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LF53 Michael Wood – The Psychology of Conspiracy

Are some people more likely than others to believe in conspiracy theories, and if so, why? Real conspiracies are exposed every day, but where does the line between fantasy and reality disappear?
In a recent study entitled What About Building 7? – A Social Psychological Study Of Online Discussion Of 9/11 Conspiracy Theories, Dr Michael Wood and Dr Karen Douglas of the University of Kent (UK) explore these questions, and more. Their research suggests that people who argue in favour of conspiracy theories do so differently from those who argue against them, and that there are distinct psychological differences between those who support conspiracy theories and those who support the official story. Belief systems also have a profound effect on the acceptance or rejection of conspiracy theories.
In their analysis, conspiracy theories are more about disbelieving the official story than believing in some alternative account. For those who think 9/11 was an inside job, for example, the focus is not on promoting a specific rival theory, but in trying to debunk the official account. Those promoting 9/11 conspiracy theories are also more likely to promote unrelated conspiracy theories, such as those about the deaths of John F. Kennedy and Princess Diana. The study also found that those who favour official accounts are generally more hostile than the pro-conspiracy camp and – perhaps unsurprisingly – that conspiracy theorists do not like being called conspiracy theorists.
www.conspiracypsych.com
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LF52 Adam Taggart – Living With Purpose

Unfulfilled by your job? Wish that the work you do on a daily basis was more aligned with the person you really are? You are not alone. In fact, a majority of workers would chose a different career path if given the chance. The reasons are varied. Some simply experience a bad fit with the career that fate steered them into. Many others, however, fear that their expertise (or lack of it) will have little or no relevance in a future shaped by increasing financial crises, energy shortages and environmental collapse.
But the reality is, most people don’t take the steps to find a more meaningful path. The potential life upheaval and uncertainty that can come with a full-scale career transition often prove too daunting and overwhelming for most people, and so they resign themselves to a future of lowered expectations and simply enduring their job.
It doesn’t have to be this way. In his new book Finding Your Way to Your Authentic Career, Peak Prosperity’s Adam Taggart shows how, through a process of self-discovery, we can break the unfulfilling patterns of the past and align our work with our passions, natural abilities, and values.
The profound problems that the World is facing will ensure that the next twenty years will be completely unlike the last twenty years. Jobs for life are gone. Cosy career paths are rapidly becoming things of the past. But with challenge comes opportunity. Change is on its way, but how we face it – or even embrace it – will have far-reaching effects on our future wealth, health, and happiness.
www.peakprosperity.com
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LF51 Samuel Alexander – Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation

Samuel Alexander discusses his new book Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation.
When industrial civilisation collapsed in the third decade of the 21st century, a community living on a small island in the South Pacific Ocean found itself permanently isolated from the rest of the world. With no option but to build a self-sufficient economy with very limited energy supplies, this community set about creating a simpler way of life that could flourish into the deep future.  Determined above all else to transcend the materialistic values of the Old World, they made a commitment to live materially simple lives, convinced that this was the surest path to genuine freedom, peace, and sustainable prosperity. Seven decades later, in the year 2099, Entropia describes the results of their remarkable living experiment.
Dr Samuel Alexander is a part-time lecturer with the Office for Environmental Programs, University of Melbourne, Australia. He teaches a course called Consumerism and the Growth Paradigm: Interdisciplinary Perspectives in the Masters of Environment. He is also co-director of the Simplicity Institute and co-founder of Transition Coburg. He writes regularly at the Simplicity Collective and posts most of his academic essays at www.TheSufficiencyEconomy.com
www.bookofentropia.comwww.SimplicityInstitute.org
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LF50 Kingsley Dennis – The Struggle For Your Mind

