SpiritualWiki - Transformation

Zunehmender Bewusstseinswandel

Im Laufe der Evolution hat die Menschheit mehrere existentielle Krisen erlebt, die nach einer Störungsphase
letztlich jeweils in einer Transformation des allgemeinen Bewusstseinsniveaus resultierten.

Gesellschaftlicher Wandel

Passt euch nicht den Maßstäben dieser Welt an, sondern lasst euch von Gott verändern,
damit euer ganzes Denken neu ausgerichtet wird. Nur dann könnt ihr beurteilen, was
Gottes Wille ist, was gut und vollkommen ist und was ihm gefällt. Römer 12, 2 (NT)

Viele kleine Leute
an vielen kleinen Orten,
die viele kleine Schritte tun,
können das Gesicht der Welt verändern.
Afrikanisches Sprichwort

Auf der Basis von Ebenbürtigkeit, menschlicher Würde und Respekt gegenüber der legitimen Rangfolge kann sozialer Wandel eintreten, wenn:

sich eine kritische Masse von authentischen, integeren Menschen guten Willens in einem Gruppenfeld bildet, das den Seinsgrund wahrt und
dauerhaft eine gemeinsame gewaltlose Intention beibehält,
während es gleichzeitig akzeptiert, dass diese möglicherweise nicht zu Lebzeiten der Beteiligten erfüllt wird, die für ihr Bemühen vermutlich nicht anerkannt werden.

Der Anteil der Quäker (Religiöse Gesellschaft der Freunde) in der US-amerikanischen Bevölkerung beträgt lediglich 0,0008%. Gleichwohl waren sie maßgeblich an einer Reihe bedeutender gesellschaftlicher Reformen beteiligt:
⚑ Abschaffung der Sklaverei ⚑ Öffentliche geförderte Schulausbildung ⚑ Strafrechtsreform
⚑ Frauenwahlrecht ⚑ Bürgerrechte ⚑ Umweltschutz ⚑ Einfrieren der Nuklearwaffenarsenale

Acht Gesetzmäßigkeiten des gesellschaftlichen Wandels

Sozialer Wandel erfordert Weisheit, Charakter, Geduld und die Bereitschaft, auf jegliche persönlichen
Verdienste zu verzichten. Bewegungen zur Förderung von mehr sozialer Gerechtigkeit benötigen eine
Zeitspanne von 4-5 Generationen (80-100 Jahre), bis sie Wirkung entfalten.
Die Quäker praktizierten mit Erfolg die nachstehenden acht Gesetzmäßigkeiten des sozialen Wandels.

Wandlungsprinzip	Beschreibung
Voraussetzung / Entscheidung des Einzelnen	Sei dir bewusst, dass du eine Wahl triffst. Entscheide dich für die mitfühlende und lebensbejahende Option entsprechend deines gegenwärtigen Verständnisumfangs.
Erstes Gesetz	Der Einzelne (individuell) und die Gruppe (kollektiv) müssen eine gemeinsame Zielsetzung haben.
Zweites Gesetz	Der Einzelne und die Gruppe können Ziele vertreten, ohne jedoch die von ihnen angestrebten möglichen Ergebnisse zu erzielen.
Drittes Gesetz	Die Mitglieder der Gruppe müssen aufrichtig akzeptieren, dass ihr Ziel zu ihren Lebzeiten womöglich nicht erreicht wird, und damit klarkommen.
Viertes Gesetz	Die Menschen in der Gruppe müssen aufrichtig akzeptieren, dass sie womöglich weder Anerkennung noch Lob für ihre Leistungen ernten werden und damit zurechtkommen.
Fünftes Gesetz	Jedes Mitglied in der Gruppe muss ungeachtet von Geschlecht, Religion, Rassenzugehörigkeit oder Kultur grundlegende Gleichwertigkeit [Menschenwürde] genießen, während gleichzeitig die verschiedenen Aufgabenstellungen in der Hierarchie der Anstrengungen geachtet werden müssen.
Sechstes Gesetz	Die einzelnen Mitglieder der Gruppe müssen in Wort, Tat oder Gedanken auf Gewalt verzichten.
Siebentes Gesetz	Die führenden Persönlichkeiten in der Gruppe müssen ihr Sosein und ihr häusliches Leben mit ihren öffentlichen Äußerungen und Einstellungen in Einklang bringen.
Achtes Gesetz	Die Einzelnen (individuell) in der Gruppe und die Gruppe (kollektiv) müssen stets aus dem Geist der lebensbejahenden Rechtschaffenheit heraus handeln.

Quellen (engl.) von und mit Dr. Stephan A. Schwartz, US-amerikanischer Kognitionswissenschaftler, Trend- und Zukunftsforscher,
Samueli Institute, Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Autor
► PDF presentation THE POWER – The Eight Laws of Social Change [Acht Gesetze des gesellschaftlichen Wandels], 2007
► Audio interview The Eight Laws of Social Change, presented via the broadcaster Blogtalkradio, podcast Paranormal Perceptions,
host Dee Disparti, aired 17. January 2008

William Penns Einsicht

"Ein guter Zweck kann keine üblen Mittel heiligen; noch dürfen wir je Böses tun, damit Gutes daraus entstehe […]. Lasst uns also versuchen, was Liebe erreichen kann: Denn wenn Menschen einmal gesehen haben, dass wir sie lieben, werden wir bald herausfinden, dass sie uns nichts zuleide tun wollen.
Gewalt kann wohl unterwerfen, aber Liebe gewinnt."
William Penn (1644-1718) englischer Immobilienunternehmer, Philosoph, Gründer der Provinz Pennsylvania in Nordamerika,
Quäker, Quäker – Glaube und Wirken, Vers 24.03, 1693, 2010

Dominationsmacht erzwingt kurzfristigen sozialen Wandel durch Zwang und Gewalt

⇔

Wirkmacht bewirkt dauerhaften sozialen Wandel durch die Wesensqualität der liebenden Gewaltlosigkeit.

Öffentlicher Appell

"Gesellschaftlicher Wandel wird sich erst einstellen, wenn die Menschen über Wirkmacht verfügen. Er erfordert einen neuen Ausdruck von Macht, eine friedsame Form von Macht. Nicht nur mangelnde Empathie lässt Konflikte und Leiden weiterhin bestehen, sondern auch die fehlende Wirkmacht, insbesondere die friedliche [nicht-raubtierhafte] Macht und Zivilcourage. Wir brauchen nicht nur Empathie, um die Welt zu verändern, sondern auch empathische, mitfühlende Menschen mit Heldenmut, die Situationen, wo gelitten wird, thematisieren und obendrein eine Form von Macht anwenden, die Veränderung auslöst, indem sie Menschen zur Rechenschaft zieht, ohne selbst missbräuch-
lich zu agieren. Wir brauchen mehr als nur Empathie, und mehr denn je brauchen wir empfindungsstarke, mitfühlende Einzelne, die Wirkmacht und Zivilcourage entwickeln, um solchen Konfliktherden zu Leibe zu rücken. Andernfalls neh-
men lediglich Tyrannen und Soziopathen Machtstellungen ein."

Quelle: ► Audiointerview mit Linda Kohanov (*1950) US-amerikanische Reitlehrerin, Pferdetrainerin, Dozentin, Autorin, A New Interview with Linda, präsentiert von dem US-amerikanischen Webradiosender "Attunement", Gastgeber Anthony Write, Minute 50:56,
52:50 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt von Eponaquest, multidisziplinäre Bildungsorganisation, ~3. Mai 2013

Vier Denkweisen – Bewusstseinsstufen und Wandlung

O	Vier kreisförmig angeordnete Quadranten ✣ Vier innere, mittlere und äußere Kreise ✣ Portal 11:11
༺༻	Rahmen	Potenz	Sozialebene	Pronomen	Beschreibung	Fokus
1.	Entweder oder	1	Individuum	Ich	Kleinste Menscheinheit, kleinster Radius	Lebensnotwendiges Stammesbewusstsein
2.	Sowohl als auch	10	Familie	Ich+Du	Freunde, Kollegen, Nachbarn	Wahrheitssuche Individuation

3.	Weder noch	100	Welt	Wir	Gemeinschaft • Gesellschaft	Ambivalenz ◊ Paradoxa
4.	Alles Wirkliche	1000	Alles Existierende	Es	Gott (Archetyp), Unendlichkeit, größter Radius	Essenz des Seins

Siehe auch:
► Vier Seinsebenen – Hartmann • Gebser • Heim und ► Vierer-Zyklus von aufeinanderfolgenden Generationen – Strauss und Howe
► Gesetz 3:1

Wandlungsgeschichten

Wandlung durch tiefere Erkenntnis

Was bewegt die Fahne?

Vor seiner Ordination zum sechsten Patriarchen des chinesischen Chan-Buddhismus traf
der vorzügliche Meister Hui Neng (638-713) im Shaolintempel Bup Sung Sa ein.
Dort wurde er Zeuge eines Streitgesprächs zwischen zwei auf einem Felsen sitzenden Mönchen,
die über eine am Mast flatternde Fahne diskutierten.

Einer meinte: Die Fahne bewegt sich.
Der Andere warf ein: Der Wind, nicht die Fahne, bewegt sich.
Hui Neng gab zu bedenken: Was sich wirklich bewegt, ist weder der Wind noch die Fahne!

Verblüfft über seine ungewöhnliche Antwort auf ihre Streitfrage, fragten die beiden Mönche den Weisen:
Was bewegt sich denn wirklich?
Hui Neng erwiderte: Euer Geist bewegt sich!

Wumen Huikai (1183-1260) chinesischer Meister des Chan-Buddhismus, Song-Dynastie, Sammler und Kommentator des Werks Die torlose Schranke [Wumenguan], Sammelband mit klassischen 48 Koans

Wandlung der Dinge

Einst träumte Dschuang Dschou, dass er ein Schmetterling sei, ein flatternder Schmetterling, der sich wohl und glücklich fühlte und nichts wusste von Dschuang Dschou.

Blauer Schmetterling

Plötzlich wachte er auf: da war er wieder wirklich und wahrhaftig Dschuang Dschou.
Nun weiß ich nicht, ob Dschuang Dschou geträumt hat, dass er ein Schmetterling sei, oder ob der Schmetterling geträumt hat, dass er Dschuang Dschou sei, obwohl doch zwischen Dschuang Dschou und dem Schmetterling sicher ein Unterschied ist.
So ist es mit der Wandlung der Dinge.
Dschuang Dschou [Chuang-tzu, Tschuang-tse, Meister Zhuang] (~365-290 v. Chr.) chinesischer Philosoph, Dichter, Richard Wilhelm (1873-1930) bedeutender deutschsprachiger Sinologe, Theologe, Missionar, Übersetzer, Das wahre Buch vom südlichen Blütenland, [aus: Werke von Zhuangzi, entstanden 4. Jht. v. Chr., 1912], Buch II, 11. Schatten und Halbschatten, Düsseldorf/Köln 1972, Diederichs, 10. August 2006

See also: ► Stories of transformation

Wirkung und Schicksal menschlicher Katalysatoren

Der Einfluss der Frau

Ein frommer Mann hatte ein frommes Weib, aber sie hatten keine Kinder.
Da sprachen sie: Unsere Ehe bringt dem Heiligen, gelobt sei er, keinen Nutzen.
Und der Mann gab seiner Frau den Scheidebrief, und sie trennte sich von ihm.
Er heiratete in zweiter Ehe eine böse Frau, und die machte ihn zu einem Bösewicht.
Die Geschiedene wiederum heiratete einen bösen Mann
und verwandelte diesen in einen frommen.
Ob der Mann gottlos wird, ob der Mann fromm wird – alles bewirkt die Frau.

Talmud, Hauptschrift des Judentums, Midrasch Bereschit r. 17, 7

Umwandlung während der Ehe

Gespräch unter Eheleuten kurz nach der Hochzeit

Ehemann zur Ehefrau: "Ich hoffe, du veränderst dich nie."
Ehefrau zum Ehemann: "Ich muss [wir müssen] dich verändern."
Frauen verbessern Männer. Ja, das tun sie, vorausgesetzt, ihr Männer bringt sie nicht schon vorher um.
Die Frau als Wandlungsvermittlerin tut Männern gut. Sie mögen es zwar nicht. […]
Die gute Botschaft ist, dass Frauen einen Mann im Allgemeinen dorthin bringen können, wohin sie wollen.
Sie müssen dabei allerdings bedenken, dass sie sich auf ein Langzeitprojekt von zwanzig, dreißig Jahren Dauer einlassen.

Videovortrag (Clip) von Mark Gungor (*1954) US-amerikanischer Pastor, Bühnenunterhalter, Eheberater, internationaler Referent, A man still does not do anything, YouTube Film, 1:23 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 21. Januar 2011

Siehe auch: ► Ehe

Nur einer von tausend Männern ist ein Führer von Männern – die anderen 999 folgen den Frauen.
Aussage eines Gastes in der US-amerikanischen Fersehshow You Bet Your Life, Gastgeber Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
US-amerikanischer Komödiant, Entertainer, Schauspieler, 28. März 1951

Die Not der Wandler

Und zu bedenken bleibt hierbei,
- kein Beginnen ist schwieriger
- und dessen Erfolgsaussichten ungewisser,
- und dessen Durchführung noch misslicher

als wenn sich jemand dazu aufwerfen will, eine neue Verfassung [ein neues Paradigma] einzuführen:
weil der sie Einführende alle die zu Feinden bekommt, die sich bei dem alten Paradigma bequem eingericht hatten,
und alle, die sich als laue Verteidiger aufspielen, die sich bei der neuen gut stehen würden;

deren Lauigkeit theils aus der Furcht vor den Gegnern des Gesetzes herrührt,
theils aus der menschlichen Kleingläubigkeit, die etwas Neues nie für wahr hält,
wenn sie nicht bereits sichere Erfahrung durch den Erfolg bestätigt sieht.

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) florentinischer Diplomat, politischer Philosoph, Humanist, Geschichtswissenschaftler,
Begründer der modernen Politikwissenschaft, Schriftsteller, Der Fürst, 6. Kapitel, Antonio Blado d'Asola, 1532

Los des Wahrheitssprechenden

Wer darf das Kind beim rechten Namen nennen?
Die Wenigen, die was davon erkannt,
Die töricht genug ihr volles Herz nicht wahrten,
Dem Pöbel ihr Gefühl, ihr Schauen offenbarten,
Hat man von je gekreuzigt und verbrannt.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Universalgelehrter, Bühnendichter, Schriftsteller,
Drama Faust. Eine Tragödie, Aufzug I, Szene V, S. 589-590, J.G. Cotta'sche Buchhandlung, Tübingen, 1808

Siehe auch: ► Attraktorfelder – abgeschwächte Abbilder der Ursprungsquelle

See also: ► Human catalysts – effects and fate

Systemveränderungen – ausgelöst durch mehr als 10% kritische Masse

Sobald über 10% der Bevölkerung eine Minderheitsmeinung vertreten,
überflügelt sie die ursprüngliche Mehrheitsmeinung.
Die umherreisenden Gedankenbilder und -muster (Meme) von mehr als
10% der engagierten Meinungsbildner verändern die konsensuelle Ausgangslage.

Um eine Gesellschaft nachhaltig zu beeinflussen, ist ein Prozentsatz von mehr als 10% engagierten Meinungs-
trägern erforderlich, unabhängig davon, wie und wo die Idee, deren Zeit gekommen ist, auftaucht und sich ausbreitet.
Wenn 11,11% der Bevölkerung eine unerschütterliche Überzeugung haben, wird sie eines Tages
unweigerlich von der Mehrheit der Gesellschaft übernommen werden.

Sculpting

"Wenn die Zahl der engagierten Meinungseigner unter zehn Prozent [der Bevölkerung] liegt, zeigt sich kein erkennbarer Fortschritt im Sinne der Ideenverbreitung. Es würde buchstäb-
lich den Zeitraum der Entstehungsdauer des Universums ein-
nehmen, bis [die Idee] die Größenklasse die Mehrheit erreicht
hat. Sobald allerdings der Prozentsatz der Meinungsbildner die
10-Prozent-Schwelle übersteigt, breitet sich die Idee [Ideen]
wie ein Lauffeuer aus." Dr. Boleslaw Szymansk (*1950) polni-
scher Professor für Informatik, Gründer des Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking, Direktor von SCNARC am Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, RPI-Studie 2011¹

"Im Allgemeinen sind die Leute nicht erpicht auf unerwünschte Meinungen. Deshalb sind sie stets bemüht, unverzüglich einen Konsens herbeizuführen. Um eine Gesellschaft zu beeinflussen, ist ein Prozentsatz von annähernd 10% engagier-
ten Meinungsbildnern erforderlich, unabhängig davon, wie und wo diese Meinung auftaucht und sich ausbreitet. Wenn die Akteure des gesellschaftlichen Wandels allmählich immer mehr Menschen überzeugen, beginnt sich die Ausgangslage zu ändern. Die Menschen fangen an, ihre eigenen Ansichten zunächst zu hinterfragen und nachfolgend die neue Sichtweise vollständig zu übernehmen, um sie dann eigenständig weiterzugeben. Würden die felsenfest Überzeugten lediglich ihre Nachbarn beeinflussen, änderte sich nichts innerhalb des größeren Systems – wie dies unsere Forschungsergebnisse bei weniger als 10 Prozent der überzeugten Meinungsbildner in der Bevölkerung belegen."
Sameet Sreenivasan, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, Schriftleiter der RPI-Studie, 2011²

In einem Fernsehinterview gab Susan Sontag (1933-2004) folgenden einprägsamen Hinweis zum Besten, der allein für mich schon eine atemberaubende Botschaft war. Auf die Frage, was sie aus dem Holocaust gelernt habe, antwortete sie,
⚑ 10 Prozent in jeder Bevölkerung seien gewaltbereit, was auch immer geschieht, und
⚑ 10 Prozent seien unter allen Umständen großherzig [aufs Gemeinwohl bedacht].
⚑ Und die restlichen 80 Prozent ließen sich [als Mitläufer] in beide Richtungen bewegen.
Artikel von Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) US-amerikanischer Humanist, Künstler, Kriegsveteran, einflussreicher Schriftsteller
des 20. Jahrhunderts, Susan Sontag and Arthur Miller, präsentiert von der progressiven US-amerikanischen Monatszeitschrift
In These Times, 3. März 2005

Schriftliche Referenzen:
► Artikel Die Macht der kleinen Minderheiten, präsentiert von der Publikation ScienceBlogs, Jürgen Schönstein, 26. Juli 2011
► Artikel Kritische Masse: 10 Prozent für ein neues Paradigma?, präsentiert von der Schweizer Zeitschrift Sein, 2. August 2011

Written sources / References (engl.):
► Article Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas, presented by the publication Rensselaer News,
25. July 2011 reissued by Science Daily, 26. July 2011
► Article Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas, presented by the publication Aggregator für Nachrichten
from the science, reseaarch and technology Phys.org, 25. July 2011
► Article Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities, PDF, presented by the US American peer-reviewed
scientific magazine Physical Review, E84, 22. July 2011

Media offering (engl.):
► Video message by Marianne Williamson (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author,
Are You Part of the 11%?, presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), DailyMotion film clip, 1:11 minute duration,
posted 19. October 2007

Siehe auch:
► Attraktorfeldwechsel: Vom Dramaort zum Ort der Heilung
► Das eigentümliche 11:11-Phänomen
► Zitate zum Thema Mehrheiten – Minderheiten

Zitate zum Thema Transformation

Zitate allgemein

Wahrlich, ich sage euch, wenn ihr nicht umkehret und werdet wie die Kinder, so werdet ihr nicht
in das Reich der Himmel eingehen. Matthäus 18, 3 (NT)

Ich ermahne euch nun, Brüder, durch die Erbarmungen Gottes, eure Leiber darzustellen als ein
lebendiges, heiliges, Gott wohlgefälliges Schlachtopfer, was euer vernünftiger Dienst ist. Und stellt
euch nicht dieser Welt gleich, sondern werdet verwandelt durch die Erneuerung eures Sin-
nes, damit ihr prüfen könnt, was Gottes Wille ist, nämlich das Gute und Wohlgefällige und
Vollkommene. Römer 12, 1-2 (NT)

Der Verfall der Frömmigkeit in der Endzeit

Das sollst du aber wissen, dass in den letzten Tagen schlimme Zeiten kommen werden. Denn die Menschen werden viel von sich halten, geldgierig sein, prahlerisch, hochmütig, Lästerer, den Eltern ungehorsam, undankbar, gottlos, lieblos, unversöhnlich, schändlich, haltlos, zuchtlos, dem Guten feind, Verräter, unbedacht, aufgeblasen. Sie lieben die Ausschweifungen mehr als Gott; sie haben den Schein
der Frömmigkeit, aber deren Kraft verleugnen sie; solche Menschen meide! ... Sie sind immer auf neue
Lehren aus und können nie zur Erkenntnis der Wahrheit kommen. ... Es sind Menschen mit zerrütteten
Sinnen, untüchtig zum Glauben. Aber sie werden damit nicht weit kommen; denn ihre Torheit wird allen
offenbar werden. 2. Timotheus 3, 1-9 (NT)

Persönliche Bekenntnisse

Gestern war ich klug und wollte die Welt verändern.
Heute bin ich weise und möchte mich verändern.

Dschalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273) persischer islamischer Mystiker, Jurist, Theologe, Dichter des Sufismus, zitiert in: my MONK

Lac de Sainte-Croix, Verdonschlucht, Frankreich

Ich bin davon überzeugt, dass wir mit uns selber beginnen müssen. Wer über Politik und Verände-
rung der Gesellschaft spricht und sich nicht zuerst selbst fragt, welche Einstellung er hat und was er bei sich ändern kann, der führt nur ein zweckloses Geschwätz, das zudem noch gefähr-
lich ist, weil das, was man anstrebt und zu schaf-
fen versucht, ohne Beziehung zu einer inneren Wahrnehmung steht.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) deutsch-US-amerikanischer Sozialpsychologe, Psychoanalytiker, humanistischer Philosoph, Autor, Rainer Funk, Herausgeber, Erich Fromm. Gesamtausgabe in zwölf Bänden, S. 4795, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (DVA), 1. Dezember 1999

Ich bin nämlich eigentlich ganz anders, aber ich komme nur so selten dazu. Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) österreichisch-ungarischer deutsch schreibender Schriftsteller, Horváth. Gesammelte Werke, "Zur schönen Aussicht", Band 3, S. 67, Suhrkamp, 2. Auflage 1978

Empfehlungen

Sei du selbst die Veränderung, die du dir wünscht für diese Welt.
Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) indischer hinduistischer Weiser, spiritueller Führer der indischen Unabhän-
gigkeitsbewegung, Menschenrechtsanwalt, gewaltloser Widerstandskämpfer zur Durchsetzung politischer Ziele, humanistischer Weiser, asketischer Morallehrer, Pazifist, Publizist, zitiert in: Zitate zum Nachdenken

Lass nie den Erfolg seine Leere verbergen, die Leistung ihre Wertlosigkeit, das Arbeitsleben seine Öde.
Behalte den Sporn, um weiter zu kommen, den Schmerz in der Seele, der uns über uns selber hinaustreibt.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905-1961) schwedischer Diplomat, Ökonom, Schriftsteller, Zeichen am Weg. Das spirituelle Tagebuch des UN-Generalsekretärs, Knaur, Taschenbuch, 1. Juli 2005; zitiert in: Gute Zitate

Um uns nachhaltig verändern zu können, müssten wir erst einmal unsere Wahrnehmung verändern.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-2012) US-amerikanischer Professor für Business Management, Unternehmensberater, Erfolgsautor, Die 7 Wege zur Effektivität. Prinzipien für persönlichen und beruflichen Erfolg, Gabal Verlag, Offenbach, Oktober 2005, 33. Auflage 2015

Zerfall und Erneuerung

Wenn die Kultur zerfällt, weil sie sich ihrer eigenen Pathologie nicht bewusst wird und weil der visionäre Held fehlt, dann versinkt sie im Chaos, das allem zugrunde liegt. Unter solchen Bedingungen kann der Einzelne – freiwillig und so weit er sich traut – in die Tiefe tauchen und die ewigen Prinzipien wiederentdecken, die das Sehvermögen und das Leben er-
neuern.
Die Alternative ist Verzweiflung, Korruption und Nihilismus – die gedankenlose Unterwerfung unter den Lügen einer totalitären Utopie und ein Leben als elender, verlogener und verbitterter Sklave. [...]
Übernehmen Sie Verantwortung für Ihr eigenes Wohlergehen.
Bemühen Sie sich, Ihre Familie zusammenzuhalten.
Bemühen Sie sich, Ihrer Gemeinschaft zu dienen.
Bemühen Sie sich, nach ewigen Wahrheiten zu suchen.
Diese Dinge werden sie erden, so dass Sie den Schwierigkeiten des Lebens standhalten können.
Prof. Jordan Peterson (*1962) kanadischer klinischer Psychologe, Influencer in sozialen Netzwerken, Vortragsreisender, Autor, Beyond Order – Jenseits der Ordnung. 12 weitere Regeln für das Leben, FinanzBuch Verlag, 10. Mai 2021

Schlussfolgerungen

Ich kann freilich nicht sagen, ob es besser werden wird wenn es anders wird;
aber so viel kann ich sagen, es muss anders werden, wenn es gut werden soll.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742-1799) deutscher Professor für Experimentalphysik, Mathematiker, Aphoristiker, satirischer Schriftsteller, persönliche Notizen Sudelbücher, "Sudelbuch-Notizen", Heft K, Eintrag 293, Eintrag 35, herausgegeben von Johann Christian Dieterich, Publikation "Göttinger Taschen-Calender", Göttingen, ~1800

Zur Revolution genügt es nicht, dass die ausgebeuteten und geknechteten Massen die Unmöglichkeit, in alter Wei-
se weiterzuleben, einsehen und eine Änderung fordern; zur Revolution ist nötig, dass die Ausbeuter nicht mehr in
der alten Weise leben und regieren können.
Verkürzte Version: Eine revolutionäre Situation gibt es dann, wenn die oben nicht mehr können und die unten nicht mehr wollen. Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin (1870-1924) russischer Rechtsanwalt, marxistischer Theoretiker, kommunistischer Politiker, Begründer der Sowjetunion, Führer der Kommunistischen Partei, Aufsatz "Der linke Radikalismus, die Kinderkrankheit des Kommu-
nismus", in: Ausgewählte Schriften, S. 1053, München, 1963; zitiert in: Sonya Winterberg (*1970) finnische Journalistin, Wie keine andere. Die Dresdner Kreuzschule in der DDR, S. 102, Bild und Heimat, 21. November 2016

Der Mensch steht heute vor der Alternative: Untergang des Menschen oder Wandlung des Menschen.
Karl Jaspers (1883-1969) deutsch-Schweizer Psychiater, interkultureller Philosoph, Vertreter der Existenzphilosophie, Autor, Philosophie und Welt, Piper, München, 1953, Taschenbuchauflage 1. Januar 1958

Die Schwungkraft bestehender Pläne [Denk- und Verhaltensmuster] ist immer stärker als der Impetus zur Veränderung. Der Kaiser konnte Moltkes Plan nicht ändern, ebenso wenig wie Kitchener den von Henry Wilson oder Lanrezac den von Joffre. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989) US-amerikanische Historikerin, zweifache Pulitzer-Preisträgerin (1963, 1972), Journalistin, Autorin, über den ersten Monat des Ersten Weltkriegs im Jahr 1914 August 1914 [The Guns of August, 1962], Fischer Taschenbuch, 4. Auflage 21. November 2001

Gesellschaftliche Veränderung fängt immer mit Außenseitern an, die spüren, was notwendig ist.
Robert Jungk (1913-1994) deutscher Pionier-Zukunftsforscher, Publizist, Journalist, Right Livelihood Award-Preisträger, 1986;
zitiert in: Gute Zitate

Fraktalreise: Vorher ⇒ Nachher
Funktionieren ⇒ Herzensweg gehen
Komfortzone ⇒ Abenteuer
Sich verstecken ⇒ Zeigen/entfalten
Angst ⇒ Vertrauen
Leisten müssen ⇒ Sein
Geldsorgen ⇒ Geldsegen
Allein ⇒ Miteinander
Einzelkämpfer ⇒ Gleichgesinnte

Dr. Yvonne Kunz, präsentiert von Yvonne Kunz Design, undatiert

Einsichten

Der Mensch kann sich nicht neu erschaffen, ohne zu leiden, denn er ist sowohl Marmor als auch Bildhauer.
Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) französischer Chirurg, Anatom, Physiologe, Nobelpreisträger (1912), zitiert (engl.) in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Jede Gelegenheit, sich zu verändern, ist eine Gelegenheit, die Welt zu verändern.
Paulo Coelho (*1947) brasilianischer esoterischer Erfolgsautor, Sei wie ein Fluß, der still die Nacht durchströmt. Geschichten
und Gedanken, S. 205, Diogenes Verlag, Zürich, 1. Auflage August 2006, 2016

Biologische Transformation am Beispiel eines verpuppten Raupenkörpers

In dem verpuppten Körper bilden sich Zellen, die die Wissenschaft 'Imagozellen' nennt. Imagozellen sind Schmetterlingszellen, welche in dem Raupenkörper entstehen und dort die Zukunft implantieren.
1. Natürlich werden sie [die Imagozellen] vom Immunsystem der Raupe als Fremdkörper angegriffen und vernichtet.
2. Da sich der Raupenkörper jedoch in zunehmender Desintegration befindet, hat es die zweite Generation der Imagozellen schon leichter. Aber auch sie werden noch von dem alten System attackiert, aber immerhin wissen die Eindringlinge jetzt, wie man die Immunzellen der Raupe so infiziert, dass sie selber Imagozellen hervorbringt.
3. Irgendwann schließen sich die bislang isolierten Imagozellen in Clustern zusammen und werden zu 'Inseln der Zukunft'. Dann fangen sie an, sich zu vernetzen und sich durch Zellstraßen zu verbinden. Zeitgleich wird der Raupenkörper immer instabiler.
4. Irgendwann kommt ein Moment, wo das Netzwerk die Nachricht an die Zukunftsinseln sendet, dass sie keine Raupe [Larve] mehr sind. Von diesem Augenblick an geht es rasend schnell. Es ist nur noch eine Frage der Zeit, bis aus einem wilden Zellhaufen ein Schmetterling erwächst, der eine völlig andere Realität vorfindet und dem andere Ebenen des Ausdrucks zur Verfügung stehen.

Dirk C. Fleck (*1943) freier deutscher Journalist, Autor, Angriff der Imago-Zellen, 13. Januar 2016, ursprünglich hier: Die vierte Macht. Spitzenjournalisten zu ihrer Verantwortung in Krisenzeiten, S. 45, Hoffmann und Campe Verlag, 1. Auflage 13. August 2012

Vier Phasen der Transformation – Fressen-Stagnieren-Auflösen-Erneuern

Raupenphase: Die Raupe frisst und wächst, indem sie das Umfeld in sich aufnimmt und integriert.
Verpuppungsphase: Chaotische Ereignisse treten auf, wobei die alten Strukturen immer mehr ins Stocken geraten
und sich aufzulösen beginnen.
Auflösungsphase: Im Zerstörungs- und Versuppungsvorgang tauchen bereits erste neue Ideen (Schmetterlingszel-
len) auf. Sie werden als fremd empfunden und erzeugen Widerstand vonseiten des alten bereits sterbenden Systems.
Aufbauphase: Die Konfrontation des Sterbenden, sich Verhärtenden, mit massenhaft neuen Konzepten erzeugt
einen "gesunden" Widerstand, der als Innendruck wahrgenommen wird. Letztlich baut er die Kraft auf, welche die sich
in Clustern verstärkenden Schmetterlingszellen brauchen und der später schlüpfende Schmetterling benötigt, um in
die Freiheit fliegen zu können.
Videovortrag von Mathias Forster (*1973) Schweizer Geschäftsführer der Bio-Stiftung, Autor, Die Metamorphose der Raupe zum Schmetterling, YouTube Film, 2:58 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 11. April 2023

Veränderungen die früher Jahrzehnte brauchten, benötigen heute weniger als ein Jahr.
Umso wichtiger ist es, Veränderung als einen permanenten und unvermeidlichen Aspekt des Lebens zu begreifen. Dalai Lama XIV. (Tenzin Gyatso) [Tanchu Dhondup] (*1935) tibetischer Mönch, geistliches Oberhaupt des tibetischen Buddhismus, Linienhalter der Gelug-Schule, Friedensnobelpreisträger, 1989, zitiert in: gelöschter Artikel Dalai Lama: Jeder muss handeln, Vorabdruck Teil II, präsentiert von dem deutschen Wirtschaftsmagazin Wirtschaftswoche, 3. Mai 2008

Man gelangt nicht immer nur dann zur Revolution, wenn eine schlimme Lage zur schlimmsten wird. Sehr oft ge-
schieht es, dass ein Volk, das die drückendsten Gesetze ohne Klage und gleichsam, als fühlte es sie nicht, ertra-
gen hatte, diese gewaltsam beseitigt, sobald ihre Last sich vermindert. Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) französischer Politiker, Historiker, Begründer der vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft, Publizist, Schriftsteller, J. P. Mayter, Herausgeber, Der alte Staat und die Revolution, PDF [1856; 1867], S. 219, Basel, 1950

Saskatoon-Schmetterling im Gras

Veränderung wird nur hervorgerufen durch aktives Handeln, nicht durch Meditation oder Beten allein. Dalai Lama XIV. (Tenzin Gyatso) [Tanchu Dhondup] (*1935) tibetischer Mönch, geistliches Oberhaupt des tibetischen Buddhismus, Linienhalter der Gelug-Schule, Friedensnobelpreisträger, 1989, zitiert in: Zitate von Dalai Lama, presented by 1000 Zitate

Der archimedische Punkt, von dem aus ich an meinem Ort die Welt bewegen kann, ist die Wandlung meiner selbst.
Martin Buber (1878-1965) österreichisch-israelischer jüdischer Religionsforscher und -philosoph, zitiert in: Gute Zitate

Der Gipfel des Wahnsinns ist es, auf Veränderungen zu hoffen, ohne etwas zu verändern. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) deutschstämmiger US-amerikanischer theoretischer Physiker, Entwickler der Allgemeinen Relativi-
tätstheorie, Nobelpreisträger in Physik, 1921, zitiert in: Zitate und kleine Weisheiten von Albert Einstein, präsentiert von der Webseite Zeitblüten

Die größte Entscheidung deines Lebens liegt darin, dass du dein Leben ändern kannst, indem du deine Geisteshaltung änderst.
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) deutsch-elsässischer evangelischer Theologe, Arzt, Philosoph, Humanist, Organist, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

Die größte Entscheidung deines Lebens liegt darin, dass du dein Leben ändern kannst, indem du deine Geisteshal-
tung änderst. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) deutsch-elsässischer evangelischer Theologe, Arzt, Philosoph, Humanist, Organist, zitiert in: Gute Zitate

Kareem van Gennip: Wie beurteilen Sie die gegenwärtige Situation in der Welt?
Stanislav Grof: Wir alle sehen, dass die Welt sich ziemlich schnell auf ein katastrophales Ende hin entwickelt. Alle Probleme sind im Grunde genommen Symptome einer grundlegenden Bewusstseins- und Wahrnehmungskrise. […] Ohne eine tiefgreifende innere Transformation ist eine radikale Lösung nicht möglich.
Interview mit Prof. Dr. Stanislav Grof (*1931) tschechisch-US-amerikanischer Psychiater, Psychotherapeut, Medizinphilosoph, Mitbegründer der transpersonalen Psychologie, Die Welt ist perfekt, präsentiert von der aufgelösten deutschen Publikation "Transpersonale Perspektiven", Kareem van Gennip, Heft 4/98, Logos-Verlag-Berlin, Juli 1998

Die Wirklichkeit, ob materiell oder geistig, ist scheinbar so konstruiert, dass jeder Aktion eine gleich starke Gegenre-
aktion folgt. […] Das Ziel der Gewaltfreiheit ist nicht der Sieg über einen Feind, sondern eine Verwandlung, die nur durch Liebe möglich ist. Diese Verwandlung kann uns selbst genauso verändern wie die Menschen, denen wir uns entgegenstellen. Prof. Walter Wink (1935-2012) US-amerikanischer Theologe, Bibelexege, Auburn Theological Seminary, New York City, Autor, Verwandlung der Mächte. Eine Theologie der Gewaltfreiheit, F. Pustet, aktualisierte Auflage 5. März 2018

Man ändert die Dinge nicht, indem man die existierende Realität bekämpft. Um etwas zu ändern, schaffe ein neues Modell, welches das existierende hinfällig macht. R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) US-amerikanischer Systemtheoretiker, Architekt, Ingenieur, Konstrukteur, Designer, Erfinder, Futurologe, Philosoph, Autor, zitiert in: Daniel Quinn (1935-2018) US-ameri-
kanischer Environmentalist, Kritiker der modernen Zivilisation, Schriftsteller, Beyond Civilization. Humanity's Next Great Adventure, Harmony Books, S. 137, 1999, Broadway Books, 7. November 2000

Drei Veränderungsdynamiken: Begeisterung ◊ Krise ◊ Einsicht

[Teilweise übertragener Text] Neben dem Zustand der Krise und dem Zustand der Verliebtheit (Begeisterung, Vision) gibt es den Zustand der Einsicht, gibt es deutlich die Reflexion. Diesen Teil der bewussten Entscheidung, Ja oder Nein zu sagen, haben wir immer. [...] Einsicht ist ein extrem mächtiger Hebel. Video Fragenbeantwortung zu den Ergebnissen der Studie "Wertewelt Gute Führung" (Nextpractice Forum) von Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse (1955-2015) deutscher Honorarprofessor für Allgemeine und Organisationspsychologie, Universität Bremen, Psychologe, Netzwerkforscher zur Komplexitätsverarbeitung in intelligenten Netzwerken und kohärenter Musterbildung, Geschäftsführer von Nextpractice, Unternehmensberater, Peter Kruse, Fragen & Antworten auf der Zukunft Personal, präsentiert von der Veranstaltung "Messe Zukunft Personal", 18. September 2013, YouTube Film, Minute 11:51, 24:46 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 19. September 2013

Eine Handvoll Tomaten, Ho Farms, Kahuku, Hawaii

So wie sie von den Astronauten vom Mond aus gesehen wird, fehlen der Erde die Linien soziopolitischer Abtrennung, die auf Landkarten so prominent erscheinen. Und so wie es hier unten aussieht, ist das Netz verflochtener sozioökono-
mischer Wechselwirkungen, das nun den Planeten umfasst, von ein und demselben Leben. Alles was nötig ist, ist ein allgemeiner Wandel der Sichtweise, um mit diesen zeitge-
nössischen Fakten in Einklang zu kommen.
Dr. Joseph Campbell (1904-1987) US-amerikanischer Mythologe, vergleichender Religionswissenschaftler, Autor, The Inner Reaches of Outer Space. Metaphor as Myth and as Religion (The Collected Works of Joseph Campbell), New World Library, 2. Ausgabe
Januar 2002

Radikale Veränderungen werden als Risiko empfunden, sie provozieren Ängste, und Ängste bauen Feindschaften und Sprachlosigkeit auf. Eine moralpsychologisch stabile Gesellschaft braucht beide Enden des Spektrums, links und rechts, wie Yin und Yang. Bedenklich wird es, wenn die Polarisierung so stark zunimmt, dass die Brücken abgebrochen werden, dass die beiden Lager einander gar nicht mehr verstehen. Moral hält nicht nur zusammen, sie kann auch blind machen gegen den anderen. Interview mit Dr. Jonathan Haidt (*1963) US-amerikanischer Professor für Sozial-, Kultur-, Moralpsychologie und ethisches Führungswissen, New York University Stern School of Business, Autor, "Wir reiten auf einem Elefanten." Der amerikanische Psychologieprofessor Jonathan Haidt erklärt die moralischen Grundlagen der Politik und die unterschiedlichen Werte von Rechten und Linken., präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin Der Spiegel, Ausgabe 2, Gastgeber und Redakteur Romain Leick, 7. Januar 2013

Systemwandel – Geschichte vom Hundertsten Affen

Sheldrakes menschliches morphisches Feld und C. G. Jungs kollektives Unbewusstes sind im Prinzip identisch. Wenn eine kritische Anzahl von Menschen ihre Wahrnehmungen und ihr Verhalten ändert, schlägt sich das als neue Option oder neues Muster in der kollektiven Psyche nieder. Jeder Mensch kann dazu beitragen oder daraus Nutzen ziehen.
In der sinnbildlichen Geschichte vom Hundertsten Affen ist die Rede von einer Äffin, durch die das System umkipp-
te. Nachdem sie ein neues Verhalten gelernt hatte, änderten die anderen Affen (in der näheren und ferneren Umge-
bung) auf einmal ebenfalls ihr Verhalten, auch wenn sie nicht in direkter Verbindung miteinander standen. Sobald eine
kritische Masse erreicht wurde, übertragen sich gemäß dieser Theorie die neuen Einstellungen und Verhaltensweisen
ohne äußeres Zutun auf die ganze Spezies. Diese Gesetzmäßigkeit lässt sich entweder anhand der untersuchten Bei-
spiele herleiten oder intuitiv erfassen. Dr. med. Jean Shinoda Bolen (*1936) US-amerikanische Jungsche Analytikerin, Frauenforscherin, weise Frau, spirituelle Lehrerin, Autorin, Newsletter "Prophets Great List", 31. Mai 2003

Man weiß nie, was daraus wird, wenn die Dinge verändert werden. Aber weiß man denn, was daraus wird, wenn sie nicht verändert werden? Elias Canetti (1905-1994) schweizerisch-britischer Aphoristiker bulgarischer Herkunft, Schriftsteller, Literaturnobelpreisträger, 1981, zitiert in: Gute Zitate

Aufgrund von Interventionen bei Beziehungen zwischen Menschen wissen wir, dass, wenn man einen Menschen ver-
ändern will, durchaus eine Veränderung erreicht werden kann, im Allgemeinen aber nicht die, die man beabsichtigt hatte.
Eine Intervention wirkt als Störimpuls, der oft individuell auf selbständige und freie Weise weiterverarbeitet wird. Detlef Linke (1945-2005) deutscher Hirnforscher, Autor Religion als Risiko. Geist, Glaube und Gehirn, Rowohlt Taschen-
buch Verlag 2. Januar 2003

Irregeleitete Zerstörung des Egos

Alternativ: Aufsatz Being Somebody and Being Nobody: A re-examination of the Understanding of Self in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism., zitiert in: Jeremy D. Safran, Herausgeber, Psychoanalysis and Buddhism. An Unfolding Dialogue, S. 35-79, first published by Wisdom Publications, Boston, 15. June 2003

Man muss zunächst Jemand sein, bevor man Niemand sein kann. Der Versuch, die mit der eigenen Entwicklung verbundenen Aufgaben der Identitäts-
bildung und der Bildung einer beständigen Objektbeziehung durch den irregelei-
teten Versuch zu umgehen, das "Ego zu zerstören", ist unangebracht und hat verhängnisvolle und pathologische Konsequenzen. Viele Studenten, die sich von der Praxis der Meditation angezogen fühlen, und sogar einige Meditationslehrer scheinen genau dies zu versuchen. Sowohl aus der klinischen Perspektive als auch aus der Perspektive der Meditation mangelt es dabei an einer Entwicklungs-
psychologie, die das vollständige Spektrum von Entwicklung umfasst. Sowohl ein Empfinden für das Selbst als auch ein Empfinden für das Nicht-Selbst scheinen – in dieser Reihenfolge – für die Verwirklichung eines Zustandes optimalen psychologischen Wohlbefindens notwendig
zu sein, den Freud als eine "ideale Fiktion" bezeichnete und den Buddha lange zuvor als "das Ende des Leidens" –
das Einzige, was er lehrte – beschrieben hatte.
Essay von Dr. John H. Engler, US-amerikanischer klinischer Psychologe, transpersonaler Theoretiker, Meditationslehrer, Autor, Being Somebody and Being Nobody: A re-examination of the Understanding of Self in Psychoanalysis and Buddhism, zitiert in: Jeremy D. Safran, Herausgeber, Psychoanalysis and Buddhism. An Unfolding Dialogue, S. 35-79, Wisdom Publications, Boston, 15. Juni 2003

Nachdem die Raupe ihren Kokon gebaut hat, bilden sich neue Larvenzellen, die "imaginäre Zellen" genannt werden.
Sie schwingen auf einer anderen Frequenz. Sie unterscheiden sich so sehr von den Raupenzellen, dass ihr Immun-
system [gemeint ist das Immunsystem des Wurms] diese neuen imaginalen Zellen] für Feinde hält [...] und sie ver-
schlingt [...]. Diese neuen imaginalen Zellen tauchen jedoch immer wieder auf! Es bilden sich immer mehr davon.
Schon bald ist das Immunsystem der Raupe außerstande, sie schnell genug vernichten. Folglich überleben immer
mehr der imaginalen Zellen.
Alsdann geschieht etwas Erstaunliches! Die winzigen, vereinzelten imaginalen Zellen beginnen, sich zu befreundeten Kleingruppen zusammenzuschließen. Sie schwingen alle gemeinsam auf der gleichen Frequenz und übermitteln Informationen an andere weiter. Nach einer Weile geschieht etwas Erstaunliches! Die imaginalen Zellklumpen beginnen, sich zu gruppieren! [...] und bilden eine lange Kette von sich verklumpenden und sich anhäufenden imaginalen Zellen, die alle auf der gleichen Frequenz schwingen und im Inneren der Larve Informationen von einem Zellhaufen zum anderen weitergeben. [...]
Zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt wird der gesamten ellenlangen Kette von imaginalen Zellen auf einmal klar, dass sie alle zusammen ETWAS sind. Etwas anders als die Raupe. Etwas Neues, etwas Wunderbares! [...] Auf diese Erkenntnis folgt der Geburtsschrei des Schmetterlings. [...]
Jede neue Schmetterlingszelle kann eine andere Aufgabe übernehmen. Es gibt für jeden etwas zu tun, und jeder ist wichtig. Jede Zelle beginnt, genau das zu tun, wozu sie sich am meisten hingezogen fühlt. Und alle anderen Zelle ermutigen sie, genau das zu tun. Es ist eine großartige Vorgehensweise, einen Schmetterling zu organisieren! Und obendrein eine großartige Vorgehensweise, eine ganze Schmetterlingsbewegung zu organisieren!
Norie Huddle (*1944) US-amerikanische Autorin, Butterfly, Huddle Books, 1. Auflage, Erdtag im April 1990

Es gibt Zeiten, wo wir uns entweder verändern müssen, verändern sollen oder verändern können, und das ist der Moment, wo wir uns mit Homöostase auseinandersetzen müssen. Interview mit George Leonard (1923-2010) US-ameri-
kanischer Lehrer zum Thema Human Potential, Ehrenpräsident des Esalen Instituts, Kalifornien, Herausgeber, Autor, Wenn Sie sich nicht verändern, haben Sie nichts gelernt, präsentiert von dem deutschen Magazin "Was ist Erleuchtung? (WIE)", Craig Hamilton,
US-amerikanischer Chefredakteur des aufgelösten Magains WIE (1998-12/2006), Heft 9, 2002/2003

Wenn nun statt der Genetik die Noetik die Veränderungen in der Evolution bestimmt, und ich glaube, das ist ab
jetzt der Fall, und mit dem Potenzial, das wir haben, um Informationen über die Massenkommunikationsmittel und Technologien zu verbreiten, übernehmen wir an diesem Punkt tatsächlich die Kontrolle über unsere eigene Evolution. Wir haben die Möglichkeit, Informationen zum Zweck der Transformation zu verbreiten. Und ich bin voller Hoffnung, dass sich dieser Wandel nicht nur weiter fortsetzt, sondern sogar beschleunigt. Aber selbst wenn dem so ist, werden doch noch mehrere hundert Jahre vergehen, ehe Homo noeticus die wirklich dominante Lebensform wird. Allerdings sollten wir nicht denken, dass es weitere dreihundert Jahre dauern wird, ehe wir uns um all die globalen Krisensitua-
tionen kümmern, denen wir uns gegenübersehen. Ein transformiertes Wesen in der Welt kann Hunderte, ja Tausende beeinflussen. Interview mit George Leonard (1923-2010) US-amerikanischer Autor, Herausgeber, Lehrer zum
Thema Human Potential, Ehrenpräsident des Esalen Instituts, Kalifornien, Wenn Sie sich nicht verändern, haben Sie nichts gelernt, präsentiert von dem deutschen Magazin "Was ist Erleuchtung? (WIE)", Craig Hamilton, US-amerikanischer Chefredakteur des aufgelösten Magains WIE (1998-12/2006), Heft 9, 2003

