shanti Vanam at the United Nations, during International Day of Conscience with Love for Peace on April 5, 2024. Her call to action is to turn planet Earth into planet love.

A Model City of PEACE AND HARMONY

MUHAMMED HANIFF ABDUL RAZAK, Coordinator at the Multi-Faith Multicultural Center and Pure Land Learning College, shares how their organization has been involved in building social and cultural harmony in diversity in the city of Toowoomba in Australia. Their vision for peace is practical and based on the vision of the Venerable Master Chin Kung A.M. who founded their organization.

Wings of Gratitude

SARA BUBBER shares a story about shifting from misery to joy through a simple practice of gratitude. She then shares some tips on gratitude and asks us to do some fun activities.

expressing the inexpressible

On May 14, 2024, at the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, DAAJI was interviewed by GUILA CLARA KESSOUS, the UNESCO Artist for Peace, and Ambassador for Peace of the Universal Circle of Ambassadors of Peace (Geneva) about art.

Becoming Nature

EMILIE MOGENSEN rekindles a correspondence with her father, THOMAS MOGENSEN, which she started in her youth. Years later, she now asks him about what truly matters to him after a lifetime of meditation, spirituality, and living in the world.

Unveiling the Power of Chyavanprash with Astavarga

SRAVAN BANDA presents one of the most common household remedies used throughout India today, Chyavanprash. Although ancient, it is just as popular now, and is well-known for boosting the immune system.

Exploring the Topic of Care In Literature

Professor LAURA OTIS of Emory University shares with KASHISH KALWANI the list of books chosen for the course \"Representation of Care in Literature,\" and why those particular books are significant.

Right, Wrong, and the Morals of Ethics

PAUL WOLPE lives and breathes ethics. He speaks with one of his ex-students and one of our editors, KASHISH KALWANI, about how we rely on ethical decision in everyday life-at work, in our families, and also for ourselves. Professor Wolpe also discusses how ethics, values, and morals are connected and how they are very rarely about right and wrong.

Collaborative Leadership

DR. ICHAK ADIZES presents an overview of his recent book, The Power of Collaborative Leadership: Tested Practices for Today's World. It includes the key organizational concepts of the Adizes methodology, but in their next generational form based on mutual trust and respect in action. He also invites us to join him in sharing this journey toward collaboration and synergy @work.

INVISIBLE Gardens

PIR ZIA INAYAT KHAN, the esteemed Sufi scholar and a key luminary of the 2024 Global Spirituality Mahotsav at Kanha Shanti Vanam, describes the Sufi concept of the \"Invisible Gardens\" of our lives.

Resonating with the Being(s)

BARBARA SONVILLA shares her experience of using one of the Peacefulness intentions while swimming in the sea in the Persian Gulf. The outcome is astounding and shows just how effective these simple intentions are in changing the atmosphere both within and outside us.

Reset Part 2

DAAJI shares some simple mental practices that will help you accept your thoughts and emotions, and feel at peace with yourself. They are best done alone and all of them are great balancing exercises.

THE MYSTERIES OF music

KUMARESH RAJAGOPALAN performed at the Global Spirituality Mahotsav, along with Shankar Mahadevan and Shashank Subramanyam, and here he speaks about music and how it unites us.

The Living Natural Law

It’s time we found a new mirror to look into. The only one I’ve found globally that works for every person of every socioeconomic class, every race, and every creed is Nature.

Healing Our Planet, One Seed at a Time: World Environment Day 2024

SRAVAN BANDA celebrates World Environment Day, June 5, with some activities we all can do to contribute to the regeneration of our planet, giving us all hope for the future.

We Are All Related

The Rt. Hon. PATRICIA SCOTLAND, KC, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth speaks at the Global Spirituality Mahotsav in Kanha Shanti Vanam about the role we all have to play in supporting peace with each other and the environment.

The Psychology of PEACE

The VENERABLE GESHE DORJI DAMDUL is the Director, Tibet House, Cultural Center of His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama, New Delhi. He advocates for universal ethics as a solution to humanity's problems, and here explores the psychology of world peace, and some practical approaches we can all take to move in that direction.

The Purpose of Work and its Role in a Happy Society

TEJINDER KAUR BASRA shares findings from the panel discussion she moderated during the Global Spirituality Mahotsav with SULEKHA KUMBHARE, SWAMI ATMARPIT RAKSHITJI, MARK MILTON, and Dr. DILSHAH SINGH ANAND on work as a source of happiness in society.

The Crossroads of MODERNIZATION

SWAMI MUKUNDANANDA shares his thoughts on the responsibility of each one of us to bring about change in the world, and the need to create a culture that is based on tolerance, inclusiveness, wisdom, and inner cultivation.

Workplace

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

BEING AND BE(OMING: The Maharishi Effect

DR. TONY NADER, neuroscientist, author, and leader of the Transcendental Meditation® movement, shares some insights on consciousness, and the research findings of TM that highlight the Maharishi Effect as a way of raising the consciousness of humanity.

Ambassadors for COMPASSION

VENERABLE BHIKKU SANGHASENA founded the Mahabodhi International Meditation Centre (MIMC) in Ladakh in 1986. Since then he has worked tirelessly and selflessly to put the Buddha's Teachings on loving kindness and compassion into action and now MIMC has become one of the leading NGOs in India. At the Global Spirituality Mahotsav, he challenged us all to walk the talk on peace and to balance our time and create space in our lives for peace and compassion.

YOGA AND AYURVEDA for Children with Autism

PRASAD VELUTHANAR shares a practical approach to autism that has evolved out of his role as an Ayurvedic doctor, and research in the field of Ayurveda.