Kingsley Dennis discusses his book The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution and the Battle to Control How We Think.
Within society there exists a silent war. The battlefield is our everyday lives: our education, our work, our leisure, our emotional and spiritual well-being, and our thinking and perceptions. Our very sense of reality is deliberately engineered to work against conscious evolution and preserve social norms. In short, we are all part of a war of consciousness. And the opportunity is at hand for us to win.
Exploring the biology of consciousness, Kingsley reveals the emerging mechanisms for neuro-genetic evolution within the brains of gifted individuals, psychics, and visionaries and the coming increases in solar and magnetic energies that will activate them within all of us.
Explaining how we can free up mental and emotional energy to break through the barriers inhibiting conscious evolution, he shows that by taking back our minds and changing the way we think, we can restore our connection with Nature and the Divine and lead humanity into a new age of harmony and awareness.
www.kingsleydennis.com
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LF49 Dr. Malcolm Torry – Why We Need A Citizen’s Income

Dr. Malcolm Torry discusses his new book Money For Everyone – Why We Need A Citizen’s Income.
Due to government cuts, the benefits system in the UK is currently a hot topic. In this timely book, a Citizen’s Income (sometimes called a Basic Income) is defined as an unconditional, non-withdrawable income for every individual as a right of citizenship. Money for Everyone is the first book for over a decade to analyse the social, economic and labour market advantages of a Citizen’s Income. It demonstrates that it would be simple and cheap to administer, would reduce inequality, enhance individual freedom and would be good for the economy, social cohesion, families, and the employment market.
The book also contains international comparisons and links with broader issues around the meaning of poverty and inequality, making a valuable contribution to the debate around benefits. Whether you’re capitalist, socialist, somewhere in between or even beyond, you may believe the very idea of a Citizen’s Income to be variously unworkable, unaffordable, unethical or some combination thereof. However, in a world of growing poverty and inequality, spiralling military spending, banks too big to fail and the Ponzi scheme of debt-based fiat currency, it is perhaps worth looking again at how we could radically improve the lot of the many through more inventive and imaginative economic systems.
Dr. Malcolm Torry is Director of the Citizen’s Income Trust; he has first degrees in mathematics, theology, philosophy, and economics and management; and higher degrees in social policy and in theology. He has recently completed an honorary research fellowship in the Social Policy Department at the London School of Economics. He is Team Rector of the Church of England Parish of East Greenwich.
www.citizensincome.org
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LF48 Paul Kingsnorth – The Myth of Progress

Paul Kingsnorth discusses The Dark Mountain Project, the decline of industrial civilization, and the myth of progress.
The Dark Mountain Project is a network of writers, artists and thinkers who have stopped believing the stories our civilization tells itself. They see that the world is entering an age of ecological collapse, material contraction and social and political unravelling, and feel that our cultural responses should reflect this reality rather than denying it.
The Project grew out of a feeling that contemporary art and literature were failing to respond honestly or adequately to the scale of our entwined ecological, economic and social crises. They believe that writing and art have a crucial role to play in coming to terms with this reality, and in questioning its foundations.
www.dark-mountain.net
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LF47 Paul Rosenberg – The Seasons of Empire

Paul Rosenberg of Freeman’s Perspective discusses the rise and fall of civilizations. Over the ages, great civilizations and mighty empires have come and gone in a remarkably similar pattern. From Sumer to Egypt, from Greece to Rome, all have crashed from triumph to tragedy. The British built the largest empire in history, only to see it disintegrate in the aftermath of war. Since then, the USA has assumed the mantle of the World’s dominant power, winning a war of attrition against the former Soviet Union whilst waging real and increasingly bloody wars for resources across the globe.
But are the days of the American Empire numbered? Has it fallen prey to corruption, greed, hubris and arrogance like so many before it? Is a new power waiting in the wings to take its place, or does the decline of US hegemony mark the beginning of the end of industrial civilization as we know it? If so, what – if anything – can we do about it?
Freeman’s Perspective is unlike any newsletter you’ve ever read. There’s no stock picking, no economic analysis and they don’t get bogged down in analyzing the lies and doublespeak of politicians. It’s not theory but practical, actionable strategies for finding clarity in an unclear world. It invites you to see the world as it really is, how current events fit into the disturbing big picture, and what you can do to protect yourself.
www.freemansperspective.com
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LF46 Courtney Brown – Remote Viewing, Consciousness and Reality: Part Two