Schwalbenschwanz-Schmetterling

Ein Krieger des Lichts glaubt. Weil er an Wunder glaubt, geschehen auch Wunder. Weil er sich sicher ist, dass seine Gedanken sein Leben verändern können, verändert sich sein Leben. Weil er sicher ist, dass er der Liebe begegnen wird, begegnet ihm diese Liebe auch. Manchmal wird er enttäuscht, manchmal verletzt. Aber er weiß, dass es sich lohnt. Für jede Niederlage gibt es zwei Siege. Alle die glauben, wissen das.
Paulo Coelho (*1947) brasilianischer esoterischer Erfolgsautor, Handbuch des Kriegers des Lichts, Umschlagtext, Diogenes Verlag, 11. Auflage März 2001

Jede aussichtsreiche Verände-
rung, jeder Sprung auf eine höhere Energieebene und in ein erweitertes Bewusstsein, beinhaltet einen Übergangsritus. Jedes Mal, wenn wir eine höhere Sprosse auf der Leiter der persönlichen Entwicklung erklimmen, müssen wir eine schwierige Phase der Initiation durchlaufen. Mir ist bisher noch keine Ausnahme begegnet.
Dan Millman (*1946) US-amerikanischer Trampolin-Spitzensportler, Kampfsportlehrer, College-Professor, spiritueller Lehrer, Autor, zitiert in: Artikel (engl.) The Green Level of Existence – Where Organizations Go to Die (part 1), präsentiert von dem Blogspot New Thought Evolutionary, 8. Juni 2017

Hege nie Zweifel daran, dass eine kleine Gruppe aufmerksamer und engagierter Bürger die Welt verändern können. Tatsächlich sind es die einzigen, welche es überhaupt je getan haben.
Zugeschrieben Margaret Mead (1901-1978) US-amerikanische Kulturanthropologin, Soziologin, Biologin, Ethnologin, Referentin, Schriftstellerin, zitiert in: Frank G. Sommers, Tana Dineen, Curing Nuclear Madness, S. 158, Methuen, 1984

Gewaltloser ziviler Ungehorsam

Fortschritt entsteht nur dann, wenn man "intelligent" gegen die Regeln verstößt. Boleslaw Barlog (1906-1999) deutscher Regisseur, Theaterintendant, zitiert in: Zitate Führung, präsentiert von mehr-führen.de

Reife Erdbeeren auf dem Markt

Tiefgreifende Veränderungen anstreben, heißt, Lösungen zu suchen, die v e r l e t z l i c h machen – und genau das lehnen die meisten Menschen ab. [...] Paradoxerweise wirkt genau das, was scheinbar zu nichts führt. [...] Die Ermutigung, sich anderen Menschen gegenüber verletzlich zu zeigen, bietet einen Ausweg aus der Scham. Dr. Patrick Carnes (*1944) führender US-amerikanischer Sexsuchtexperte und -therapeut, Minneapolis, Autor, Wenn Sex zur Sucht wird, S. 254, Kösel, München, 1992

Wer auf Konkurrenz und Abgrenzung gepolt bleiben will, wird – so paradox es heute noch klingen mag – bald nicht mehr wettbewerbsfähig sein. Er wird einfach als eine Art Auslauf-
modell von der Evolution überholt werden. Die Vorboten davon sind überall sichtbar. [...] Stellen wir uns eine Menschheit vor, die sich wie ein OrganisAuslaufmodell vonmus fühlt und deren höchstes und vitalstes Interesse es deswegen ist, für das gemeinsame Wohl dieses Organismus zu sorgen. Ich weiß, wir sind noch nicht so weit, und der Gedanke wirkt ein bisschen träumerisch. Aber der Zusammenschluss von einfach-
eren zu komplexeren Systemen war schon immer ein Leitfaden der Evolution. Und die Entwicklungsgeschwindigkeit scheint sich in der heutigen Zeit zu potenzieren. Francois Michael Wiesmann, deutscher Ethnologe, Orientalist, Psychologe, Autor, zitiert in: Artikel, präsentiert von der aufgelösten Zeitschrift "Kurskontakte", Ausgabe 155, 2008

Lehrsätze und Erkenntnisse zur Katalyse

Katalyse ist die Beschleunigung eines langsam verlaufenden chemischen Vorgangs durch die Gegenwart eines fremden Stoffes. Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) baltisch-deutscher Professor für Chemie, Nobelpreisträger für die Erfindung
der Katalyse, 1909, Über Katalyse, präsentiert von der Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, Band 15, S. 705-706, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1894

Ein Katalysator ist jeder Stoff, der, ohne im Endprodukt einer chemischen Reaktion zu erscheinen, ihre Geschwin-
digkeit verändert. Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) baltisch-deutscher Professor für Chemie, Nobelpreisträger für die Erfindung
der Katalyse, 1909, Über Katalyse, präsentiert von der Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, Band 7, S. 995-1004, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1901

Wir haben es also hier [bei der Nutzung der Kohlevorräte] mit einem Anteil unserer Energiewirtschaft zu tun, der
sich etwa wie eine unverhoffte Erbschaft verhält, welche den Erben veranlaßt, die Grundsätze einer dauerhaften Wirtschaft vorläufig aus den Augen zu setzen, und in den Tag hinein zu leben. [...] Die dauerhafte Wirtschaft muß ausschließlich auf die regelmäßige Benutzung der jährlichen Strahlungsenergie begründet werden.
Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932) baltisch-deutscher Professor für Chemie, Nobelpreisträger für die Erfindung der Katalyse, 1909,
Die rohen Energien, Dritte Vorlesung, zitiert in: "Energetische Grundlagen der Kulturwissenschaft", S. 44, Internet Archive, Verlag
von Dr. Werner Klinkhardt, Leipzig, 1909

Du bist der Prozess: Evolutionäre Philosophie und evolutionäre Spiritualität basieren auf der Erkenntnis, dass wir Teil eines wunderbaren Prozesses sind, der seit Milliarden von Jahren existiert und sich ständig entwickelt hat. Dadurch erkennen wir, dass unsere eigene persönliche Erfahrung dieses Prozesses in seinen vielen inneren und äußeren, gröberen und subtileren Dimensionen lediglich ein sehr kleiner Teil eines unendlichen Entwicklungsprozesses ist. Gedanken und Gefühle, die im individuellen Bewusstsein auftauchen, reflektieren emotionale und psychologische Strukturen oder Gewohnheiten, die sich langsam über Jahrtausende hinweg entwickelt haben.
⚡ Andrew Cohen (*1955) abgedankter US-amerikanischer Guru (1986-2013), Musiker, Gründer und Herausgeber des aufgelösten Magazins "Was ist Erleuchtung? (WIE)", Quelle unbekannt

Manche Menschen interpretieren das Wort Prozess als etwas Unmenschliches. Aber es ist in Wirklichkeit genau das Gegenteil. Ich verstehe diesen Prozess nicht in einem flachen, mechanischen und materialistischen Sinn. Dieser Prozess ist lebendig. Du bist es. Du bist der Prozess. Diese Veränderung der Perspektive ist so bedeutend, da du beginnst, dein eigenes Selbstgefühl als Teil eines gewaltigen, sich entfaltenden Entwicklungsstromes zu sehen. Dein Verständnis, was es bedeutet ein menschliches Wesen zu sein, erweitert sich nahezu ins Unendliche. Du beginnst, deine eigene Menschlichkeit und dein Potenzial für eine größere Menschlichkeit als Ergebnis dieses Prozesses zu verstehen – als ein dem Prozess innewohnender Teil und, soweit uns bekannt ist, der am weitesten entwickelte Aus-
druck dieses Prozesses. Dadurch vergrößert und erweitert eine evolutionäre Spiritualität dein Verständnis, was es bedeutet ein Mensch zu sein, nahezu ins Unendliche. ⚡ Andrew Cohen (*1955) abgedankter US-amerikanischer Guru (1986-2013), Musiker, Gründer und Herausgeber des aufgelösten Magazins "Was ist Erleuchtung? (WIE)", Quelle unbekannt

Weitaus die meisten Politiker halten es nicht für ihre Sache, an Bewusstseinsveränderungen mitzuwirken; sie werden aber immer da sein, wo die Mehrheit ist. Erhard Eppler (1926-2019) deutscher Politiker ehemals der SPD, Bundesminister für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit (1968-1974), referenziert in: Gesine Schwan über Erhard Eppler: "Er ist nicht müde geworden", präsentiert von der Parteizeitung der Sozialdemokratischen Partei Deutschlands Vorwärts, Gesine Schwan, 22. Oktober 2019

Wer sich selbst verändert, ändert die Welt. Es gibt an dieser Welt nichts zu verbessern, aber sehr viel an sich selbst. Thorwald Dethlefsen (1946-2010) deutscher esoterischer Autor, Schicksal als Chance. Das Urwissen zur Vollkommenheit des Menschen, Goldmann Verlag, 49. Auflage 1. Dezember 1980

Wandel ist die Triebfeder des Fortschritts.
Bericht von Prof. Dr. Willy Xylander (*1955) deutscher Zoologe, Staatliches Museum für Naturheilkunde, Görlitz, Sachsen, 2008

Referenz: de.Wikiquote-Eintrag ► Veränderung

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Es gibt viele Dinge, die du heute tust, die dir vor zehn Jahren verrückt erschienen wären. Die Dinge selbst haben sich nicht verändert; was vorher unmöglich war, ist jetzt ohne weiteres möglich, und vielleicht ist es nur eine Frage der Zeit, wann es gelingt, dich vollkommen zu ändern. ⚡ Carlos Castaneda (1925-1998) peruanischer US-amerika-
nischer Anthropologe, Diplomat, Miterfinder der Bewegungslehre Tensegrity, Autor einer autobiografischen Buchserie über die Lehren des Don Juan Matus (zaubernder Yaqui-Indianer), Figur Don Juan in Roman Die Lehren des Don Juan, zitiert in: Lothar-Rüdiger Lütge, Carlos Castaneda und die Lehren des Don Juan, S. 119, Books on Demand, Norderstedt, 1984/2008

Sieh meine Gärten, in denen meine Gärtner im Morgengrauen darangehen, den Frühling zu erschaffen; sie streiten sich nicht um die Blumen, ihre Stempel und Kronen, sie säen die Samenkörner. Und so sage ich euch, den Verzagten, den Unglücklichen, den Geschlagenen: Ihr seid das Heer eines Sieges! Denn ihr beginnt in diesem Augenblick, und es ist schön, so jung zu sein. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) französischer Pilot, Schriftsteller, posthumes Werk Die Stadt in der Wüste [Citadelle, 1948], S. 40, Karl Rauch Verlag, Düsseldorf, 1951, 2002

Die Technik entwickelt sich vom Primitiven über das Komplizierte zum Einfachen.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944) französischer Pilot, Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Polyas Blog

Es passiert nicht auf einmal. Du wirst ganz allmählich Du selbst, und das braucht Zeit. Manchmal, wenn du echt bist, macht es dir nichts aus, verletzt zu werden. Margery Williams Bianco (1881-1944) englisch-US-amerikanische Kinderbuchau-
torin, Figur Skin Horse in Kinderbuch The Velveteen Rabbit, George H. Doran Company, 1922

"Wie wird man zu einem Schmetterling?", fragte Pu der Bär nachdenklich.
"Du musst so sehr fliegen wollen, dass du bereit bist, dein Raupenleben aufzugeben", antwortete das Schweinchen.
"Meinst du etwa, dass man sterben muss?", fragte Pu, der Bär.
"Ja und nein", antwortete das Schweinchen.
"Das, was so aussieht wie du, wird sterben, doch das, was du wirklich bist, wird weiterleben."

Alan Alexander Milne [A. A.] (1882-1956) englischer Schriftsteller, Kinderbuchautor der Geschichtensammlung Pu der Bär,
Methuen & Co., London, 1926

Wenn der Sturm vorbei ist, wirst du dich kaum noch daran erinnern, wie du ihn überstanden hast, wie du überleben konntest. Du kannst nicht einmal sicher sein, ob der Sturm wirklich vorbei ist. Eines aber ist gewiss: Wenn du aus dem Sturm herauskommst, wirst du nicht mehr derselbe Mensch sein als der du hineingegangen bist. Genau das ist es, worum es bei diesem Sturm geht. Haruki Murakami (*1949) japanischer Schriftsteller, Roman Kafka am Strand, Shinchōsha, 12. September 2002, deutsche Übersetzung Dumont Verlag, 2004

Filmzitate

Veränderung ist keine Wahl, sie passiert einfach. Zitat aus dem US-amerikanisches Filmdrama Adaption, gesprochen von Hauptfigur Meryl Streep (*1949) US-amerikanische Schauspielerin, 2002

Gebet

Gott, gib mir
die Gelassenheit, Dinge hinzunehmen, die ich nicht ändern kann,
den Mut, Dinge zu ändern, die ich ändern kann, und
die Weisheit, das eine vom anderen zu unterscheiden.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) US-amerikanischer Theologe, Philosoph, Politologe, entstanden 1941-1942; zitiert in: Gelassenheitsgebet, Standardgebet bei den Treffen der Anonymen Alkoholiker (AA) Selbsthilfegruppen

Zitate von David R. Hawkins

⚠ Achtung Siehe Power vs. Truth (engl.) Januar 2013

Die Massennegativität bezieht ihr Gleichgewicht immer noch von der kleinen Minderheit der Bevölkerung, die auf sehr hohen Frequenzen schwingt. Diese reicht aus, um das Gegengewicht zu der brutalen Negativität der Massen
zu bilden, die ohne solch ein Gegengewicht zur Zerstörung der Menschheit führen würde.
⚡ Dr. David Hawkins, FU Das All-sehende Auge, S. 427, 2005

Nur eine Minderheit von Menschen bemüht sich um Selbstverbesserung oder persönliche Weiterentwicklung. Das liegt daran, ungeachtet dessen, wie selbstkritisch man ist, dass man insgeheim glaubt, dass der eigene Weg richtig und wahrscheinlich der einzig richtige Weg sei. Sie finden sich in Ordnung, so wie sie sind, und glauben, dass alle Probleme durch den Egoismus, die Unbilligkeit anderer und durch die äußere Welt verursacht werden.
⚡ Dr. David Hawkins, FU Das All-sehende Auge, 2005 und Licht des Alls. Die Wirklichkeit des Göttlichen, 2006

Buchtipp zu Gipfelerfahrungen

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) US-amerikanischer transpersonaler Psychologe, Glücksforscher, Religious Aspects of Peak Experiences, Harper & Row, New York, 1970, Religions, Values, and Peak-Experiences, Penguin, April 1994

Buchtipp zu kleinen Schritten:

Malcolm Gladwell (*1963) kanadischer Historiker, Soziologe, Unternehmensberater, Referent, Journalist, Autor, Der Tipping Point. Wie kleine Dinge Großes bewirken können, Goldmann, München, Oktober 2002

[...] Schüler können entweder durch Inspiration oder durch kraftvolle Erfahrungen motiviert werden, die transformierend wirken und den Prozess bewusst gewählten spirituellen Fortschritts und seiner Entwicklung anstoßen. Diese können als plötz-
liche "Gipfelerfahrungen" auftreten, jedoch auch als Verschiebung von Kontext und Wahrnehmung durch kleine wichtige Schritte. Der inspirierte Lernende wird dann von diesen Möglichkeiten angezogen, und der Fokus des Interesses richtet sich auf die praktische Anwendung spiritueller Prozesse im täglichen Leben.
⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, Erleuchtung ist möglich. Wie man die Ebenen des Bewusstseins durchschreitet, S. 384-385, 2007

Alles geschieht spontan aus sich selbst heraus, als eine Folge des Potentials, das als Wirklichkeit auftaucht. Demnach sieht man keine Veränderung, sondern Emergenz. [...] Phänomene kommen und gehen, während sich Potentiale verwirk-
lichen, [...] sofern die örtlichen Gegebenheiten günstig sind. [...]
Mithilfe der Intention können wir beeinflussen, dass Potentiale als Wirklich-
keit auftauchen. Die bloße Absicht, [...] sich spirituell weiterzuentwickeln, ist bereits sehr machtvoll. [...]
Wie steht es mit der Bewusstseinsstufe des Beobachters? Es könnte sein, dass das Bewusstseinsniveau mancher Personen nicht hinreichend stark ausgeprägt ist, um das Ergebnis sehr nachhaltig zu beeinflussen. Ist hingegen die Bewusstseinsebene anderer Menschen stark mit Wirkmacht geladen, könnten sie den Ausgang sehr nachhaltig be-
stimmen. Gelöschtes Q&A Audiointerview (engl.) mit ⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, ACIM talk – November 10th 2005, präsentiert von
dem aufgelösten US-amerikanischen EKiW Webradiosender Miracles Center, Sedona, Arizona, Pal Talk #1, Gastgeberin Ellen Suther-
land, gesendet 10. November 2005, YouTube film, 54:46 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 28. März 2011

Zitate zum Thema Mehrheiten ⇔ Minderheiten

Du sollst dich nicht der Mehrheit anschließen, wenn sie im Unrecht ist, und sollst in einem Rechtsverfahren
nicht so aussagen, dass du dich der Mehrheit fügst und das Recht beugst. Exodus 23, 2 (AT)

Die Welt lässt sich nicht verbessern, wenn alle blind der Mehrheit folgen. Es braucht Menschen, die den Mut haben scheinbar Unumstössliches infrage zu stellen, die sich trauen, Autoritäten anzuzweifeln und ihren eigenen Verstand
zu gebrauchen. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) indischer Weiser, spiritueller Führer der indischen Unab-
hängigkeitsbewegung, Menschenrechtsanwalt, gewaltloser Widerstandskämpfer zur Durchsetzung politischer Ziele, humanistischer Weiser, asketischer Morallehrer, Pazifist, Publizist, zitiert in: yoice.net

Man muss das Wahre immer wiederholen, weil auch der Irrtum um uns herum immer wieder gepredigt wird, und
zwar nicht von einzelnen, sondern von der Masse. In Zeitungen und Enzyklopädien, auf Schulen und Universitä-
ten, überall ist der Irrtum oben auf, und es ist ihm wohl und behaglich, im Gefühl der Majorität, die auf seiner Sei-
te ist. Oft lehret man auch Wahrheit und Irrtum zugleich, und hält sich an letzteren.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) deutscher Universalgelehrter, Bühnendichter, Schriftsteller, zitiert in: Johann Peter Eckermann (1792-1854) deutscher Dichter, Fritz Bergemann, Herausgeber, Eckermann. Gespräche mit Goethe in den letzten
Jahren seines Lebens, Brockhaus, Leipzig, 1836, Insel Verlag, 11. Auflage 4. Juli 1981, Deutscher Klassiker Verlag, Berlin 2011

Die Massen in Bewegung zu setzen, braucht's nur der Phrase eines Dummkopfs.
Wie lange braucht der kluge Mann, um nur einen einzigen zu seiner Meinung zu bekehren.
Wilhelm Raabe [Jacob Corvinus] (1831-1910) deutscher Erzähler, Romanschriftsteller des poetischen Realismus, Gedanken und Einfälle, Sämtliche Werke, Band 6, Berlin-Grunewald, 1920; zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

Die physikalische Forschung hat klipp und klar bewiesen, dass zum mindesten für die erdrückende Mehrheit
der Erscheinungsabläufe, deren Regelmäßigkeit und Beständigkeit zur Aufstellung eines Postulats der allge-
meinen Kausalität geführt haben, die gemeinsame Wurzel der beobachteten strengen Gesetzmäßigkeiten –
der ZUFALL ist. Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) österreichischer Physiker, Wissenschaftstheoretiker, Nobelpreisträger für Phy-
sik, 1933, Amtsantrittsrede Was ist ein Naturgesetz?, Zürich, Schweiz, 1922, zitiert in: Manfred Eigen, Ruthild Winkler, Das Spiel.
Naturgesetze steuern den Zufall, München, 1985

Der Irrsinn ist bei Einzelnen etwas Seltenes – aber bei Gruppen, Parteien, Völkern, Zeiten die Regel.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) deutscher klassischer Gelehrter, Kulturkritiker, Philologe, Philosoph des Nihilismus, Schriftsteller, Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft, Viertes Hauptstück. Sprüche und Zwischenspiele, 156, C. G. Naumann, Leipzig, 1886

Rosskastanien

Alles, was das Böse benötigt, um zu triumphieren, ist das
Schweigen der Mehrheit.
Kofi Annan (1938-2018) ghanaischer Diplomat, siebter Generalse-
kretär der Vereinten Nationen (1997-2006), Friedensnobelpreisträger, 2001, Rede auf der Sondersitzung der Vollversammlung der Vereinten Nationen (UNO), 24. Januar 2005, zitiert in: Artikel "Das Schweigen der Mehrheit ermöglichte Auschwitz", präsentiert von dem deutschen Nachrichtenmagazin Spiegel Online, 24. Januar 2005

Transformation geht weder automatisch noch ist sie 'leicht' […] Der Weg der Transformation kann in einer Weise schmerzhaft sein, die Sie weder wünschen noch erwarten. […] Falls sich eine signi-
fikante Minderheit von Menschen in einer Gesellschaft be-
wusst und konstruktiv auf […] die Suche [nach Transformation] macht, könnten wir etwas Neues auf dieser Welt zu sehen bekommen: eines jener Ereignisse, das durch nichts Voran-
gegangenes adäquat vorhergesagt werden kann.
Michael Murphy (*1930) US-amerikanischer Mitbegründer des Esalen-Instituts, Kalifornien, Pionier der Human Potential Bewegung, Mitglied des Integral Institute, Herausgeber, Autor, George Leonard (1923-2010) US-amerikanischer Lehrer zum Thema Human Potential, Ehrenpräsident des Esalen Instituts, Kalifornien, Herausgeber, Autor, The Life We Are Given. A Long-term Program for Realizing the Potential of Body, Mind, Heart, and Soul, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1. Auflage 1. Januar 1995

Die Wahrheit ist immer in der Minderheit. Und die Minderheit ist immer stärker als die Mehrheit, weil sich im Allge-
meinen jene in der Minderheit befinden, die wirklich eine Haltung einnehmen, wohingegen die Stärke einer Mehrheit Täuschung ist. Sie bildet sich aus Gruppierungen, die keine Meinung vertreten – und deshalb, sobald es offenbar
wird, dass die Minderheit stärker ist, augenblicklich deren Auffassung übernehmen [...]. Währenddessen gesellt sich
die Wahrheit wiederum zu einer neuen Minderheit.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) dänischer existentialistischer Philosoph, Theologe, Schriftsteller, Theodor Haecker, Übersetzer,
Die Tagebücher (1834-1855) in zwei Bänden, 1850, S. 203, Brenner-Verlag 1923

Es gibt eine Anschauung vom Leben, welche meint, dass da, wo die Menge ist, auch die Wahrheit sei, dass es der Wahrheit selber ein Bedürfnis sei, die Menge für sich zu haben.
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) dänischer existentialistischer Philosoph, Theologe, Schriftsteller, Eduard Geismar, Übersetzer, Herausgeber, Religion der Tat. Kierkegaards Werk in Auswahl, Alfred Kröner Verlag, Leipzig [1930] 1952, Severus Verlag, 1. September 2013, Taschenbuchausgabe 1. April 2016

›Würde‹ soll nicht auf dem Treibsand von Übereinkünften und wechselnden Mehrheiten gründen. Beim Hitlerismus
hat es sich ja gezeigt, dass es möglich ist, einer bestimmten Kategorie von Menschen diese Würde abzusprechen
und sie wie Ungeziefer auszurotten. Und es hat sich weiterhin gezeigt, dass man dafür in einer modernen Gesell-
schaft sogar Mehrheiten mobilisieren und einen hochkomplizierten Gesellschaftsmechanismus als Instrument ein-
setzen kann. Menschenwürde also gibt es nicht, sondern sie gilt. Und nur solange und wo sie gilt, gibt es
sie auch. Wenn das Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik die Würde des Menschen »unantastbar« nennt und sie
ausdrücklich nicht einer demokratischen Mehrheitsentscheidung anheimstellt –, dann ist das ein Versuch, in einer
säkularen Welt ein heiliges Tabu zu errichten. Rüdiger Safranski (*1945) deutscher Philosoph, Schriftsteller, Das Böse
oder Das Drama der Freiheit, Hanser, München, 1997, Fischer Taschenbuch, 10. Auflage 1. Februar 1999

