The Future of Business - with Guest Ayman Sawaf, co-author of Sacred Commerce

Listen Now to Ayman Sawaf on Sacred Commerce

Sacred Commerce, The Rise of the Global Citizen Sacred Commerce is a groundbreaking book which explores the past and the future of commerce. It tells of the Merchant Priests of ancient Egypt who practiced it and the skill of emotional alchemy they mastered in their pursuit of beauty goodness and truth. This book completes Ayman’s work on the map of Emotional Intelligence and its four cornerstone models as explored in his international best seller “Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations”, co-authored with Dr. Robert Cooper. The central principle and ‘engine’ of culture is no longer religion, nor politics as was the case in the past. Like it or not, commerce has become the primary force propelling our species and human society forward. We are witnessing a commerce-centric (r)evolution, a whole new form of ‘conscious capitalism’, wherein business transactions the world over will become the main conduit of social and cultural evolution. Sacred Commerce reverses the common assumption that business and spirituality are mutually opposed, and instead looks at business as a path of destiny. The notion of capitalism infused with the sacred expands the notion of profit with the concept and the reality of the fourth bottom line: spirituality. Commerce, that intrinsic and basic function of exchanging goods and services, can ‘within this context’ raise human culture to a level of sacredness that otherwise might not be attained while placing those who practice it on a trajectory of accelerated growth. Sacred Commerce advances the idea that commerce can be a vehicle to raise consciousness as well as a path towards Self-realization: a spiritual current. Imagine a global economy that empowers local economies around the world—from the largest to the smallest—to prosper and flourish with dignity and equality. A global marketplace where the spirit of partnership and responsibility transforms emotions of anger, fear and jealousy into passion, compassion and empathy. Where the natural flow of information, ideas and resources between different segments of society and across cultures transcends the unconscious exchange of baseless commodities—uniting and exalting, rather than dividing, people around the world.

Pepper Spray art goes viral, Ionizing Plasma, Better Batteries, Gut Bacteria, Creating Light from the Vacuum,

Listen Now Dr. Future News 11.22.11

It’s time for the Future News of the week, joining the Futures, MC Hager and his son, Agent Luc as they make free associations from topic to topic, all the while connecting them with their unerringly rational intellectual commentary.

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Pepper Spray art gone viral

Dr. Bruce Damer on the Saturday KSCO Special about his visionary Blueprint for a Radical Remake of America

Listen Now  Bruce Damer on KSCO Saturday Morning Special 11.19.11

Bruce takes many call-ins, some quite challenging,  about his visionary blueprint on KSCO’s Saturday Morning Special, with host Michael Zwerling.  Listen as the document evolves before our very ears..

Occupy Twitterspace, Singularity Movie, 3D Printing Update, Polaroid goes Digital, Telexistence Robot, Projects of Google X.

Listen Now, The Dr. Future Show News 11.15.11

The many shutdowns of Occupy sites got our attention this week, with such activities being  tracked live via Twitterspace  and internet-based video streams.  What’s next in this arena?  We explore some of the options.  

In other news, Ray Kurzweil is now involved with a Hollywood flick on the Singularity, 3D printing is starting to impact mainstream thinking, Polaroid gives us instant grat digitally in the tried-and-true way they did in the old days, a new kind of robot, and what’s going on at the secret labs of Google X?

This week our news is a separate file from our interview hour, where Dr. Bruce Damer speaks of a new blueprint for US government, Democracy 3.0, incorporating everything he has learned working and interacting with groups around the world to define how things could be.  This is posted as a standalone, for those particularly interested in what Dr. Damer has to say.  Meanwhile, enjoy The Dr. Future Show news!

Dr. Bruce Damer on a visionary Blueprint for a Radical Remake of America

Listen Now to Bruce Damer on The Dr. Future Show

 Have you ever wondered how a democratic society might work, if it were designed incorporating today’s communications technologies and other innovations?  

If so, then check out: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xpopyU_RwN_FUlcjLUse1tFg3cKcSPTzwQftqy9QTWs/edit

Bruce Damer is a Canadian who emigrated to the US in 1985. When Bruce was sworn in as a US citizen in 2000 the federal judge presiding over the ceremony explained  thatthere is no democracy at the national level but you still have a chance for some representation at the local level so please fill out your voter registration card. Bruce has spent much of the last decade pondering this statement, wondering if America has ever actually been a democracy in the sense that Canada, Denmark and other countries are (no, as it has always disenfranchised large segments of its population). He then went on to investigate how America might one day become a functioning democracy, civil society and good member of the global community of nations.

This blueprint for the Radical Remaking of America resulted from this thinking and his interaction with a wide range of American society from Pentagon generals to NASA astronauts, Silicon Valley billionaires, activists and burners, Big Bankers, Christian home schoolers, off the gridders, cultural creatives, and just plain and wonderful ordinary folks. He has worked around the world, in the early 1990s helping develop one of the first software labs in Eastern Europe right after the fall of Communism, later speaking in South Africa during the transition from white rule, doing pioneering work in Internet virtual worlds and simulation for NASA, and is currently working with progressive projects in high tech to better lives around the world from the US to the Middle East, Pakistan and China and elsewhere.

If you are curious about Bruce and the team around the RadicalRemake Blueprint effort find Bruce and our page “Radical Remake” on Facebook or reach Bruce directly on the web at:

http://www.damer.com