Courtney Brown of the Farsight Institute discusses remote viewing and what it is revealing about the fundamental nature of consciousness and reality.
This is a two part interview. Part one is here.
The discoveries of quantum physics have been re-writing what we think we know about life, the universe, and everything. The realms being revealed by Remote Viewing are taking us even further down the rabbit hole where the meaning of time, space and matter dissolve, and all physical reality may be merely an artifact of observation.
Topics discussed include: Hugh Everett, quantum physics, holographic reality, extra-terrestrial life, mainstream scientific scepticism and bias, Remote Viewing in civilian and military spheres, multiple universes – multiple timelines, psychology, evolution, Atlantis, and God.
Remote Viewing is a trainable mental procedure that can assist a person in obtaining accurate and detailed information from distant locations and across time. It is a controlled shifting of awareness that is performed in the normal waking state of consciousness. It uses the human nervous system in a way analogous to the way an astronomer uses a radio telescope. Using Remote Viewing, the human nervous system acts as a tuning device that connects us to an underlying field of nature through which knowledge of all things is possible. Remote Viewing does not involve an out-of-body experience, an altered state of consciousness or hypnosis, nor is it a form of channelling.
For a wealth of Remote Viewing information and resources, visit the Farsight Institute website.
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LF45 Courtney Brown – Remote Viewing, Consciousness and Reality: Part One

Courtney Brown of the Farsight Institute discusses remote viewing and what it is revealing about the fundamental nature of consciousness and reality.
This is a two part interview. Part two is here.
The discoveries of quantum physics have been re-writing what we think we know about life, the universe, and everything. The realms being revealed by Remote Viewing are taking us even further down the rabbit hole where the meaning of time, space and matter dissolve, and all physical reality may be merely an artifact of observation.
Topics discussed include: Remote Viewing in civilian and military spheres, mainstream scientific scepticism and bias, telepathy, extra-terrestrial life, forbidden archaeology, quantum physics and holographic reality.
Remote Viewing is a trainable mental procedure that can assist a person in obtaining accurate and detailed information from distant locations and across time. It is a controlled shifting of awareness that is performed in the normal waking state of consciousness. It uses the human nervous system in a way analogous to the way an astronomer uses a radio telescope. Using Remote Viewing, the human nervous system acts as a tuning device that connects us to an underlying field of nature through which knowledge of all things is possible. Remote Viewing does not involve an out-of-body experience, an altered state of consciousness or hypnosis, nor is it a form of channelling.
For a wealth of Remote Viewing information and resources, visit the Farsight Institute website.
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LF44 Mike Berners-Lee – The Burning Question

Mike Berners-Lee discusses The Burning Question, a book co-authored with Duncan Clark.
Climate change is the most fascinating scientific, political and social puzzle of our time. Great minds, enthusiastic leaders and green warriors have all tried to tackle the problem, but so far the world’s efforts at reducing global warming have failed.
We do our best to save energy and technologies have made burning fuels more efficient, but the simple fact is carbon emissions are still accelerating upwards, following an exponential curve that goes back centuries. Like squeezing a balloon, reductions in one place lead to increases elsewhere.
The real barrier to action is that the world has far more fossil fuel in its reserves than it can safely burn – at least twice as much and perhaps ten times as much. These reserves are worth tens of trillions of dollars and solving the problem means persuading the world to abandon them.
The Burning Question asks whether that’s possible and what the side effects might be. Would the global economy sink and oil companies crash as the ‘carbon bubble’ bursts? Or could we transition smoothly to a green future? Looking at the whole issue from a fresh perspective, The Burning Question argues that global warming can still be tackled, but only if humankind wakes up to the threat and demands that the fuels stay in the ground.
www.burningquestion.infowww.sw-consulting.co.ukwww.duncanclark.net
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