Wir kommen nicht mit Menschenwürde ausgestattet auf die Welt. Menschenwürde gibt es nicht einfach so, sie gilt. Und wenn das Grundgesetz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland die Würde des Menschen für unantastbar erklärt und sie ausdrücklich keiner demokratischen Mehrheitsentscheidung unterstellt, dann versucht man damit, in einer säkularen
Welt ein Tabu aufzustellen. Eine gesellschaftliche Entscheidung wird in etwas verwandelt, was in Zukunft der gesell-
schaftlichen Entscheidung entzogen bleiben soll. Interview mit Rüdiger Safranski (*1945) deutscher Philosoph, Autor von
Das Böse oder Das Drama der Freiheit, Warum sind Menschen böse?, präsentiert von dem Schweizer Monatsmagazin der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung NZZ Folio, Ursula von Arx, Oktober 1997

Die Mehrheit der gewöhnlichen Bevölkerung versteht nicht, was wirklich geschieht. Und sie versteht noch nicht einmal, dass sie es nicht versteht!
Noam Chomsky (*1928) US-amerikanischer Professor für Linguistik, Kognitionswissenschaftler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), sozialer Aktivist, Autor, zitiert in: Zitate berühmter Personen

Soziologie – Die Assimilierung von gesellschaftlichen Minderhei-
ten wird erfüllt sein. Ergebnis des Zukunftsvorausschau-Projekts 2050 unter Leitung von Dr. Stephan A. Schwartz, US-amerikanischer
Kognitionswissenschaftler, Trend- und Zukunftsforscher, Samueli Institute, Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Autor, Project 2050 – Remote Viewing Experiment – Zukunftsvorausschau 1978-2050

In der Masse sinkt der Verstand mit der Anzahl der Ver-
sammelten. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsy-
chologe, Soziologe, Begründer der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Übersetzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

Der Einzelne gibt in der Massensituation sein individuelles Bewusstsein auf zu Gunsten des Massenbewusstseins
und lässt seine Handlungen davon leiten. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsychologe, Soziologe, Begründer
der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Übersetzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

In der Masse verliert der Einzelne seine Kritikfähigkeit, sagt oder tut Dinge, die er als Einzelner ablehnen würde.
Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsychologe, Soziologe, Begründer der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Über-
setzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

In der Massensituation kommt es in der Regel zur psychischen Ansteckung und der Einzelne neigt zu einem affek-
tiven, primitiv barbarischen Verhalten. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsychologe, Soziologe, Begründer
der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Übersetzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

Gefühle, Moral und geistiges Niveau können im Massenkollektiv höher oder niedriger sein als beim Einzelnen.
Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsychologe, Soziologe, Begründer der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Über-
setzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

Beim Aufzählen der Faktoren, die imstande sind, Massenseelen zu erregen, kann man sich die Erwähnung der Vernunft sparen. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsychologe, Soziologe, Begründer der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Übersetzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

Die Masse ist durch logische Beweise nicht zu be-
einflussen […]. Es ist die einfache Behauptung ohne jeder Begründung ein sicheres Mittel, um ihr eine Idee einzuflössen. Intelligenz ist als Massenphänomen unmöglich.
Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsy-
chologe, Soziologe, Begründer der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Übersetzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

Noch nie haben Massen nach Wahrheit gedürstet. Von den Tatsachen, die ihnen missfallen, wenden sie sich ab und ziehen es vor, den Irrtum zu vergöttern. Wer sie zu täuschen versteht, wird leicht ihr Herr, wer sie aufzuklären sucht, stets ihr Opfer.
Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsy-
chologe, Soziologe, Begründer der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Übersetzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911, zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

Sobald eine gewisse Anzahl lebender Wesen vereinigt ist, einerlei, ob eine Herde Tiere oder eine Menschenmenge, unterstellen sie sich unwillkürlich einem Oberhaupt, das heißt einem Führer.
Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsychologe, Soziologe, Begründer der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Über-
setzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

Die Massen urteilen gar nicht oder falsch. Die Urteile, die die Massen annehmen, sind nur aufgedrängte, niemals ge-
prüfte Urteile. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsychologe, Soziologe, Ethnologe, Amateurphysiker, Begründer
der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Übersetzer, Psychologie der Massen [Psychologie des foules], Ersterscheinung 1895, 1911

Die Massen kennen nur einfache und übertriebene Gefühle. [...]
Herrschsucht und Unduldsamkeit sind für die Massen sehr klare Gefühle, die sie ebenso leicht ertragen, wie sie sie
in die Tat umsetzen. Die Massen erkennen die Macht an und werden durch Güte, die sie leicht für eine Art Schwäche halten, nur mäßig beeinflusst. Niemals galten ihre Symphatien den gütigen Herren, sondern den Tyrannen, von denen
sie kraftvoll beherrscht wurden. Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) französischer Sozialpsychologe, Soziologe, Ethnologe, Amateur-
physiker, Begründer der Massenpsychologie, Rudolf Eisler, Übersetzer, Psychologie der Massen, "§ 4. Unduldsamkeit, Herrsch-
sucht (autoritarisme) und Konservatismus der Massen" [1895] 1911

Hinweis:

Buchkritik von Dieter Wunderlichs Webseite, 2017

Anderssein ist unanständig. Die Masse vernichtet alles, was anders, was ausge-
zeichnet, persönlich, eigenbegabt und erlesen ist. Wer nicht 'wie alle' ist, wer nicht 'wie alle' denkt, läuft Gefahr, ausgeschaltet zu werden.
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) spanischer Philosoph, Soziologe, Essayist, Der Auf-
stand der Massen, spanische Erstausgabe 1929, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt (DVA), Stuttgart 1931, Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek, 1956, 2002

Was die Herde am meisten hasst, ist derjenige, der anders denkt; es ist nicht so sehr die Meinung selbst, sondern
die Kühnheit, selbst denken zu wollen, etwas, das sie nicht kann.
Arthur Schopenhauer deutscher Hochschullehrer, Philosoph, zitiert in: Goodreads Zitat

Nichts ist in Menschenaugen schändlicher, als wenn ein Menschengeist es wagt, nicht uniformiert zu sein und so zu
leben, wie seine innerste Überzeugung es ihm vorschreibt. Menschen mit einem großen Gewissen und die nach ihrer innersten Überzeugung leben, gelten immer als Störenfriede und werden sogar oft als Verbrecher angesehen. Fast jedesVerbrechen verzeihen die Menschen dem anderen, wenn es sie nicht persönlich betrifft. Aber wehe dem Men-
schen, der es wagt, nicht so zu leben, wie es die uniformierte Masse verlangt und fördert.
Abschrift eines Manuskriptes von Otto-Ernst Fritsch, Paragraph 14), 26. Oktober 2020

Mit drei Vierteln der britischen Öffentlichkeit uneins zu sein, ist eine der wichtigsten Voraussetzungen für geistige Gesundheit.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) irischer Alchemist, Freimaurer, Mitglied des Her-
metischen Ordens der goldenen Morgendämmerung, Dramatiker, Dichter, Romanschriftsteller, zitiert (engl.) in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Das Studium der Geschichte ist ein starkes Gegenmittel gegen die
zeitgenössische Arroganz. Es ist ernüchternd zu erkennen, wie viele
unserer vorschnellen Annahmen, die uns originell und plausibel er-
scheinen, nicht nur einmal, sondern viele Male und in zahllosen Aus-
prägungen untersucht worden sind und sich dabei als völlig falsch
herausgestellt haben, und das zu hohen menschlichen Verlusten.
Paul Johnson (1928-2023) britischer Jesuit, populärwissenschaftlicher Historiker, Redenschreiber, Journalist, Autor, The Recovery of Freedom,
B. Blackwell, 1980

Falsch hört nicht auf, falsch zu sein, weil die Mehrheit daran beteiligt ist.
Leo Tolstoi (1828-1910) russischer Essayist, Romanschriftsteller, zitiert in: Zitate berühmter Personen

Mehrheiten schaffen keine Wahrheiten! ⚡ Heinz Eggert, deutscher CDU-Politiker, studierter Theologe, zitiert in: Nur Zitate

Unterschätze nie die Macht dummer Leute, die einer Meinung sind.
Unbekannter Urheber, häufig Kurt Tucholsky zugeschrieben

See also: ► Quotes on minorities ⇔ majorities

Literaturzitat

Was ist die Mehrheit? Mehrheit ist der Unsinn.
Verstand ist stets bei wenigen nur gewesen.
Bekümmert sich ums Ganze, wer nichts hat?
Hat der Bettler eine Freiheit, eine Wahl?
Er muß dem Mächtigen, der ihn bezahlt,
um Brot und Stiefel seine Stimm' verkaufen.
Man soll die Stimmen wägen und nicht zählen.
Der Staat muß untergehn, früh oder spät,
wo Mehrheit siegt und Unverstand entscheidet.
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) deutscher Arzt, Historiker, Philosoph, Dichter, Schriftsteller, Dramenfragment Demetrius,
1. Aufzug "Der Reichstag zu Krakau", Figur Fürst Leo, 1805, uraufgeführt im Hoftheater in Weimar am 15. Februar 1857; zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

Gedicht

Tröste dich, die Stunden eilen, und was all dich drücken mag,
Auch das Schlimmste kann nicht weilen, und es kommt ein andrer Tag.

In dem ew'gen Kommen, Schwinden, wie der Schmerz liegt auch das Glück,
Und auch heitre Bilder finden ihren Weg zu dir zurück.

Harre, hoffe. Nicht vergebens zählest du der Stunden Schlag:
Wechsel ist das Los des Lebens, und es kommt ein andrer Tag.
Heinrich Theodor Fontane (1819-1898) deutscher approbierter Apotheker, Journalist, Erzähler des poetischen Realismus, Schriftsteller; zitiert in: Aphorismen.de

Schmetterling Parides arcas auf weißer Lilie

Weder Verbannung noch der Verlust der bürgerlichen Ehre, noch die Mehrheitsmeinung waren für den altgriechischen Philosophen Sokrates ausschlaggebend, sondern der vernunftorientierte philosophische Standpunkt unter dem Gesichtspunkt, was der Seele zum Besten ge-
reiche. Von Übel war aus seiner Sicht nur der negative Effekt, der auf der Seele lasten bliebe. Aus Sokrates' Sicht ist nur ein geprüftes Leben werthaltig.

Ungefähr 78% der Weltbevölkerung schwingt unterhalb dieser bedeut-
samen Grenzlinie zwischen Gut und Böse. Die Zerstörungskraft dieser
Mehrheit würde die Menschheit vernichten, sofern es nicht das Gegen-
gewicht der 22% der Weltbevölkerung oberhalb des Bewusstseinswerts 200 gäbe. Nach Aussage des US-amerikanischen Psychiaters ⚡ Dr. David Hawkins (1927-2012), Stand 2005
Siehe: Übersicht: Verhältnis von Bewusstseinsebenen – D. Hawkins

[Paraphrasiert] Nur 4-5% aller Menschen können echt lieben und aus sich heraus glücklich (dankbar, demütig, verzei-
hend, mitfühlend ...) sein, was der Mehrheit widersinnig erscheint. Sie verzichten auf äußere Motivationsquellen und streben das Bewusstsein der Einheit an. Tiefsitzende Fehlüberzeugungen und Krankheiten können durch die Gegenwart ihres Feldes
zu heilen beginnen. Verstärkt wird der Effekt durch Gruppenhandlungen.
Gemäß der Lehre des US-amerikanischen Psychiaters ⚡ Dr. David Hawkins (1927-2012), Stand 2005
Siehe: Vier Entwicklunggsstadien der menschlichen Erfahrung – D. Hawkins

Die ärgste Tollheit

Viel Wahnsinniges
ist göttlichster Sinn
Für ein weit blickendes Auge.
Gar mancher Sinn ist ärgste Tollheit.
Hier sowie auch allgemein
Bestimmt die Mehrheit, was gilt.
Stimmst du zu – so bist du vernünftig.
Widersetzt du dich – so bist du gleich gefährlich,
Und wirst in Ketten gelegt.

Quelle: ► Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) US-amerikanische Dichterin
Complete Poems, Teil I "Leben XI", 1924

Siehe auch: ► Verrücktheit

Brief general quotes

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Romans 12, 2 (NT)

First we receive the light, then we impart it. Thus we repair the world. Kabbalah

Personal avowals

We are the transformers of Earth. Our whole being, and the flights and falls of our love, enable us to undertake this task. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) Bohemian-Austrian poet, novelist, letter to Witold Hulewicz, 13. November 1925

Upper Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona
Slot canyon formed by erosion of Navajo Sandstone

As I have said, the first thing is to be honest with yourself. You
can never have an impact on society if you have not changed yourself. […] Great peacemakers are all people of integrity, of honesty, but humility. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) South African
anti-apartheid activist, 27 years imprisoned during apartheid, first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.
Oprah Winfrey (*1954) US American actress, talk show host, billionnaire entrepreneur, visionary philanthropist, presented by the US American monthly magazine O, The Oprah Magazine, cited in: Quote Master

I believe we can change the world if we start talking to one another again. Margaret J. Wheatley, Ed.D. (*1944) US American associate professor of management, researcher on organizational behavior, leadership consultant, co-founder and president emerita of the global chari-
table foundation The Berkana Institute, speaker, author, Turning to One Another. Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, paperback issue 1. January 2002, 2nd edition,
1. February 2009

I am no longer accepting the things I can not change.
I am changing the things I can not accept.
Divinity Prayer according to Angela Davis, Ph.D. (*1944) US American professor of history of consciousness, University of Cali-
fornia, Santa Cruz, scholar, prominent political and counterculture activist, leader of the Communist Party USA (1960s), author,
cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

During my first two years of college, perhaps because the values my mother had taught me – hard work, honesty, empathy, compassion – had resurfaced after a long hibernation; or perhaps because of the example of wonderful teachers and lasting friends, I began to notice a world beyond myself. I became active in the movement to oppose
the apartheid regime of South Africa. I began following the debates in this country about poverty and health care.
So that by the time I graduated from college, I was possessed with a crazy idea – that I would work at a grass-
roots level to bring about change.
Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US president, Building a Culture of Empathy and Compassion, Wesleyan Commencement,
25. May 2008

Twisted personal avowal

Changing deep seated racism

I don't believe you change hearts. I believe you change laws, you change allocation of resources, you change the way systems operate. You're not going to change every heart. You're not. But at the end of the day, we could do a whole lot to change some hearts and change some systems and create more opportunities for people who deserve to
have them, to live up to their own God-given potential.
⚡ Hillary Clinton (*1947) 67th United States Secretary of State under president Barack Obama, US senator for New York (2001-2009), wife of the 42nd US president Bill Clinton, Black Lives Matter videos, Clinton campaign reveal details of meeting, presented by the US American television broadcasting station CNN Politics, Dan Merica, 18. August 2015

Personal avowal / Insight

I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change.
I thought that thirty years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental
problems are selfishness, greed and apathy, and to deal with these we need a cultural and spiritual transformation.
James Gustave Speth [Gus] (*1942) US American environmental lawyer and advocate, US advisor on climate change, environ-
mental activist, secularist author, The Bridge at the Edge of the World. Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability, Yale University Press, 10. March 2009

Lori Deschene, US American founder of the website Tiny Buddha, writer

Recommendations

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese sage, social philo-
sopher, sponsor of Confucianism, the Chinese state religion, cited in: BrainyQuote

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
William James, M.D. (1842-1910) US American physician, professor of psychology and philosophy, Harvard University, pragmatic author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

There is no greater mistake than to be afraid of change, and yet many intelligent people dread it and cling to what is custo-
mary and familiar. To be afraid of change is to doubt the providence of God. It is an unintelligent fear of the unknown. […] Welcome every change that comes into every phase of your life. Emmet Fox (1886-1951) Irish New Thought spiritual leader, famous for his large Divine Science church services held in New York City during the Great Depression, Find and Use Your Inner Power, HarperOne, reprint edition 8. May 1992

What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it.
If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.
Maya Angelou (1928-2014) US American educator, historian, actress, playwright, civil-rights activist, producer, director, poet, bestselling author, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now, Randdom House, 1993, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, US American chief visionary officer of the Collegiate EmPowerment, cited in: Treasure Quotes

Before the butterfly emerges clumps of imaginal cells start to cluster together.

If you want to bring a fundamental change in people's belief and behavior […] you need to create a community around them, where those new beliefs can be prac-
ticed and expressed and nurtured.
Malcolm Gladwell, CM (*1963) Canadian historian, sociologist, civil engineering professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, business consultant, speaker, journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 1996, author, The Tipping Point. How Little Things Make a Big Difference, Back Bay Books, 7. January 2000

You can't transform what you don't engage. Elizabeth Kucinich (*1977) US American director of public affairs for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, wife of the U.S. Congressman and former Democratic Presidential candidate
Dennis Kucinich, cited in: Favourite Quotations, presented by the website thecocreatorcoach.com

Calling

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
TV spot on change with the motto "Think different!" campaign, presented by Apple MacIntosh, first issued 1997, Here's to the crazy ones. Think Different, YouTube film, 1:00 minute duration, posted 19. January 2006

Future prospects

We are shifting from a managerial society to an entrepreneurial society. John Naisbitt (1929-2021) US American futuro-
logist, China expert living in Europe and China, author of Megatrends, 1982, cited in: AZ Quotes

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing. Ronald D. Laing (1927-1989) British psychiatrist, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Conclusions

When you change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Dr. Wayne Dyer (1940-2015) US American self-help advocate, spiritual lecturer, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

We can’t necessarily change events but we can choose how to respond to them. Dane Rudhyar (1895-1985) French modernist composer, humanistic astrologer pioneering transpersonal astrology, author, source unknown

The impetus of existing plans is always stronger than the impulse to change. The Kaiser could not change Moltke's plan nor could Kitchener alter Henry Wilson's nor Lanrezac alter Joffre's. Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
US American historian, Pulitzer Prize winner 1963 and 1972, journalist, author, on the first month of World War I in 1914 The Guns
of August, Macmillan, 1962; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Change is simply motion within life.
Ernest Holmes (1887-1960) US American writer, spiritual teacher, founder Religious Science, a part of the greater New Thought movement, The Science of Mind. A Philosophy, A Faith, A Way of Life, Tarcher Putnam, 1926

To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
Stephen R. Covey (1932-2012) US American leading management consultant, bestselling author, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. Powerful Lessons in Personal Change, Free Press, 1989, 1. October 1992

Insights
Suzuki's immediate reply to the request to distill all of zen into one sentence

Everything changes.
Shunryu Suzuki Roshi (1904-1971) Japanese US American Sōtō Zen master, author of Zen's Mind, Beginner's Mind, 1973

We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
Eric Butterworth (1916-2003) US American senior pastor of the Unity church, New York (1961-2003), cited in: BrainyQuote

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Alexis Carrel (1873-1944) French surgeon, biologist, pioneer of vascular suturing techniques, Nobel laureate in physiology/medi-
cine, 1912, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Words have the power to destroy or heal. When words that are both true and kind, they can change our world.
Buddha (563-483 BC) Indian Avatar, teacher of enlightenment, central figure of Buddhism, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become.

Dr. David R. Hawkins, The Eye of The I, S. 69, 2001

We must be the change we wish to see.
Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

The four stages of transformation
1. First they ignore you.
2. Then they ridicule you.
3. And then they attack you and want to burn you.
4. And then they build monuments to you.
And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

Nicholas Klein, US American labor union advocate, attorney, address to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, Baltimore, 15. May 1918; falsely attributed to Mahatma Gandhi

Puppe des Ulmen-Harlekin

Yoga believes in transforming the individual before transforming the world. Whatever change we want to happen outside should happen within. If you walk in peace and express that peace in your very life, others will see you and learn something. Sri Swami Satchidananda [C. K. Ramaswamy Gounder] (1914-2002) Indian religious teacher (mainly in the United States), spiritual master, yoga adept, founder of "Integral Yoga", author of philosophical and spiritual books, Prem Anjali, Sri Swami Satchidananda. Portrait of a Modern Sage, Integral Yoga Publications, 1996

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) assassinated 16th US President (1861-1865), abolisher of slavery, Annual Message to Congress – Concluding Remarks, Washington, D.C.,
1. December 1862; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

If we let go of things, our life is going to change. And the reality is that we are actually more afraid of change than we are of death.
Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, cited in: AZ Quotes

You never really know how or when your life is going to change, and that's for the best.
Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Peter Occhiogrosso, contributor, Defy Gravity. Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason, S. 17, Hay House, 13. October 2009, 2nd edition
15. January 2011

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. Helen Keller (1880-1968) US American deafblind lecturer, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) South African anti-apartheid activist, 27 years imprisoned during apartheid, first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), Long Walk to Freedom. The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela, Macdonald Purnell, 1995, Back Bay Books, 2. June 2008

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) South African anti-apartheid activist, 27 years imprisoned during apartheid, first black president of South Africa (1994-1999), cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Neuroplasticity of the brain

The brain is not static. It is meant to change. Richard Davidson, Ph.D. (*1951) US American Vilas professor of psychology and psychiatry, Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior, University of Wisconsin-Madison, cited in: article Richie Davidson is Stalking the Meditating Brain, presented by the bimonthly US American magazine Mindful, 17. June 2014

AH: Who was your inner killer?
MW: Oh. I would say ... it was God. It was a desire for that kind of perfection, where the desire for perfection rejects life.
Video documentary featuring Marion Woodman (1928-2018) Canadian Jungian analyst, women's movement figure, mythopoetic author, Dancing in the Flames, interviewed by Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and expli-
cator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, presented by the FilmFestival TV Culture Unplugged, directed by Adam Reid, produced by Robin Crumley, minute 26:45, 83:04 minutes duration, produced 2009

In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped
to deal with a world that no longer exists. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) US American longshoreman philosopher, social writer,
cited in: Roland S. Barth, Learning By Heart, S. 28, Jossey-Bass, 10. February 2004, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck (1848-1947) German theoretic physicist, founder of quantum theory, recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics, 1918,
E. Gaynor, translator, A Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, S. 33-34, New York, 1949

The energy of the crone aspect: Grief and letting go, and the dragon energy

The transformative energy in our being is grief. Grief is a very powerful tool. Audio interview with Christine Page, M.D., British mystical physician, "wisdom keeper", president of the "International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine", speaker, author, The Healing Power of Sacred Women, presented via the broadcaster Blogtalkradio, podcast show Gaiafield Radio, female unnamed host, minute 21:08, 58:00 minutes duration, aired 16. April 2013

But time inexorably marches on, and people evolve. No historical solution is ever permanent. If you are unwilling to change quickly enough, you lose control of the situation. Albert Camus (1913-1960) French Algeria-born French philoso-
pher, journalist, author, Nobel laureate in literature, 1957, Algerian Chronicles, Harvard University Press, 7. May 2013

It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable – he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian playwright, essayist, novelist, writer, unsourced; cited in: AZ Quotes

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.
Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) US American humorist, Freemason, author, Notebook, 1898

Falsely attributed to:

George Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist, author of the biological theory of evolution – See: Darwin Correspondence Project

[Paraphrased] It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
George Darwin (1809-1882) English naturalist, author of the biological theory of evolution, cited in: article by Leon C. Megginson, Lessons from Europe for American Business, presented by the peer-reviewed academic journal Southwestern Social Science Quarterly,
S. 4 out of 3-13, volume 44, no. 1, June 1963

When the wave realizes it is part of the ocean, the resistance to change disappears.
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926-2022) Vietnamese France based Buddhist monk, peace activist, teacher, poet, author, cited in: newsletter Constant Contact, Alba Dorsch, August 2012

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight. Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) Roman Emperor (161-180 AD), last of the Five Good Emperors, important Stoic philosopher, author, Meditations, Penguin Classics, 31. October 2006

Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season. Heraclitus of Ephesus (535/520-475/460 BC) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, cited in: AZ Quotes

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) US American engineer, systems theorist, architect, constructor, designer, inventor, futurist, philosopher, author, cited in: Daniel Quinn (1935-2018) US American environmentalist, winner of the Turner Tomorrow Fellowship Award, 1991, writer, Beyond Civilization. Humanity's Next Great Adventure, S. 137, 1999,
Broadway Books, 7. November 2000, cited in: Quotable Quote Goodreads

Quality and permanency

In their search for quality, people seem to be looking for permanency in a time of change. John Naisbitt (1929-2021) US American futurologist, China expert living in Europe and China, author of Megatrends, 1982, cited in: BrainyQuote

In a world that is constantly changing, there is no one subject or set of subjects that will serve you for the foreseeable future, let alone for the rest of your life. The most important skill to acquire now is learning how to learn. John Naisbitt (1929-2021) US American futurologist, China expert living in Europe and China, author of Megatrends, 1982, cited in: AZ Quotes

Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa atalanta) in Kerava, Finland

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.
Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italian civil servant of the Florentine Republic, humanist, historian, diplomat, political philosopher, founder of modern political science, writer,
The Prince, Antonio Blado d'Asola, chapter VI, 1532

The nature of change [transformation] is magic. When people cannot effect change it is usually soul that is missing. The soul will get us into trouble to get us to change. Video presentation by Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org
US American storyteller, mythologist, ritualist, author, The Soul of Change, part 2, 6:02 minutes duration, YouTube film, posted
23. March 2010

In the course of history, there comes a time when humanity is called to shift to a new level of consciousness, to reach a higher moral ground. A time when we have to shed our fear and give hope to each other. That time is now. Wangari Maathai (1940-2011) Kenyan environmental and political activist, first female African Nobel Peace Prize laureate, acceptance speech, Oslo, Norway, 2004

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss future.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) assassinated 35th US American president (1917-1963), address in the assembly hall at the Paulskirche, Frankfurt, 26. June 1963, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) US American politician, Democratic senator from New York, civil rights activist, younger brother of the 35th US president John F. Kennedy, Address before United States Conference of Mayors, New York Hilton Hotel, New York City,
25. May 1964

Every positive change – every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness – involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort,
of initiation. I have never found an exception. Dan Millman peacefulwarrior.com (*1946) US American Trampolining world champion athlete, martial arts instructor, university coach, college professor, spiritual teacher, author, cited in: article The Green Level of Existence – Where Organizations Go to Die (part 1), presented by the blogspot New Thought Evolutionary, 8. June 2017

Back in the office, Socrates drew some water from the spring water dispenser and put on the evening’s tea specialty, rose hips, as he continued. "You have many habits that weaken you. The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new." Dan Millman peacefulwarrior.com (*1946) US American Trampolining world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, college professor, spiritual teacher, author, part-fictional, figure Socrates in the part-autobiographical book Way of the Peaceful Warrior. A Book that Changes Lives, H J Kramer, Tiburon, California, distributed by Publisher's Group West, Emeryville, California, 1980, S. 113, edition 1984

Change is hard because people don’t only think on the surface level.
Deep down people have mental maps of reality – embedded sets of assumptions, narratives and terms that organize thinking. […]
People almost never change their underlying narratives or unconscious frameworks.
Article by David Brooks (*1961) US American conservative political and cultural commentator, A Second G.O.P., presented by
the US American daily newspaper The New York Times, 28. January 2013

Basic Human Needs Continuum by Clayton Alderfer (1940-2015) US American psychologist

Maslow's humanistic hierarchical pyramid of needs

Survival → Job – Basic need level
Success → Career – Middle need level
Transformation → Calling – Peak need level

Video presentation by Chip Conley, US American hotelier, founder and CEO of Joie de Vivre Hospitality, speaker, author, Transforming the Workplace, One Minute Shift film clip, issued by the US American Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), 1:11 minutes duration, posted January 2009

The dark night of the soul is a transformative process of freeing love from attachment.
Gerald May, M.D. (1940-2005) US American theologian, psychiatrist, author on psychology and spirituality, The dark Night of the Soul. A Psychiatrist Explores the Connection Between Darkness and Spiritual Growth, Harper, San Francisco, 2004

Note:

By grace one arrives at the transformational phase between no longer and not yet. This thin sacred space requires courage and hope in order not to despair.

There are times [between no longer (death / lead) and not yet (rebirth / gold)] in life when we die to whatever we were. Janet Quinn, Ph.D., US American nurse, active medical researcher of Therapeutic Touch, source unknown

Two basic rules of life are:
1. Change is inevitable.
2. Everybody resists change.

W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993) US-American statistician, quality guru, cited in: AZ Quotes

Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice.
Sonya Teclin, cited in: Blog article by Jim Lockard, Change, Part 1: Resistance to change – A New Thought Dilemma, 25. April 2016

Lasting change comes with the ABC of change [Affective, Behavioral and Cognitive].
Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. (*1970) US American organizational behaviorist, lecturer on positive psychology and leadership, Harvard University, Boston, faculty of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel, writer, Edutaining the world, YouTube film, 10:00 minutes duration, posted 20. April 2009

Butterfly Anosia genutia

Knowledge is about information, wisdom is about transformation. Tal Ben-Shahar, Ph.D. (*1970) US American organizational behaviorist, lecturer on positive psychology and leadership, Harvard University, Boston, faculty of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel, writer, 3rd annual Positive Psychology course, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008, Positive Psychology, lecture 1, YouKu film, 77:03 minutes duration, posted October 2009

Change is not a constant. Change is actually exponentially. The paradigm shift rate is doubling every decade. Evolution is a spiritual process. Audio interview with ⚡ Ray Kurzweil (*1948) US American computer scientist, inventor, futurist, author on transhumanism, technological singularity, The Evolution of Science, presented by "The Evolutionary Worldview", sponsored by the dissolved magazine EnlightenNext, 15. May 2010

Changing human behavior is one of the most difficult things we ever do. Sustained changed behavior is really difficult, particularly when it is compulsive driven behavior. Drew Pinsky, M.D. (*1958) US American internist, addiction medicine specialist, assistant clinical professor, Keck USC School of Medicine, radio and television personality, author, Inside the World of Infidelity, transcript of a television broadcast presented by the US American TV channel CNN, talk show Larry King Live, aired 2. April 2010

Those who cannot, or who will not, face reality, have no chance of changing reality.
Michael Tsarion (*1968) Irish macrohistorian, symbolist, sidereal astrologer, mythologist, occultist, investigative 'conspiracy' reseacher, public speaker, author, Atlantis, Alien Visitation, and Genetic Manipulation, Angels at Work Publishing, 6th printing edition 1. August 2006

Metathesiophobia

"Metathesiophobia" – (noun) Described as a fear of unwanted change, metathesiophobia reveals a deeper personal and existential challenge than most phobias. Metathesiophobia is rooted from an inner insecurity and the knowledge that we cannot control every detail in our lives, such as your best friend moving away or entering adulthood.
Blog article by Jacob Olesen, Fear of Change Phobia – Metathesiophobia, presented by the blogspot fearof.net, March 2015

Some fear of change arises from an unconscious fear of success.

Accommodating change and uncertainty requires a looser sense of self, and ability to respond in various ways. This is perhaps why qualified success unsettles those who are locked into fixed positions. The shift back to failure is a defensive measure. Article by Rebecca Solnit (*1961) US American culture historian, journalist, writer, The Habits of Highly Cynical People, presented by the US American monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance, and the arts Harper's Magazine, May issue 26. April 2016

Change is no choice. Change happens.
Meryl Streep (*1949) US American award winning actress, cited in: movie drama Adaptation, 2002

Yosemite water falls in the afternoon

[F]or a conscious being,
➤ to exist is to change,
➤ to change is to mature,
➤ to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson (1859-1941) influential French philosopher, Nobel laureate in literature, 1927, Creative Evolution ["L'Évolution créatrice", French edition 1907], Arthur Mitchell, translator, chapter I The Evolution of Life – Mechanism and Teleology, Henry Holt and Company, New York, English edition 1911

Nothing we can do can change the past, but everything we do changes the future. Ashleigh Brilliant (*1933) English syndicated cartoonist, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

In order to learn one must change one's mind. Orson Scott Card (*1951) US American critic, columnist, political activist, public speaker, essayist, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy. Jean Paul Getty (1892-1976) US American oil tycoon, industrialist, billionaire, patron, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has. Attributed to Margaret Mead (1901-1978) US American cultural anthropologist, sociologist, biologist, lecturer, popular writer, cited in: Frank G. Sommers, Tana Dineen, Curing Nuclear Madness, S. 158, Methuen, 1984

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher, faculty member, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

A competitive world offers two possibilities.
1. You can lose.
2. Or, if you want to win, you can change.

Lester Thurow (1938-2016) US American political economist, former dean of MIT Sloan School of Management, bestselling author
on economic topics, cited in: AZ Quotes

Change is not merely necessary to life – it is life. Alvin Toffler (1928-2016) US American futurist, focused on digital revolution, communication revolution, corporate revolution and technological singularity, writer, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Progress:

Order amid change ∞ change amid order

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947) English mathematician, philosopher, pioneering integralist, metaphysical educator, author, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power. Alan Cohen (*1954) US American businessman, founder of several pharmaceutical companies, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Details der Backsteinfriese des Chors, Kirche in Steffenshagen

Only Evolution changes things. Revolution just 'revolves' you back to where you started. Thomas Sheridan (*1964) Irish alternative artist, musician, independent researcher, broad-
caster, public speaker, author, deleted blog article The Purple Pill Cometh, 28. October 2013

To be a revolutionary you have to be a human being. You have to care about people who have no power.
Jane Fonda (*1937) Academy Award-winning US American actress, political activist, philanthropist, speaker, writer, cited in:
US American weekly news magazine Newsweek, 1977; cited in: AZ Quotes

If you look at people after coronary-artery bypass grafting two years later, 90% of them have not changed their lifestyle. And that's been studied over and over and over again. And so we're missing some link in there. Even though they know they have a very bad disease and they know they should change their lifestyle, for whatever reason, they can't. Edward D. Miller (*1943) US American anesthesiologist, dean and CEO of medical faculty, Johns Hopkins University, cited in: David Marcum, Steven B. Smith, Egonomics. What Makes Ego Our Greatest Asset (or Most Expensive Liability), S. 224, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2007

The more things change, the more they are the same.
[Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.]
Alphonse Karr (1808-1890) French critic, journalist, novelist, Les Guêpes, section vi, July 1848

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people. John Kotter (*1947) US American professor, Harvard Business School, researcher on troubled organizations, author on leadership and change, Dan Cohen, The Heart of Change. Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations]],
S. 11, Harvard Business Press, 2013; cited in: AZ Quotes

Nothing happens until the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change. Arthur Burt (1912-2012)
US American preacher, cited in: Personal Development Quotes, presented by the website memrise.com

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
⚡ Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, social critic, logician, mathematician, historian, social reformist, "pacifist", member of the Royal Society, Nobel laureate in literature, 1950, The Conquest of Happiness, 1930

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) French general, political leader during the French Revolution, self-crowned emperor (1804-1815), cited in: AZ Quotes

Reference: ► Change quotes, presented by quotelady.com

Literary quotes

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) German classical scholar, critic of culture, philologist, philosopher of nihilism, writer, Beyond Good and Evil. Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future [Jenseits von Gut und Böse. Vorspiel einer Philosophie der Zukunft], C. G. Naumann, Leipzig, 1886

A woman can change better than a man. A man sort of lives in jerks. Somebody dies, somebody's born and that’s a jerk. He gets a farm or loses a farm and that’s a jerk. With a woman it’s all in one flow, like a stream – little eddies and waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. A woman looks at it that way. John Steinbeck (1902-1968) US American journalist, CIA agent, novelist, Pulitzer Prize laureate, 1940, Nobel laureate in literature, 1962, novel The Grapes of Wrath, The Viking Press-James Lloyd, 14. April 1939

Poem

Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you willing to be made nothing? Dipped into oblivion? If not, you will never really change. The phoenix renews her youth only when she is burnt, burnt alive, burnt down to hot and flocculent ash. D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) English literary critic, poet, playwright, essayist, novelist, poem, cited in: The Phoenix (pacifist journal), presented by en.Wikipedia

Song lines

He knows changes aren't permanent, but Change is.
Neil Peart (1952-2020) Canadian musician of the rock band Rush, author, lyrics of the song Tom Sawyer, Core Music Publishing

General quotes

Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.
Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Romans 12, 2 (NT) New International Version (NIV)

Behold, I show you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.
St. Paul, 1 Corinthians 15, 51 (NT)

And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed into his
likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
2 Corinthians 3, 18 (NT)

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death,
neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain:
for the former things are passed away.
And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
Book of Revelation 21, 4-5 (NT)

Personal avowals

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

A. Jahnel authored her self-published book My Year of Beds. Book one; Germany to China, lulu.com, 2. March 2011.

AJ: If you're trying to find out what your truth is you have to be honest with yourself. I think that is the first and foremost thing. [...] Quite often we do things because we think we should as opposed to doing things because we know that they are right for our souls. And I think from my point of view I was trying to illustrate this. And there was only one way to illustrate it. And that was to be as honest as possible about my own experiences and my own prejudices and coming face to face with my own racism. As a white South African one says, 'Oh, I am not racist. Some of my best friends are black.' And then you are suddenly out of this comfort zone and then you realize 'Yes, but actually I am [rankist].' And if you cannot recognize that and admit to it you cannot change it. This is why I decided to become completely brutally honest.
KK: Which is why you were surprised when you realized that all the men digging in the roads in Germany were white.
AJ: It was not surprising to me, it was surprising to me that I had this [racist] reaction. Because when you travel in Africa or South Africa you don't see that. And it was just then that I suddenly realized how subtle and how latent these problems [of rankism] are in this country. And it is only when you really take all the margins and put them in the bright sunshine that you can in fact make the changes that are required.
Deleted audio interview with Annette Jahnel (*1962) South African photographer, artist, world traveller offering the project "One Planet One People", public speaker, author, Booktalk Interview, presented by the South African radio station SAfm, program "SAFM Literature", host Karabo Kogleng, YouTube film, minute 1:23, 14:12 minutes duration, posted 8. January 2012

Autumn, 1573
Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) Italian painter

I set off into the land of my birth and immediately get held up by roadworks. Sitting here with nothing to occupy my mind, a little thought pops unbidden into my head.
‘Hmm, look at that, the men digging the ditch are all white.’

Come again? I turn the thought over in my head while staring at the group of men going about their business. But no matter how I look at it, this picture seems to me just a little off. In South Africa, skin colour still distinguishes you; white men don’t dig ditches, and so I discover – to my horror – that I am a racist. […]
Roaring along the uninterrupted stretch of tar, my thoughts return to my newly discovered character flaw, drawn there like a tongue to a broken tooth. My only defence for my subtle, latent form of racism is that I grew up as a stranger in a stranger land. Arriving as a small Aryan immigrant to South Africa in the sixties was to arrive in a land where apartheid had done its work. I lived, played and went to school in an all-white world. Until one cold winter morning, next to a lamppost in the frozen veldt, a small black boy lay with frost in his curly black hair and tiny icicles on his eyelashes; he was barefoot; his trousers too short; he had frozen to death. I was seven when their world, the world of the non-whites, suddenly entered into mine. A big white man covered the boy with a piece of dirty cardboard and told me not to look, to go to school. But you cannot unlook, that which is seen, remains seen. And then I suddenly saw them, they were the ones that walked and worked at the roadside, and it remains the same. Despite twelve years of one man, one vote, twelve years of promises, this morning was the first time in my life that I saw a white man digging a ditch on the roadside. Through apartheid I am a racist: not by choice or belief in my superiority, but purely by social conditioning. This seems like a very good place to start reinventing myself. Annette Jahnel (*1962) South African photographer, artist, world traveller touring with projects "One Planet One People" and "Searching for Galileo", public speaker, author, My Year of Beds. Book one; Germany to China, S. 15/S. 17, lulu.com, 2. March 2011

Deep crisis:

That's an important point for many people to reach. That sense of deep crisis – when the world as they have known it, and the sense of self that they have known that is identified with the world, become meaningless. That happened to me. I was just that close to suicide and then something else happened – a death of the sense of self that lived through identifica-
tions, identifications with my story, things around me, the world. Interview with Eckhart Tolle (*1948) German-born Canadian teacher on spirituality, bestselling author, Ripples on the Surface of Being, presented by the dissolved US American magazine What is Enlightenment? / EnlightenNext, ⚡ Andrew Cohen (*1955) resigned US American enlightenment guru (1986-2013), musician, founder of the dissolved magazine What is Enlightenment? / EnlightenNext, author, issue 34, 2006

Recommendations

Social media has the potential to be a powerful tool for societal change. But we need to unlock and realize these potentials by personally engaging with the individuals who make up this network to the extent possible. We must also situate social media within a clearly understood and defined societal context so we can design its appropriate use. Nicanor Perlas III (*1950) Filipino activist, Right Livelihood Award laureate, 2003, Facebook comment, 2. November 2010

You can train your brain to focus on anything. If you focus on a positive outcome, but you've spent years being negative, you'll have to work extra hard. It takes some time for a new neural circuit to override a strong belief that is embedded in an old memory circuit. Mark Robert Waldman, US American brain researcher, psychotherapist, associate fellow, Center for Spirituality and the Mind, University of Pennsylvania, author, deleted Facebook message, 20. January 2012

[...] to tell you adults: You must change your ways! Severn Cullis-Suzuki (*1979) Canadian visionary child environmen-
talist, founder of the Environmental Children's Organization (ECO), address at Earth Summit, an UN Environmental Meeting, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1992, The girl who silenced the world for 5 minutes, YouTube film, minute 0:30, 6:42 minutes duration, posted
18. April 2008

Everything changes. Everything is connected. Pay attention.
Jane Hirshfield (*1953) US American poet, ordinated lay person in Soto Zen, 1979, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Conclusions

You cannot buy the revolution.
You cannot make the revolution.
You can only be the revolution.
It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) US American author of short stories, children's books, novels, mainly in the genres of fantasy and science fiction, utopian science fiction novel The Dispossessed. An Ambiguous Utopia, Harper & Row, May 1974

As we strive to improve our game, a clear and firm sense of self is a compass that helps us navigate choices and progress toward our goals. When we're looking to change our game, a too rigid self-concept becomes an anchor that keeps us from sailing forth. Article by Herminia Ibarra, Ph.D., US American professor of organizational behavior, professor of leadership and learning, The Authenticity Paradox, presented by the bimonthly management magazine Harvard Business Review (HBR), published by Harvard Business Publishing, January-February issue 2015

When there is really a danger to be faced, there is a very strong incentive to devotion, to surpassing oneself.
Article by Anne Dufourmantelle (1964-2017) French philosopher, psychoanalyst, writer, presented by daily French newspaper Libération, translated by ABC News, 2015

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. James R. Sherman, Rejection, Pathway Books, 1982; falsely attributed to C.S. Lewis, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

[Paraphrased] The three keys to change are:
1. Relate [form a emotional relationship with a person or a community that inspires or sustains hope],
2. Repeat,
3. Reframe.

Alan Deutschman, Ph.D. (*1965)
US American professor of journalism, provocative thinker, senior writer at Fast Company, Change or Die. The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, HarperBusiness, 2. January 2007

Appeal

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them. But the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
TV spot on change with the motto "Think different!" campaign, presented by Apple MacIntosh, first issued 1997, Here's to the crazy ones, YouTube film, 1:15 minute duration, posted 31. October 2011

Insights

We don't know how to transform people very well anyway. It is a mystery how, and why and exactly people transform. Even if we were gonna force you to be free, we don't know how to do it either.
⚡ Ken Wilber (*1949) US American transpersonal philosopher, consciousness researcher, thought leader of the 3rd millennium, author, Integral "Third-Way" Politics, presented by holons-news, Corey W. deVos, US American webmaster of Integral Life, senior editor of KenWilber.com, writer, YouTube film, minute 8:06, 31:10 minutes duration, posted 26. May 2008

Sitting in meditation helps the consciousness to blossom. It causes deeper understanding and spontaneous change in behavior. These changes are brought about in the consciousness itself, not in the pseudo-personality. Forced changes are at the level of the mind. Mental and intellectual changes are totally unnatural and different from the ones that take place in the birth principle. These take place naturally, automatically, by themselves, due to meditation. Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj (1897-1981) Indian Hindu sage of the advaita vedānta tradition, Jean Dunn, Prior to Consciousness,
S. 86, Acorn Press, 2nd edition May 1990

Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the beauty and the wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred? Please seek to answer that question today, with all the magnificence that is You. Others are waiting for you now. They are looking to you for guidance, for help, for courage, for strength, for understan-
ding, and for assurance at this hour. Most of all, they are looking to you for love. H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, 1989, cited in: Dawson Church, editor, Geralyn Gendreau, editor, Randy Peyser, editor, Healing the Heart of the World. Harnessing the Power of Intention to Change Your Life and Your Planet, S. 66-67, Elite Books, Santa Rosa, California, 2005

Now you must learn that only infinite patience produces immediate effects. This is the way in which time is exchanged for eternity. Infinite patience calls upon infinite love, and by producing results
now it renders time unnecessary.
⚡ A Course in Miracles [ACIM] textbook, chapter 5, "Healing and Wholeness", section VI "Time and Eternity", 1976, revised 1996

Most people tell you they want to get out of kindergarten, but don't believe them. Don't believe them! All they want you to do is to mend their broken toys.
"Give me back my wife.
Give me back my job.
Give me back my money.
Give me back my reputation, my success."

This is what they want; they want their toys replaced. That's all. Even the best psychologist will tell you that, that people don't really want to be cured. What they want is relief; a cure is painful.
Anthony de Mello SJ (1931-1987) Indian Catholic Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, spiritual leader, author, Awareness. Conversations with the Masters, S. 5-6, Doubleday, New York, 1. June 1990, Image, paperback issue 1. June 1990, reprint edition 1. May 1992

Reference made to:

Olivier Clerc, Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Invaluable Lessons from a Frog. Seven Life-Enhancing Metaphors, Dreamriver Press, 25. September 2009

If you sow seeds [of a special variety of Chinese bamboo] on fertile ground, you have to be very patient. Nothing happens for years; there are no green shoots or any sign at all for the first, second, third, or fourth year. The fifth year, something green pushes through the soil, and then it grows 40 feet in one year! The reason is simple, for years nothing happens on the surface, but the bamboo is developing prodigious roots until it is ready to manifest in the world. This is what bottom-up grassroots change looks like when
a critical mass is reached. Suddenly, there is support, a new attitude, a confluence of effort and energy, and if enlightened leadership also manifests, a major cultural shift can happen.
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter,
crone, spiritual teacher, author, Like a Tree. How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet, Conary Press, 1. April 2011

Man expressing amazement

Sheldrake's human morphic field and C. G. Jung's collective unconscious are the same. This means that when a critical number of people change their perceptions and behavior, it becomes a new choice or pattern in the collective psyche, which each of us can contribute to or draw from. The Hundredth Monkey in the allego-
rical story was the monkey who, upon learning a new behavior, tipped the scales, so that monkeys who were not even in direct communication now changed what they did. When a critical mass is reached, in this theory, new attitudes and behavior will spread through the species unconsciously. This can either be deducted through researched examples or grasped intuitively. Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone, spiritual teacher, author, Prophets Great List, newsletter, 31. May 2003

Under the sense of chaosmos³ things become both impossible and more possible at the same time. Amidst an increasing sense that the whole thing might come to an end new ideas and surprising designs can appear, and appear to those who are struggling the most in the situation.
The heroics of rescueing becomes infused with the compassion of caring, as all the issues and biases that usually put us in conflict with each other dissolve in the floods of change.
And we find that which is most common to humanity, we find our connectedness to the tragedy of loss, so that facing the extremes of weather and the extreme challenges of culture can bring out the deepest spirit of humanity that understands suffering, that values diversity and secretly knows how to survive the storms of life together. […]
Darwin predicted looking to future generations:
✓ we may expect that virtuous habits will grow stronger,
✓ and the struggle between our higher and lower impulses will become less severe,
✓ and the virtue in the human heart will triumph.
Audio presentation by Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org (*1944) US American storyteller, scholar of mythology, psychology, anthropology, ritualist, spokesman in the men's movement, author, podcast The Tough and the Tender, episode #34, minute 15:06, 19:51 minutes duration, posted 30. August 2017

The tough-minded and the tender-hearted, the two sides of saving people and surviving the disasters of life (as acutely the
record-setting rainfall of Hurricane Harvey ensuing tremendous tragedy and displacement).
Living in the time of chaosmos, tragedy unleashes the underlying nobility of the human soul and its capacity to survive by
altruism and cooperation.

All the religions and all the peoples of the world are undergoing the most radical, far-reaching, and challenging transformation in history. The stakes are high: the very survival of life on our planet; either chaos and destruction, or creative transformation and the birth of a new consciousness. Forces, which have been at work for centuries, have in our day reached a crescendo that has the power to draw the human race into a global network.
Ewert Cousins, Ph.D. (1927-2009) US American professor of theology emeritus, Fordham University, advisor to the "Monastic Interreligious Dialogue", Christ of the 21st Century, "Second Axial, S. 7ff, New York City, New York, Continuum, 1992

Wetiko

"The Construct is a matrix of distraction and disinformation which diverts our gaze away from the 'Organic Signal' that encompasses us."

Even within the main monotheistic religions, the Abrahamic religions – Christianity, Islam, Judaism, whatever, the root of all these systems is a single spiritual discipline which is aimed at the same things – liberation, clarity, cooperation, harmony, knowingness – and fundamentally understanding the idea that when we rewire our inner landscape that is the ONLY THING that shifts the outer landscape. Video narrative by Neil Kramer (*1972) British spiritual philosopher, teacher specializing in the fields of consciousness, metaphysics, and mysticism, speaker, author, The Construct by Neil Kramer, produced by James Spike, UPHIGH Production, YouTube film,
minute 10:38, 40:23 minutes duration, posted 10. February 2013

Hoffer called for a system's change at age 89: Holding doctors accountable for doing a lousy job

The main message has to be that we have to change the [medical] system. The system is sick and corrupt. Eventually, we have to make the medical profession accountable. [...] We have to ask them: Why is the medical profession not held accountable? We need an independent commission headed by a judge to examine why doctors don't do a better job. Big Pharma controls medicine today. […] And they control [and advertising and] the journals. [...] We are in a terrible situation. The system is really sick. And you can quote me literally. I think, the system is absolutely sick [dysfuntional]. And it has to be changed. […] We have to let the public exactly know what's happening, because right now they don't know.
Video interview with Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D. (1917-2009) Canadian psychiatrist, biochemist, agricultural chemist, Natural Cure for Depression, Bipolar, ADHD, Schizophrenia, YouTube film, sponsored by "Healthy Mind Body Planet Tour" 2006, minute 6:27 and 8:21, 9:26 minutes duration, posted 21. January 2008

Sundown with upcoming storm, Westerland, Sylt, Germany, 2003

Social change is not going to occur until people have power. And it has to be a new form of power, a non-predatory form of power. It's not just a lack of empathy that causes conflicts and suffering to continue it is also a lack of power, particularly non-predatory power and emotional heroism. Not only do we need empathy to change the world, but we need empathetic, compassionate people with emotional heroism to walk into situations where suffering occurs and also show a form of power that effects change and holds people accountable without also becoming abusive. We need more than empathy and more than ever we need sensitive, compassionate individuals to develop the power and emotional heroism to step into these conflicts. Otherwise we just get bullies and sociopaths in power. Audio interview with Linda Kohanov (*1950) US American riding instructor, horse trainer, speaker, author, A New Interview with Linda, presented by Eponaquest, multi-disciplinary educational organization, host Anthony Write, minute 50:56, 52:50 minutes duration, aired ~3. May 2013

Canny outlaws are better than nothing, but it's hard to imagine any canny outlaw sustaining that for an indefinite period of time. More hopeful are people we call system-changers. These are people who are looking not to dodge the system's rules and regulations, but to transform the system. Video presentation by Barry Schwartz, Ph.D. (*1946) US American professor of social theory and social action, psychologist, Swarthmore College, speaker, author, Using our practical wisdom, transcript, presented by TED Talks, YouTube film, minute 15:49, 23:08 minutes duration, posted 3. January 2011

Fierce grace

Since his stroke in 2002, Ram Dass is bound to a wheelchair. He sees the stroke as undeniable 'fierce grace'.

In some sense we might say that the world that we live in now needs a little fierce grace. [...] A realized being in each of us consists of ego, soul and number 3, which is God inside of us. [...] A realized being is somebody that identifies with number 3. [...] A realized person marches to a different drummer. [...] Most of our society works from the outside in, however compassion is the inside out.
Video interview with Ram Dass [Richard Alpert] (1931-2019) US American professor of psychology, student of the Indian Hindu guru Neem Karoli Baba, spiritual teacher, author of the seminal book Be Here Now, Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, New Mexico, 1971

New opinions [i.e. concepts] often appear
1. first as jokes and fancies,
2. then as blasphemies and treason,
3. then as questions open to discussion,
4. and finally as established truths.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish politician, pacifist, satirist, dramatist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1925, cited in: AZ Quotes

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish politician, pacifist, satirist, dramatist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1925, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Change challenges, relieves, frustrates, threatens, saddens or exhilarates us. Mainly it forces us to grow. It is the mechanism through which nature insures evolution and the way God calls us home.
Gloria Karpinski, US American spiritual teacher, holistic counselor, author, Online Course, website entry, undated

Near death experiences, we know, change people. Video presentation by Bruce Greyson, M.D., Ph.D., US American professor of psychiatric medicine, Carlson professor of psychiatry and neurobehavioral sciences, NDE researcher, Division of Perceptual Studies, University of Virginia, Near Death Experience, sponsored by the International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS), Durham Conference, Durham, North Carolina, 3.-4. October 2008, 1:01:40 duration, posted via Google 6. October 2008

As you lower your entropy in consciousness you get more power, more ability to have an effect.
Lowering entropy by improving the organization (profitability) of accumulated experiences increases the energy / power / information available to the evolving entity.
Lowering entropy, spiritual growth, increasing the quality of consciousness, evolving one's consciousness, and growing up are all different expressions for the same thing. Video presentation by Thomas Campbell (*1944) US American physicist, consciousness researcher, sponsored by and at London School of Economics, filmed 22. February 2008, Physics, Metaphysics & the Consciousness Connection, part 9 of 18, YouTube film, minute 0:05, 9:00 minutes duration, posted 13. April 2008

Sulphur and Wolf are two symbols for Mars, while the King is the transformed Solar Hero.

Alchemy gives us some very striking images of the process by which the wolf is transformed into the King. His paws are cut off, and he is placed in a sealed flask or alembic and then cooked.
Yet he is not killed, for he is recognized as divine – the theriomorphic form of the alchemical gold. There is a strange paradox in this barbaric image which combines recognition of the highest value with the necessity for suffering and transformation.
The wolf howls and makes a dreadful fuss, but the alembic remains sealed, for otherwise no King is born, and no gold formed. Liz Greene (*1946) US American-British astrologer, depth psychologist, combining Jungian archetypes with astrology, author, Howard Sasportas, The Inner Planets. Building Blocks of Personal Reality – Seminars in Psychological Astrology, book 4,
S. 187, Samual Weiser, 1. January 1993

Change-making triggered by "outsiders" ⇔ Status quo held by the dominant group

It's a basic tenet of change-making that the dominant group is neither motivated to change the power dynamics nor are they able to see what needs to change clearly […]. Only an "outsider" – women vis a vis men, people of color vis a vis whites, working class people vis a vis the rich – can see and feel where another's habits of identity shape larger dynamics of inequality and injustice. […]
[I]n the culture at large, women, as outsiders to the various levers of power, went first in breaking open the old status quo. But that didn't and doesn't mean that men don't have a hell of a lot of work to do. Nor that women don't have further to go, too. Deleted testimony by Elizabeth Debold, Ed.D., US American gender researcher, senior teacher of evolutionary enlightenment, cultural commentator, former senior editor of the dissolved magazine WIE / EnlightenNext (2002-2011), author, An Open Letter to My Former Spiritual Teacher, presented by the Artemis Forum, 12. July 2015

Turning pages of a book

The nature of Pluto is similar to that of the Hindu god Shiva. […] Pluto usually begins by breaking down a structure, then creates a new one in its place. The entire cycle of death, destruction and renovation is accompanied by tremendous powers, for Pluto is not a mild or even very subtle planetary influence. It brings decay at one level or another. […] It also rules the death and regeneration of the self, as old aspects of your life pass away. […] Pluto does not represent death in the literal sense, instead it refers to a metaphorical death, something that ceases to be. Robert Hand (*1942) US American historian, scholar, astrologer, lecturer, translator, author, Planets in Transit. Life Cycles for Living, Whitford Press, 1976, 2nd expanded edition 1. May 2002

In my country we don't have democrats and republicans. We have Remocrats and Depublicans. [...]
We are heading to the endpoints without any institutional guidance as to where we should stop. What we have the most is an abolition of context. There are no agreed upon social norms. […] Changes become autocatalytic. Change is feeding itself [autocatalyticly]. […] Logic is no longer the dominant organizing premise to society.
Video lecture by Watts Wacker (1953-2017) US American futurist, speaker, author, Watts Wacker – World Renowned Futurist, presented by the publication "Speakers Spotlight", YouTube film, 7:16 minutes duration, posted 29. August 2009

The endgame is that there is no endgame. The goal is permanent transformation, not one-time self-definition. Watts Wacker (1953-2017) US American futurist, speaker, author, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition 10. September 2002

Things have changed – and continue to change – at such a rate that conventional language is no longer an effective tool for describing what's going on around us. Watts Wacker (1953-2017) US American futurist, speaker, author, Ryan Mathews, The Deviant's Advantage. How Fringe Ideas Create Mass Markets, Crown Business, 1st edition 10. September 2002

Change ⇔ transformation

Change is gradual (growing old). – Transformation happens in an instant (growing up).
Change is local and temporary (losing weight). – Transformation is wider and permanent (becoming healthy).
Change is in the outside circumstances (avoiding fearful situations). – Transformation is in the inner world, which creates the outer circumstances (transforming fear into excitement).
You cannot create transformation, only the conditions for it to occur. You need to question your concepts and be open to the answers. Removed article PMB – Change or Transformation?, Vered Neta, 12. November 2012

Movements in a Caleidoscope

The things are changing now. And it's in your generation that we're seeing this.
Men are adapting – [it's] about time – they are adapting consciously and also without realizing it for the better of the whole group. They are changing their deepest prejudices to accept and to regard as normal things that their fathers would have found very, very difficult and their grandfathers would have abhorred. And the door into this emotional shift is empathy. As Jung said, Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.⁴
Meryl Streep (*1949) US American actress, Commencement Speech at Barnard College, presented by the Columbia University, New York City, New York, 17. May 2010, YouTube film, minute 20:26, 28:08 minu-
tes duration, posted 18. May 2010

[P]atients whose heart disease is so severe that they undergo bypass surgery, a traumatic and expensive procedure that can cost more than $100,000 if complications arise. About 600,000 people have bypasses every year in the United States, and 1.3 million heart patients have angioplasties – all at a total cost of around $30 billion. The procedures temporarily relieve chest pains but rarely prevent heart attacks or prolong lives. Around half of the time, the bypass grafts clog up in a few years; the angioplasties, in a few months. The causes of this so-called restenosis are complex. It's sometimes a reaction to the trauma of the surgery itself. But many patients could avoid the return of pain and the need to repeat the surgery – not to mention arrest the course of their disease before it kills them – by switching to healthier lifestyles. Yet very few do. Article Change or Die, presented by the monthly US American business magazine Fast Company, Alan Deutschman (*1965)
US American professor of journalism, provocative thinker, senior writer at Fast Company, January 2007

The present system is gonna collapse and we are in the process of designing a new one. The world governments would never do that. Governments are always last in the sequence of institutions to buy into change. Businesses are probably second, maybe education, universities and things are third, and governments are always last. They don't ask for change until everybody else gets up in arms and says 'let's change'. It's individuals – small groups of individuals – who initiate the change.
I've sent messages to Klaus Schwab – I'm in a working session with the World Economic Forum – I've said 'you'd better consider the possibility that this whole thing is collapsing and you can't 're‐inflate it, and that you can't make it better and reboot it like they keep talking about.' And these guys don't understand that. And more than that, they're going to want to change it in terms that are familiar to them. This is the mismatch here. It's the same problem of going to experts and asking them about the future. They're going to tell you about what they understand already. They're experts on the past. They're not experts on the future. No one has ever experienced anything that even approa-
ches the profound nature of what we are going to go through in the next couple of years.

Agents of initiating a new system and paradigm shift

1.	Initiators	Small groups of individuals Imaginal cells
2.	Practioners	Businesses
3.	Contextualizers / Teachers	Universities / educational institutions
4.	Conceptualizers [last to change]	Governments
Source: ► Deleted audio interview with John L. Petersen (1943) US American futurist, founder of the think tank The Arlington Institute, Virginia, author, John Petersen & Peter Merry*, MP3, minute 6:19, 33:47 minutes duration, S. 2, presented by the Center for Human Emergence, 13. March 2009

Tenets of catalysis

Catalysis is the acceleration of a chemical reaction, which proceeds slowly, by the presence of a foreign substance. Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (1853-1932) Baltic German professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate for the
invention of catalysis, 1909, On catalysis, presented by the scientific journal Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, volume 15,
pages 705-706, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1894

Catalysis is a condition of movement of the atoms in a molecule of a labile body which follows the entrance of the energy emitted from one body into another and leads to the formation of more stable bodies with loss of energy. […] These processes, like all natural ones, must always occur in such a direction that the free energy of the entire system is decreased. Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (1853-1932) Baltic German professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate for the invention of catalysis, 1909, On catalysis, presented by the scientific journal Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, volume 15,
pages 705-706, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1894

It is […] misleading to consider catalytic action as a force which produces something which would not occur without
the substance which acts catalytically; still less can it be assumed that the latter performs work.
Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (1853-1932) Baltic German professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate for the invention of catalysis, 1909, On catalysis, presented by the scientific journal Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, volume 15, pages 705-706, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1894

A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products.
Carl Wilhelm Wolfgang Ostwald (1853-1932) Baltic German professor of chemistry, Nobel Prize laureate for the invention of catalysis, 1909, On catalysis, presented by the scientific journal Zeitschrift für physikalische Chemie, volume 7, pages 995-1004, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1901

The caterpillar's new cells [after it has built its cocoon] are called 'imaginal cells.
They resonate at a different frequency. They are so totally different from the caterpillar cells that his immune system [that is the immune system of the worm] thinks they [the new imaginal cells] are enemies [...] and gobbles them up [...]. But these new imaginal cells continue to appear, more and more of them! Pretty soon, the caterpillar's immune system cannot destroy them fast enough. More and more of the imaginal cells survive.
And then an amazing thing happens! The little tiny lonely imaginal cells start to clump together, into friendly little groups. They all resonate together at the same frequency, passing information from one to another. Then, after a while, another amazing thing happens! The clumps of imaginal cells start to cluster together! [...] a long string of clumping and clus-
tering imaginal cells, all resonating at the same frequency, all passing information from one to another there inside the chrysalis.
[…] Then at some point, the entire long string of imaginal cells suddenly realizes all together that it is Something. Different from the caterpillar. Something New! Something Wonderful! [...] and in that realization is the shout of the birth of the butterfly!
[…] Each new butterfly cell can take on a different job. There is something for everyone to do, and everyone is im-
portant. And each cell begins to do just that very thing it is most drawn to do. And every other cell encourages it
to do just that. A great way to organize a butterfly! And a great way to organize a butterfly movement!
Norie Huddle (*1944) US American author, Butterfly, Huddle Books, 1st edition (Earth Day) April 1990

Silence and the condition of being alone are considered anathema in today's world of multimedia and constant connec-
tion, but great thoughts, ideas, and originality do not spring from the noisy mess. It is important to embrace our silence and solitude, to hold them dear, as it is only in them that we will discover the true dephts of our thoughts and the well-
spring of our joy. And only in the silence can we start to create the changes that will make us fearless, happier, and more content in our lives. We all want to change the world for the better, but often we stand on our soapbox and say,
'It is they who must change.' The truth is we cannot change them or the world. The only thing we can change is oursel-
ves, and that is hard. For many change is an uncomfortable thing. Most people love the idea of change, the delightful
daydream of living a different life, but very few chose to go through discomfort and inner turmoil that true change requi-
res. But it is only when we are prepared to take this uncomfortable step that we can hope to bring the progressive
change to improve not the world but ourselves, for the world will continue turning but we will destroying ourselves.
Audio interview with Annette Jahnel (*1962) South African photographer, artist, world traveller offering the project "Searching for Galileo", public speaker, author, Interview With Author Annette Jahnel, cited in: My Year of Beds. Book one; Germany to China, "Epilogue", Lulu, 2. March 2011, presented by the US American radio station Voice of Vashon, Vashon Island, Washington, pro-
gram on Prose, Poetry & Purpose, host March Twisdale, minute 55:12, 1:02:20 duration, recorded summer 2014, posted 5. October 2014

The direction of change to seek is not in our four dimensions: it is getting deeper into what you are, where you are,
like turning up the volume on the amplifier. Thaddeus Golas (1924-1997) US American author, Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment, Seed Center, Bantam Books, 1971, paperback, 1980

When a cycle of civilisation is reaching its end, it is difficult to achieve anything by resisting it and by directly opposing the forces in motion. The current is too strong; one would be overwhelmed. The essential thing is to not let oneself be impressed by the omnipotence and apparent triumph of the forces of the epoch. These forces, devoid of connection with any higher principle, are in fact, on a short chain. One should not become fixated on the present, and on things at hand, but keep in view the conditions that may come about in the future. Thus the principle to follow could be that of letting the forces and processes of this epoch take their own course, while keeping oneself firm and ready to inter-
vene when "the tiger, which cannot leap of the person riding it, is tired of running. Julius Evola (1898-1974) Italian cul-\\ture philosopher, esotericist, writer, Ride the Tiger. A Survival Manual for the Aristocrats of the Soul, 1961, Inner Traditions, 8. September 2003; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Reference: en.Wikiquote entry ► Change

Literary quotes

The pen is mightier than a sword as a sword. […] Take away the sword; States can be saved without it!
⚡ Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) English politician, leading member of the Oxford Movement, "Great Patron" of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia (SRIA), playwright, poet, novelist, historical play Cardinal Richelieu, character Richelieu, 1839

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then. Character Alice to character Caterpillar, cited in: Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) English mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, photographer, writer, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 5 Advice from a Caterpillar, Macmillan, 26. November 1865

It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.
Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) English mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, photographer, writer, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 10 "The Lobster Quadrille", character Alice to character Mock Turtle, Macmillan, 26. November 1865

I was dead. I was a woman who had divorced her soul. I was living apart from this self which you now see.
I belonged to all men, and to none. They called me harlot, and a woman possessed of seven devils. I was cursed,
and I was envied.
But when His dawn-eyes looked into my eyes all the stars of my night faded away,
and I became Miriam, only Miriam,
a woman lost to the earth she had known, and finding herself in new places.
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese US American painter, philosopher, poet, writer, Jesus The Son of Man, chapter
"Mary Magdalen: On Meeting Jesus For The First Time", 1928

How amazing time is, and how amazing we are. Time has been transformed, and we have changed;
it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.
Yesterday we complained of time and feared it, but today we love and embrace it.
Indeed, we have begun to perceive its purposes and characteristics, and to comprehend its secrets and enigmas.
Khalil Gibran (1883-1931) Lebanese US American painter, philosopher, poet, writer, Robin H. Waterfield, editor, The Vision. Reflections on the Way of the Soul, chapter "Children of Gods, Scions of Apes", 1994, Penguin, 1. January 1998

You have many habits that weaken you. The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Dan Millman peacefulwarrior.com (*1946) US American Trampolining world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, college professor, spiritual teacher, author, part-fictional, part-autobiographical book Way of the Peaceful Warrior. A Book that Changes Lives, character "Socrates", H J Kramer, Tiburon, California, distributed by Publisher’s Group West, Emeryville, California, 1980, S. 113, edition 1984

I never change, I simply become more myself. Joyce Carol Oates, Solstice. A Novel, Ontario Review Press, 1st edition 1. October 2000

And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won't
be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.
Haruki Murakami (*1949) Japanese writer, novel Kafka on the Shore, Shinchōsha, 12. September 2002, English publication 2005

Poem

The second you stepped into this world of existence
A ladder was placed before you to help you escape it.
First, you were mineral; then you transformed into a plant;
Then you became an animal. (How could you not know this?)
Then you changed yet again, and became a human being
Endowed with divine consciousness, reason, faith.
Look at your body, made from dust: what perfection it has!
And when you have gone beyond being human
You will, without any doubt, become an Angel;
You will be done with earth, and Heaven will be your home.
Go beyond even that angelic condition
Dive again into God's boundless Ocean
So your drop of water at last transforms into the Sea.
Jalal ad-Din Muḥammad Rumi (1207-1273) Persian Muslim Sufi mystic, jurist, theologian, poet, Andrew Harvey, editor,
Light Upon Light. Inspirations from Rumi, S. 194, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 13. March 1996

This phrase is also attributed to and used in a similar version by XIV. Dalai Lama and Bruce C. Harris, child’s rights activist and alumnus of Up With People.

If you think you're too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito. African proverb

Quotes on majorities ⇔ minorities

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. Mohandas Karamchand Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) Indian sage, spiritual activist leader, humanitarian, lawyer, nonviolent freedom fighter, cited in: John Barker, editor, Anthropology of Morality in Melanesia and Beyond, The. Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific, Taylor & Francis, 15. November 2016

Butterfly Heliconius sapho, 23. August 2014

Although men and women have the same potentials for aggression and warm-heartedness, they differ in which of the two more easily manifests. Thus, if the majority of world leaders were women, perhaps there would be less danger of war and more cooperation on the basis of global concern – although, of course, some women can be difficult! I sympathize with feminists, but they must not merely shout. They must exert efforts to make positive contributions to society. H.H. 14th Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso (*1935) Tibetan monk, leader of the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism, 2007 International Congress on the Women's Role in the Sangha: Bhikshuni Vinaya and Ordination Lineages, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany,
18.-20. July 2007, transcribed by Alexander Berzin, August 2007

The majority of people can reside only within the world of opposites, in which one side is right and one is wrong, making their choices easier and the illusions much stronger. For this reason the journey into the soul is
so intimidating: It is the journey of illumination and revelation into the domain of truth, melting the polarity of opposi-
tes and ascending into the truth that All is indeed One. Caroline Myss Myss.com (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, mystic, medical intuitive, bestselling author, Newsletter, 11. January 2008

The immunity of the nation depends entirely upon the existence of a leading minority immune to the evil and capable of combating the powerful suggestive effect. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of depth psychology, author, The Symbolic Life. Miscellaneous Writings – The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 18, paragraph 1400, Princeton University Press, 1. February 1977

One man with courage is a majority. Thomas Jefferson [US Founding Father] (1743-1826) third US president (1801-1809), principal author of the Declaration of Independence, 4. July 1776

Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) US American Baptist minister, activist, leader of the African American civil rights movement, unsourced, cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Milk is the symbol of the first aspect of love, that of care and affirmation.
Honey symbolizes the sweetness of life, the love for it and the happiness in being alive.
Most mothers are capable of giving "milk," but only a minority of giving "honey" too.
In order to be able to give honey, a mother must not only be a "good mother," but a happy person.
Erich Fromm (1900-1980) US American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, author, The Art of Loving, S. 54, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1956

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a ma-
jority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion – and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the mino-
rity is the stronger) assume its opinion [...] while Truth again reverts to a new minority. Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) (1813-1855) Danish existentialist philosopher, theologian, writer, Alexander Dru, translator, Journals of Kierkegaard, written 1850, Harper Torchbooks, paperback edition 1959

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.
Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931) French social psychologist, sociologist, amateur physicist, originator of and author on herd behavior, crowd psychology and group dynamics, racial superiority, author, The Crowd. A Study of the Public Mind, 1896, S. 110, Viking Press, 1960⁵

Human dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope
of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. James Thurber (1894-1961) US American author, cartoonist, wit, Writings & Drawings, S. 1162, Library of America, 1. October 1996

Prospect centennarians

Most babies born in the United States and Western Europe today are expected to live to 100 if we continue on the same trend of increased life expectancy, accor-
ding to a study published in the journal Lancet. 'Very long lives are not the distant privilege of remote future generations – very long lives are the probable destiny of most people alive now,' wrote the
study authors, who are from the Danish Aging Research Center. Article Majority of Babies Will Live to 100 – How Will
They Do It? Rising life expectancy means more of us will live not only longer but better through our senior years, presented by
the monthly news magazine U.S. News & World Report, Living Well, Deborah Kotz, 2. October 2009

Study on group decision-making in animals, University of Essex in Cornwall, England: British biologists Roper and Conradt concluded: The alpha deer has only sexual preference choice. The herd makes a majority democratic decision where to graze next. Democracy is wired into the brains of creatures.

When there are predators around, decisions require a super majority: two-thirds have to be pointing toward the water hole before they move. And this goes across the spectrum in biology, from insects to orangutans. By their actions, the members of the group all "vote," if you will. Democracy is in our DNA. Jefferson was right.
Interview with Thom Hartmann thomhartmann.com (*1951) US American former psychotherapist and entrepreneur, radio host of Air America, progressive political commentator, journalist, author, Threshold. The Crisis of Western Culture, The Crisis of Western Culture, YouTube film, 29:05 minutes duration, posted 30. July 2009

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover
their senses slowly, and one by one. Charles Mackay (1814-1889) Scottish songwriter, poet, journalist, author, Extraor-
dinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, 1841, Harriman House, Hampshire, United Kingdom, 26. September 2003, CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, reprint edition 22. October 2013

The less justified a man is in claiming excellence for his own self, the more ready he is to claim all excellence for his nation, his religion, his race or his holy cause. Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) US American longshoreman philosopher, social writer, social psychology book The True Believer. Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements, Harper & Brothers, 1951

The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false. Paul Johnson (1928-2023) English popular historian, speechwriter, journalist, author, The Recovery of Freedom, B. Blackwell, 1980

A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted
by a majority. Video presentation by Father Rick Warren (*1954) US American evangelical Christian minister, Saddleback Church, Lake Forest, California, philanthropist, bestselling author, Facebook comment dated 9. August 2012, cited in: AZ Quotes

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish politician, pacifist, satirist, dramatist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1925, comedy Arms and the Man, first performed 21. April 1894

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish politician, pacifist, satirist, dramatist, Nobel laureate in literature, 1925, comedy Arms and the Man, first performed 21. April 1894

Monsters exist but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions. Primo Levi (1919-1987) Italian Jewish chemist, partisan, Holocaust survivor, writer, Goodreads Quotable Quote

Majorities, of course, start with minorities.
Robert Moses (*1935) US American educator and civil rights activist, cited in:
AZ Quotes

You can always tell who the pioneers are because they have arrows in their back and are lying face down in the dirt. Source unknown, cited in: allauthor.com

A single bee is ignored, but when millions come together, even the bravest run in fear. The one thing the government fears is the day we stand together. Authorship unknown

References: en.Wikiquote entries ► Minority and ► Majority

Reference: en.Wikipedia entry ► Keyword Minority influence

References: 117 majorities quotes ► 86 minority quotes ► Majority And Minority Quotes, presented by AZ Quotes

Siehe auch: ► Zitate zum Thema Mehrheiten ⇔ Minderheiten

System changes – effected by more than 10% critical mass

When 11.11% of the population have an unshakable conviction,
it will one day inevitably be adopted by the 80% majority of the society.
The travelling memes of more than 10% of the committed
opinion holders do indeed change the tide.

The percentage of committed opinion holders required to influence a society remains at the threshold
of more than 10 percent regardless of how or where that opinion starts and spreads in the society.

Once the minority opinion reached 10% of the population,
the minority opinion takes over the original majority opinion
(shown in green).
Image credit: SCNARC/Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

"When the number of committed opinion holders is below 10 percent, there is no visible progress in the spread of ideas. It would literally take the amount of time comparable to the age of the universe for this size group to reach the majority. Once that number grows above 10 per-
cent, the idea spreads like flame."
Boleslaw Szymansk, Ph.D. (*1950) Polish professor of computer science, founder of the Center for Pervasive Computing and Networking, director of SCNARC, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, RPI study, 2011⁶

"In general, people do not like to have an unpopular opinion and are always seeking to try locally to come to consensus. The percentage of committed opinion holders required to influence a society remains at approximately 10 percent, regardless of how or where that opinion starts and spreads in the society. As agents of change start to convince more and more people, the situation begins to change. People begin to question their own views at first and then completely adopt the new view to spread it even further. If the true believers just influenced their neighbors, that wouldn't change anything within the larger system, as we saw with percentages less than 10." Sameet Sreenivasan, research associate at Social Cognitive Networks Academic Research Center (SCNARC), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, study author, RPI study, 2011⁷

Susan Sontag (1933-2004) [...] did get off one soundbite in an interview on television, which was to me a stunning sermon in and of itself. She was asked what she had learned from the Holocaust, and she said that
⚑ 10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and that
⚑ 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and that
⚑ the remaining 80 percent could be moved in either direction.
Article by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (1922-2007) US American humanist, artist, WWII veteran, influential writer of the 20th century, Susan Sontag and Arthur Miller, presented by the US American politically progressive/democratic socialist monthly magazine
In These Times, 3. March 2005

Written sources / references:
► Article Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas, presented by the publication Rensselaer News,
25. July 2011 reissued by Science Daily, 26. July 2011
► Article Minority rules: Scientists discover tipping point for the spread of ideas, presented by the science,
research and technology news aggregator Phys.org, 25. July 2011
► Article Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities, PDF, presented by the US American
peer-reviewed scientific journal Physical Review, 22. July 2011

Media offering:
► Video message by Marianne Williamson (*1952) US American spiritual teacher, political activist, visionary, lecturer, author,
Are You Part of the 11%?, presented by the presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), DailyMotion flilm clip, 1:11 minute duration,
posted 19. October 2007

Siehe auch: ► Systemveränderungen – ausgelöst durch mehr als 10% kritische Masse

Quotes by David R. Hawkins

⚠ Caveat See Power vs. Truth, January 2013

Don't force change, just observe / document. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), source unknown

The two sides of anger

Anger can be a fulcrum by which the oppressed are eventually catapulted to freedom. Fury over social injustice, victimization, and inequality has created great movements that led to major changes in the structure of society. But Anger expresses itself most often as resentment and revenge, and is, therefore, volatile and dangerous. Anger as a lifestyle is exemplified by irritable, explosive people who are oversensitive to slights and become "injustice collectors", quarrelsome, belligerent or litigious. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 4 "Levels of Consciousness", S. 82, Hay House, February 2002

Butterfly Papilio memnon heronus

The majority of people [78-85 %] are so divorced from their own states of pure consciousness that they don't recognize them when they experience them, because they identify with their own lower ego states, or their own lowest common denominator. A negative self-image blots out the joyous brilliance that is the true essence of their identities, which therefore goes unrecognized. That this joyous, peaceful, fulfilling state is really one's own essence has been a basic tenet of every great spiritual leader (for example, ‘the kingdom of God is within you’).
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 6 "New Horizons in Research", S. 106, Hay House, February 2002

When turbulence [catalysis] occurs in the attractor fields of consciousness, it creates an emotional upset that continues until a new level of equilibrium is established.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, S. 217, Hay House, February 2002

[T]he courage to endure temporary discomfort of growth is required, and the mind tends to resist change as a matter of pride. Recovery from any disease process is dependent on willingness to explore new ways of looking at one's self and life, which includes the capacity to endure inner fears when belief systems are shaken.
Dr. David R. Hawkins, Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 18 "Wellness and the Disease Process", S. 220, Hay House, February 2002

Epistle of Paul, referenced as a footnote; DH, PvF, S. 312, 2002:

For your conflict is not only with flesh and blood, but also with the angels, and with powers seen and unseen, with the rulers of the world of darkness, one with the evil spirits under the heavens. Ephesians 6, 12 (NT) George Lamsa, translator, A.J. Holman and Company, Philadelphia, 1957

The majority [78-85%] of people are driven by unseen forces, and for a great deal of our lives, most of us are in des-
pair over this fact. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 24 "Resolution", S. 290, Hay House, February 2002

Mankind, coming of age, will greatly transform the human culture.

With the consciousness level of humanity finally above 200, we may expect great transformations throughout human culture, as mankind becomes more responsible for its knowledge, and thus its deeds. We've become fully accountable, whether we like it or not. We're at the point in the evolution of our collective awareness where we may even assume stewardship of consciousness itself. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Power vs. Force. The Hidden Determinants of Human Behavior, chapter 24 "Resolution", S. 292, Hay House, February 2002

A minority seeks personal growth.

It is only the minority of people who seek self-improvement or personal growth. This is because whatever one's self-criticisms, one secretly really believes that one's way of being is okay and probably the only correct one. They are alright as they are, and all problems are caused by other people's selfishness, unfairness, and by the external world.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, 2001

Essence is a change agent.

We change the world not by what we say or do but as a consequence of what we have become. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), The Eye of The I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 69, 2001

There is only on appropriate 'penance' for wrong-doing, and that is change. Instead of condemning the negative, we choose the positive. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, S. 143, 2001

Addictive unconscious patterns resisting change:

Personas, images, personality styles, cultured stereotypes, group identifications

Question: Why do people find it so difficult to change?
Answer: They identify with their personality, which can be like an addiction. Styles are modish, popularized, and glamorized. Each style has its advantages to impress or control others. There is a secret payoff and satisfaction in being the victim, martyr, or loser. Each persona is a way of manipulating a specific social response. The social image is a way of influencing opinion, and it reflects a person's positionalities. These self-images also have a strong karmic component that is simultaneously a self-casting and a dra-
matization. These personality styles are influenced by the media, and each has its gain as well as a price. They are cultured stereotypes embedded on a given culture. These styles change with time. The 'tough guy', the sophisticate,
the charmer, and the 'no-nonsense, down-to-earth' types are all social castings. The Dudley-Do-Right, the rebel, the
outlaw, the mobster, etc., also reflect group identifications. People become addicted to a style even to the point
of death. The danger-prone 'macho' image often results in a violent final ending. The extreme-sports fanatic keeps going faster and faster until he hits the wall. Innate to those images is the desire to be a hero. People cherish their image and get lost in their identification with it. These influences are unconscious and often rigid self-definitions that resist change. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), The Eye of the I from Which Nothing is Hidden, chapter 14 "The Body
and Society", S. 282-283, Veritas Publishing, revised edition 2002

Flying agaric

The agency of change in spiritual struggles of personal meta-
morphosis is always beyond the power of the seeker.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, S. 222, 2005

Unaided, the mind is too weak and ineffective to bring about major change; even "genius" calibrates at only 499. There are many geniuses and remarkably prominent people of great accomplishment whose personal lives are disastrous, and the public cannot understand why celebrities end up as suici-
des. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Truth vs. Falsehood. How to Tell the Difference, chapter 16 "Religion and Truth", "The Will (Cal. 850)", S. 357-358, 2005

By invitation, the Holy Spirit transforms comprehension by virtue of the presence of the healing power of Grace. What the ego cannot lift with all its might is like a feather to the Grace of God.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 56, 2006

Unconditional Love is the goal of the majority of spiritually committed people and especially of serious spiritual devo-
tees and aspirants. It is also the ideal of Christianity as well as other religions. [...] Unconditional Love is a practical
and reachable goal and not just an idealized wishful condition for those who seriously choose it as an inspirational devotional goal.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, S. 256, 2006

Gifts of spiritual declaration, commitment, and surrender

10. Accept that by spiritual declaration, commitment, and surrender, Knowingness arises that provides support, information, and all that is needed for the entire journey. The most powerful tool that is in the province of the will is devotion. Thus, it is not just spiritual truth but the degree of one’s devotion to it that empowers it to become transformative.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Transcending the Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, chapter 19, "Simple Tools of Great Value", S. 334, 2006

Truth and devotion

Alternative source: Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, S. 24, Reflection of February 12th, January 2011

Spiritual evolution is the automatic consequence of watching the mind from the general viewpoint of context rather then content. Instead of trying to force change, it is merely necessary
to allow Divinity to do so by deeply surrendering all control, resistance, and illusions of gain or loss. It is not necessary to attack illusions but to merely allow them to fall away. It is not necessary, nor fruitful to use force by such mechanisms as guilt, nor is it necessary to try to pursue or propel spiritual evolution because it automatically evolves of it's own accord when the obstacles and resistances of illusions are surrendered.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Transcending Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway to Enlightenment, chapter 21 "Transcending The Mind", S. 354, 2006

It is also necessary to accept that timing is up to the Self, and not the self, because only the Self is capable of incor-
porating unknown karmic qualities. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Transcending Levels of Consciousness. The Stairway
to Enlightenment, chapter 21 "Transcending The Mind", S. 354, 2006

Field related emergence of: Possiblity ⇔ Probability ⇔ Certainty

What is possibility in a weak field becomes a probability in a stronger field and a certainty in a field of Infinite Power (e.g. Divinity). Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Reality, Spirituality, and Modern Man, chapter 3 "Content and Context", S. 68, 2008

Double-decked George Washington Bridge,
connecting New York City to Bergen County, New Jersey

Experiential Validation: Spiritual alignment and intention plus dedication are inherently transformative and bring about a progressive change in the quality of life experience. This occurs automatically as a result of the field effect and is therefore not 'caused' by the personal will. The incorporation of spiritual values should be for its own sake rather than for some imaginary gain or control that paradoxically counters and obstructs the primary intention.
David R. Hawkins, Reality, Spirituality and Modern Man chapter 10 "Experiential versus Conceptual", S. 194, 2008

Residual trauma

Doubt, grief or fear

If the catastrophic event is not worked through completely, there are certain residuals. It is like we have only halfway fallen off the cliff. Some peole think they have walked off the cliff, but actually we find that they were secretly crossing their fingers and hanging onto some little outcropping or lifeline. The abandonment to God was not really total, so a doubt remains, and out of that doubt is the residual of, for example, grief or fear of the experience. If we do not experience something greater than the personal self when going through the experience, we may end up with a limitation, a certain crippling, the inability to go beyond a certain point, and the willingness to participate becomes limited. The person says, "I would rather live a limited life than face that kind of experience again. I would rather never love again than to love and lose." The saying is,
"Tis better to have love and lost, than never to have loved at all."

The experiencing of lovingness puts us in touch with our Self, that which is greater than our own limited, small self.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Healing and Recovery, chapter 8 "Handling major crisis", S. 256, 2009

Original source:

The Eye of the I From Which Nothing is Hidden, chapter 15 "Clarifications", S. 228, Veritas Publishing, revised edition 2002

Our experience of the world and life is totally the result of inner beliefs and posi-
tionalities. Out of love and respect for God arises the willingness to surrender all these prejudgments, and the humility that ensues opens the doors to the splendor of reality, which is the revelation of the Self. Love is the magic catalyst that brings about the awareness. In the end, faith is replaced by certainty, and therefore it is said that God is found by those who seek Him.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Along the Path to Enlightenment. 365 Reflections from David R. Hawkins, edited by Scott Jeffrey, Reflection of September 17th, January 2011

Spiritual evolution is the automatic consequence of watching the mind – and its proclivities as an "it" – from the general viewpoint of the paradigm of context rather than content. Instead of trying to force change, it is merely necessary
to allow Divinity to do so by deeply surrendering all control, resistance, and illusions of gain or loss. It is not
necessary to destroy or attack illusions but merely to allow them to fall away.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, chapter 5 "Witnessing and Observing", S. 97, quote 2, Hay House, August 2011

Transformation is thus not experienced as the loss of the self, but rather as the gain of the emergence and unfoldment of the Self, which is of a much greater dimension. What actually emerges is a change of state or condition that supersedes and replaces the old. Thus, the lesser is replaced by the greater, by which spiritual evolution reveals the Presence of God as Immanent. This discovery is the change in the state of consciousness historically referred to as "Enlightenment" or "God consciousness".
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Dissolving the Ego, Realizing the Self. Contemplations from the Teachings of David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., edited by Scott Jeffrey, chapter 5 "Witnessing and Observing", S. 201, 1st quote, Hay House, August 2011

Turbulences go along with change.

Anytime there's a shift of consciousness from one level to another, there's a disruption. Interview with David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D., presented by the US American magazine Holistic Networker, Gina Mazza Hillier, 17. June 2009

Aiming of spiritual evolution is good karma.

The inspiration to evolve spiritually is already a manifestation of the presence of God within, and it's certainly indicative of good karma. Just to want to know truth, to evolve, to improve oneself, to become a better person, to fulfill one's potential – those are all inspirations. And the person doesn't make them up; they just come to them. It's like an innate desire to fulfill your potential.
That potential as one evolves it becomes more and more identified in spirituality – the capacity to love, to forgive, to appreciate, to see the beauty in all that exists, to live in peace and harmony instead of discord and strife.
And I'll tell you what happens. It becomes more important to succeed than to win. Anybody can win. It doesn't mean anything. It's success.
Spiritual evolution is the willingness to give up games and seeming wins for a greater goal which is the evolution of your own consciousness. […] to give up selfishness because what is the ego except selfishness in all its desires. […]
The universe responds to the willingness to surrender that. As I said it's like an electrostatic field. You start praying to God for spiritual guidance and all and your life begins to change.
It unfolds automatically. […] The only requirement is to do whatever you do to the best of your capacity and leave the rest up to God. Audio interview with Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), presented by the suspended US American web radio station "Beyond the Ordinary", hosts Nancy Lorenz and Elena Young, 60 minutes duration, aired 10. February 2004

Everything happens spontaneously of its own as a consequence of potentiality emerging as actuality. So you don't see change. What you see is emergence. [...] Phenomena come and go as potentiality becomes actuality [...] when local conditions are favorable. [...] With intention we can influence potentiality manifesting as actuality. The mere intention […] to become more and more spiritually evolved is already very powerful. [...]
Could be that some people's consciousness level is not sufficiently strong to very seriously effect the outcome. However other people's consciousness level is very powerful and they could profoundly effect outcomes.
Removed Q&A audio interview with ⚡ Dr. David R. Hawkins, ACIM talk – November 10th 2005, presented by the US American ACIM web radio station Miracles Center, Sedona, Arizona, Pal Talk #1, host Ellen Sutherland, aired 10. November 2005, YouTube film, 54:46 minutes duration, posted 28. March 2011

The majority of Homo sapiens do not have an etheric brain. The new species of individuals calibrating over 200 is "homo spiritus." Under 200, the left brain is dominant and individuals are more prone to disease, depression, addiction, and rage. Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Sedona Seminar Realization of the Self and the "I", 3 DVD set, 1. November 2003

The rollercoaster ride of the straight and narrow path

The energy is that of the Field [...] and you surrender to the field and you do go through transformative phases and stages. You go through phases where you feel like you're coming off your hinges [...] and strange and unnatural. But, these are normal.
Know that all things are within the infinite harmony of God. Nobody can be lost to God. No matter how upset or strange. People go through inner dissociative states, but where you're at is always within the province of Divinity and is known to God. So you can never be lost to God. The ego may have to adjust to a different perception of itself but there is no way of being lost to Divinity, therefore, to love.
And you can affirm repeatedly "My reality is at one with Divine Harmony. My life is controlled by Divine Harmony. Everything is in Divine order. My life is in control." Because the reality is the Self with a capital "S" is the emergence of the Divine order. [...] The only thing that gets upset with shifts and change is the ego. What is stressful to the ego is often the delight of the Self. [...]
So, fear not! Just surrender it to God. Don't worry about it. Just know at all times that you cannot get lost to God. God's infinite harmony includes all of us and you go through transitional periods where you feel like you're out of balance but that is because the advancement of Consciousness itself. Therefore, don't be afraid.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Sedona Seminar Serenity, DVD 3 of 3, minute 53:59, August 2005

The majority of the world is below 200. That means that nonintegrity is the principle by which they live.
Dr. David R. Hawkins (1927-2012), Sedona Seminar Perception vs. Essence, 3 DVD set, 22. April 2006

Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung

Conclusions

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, Trench, Trübner and Company, 1933, Harcourt Harvest, 5th edition 4. August 1955, 6th edition 1971; cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: If there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, Modern Man in Search of a Soul, S. 49-50, Trench, Trübner and Company, 1933, Harcourt Harvest, 5th edition 4. August 1955, 6th edition 1971

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Fontana Press, 1961, 1963, reissued edition 6. March 1995

Jung-Institut in Küsnacht, Kanton Zürich

There can be no resolution – only patient endurance – of the opposites which ultimately spring from your own na-
ture. You yourself are a conflict that rages in itself and against itself in order to melt its incompatible substances, the male and the female, in the fire of suffering and thus create that form which is the goal of life. Everyone goes through this mill – consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or forcibly. We are crucified between the opposites and delivered up to the torture until this reconciling third takes shape. [...]
Do not doubt the rightness of the two sides within you and let happen whatever may happen happen. The apparently unen-
durable conflict of your life is proof of the rightness of your life.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, autho extrac-
ted from an extraordinary letter to a friend Mrs. Frobel, written at age 70, 1945

Only after I had familiarized myself with alchemy did I realize that the unconscious is a process, and that the psyche
is transformed or developed by the relationship of the ego to the contents of the unconscious. In individual
cases that transformation can be read from dreams and fantasies. In collective life it has left its deposit principally in
the various religious sytems and their changing symbols. Through the study of these collective transformation proces-
ses and through understanding of alchemical symbolism I arrived at the central concept of my psychology: the pro-
cess of individuation.
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections, S. 209, Fontana Press, 1961, 1962, reissued edition 6. March 1995

Extract of an extraordinary letter to Jung's friend Mrs. Fröbe, written at age 70 in 1945:

As an organizer of conferences she had asked Jung to comment on her great inner struggle between the demands of her career and the demands of her family. Jung pleaded to reconcile the struggle between the male [solar, selfbased, personal approach] and the female [lunar, SELF-based, impersonal approach] via patient endurance in the fire of the crucible until transformation has come about.

The great events of world history are, at bottom, profoundly unimportant. In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of the individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations first take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately spring as a gigantic summation from these hidden sources in individuals. In our most private and most subjective lives, we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch. Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) Swiss psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, founder of a new school of analytical depth psychology, author, The Symbolic Life. Miscellaneous Writings – The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 18, paragraph 1400, Princeton University Press, 1. February 1977

Quotes by Barack Obama

Personal avowal

I campaigned on the promise of change – change we can believe in, the slogan went. And right now, I know there are many Americans who aren’t sure that they still believe we can change – or at least, that I can deliver it. But remember this – I never suggested that change would be easy, or that I could do it alone. And when you try to do big things and make big changes, it stirs passions and controversy.
Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US president, State of the Union Address, joint session of Congress, 27. January 2010

Referring to a famous line of The Elders Oraibi, Arizona Hopi Nation

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US president, campaigning on the buzzphrase of "Change and Hope" in 2008

Taiwanese paper kite butterfly

I know there are many [...] who question whether we can forge this new beginning. Some are eager to stoke the flames of division, and to stand in the way of progress. Some suggest that it isn't worth the effort – that we are fated to disagree, and civilizations are doomed to clash. Many more are simply skeptical that real change can occur. There is so much fear, so much mistrust. But if we choose to be bound by the past, we will never move forward. And
I want to particularly say this to young people of every faith, in every country – you, more than anyone, have the ability to remake this world. Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US president, President Obama Addresses Muslim World in Cairo, presented by the US American daily newspaper The Washington Post, Thursday, 4. June 2009

Change cannot happen overnight. No single speech can eradi-
cate years of mistrust, nor can I answer in the time that I have all the complex questions that brought us to this point. I am convinced that in order to move forward, we must say openly the things we hold in our hearts, and that too often are said only behind closed doors.
Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US president, President Obama Addresses Muslim World in Cairo, presented by the US American
daily newspaper The Washington Post, Thursday, 4. June 2009

[P]roud men and women who feel like the rules have been changed in the middle of the game. They're right. The
rules have changed. [...]
[T]o win the future, we’ll need to take on challenges that have been decades in the making.
Barack Obama (*1961) 44th US president, President Obama State of the Union Address 2011, Speech to Joint Session of Congress, Transcript, YouTube film, 1:07:31duration, recorded and posted 25. January 2011

Much madness

Much madness
is divinest sense
To a discerning eye;
Much sense the starkest madness.
’T is the majority
In this, as all, prevails.
Assent, and you are sane;
Demur, – you’re straightway dangerous,
And handled with a chain.

Source: ► Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) US American poet
Complete Poems, Part One: Life XI, 1924

See also: ► Irrational and ► Poems

Englische Texte – English section on Transformation

Incomplete timetable of paradigmal shifts

Timetable of paradigmal shifts

Time frame	Stage	Theme	Representative personality / Event
N/A	Survival	Animism (Pantheism)	Native culture, Aboriginal culture
N/A	Survival	Polytheism	Ancient Egyptian, Semitic, Greek and Roman cultures
N/A	Survival	Monotheism	Judeo-Christian culture
17th century	Success	Rationalism Cogito ergo sum	René Descartes, Baruch Spinoza, Gottfried Leibniz
1651	Survival Success	Social contract theory Materialism, realism, empiricism, ethical egoism	⚡ Thomas Hobbes
1687	Success	Newtonian Paradigm Classical mechanics Universal gravitation	Isaac Newton
1770s	Success	Scientific Materialism, Enlightenment	Charles Darwin
1759-1776	Survival Success	Classical political economics	Adam Smith The Wealth of Nations, 1776
1775-1783	Survival Success	American Revolution	Founding Fathers of the United States, Thomas Paine
1789-1799	Survival Success	French Revolution	List of people granted honorary French citizenship during the French Revolution
1859	Survival	Political Economy Reduced Darwinism Self-interest; adolescent	⚡ Thomas Robert Malthus
1860s	Survival Success	Conventional medicine Linear Era I medicine	Robert Koch, Rudolf Virchow, Ferdinand Sauerbruch, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
1900s	Survival Success	Freudian Psychoanalysis	⚡ Sigmund Freud
1900s	Support	Quantum physics	James Clerk Maxwell, Max Planck, ⚡ Albert Einstein, Niels Bohr, Arthur Compton, Louis de Broglie, Clinton Davisson, Lester Germer, Erwin Schrödinger, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, Max Born, Paul Dirac, John von Neumann Eugene Wigner See also: Timeline of quantum mechanics
1919	Support	Jungian depth psychology	Carl Gustav Jung
1927	Support	Uncertainty principle	Werner Heisenberg
1935	Support	Quantum Entanglement	Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen
1940s 1998	Success Support	Complementary medicine Mind-body interventions Linear Era \|I medicine	Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, O. Carl Simonton
1943	Survival Success Support Service	Hierarchy of needs model	⚡ Abraham Maslow
1953	Survival Success	Genetic determinism	Francis Crick
End 1960s	Support Service	Transpersonal Psychology	Carl Gustav Jung, Viktor Frankl, Karlfried Graf Dürckheim, ⚡ Abraham Maslow, Stanislav Grof, ⚡ Ken Wilber, Anthony Sutich, Frances Vaughan, Roger Walsh, Ronald D. Laing, Charles Tart, Roberto Assagioli
End 1970s 1998	Support Service	Positive Psychology Happiness research	Martin Seligman, Dacher Keltner, Michael Argyle, Alfred Bellebaum, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ed Diener, David G. Myers
1970s/80s 1999	Support Service	Wonder medicine Nonlocal nonlinear Era \|II medicine	Larry Dossey
1980s	Support Service	New Biology Consciousness research	Bruce H. Lipton, Elisabet Sahtouris
1987	Support Service	Paradigmal shift in mankind's consciousness level LoC 190- LoC 204	Harmonic Convergence 16.-17. August 1987
1990s	Support Service	New Physics Consciousness research	Hans-Peter Dürr, Henry P. Stapp, Amit Goswami
1995	Survival Success Support Service	Map of Consciousness [LoC 840] Truth research via muscle testing	⚡ David R. Hawkins
1999	Success Support Service	Rise of the Internet IT Revolution Online Communication	End 1990s – Access boom – Google 1998 Beg 2000s – Social Media Networks boom – Wikipedia 2001, LinkedIn 2003, Xing 2003, Facebook 2004, YouTube 2006, Twitter 2006 Beg 2010s – Social movement waves
2000s	Support Service	Integral Politics	⚡ Ken Wilber, Barbara Marx Hubbard
2003	Support Service	Dignity for all Culture of mutual respect	Robert W. Fuller
2006s	Support Service	Social Banking	Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill, Muhammad Yunus
2006s	Support Service	Caring Economics The Real Wealth of Nations. Creating a Caring Economics, 2007	Riane Eisler
2007	Support Service	Darwinism rediscovered Mutuality; mature	David Loye
2009	Support Service	New Sociology Social Equity rediscovered	Richard Wilkinson, Kate Pickett Daniel Kahneman, Hans Rosling John Stacey Adams, 1963
2010	Support Service	Happiness economics Happy society movement	Socrates, Daniel Kahneman, Richard Layard Angus Deaton, Richard Easterlin, Bruno Frey, Andrew Oswald, Benjamin Radcliff, Bernard M.S. van Praag, Ruut Veenhoven

See also: ► Evolution of consciousness and ► Consciousness-Tables and ► Paradigm shift

Eight statistically confirmed laws of social change

The important reform movements in the United States of America show a strong imprint of Quaker participation.
⚑ Abolition [*]
⚑ Public education [*]
⚑ Penal reform [*]
⚑ Women's suffrage [*] [Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Fry, Jane Addams, Alice Paul, Bayard Rustin]
⚑ Civil rights [*]
⚑ Environmental protection [*]
⚑ Nuclear freeze.
[*] The Quakers (Society of Friends) comprise only 0.0008% of the US population.
Still, they were essentially involved in a series of substantial social changes.

Differentiating force from essence

Change wrought by violence (force) ⇔ lasting transformation wrought by nonviolent "beingness"

༺· Social change requires wisdom, character, patience, and the willingness to forego any personal credit. ·༻
Social justice movements take a span of 4-5 generations (80-100 years) until they reach fruition.
These eight laws of social change were successfully practiced by the Quakers.⁸

Transformational principles	Legend
Prerequisite individual choices	Become aware you are making a choice. Choose the compassionate and life-affirming option as you understand it in the moment.

First law	The individuals (individually) and the group (collectively) must share a common intention.
Second law	The individuals and the group may have goals, but they may not reap cherished potential outcomes.
Third law	The individuals in the group must authentically accept that their goal may not be reached during their lifetimes and be OK with this.
Fourth law	The individuals in the group must authentically accept that they may not reap either credit or acknowledgment for what they have done and be OK with that.
Fifth law	Each person in the group regardless of gender, religion, race, or culture must enjoy fundamental equality dignity while the various roles in the hierarchy of the effort must be respected.
Sixth law	The individuals in the group must forswear violence in word, act or thought.
Seventh law	The individuals [leaders] in the group must make their private selves and personal lives consistent with their public postures.
Eighth law	The individuals (individually) in the group and the group (collectively) must always act from the beingness of life-affirming integrity.

Written sources featuring Stephan A. Schwartz, Ph.D., US American futurologist, senior fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing,
Samueli Institute, cognitive sciences research associate, Laboratories for Fundamental Research, author
► PDF presentation THE POWER – The Eight Laws of Social Change, 2007
► Book The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation, Park Street Press, paperback, 5. October 2015

Media sources featuring Stephan A. Schwartz, Ph.D., US American futurologist, remote viewing future researcher, senior fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing, Samueli Institute, cognitive sciences research associate, Laboratories for Fundamental Research, author
► Audio interview The Eight Laws of Social Change, presented via the broadcaster Blogtalkradio, podcast Paranormal Perceptions,
host Dee Disparti, aired 17. January 2008
► Video presentation Eight Laws of Change, presented by TEDxVail, Beaver Creek, Colorado, YouTube film, 12:27 minutes duration,
recorded 8. January 2016, posted 25. January 2016
► Video presentation The 8 Laws of Change with Stephan A. Schwartz, presented by GlideWing Workshops, YouTube film,
50:03 minutes duration, posted 28. January 2017

Sources featuring Susan Sachs Goldman, US American historian, trustee at The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., speaker on
the Quaker social reforms, author
► Book Friends in Deed. The Story of Quaker Social Reform in America, Highmark Press, 8. May 2012
► Audio interview The Quakers, Forging America's Identity, presented by the US American web radio station New Dimensions,
host Justine Willis-Toms, 57:00 minutes duration, posted 29. May 2013

See also:
► Justice ► Violence ► Force ► Essence ► Dignity ► Respect ► Culture ► Equality ► Choice ► Compassion
► Intention ► Authenticy ► Gender research ► Conflict ► Language ► Thoughts ► Being ► Integrity
► Two opposed American dreams – Charles Moore
► Transmissions of the nonviolence meme

Siehe auch: ► Gesellschaftlicher Wandel

Nine principles of successfully navigating change

Colorful pumpkins

People who successfully navigate change...
⚑ have positive beliefs.
⚑ know that change always brings something positive into their lives.
⚑ know they are resilient, strong, and capable of getting through anything.
⚑ know that every challenging emotion will guide them to positive emotions that help them feel better.
⚑ know that the quicker they accept the change, the less pain and hardship they will feel.
⚑ use empowering questions and words, think better thoughts, and express their feelings.
⚑ know they are connected to something bigger than themselves.
⚑ are not alone; they surround themselves with people who can help, who have the right beliefs and skills.
⚑ And they create an environment that supports their change.
⚑ take action. They have a plan and know how to take care of themselves.

Sources featuring Ariane de Bonvoisin, US American author, entrepreneur, expert on change
► Book excerpt The Nine Principles of Change, excerpted from First 30 Days. The Book, HarperOne, reprinted edition 12. May 2009
► Video presentation First Thirty Days, YouTube film, 3:22 minutes duration, posted 15. February 2008

See also: ► Success and ► Success

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⚑ Chemists	describe catalysis as a highly complex process.	Chemical catalysts initiate a change of the preexisting chemical status/condition (an attractor field change).
⚑ Physicists	term the effect (that goes along with system changes) as turbulences.
⚑ Theologians	refer to the transitioning of eras as the great tribulation.
⚑ Sociologists / psychologists	also refer to human catalysts as 'movers and shakers', 'whistleblowers', 'trailblazers', 'disagreeable givers', and 'shit stirrers'.
⚑ Human catalysts	may trigger r-evolutionary and involutionary transformation that is accompanied by emotional uproar as to release bound energies.	The transformational process continues until the "critical mass point" is reached which as such provokes a complete field shift. After the paradigm shift a new balance of the existing forces begins to establish itself.

Siehe auch: ► Attraktorfelder – abgeschwächte Abbilder der Ursprungsquelle

Value shifts after an epiphany (quantum change)

Male ⇔ female values before and after experiencing a Quantum moment
insightful grace experience – Miller and C'de Baca – Table 1

Rating	Mens' value shifts Before an epiphany	Mens' value shifts After an epiphany	Womens' value shifts Before an epiphany	Womens' value shifts After an epiphany
1.	Wealth	Spirituality	Family	Growth
2.	Adventure	Personal Peace	Independence	Self esteem
3.	Achievement	Family	Career	Spirituality
4.	Pleasure	God's Will	Fitting in	Happiness
5.	Be respected	Honesty	Attractiveness	Generosity
6.	Family	Growth	Knowledge	Personal Peace
7.	Fun	Humility	Self Control	Honesty
8.	Self esteem	Faithfulness to others	Be Loved	Forgiveness
9.	Freedom	Forgiveness	Happiness	Health
10.	Attractiveness	Self esteem	Wealth	Creativity

Male ⇔ female values before and after experiencing a Quantum moment
– Miller and C'de Baca – Table 2

Rating	Mens' value shifts Before an epiphany	Womens' value shifts Before an epiphany	Mens' value shifts After an epiphany	Womens' value shifts After an epiphany
1.	Wealth	Family	Spirituality	Growth
2.	Adventure	Independence	Personal Peace	Self esteem
3.	Achievement	Career	Family	Spirituality
4.	Pleasure	Fitting in	God's Will	Happiness
5.	Be respected	Attractiveness	Honesty	Generosity
6.	Family	Knowledge	Growth	Personal peace
7.	Fun	Self Control	Humility	Honesty
8.	Self esteem	Be Loved	Faithfulness to others	Forgiveness
9.	Freedom	Happiness	Forgiveness	Health
10.	Attractiveness	Wealth	Self esteem	Creativity

Stories of transformation

Transformation by deeper insight

What makes the banner flap?

After living quietly in the south for sixteen years, Hui-neng⁹ made his way to Kuang-chou (now Canton) and visited the famous Fa-hsing Temple.

Deutsche Fahne vor dem Reichstag in Berlin

There he found some monks arguing over a banner waving in the breeze.

"The pennant is inanimate," one monk said, "and the wind makes it flap."
"But," interjected a second monk, "both wind and banner are inanimate, and the waving is an impossibility."
Yet a third added, "The flapping is due to a coincidence of cause and condition."
And a fourth insisted, "The banner does not flap; only the wind moves by itself."

Realizing that the time to declare himself had come, Hui-neng declared,
"Neither wind nor banner but your own mind flaps."

Stunned, the monks knew that they stood before a great teacher.

On Hui-neng, Theosophy Library Online, Wumen Huikai (1183-1260) Chinese Chán (Zen) master of the Song dynasty, compiler and interpreter of The Gateless Gate, 48-koan collection

Lifelong intention of transformation

At 15, I set my heart on learning.
At 30 I had planted my feet firmly on the ground.
At 40, I was never led astray from my goal.
At 50, I knew the will of heaven.
At 60, I heard the bidding of heaven with a docile ear.
At 70, I could do as my heart pleased,
for what I desired no longer conflicted with the will of heaven.

Confucius (551-479 BC) Chinese sage, social philosopher, sponsor of Confucianism, the Chinese state religion,
cited in: Goodreads Quotable Quote

Transformation of things

Blauer Schmetterling

Once Zhuangzi [Chuang Chou]¹⁰ dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He didn't know he was Chuang Chou. Suddenly he woke up and there he was, solid and unmistakable Chuang Chou. But he didn't know if he was Chuang Chou who had dreamt he was a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming he was Chuang Chou. Between Chuang Chou and a butterfly there must be some distinction!
This is called the Transformation of Things.

Burton Watson (1925-2017) US American translator of Chinese and Japanese literature and poetry, Chuang Tzu. Basic Writings, end of chapter 2, S. 45, Columbia University Press, New York, 1964, reprint
18. April 1996; cited in: Ian P. McGreal, editor, ZHUANGZI (Chuang-tzu), Alan Fox, Department of Philosophy, University of Delaware, Great Thinkers of the Eastern World, S. 21-26, Harper Collins Publishers, 1995

Siehe auch: ► Wandlungsgeschichten

Human catalysts – effects and fate

Changing spouses in longterm marriages

Scene past the wedding day:

Husband says to wife: "I hope you'll never change."
Wife says to husband: "I [we] need to change you."

Women improve men. They do, if you [men] don't kill them first.
This change agent [a woman] is good for men. They don't like it. […]
The good news is women can generally get a man to where they want them. They just need to remember
it's a long term project [...] twenty, thirty years.

Mark Gungor (*1954) US American pastor, comedian, marriage counselor, international speaker, speech undated,
partially here: A man still does not do anything, YouTube film, 1:23 minutes duration, posted 21. January 2011

Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men – the other 999 follow women.
Groucho Marx (1890-1977) US American comedian, entertainer, actor

Predicament of catalysts – initiators of change

It ought to be remembered that there is nothing
- more difficult than to take in hand [to plan]
- more uncertain in its success
- or more perilous to conduct [to manage]

than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things [system].
For the initiator has the enmity of
all those who have done well under the old conditions,
and merely lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.
This coolness arises partly from
the fear of the opponents,
who have the laws on their side,
and partly from the incredulity of men,
who do not readily believe in new things
until they have had a long experience of them.

Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) Italian civil servant of the Florentine Republic, humanist, historian, diplomat,
political philosopher, founder of modern political science, writer, The Prince, chapter 6, 1513

Distress of the ones who speak the truth

Who dares to call the child by its right name?
The few who have some part of it descried,
Yet fools enough to guard not their full hearts,
Revealing to riffraff both their insight and their feeling,
Men have of old burned at the stake and crucified.
Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832) German polymath, poet, playwright, dramatist, novelist,
drama Faust. A Tragedy text, act I, scene V [1808], Thomas Boosey and Sons, London, 1821, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976

Siehe auch: ► Wirkung und Schicksal menschlicher Katalysatoren

Scientist of joy – Patch Adams

Hunter "Patch" Adams, 2009

War orphan Dr. Patch Adams was beaten up every day in high school.
As a result of that he was suicidal in his youth and was hospitalized three
times in one year.
He finally got the message of changing what is into a loving world.
He became a scientist for joy, a doctor for the poor.
Humorous visionary Adams promotes "a revolution of love and
compassion" since he was 18.

"All healthy women say the same thing:
All the problems of the world are due to men.
7000 years ago men chose to worship 'money and power over'.
This is why no political system works because the value system
is 'money and power over'. This is the
God of the West and the God of the East." Minute 00:36

"Women for all of history have done what we need.
You can't name one problem in history due to women.
No matter how badly the men behave the women are
raising the children.
Our mother showed us the miracle of being nice, of being kind.
We only need to act like our mother, our grandmother.
We need a grandmother revolution." Minute 11:13

Source/References featuring Patch Adams, M.D. (*1945) US American physician, social activist, citizen diplomat, author, YouTube films
► Video interview End of Capitalism – Revolution of Love, hosted by Italian financial newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, ~November 2009,
Patch Adams – Single clip interview, 12:17 minutes duration, posted 7. July 2011
► Video presentation Patch Adams Healthcare Speech Clip, 7:33 minutes duration, 10. June 2010

See also: ► Humor

Future trends – ⚡ Ray Kurzweil

US American transhumanist and trend researcher ⚡ Ray Kurzweil (*1948) is an inventor since childhood and a
computer wizard. He describes

exponential growth acceleration,
democratization,
sharing of information,
creation tools,
overcoming of poverty with IT technology,
hybridization of humans with nano bots in the brain / bloodstream,
receding of importance of government and religion.

Kurzweil made these terms known:

Kurzweil predicts the acceleration of change rates:

50-80 times the change that happened in the last century will manifest within the next decade. [Status 2009-2019]
1000 times the change that happened in the last century will manifest in the next century.

Links zum Thema Transformation

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Change Management – einfach erklärt
Zwei Mäuse und zwei Zwerge ernähren sich vom Käse aus einem Lager. Als eines Tages der Käse ausbleibt, suchen die Mäuse gleich nach neuem Käse. Die Zwerge analysieren monatelang im leeren Lager über die Ursachen und bedauern sich. Fazit: Die Welt ändert sich, und
der Käse ist immer wieder woanders zu finden.
Zentrale Frage: '"Was würdest Du tun, wenn Du keine Angst hättest?'"

Gertrud Höhler (*1941) deutsche Unternehmensberaterin, Publizistin, Autorin, Jenseits der Gier. Vom Luxus des Teilens, Ullstein, März 2007
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Peter F. Drucker (1909-2005) US American writer, management consultant, self-described "social ecologist", Age of Disconti-
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David Bohm (1917-1992) German-born US American British leading theoretical quantum physicist, philosopher, author, Mark Edwards, Changing Consciousness. Exploring the Hidden Source of the Social, Political, and Environmental Crises Facing Our World. A Dialogue of Words and Images, Harper Collins, San Francisco, New York, 1st issue, September 1991
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Initiation into adulthood

Spencer Johnson (1938-2017) US American physician, business expert and consultant, lecturer, author of children's books, Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life, G. P. Putnam's Sons,
8. September 1998
Change Management – simply explained
Key question: "What would you do if you would not be afraid?"
⚡ Ken Wilber, US American philosopher, Collected Works of Ken Wilber, Volume 4: Integral Psychology, Transformations of Consciousness, Selected Essays, first issued 1986, Shambhala Publications, Boulder, Colorado, 28. December 1999
Daniel G. Amen, US American psychiatrist, self-help guru, bestselling author and medical director of the Amen Clinic, Change Your Brain, Change Your Life. The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Anger, and Impulsiveness, Three Rivers Press, 1998, reprinted edition 31. December 1999
Malcolm Gladwell, CM (*1963) Canadian historian, sociologist, civil engineering professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, business consultant, speaker, journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 1996, author, The Tipping Point. How Little Things Make a Big Difference, Back Bay Books, 7. January 2000
William R. Miller, US American professor of psychology and pschiatry, University
of New Mexico, Janet C'de Baca, University of New Mexico, Quantum Change. When Epiphanies and Sudden Insights Transform Ordinary Lives, The Guilford Press, 1st edition 1. May 2001
Riane Eisler (*1937) Austrian-born American scholar, cultural macrohistorian, social scientist, partnership researcher, social activist, author, The Power of Partnership. Seven Relationships that will change your life, New World Library, March 2003
Christine Page, M.D., British physician, "wisdom keeper", president of the "International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine", speaker, author, Spiritual Alchemy. How to Transform Your Life, Random House United Kingdom,
1st edition 26. July 2005
Thomas Moore, Ph.D. (*1940) US American professor of religious studies, Catholic monk, psychotherapist, musician, writer, Dark Nights of the Soul, Gotham, 16. June 2005
Malcolm Gladwell, CM (*1963) Canadian historian, sociologist, civil engineering professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, business consultant, speaker, journalist, staff writer at The New Yorker magazine since 1996, author, Blink. The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Penguin, January 2006
Alan Deutschman, Ph.D. (*1965) US American professor of journalism, provocative thinker, senior writer at Fast Company, Change or Die. The Three Keys to Change at Work and in Life, HarperBusiness, 2. January 2007
The three keys to change are: Relate [form a emotional relationship with a person or a community that inspires or sustains hope],
Repeat, Reframe
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critic of corporate globalization, expert in psychology and behavioral systems, author, The Great Turning. From Empire to Earth Community, Kumarian Press, 1. October '''2007

Within the societal structure of the power/dominator system there were five stages of human consciousness correlating with Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of needs model: 1) Magical thinking – Physiological
2) Imperial thinking – Safety
3) Social consciousness – Belongingness and Love
4) Cultural consciousness – Esteem
5) Spiritual consciousness – Self-Actualization
6) Self-Transcendence

Lester R. Brown, Plan B 3.0. Mobilizing to Save Civilization, W. W. Norton, 3rd revised edition 22. Januar 2008
Olivier Clerc, Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, Invaluable Lessons from a Frog. Seven Life-Enhancing Metaphors, Dreamriver Press,
25. September 2009
Mark Amaru Pinkham, US American author of The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom, Conversations with the Goddess, and
The Truth Behind the Christ Myth, World Gnosis. The Coming Gnostic Civilization, Adventure Unlimited, 22. June 2010
Jean Shinoda Bolen, M.D. jeanbolen.com (*1936) US American Jungian analyst, proactive women researcher and supporter, crone, spiritual teacher, author, Like a Tree. How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet, Conary Press (Earth Day) 1. April 2011
John Hagel III US American consultant, co-chairman of the Deloitte Center for the Edge, speaker and author on the intersection of business strategy and information technology, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison, The Power of Pull. How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion, Basic Books, First Trade Paper edition 4. December 2012
Otto Scharmer ottoscharmer.com (*1961) German American senior lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), founding chair of the Presencing Institute, core faculty member of the United Nations leaders program, Katrin Kaufer, US Ame-
rican co-founder and research director, Presencing Institute, research fellow, Community Innovators Lab (CoLab), MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Leading from the Emerging Future. From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1 April 2013

New economic frameworks, methods and tools that can help leaders and change-makers guide this transformation

Daniel Estulin (*1966) Lithuanian investigative journalist specialized in the Bilderberg Group, public speaker, author, TransEvolution. The Coming Age of Human Deconstruction, Trine Day, 22. January 2014
Stephan A. Schwartz, Ph.D., US American futurologist, remote viewing future researcher, senior fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing, Samueli Institute, cognitive sciences research associate, Laboratories for Fundamental Research, author, The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation, Park Street Press, paperback, 5. October 2015
Helané Wahbeh, US American assistant professor in neurology, Health & Science University, Oregon, director of research, Insti-
tute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), author, Maha Kury, coauthor, Free To Be Me. A Journey of Transformation through Generational Healing, selfpublised paperback issue, 27. July 2015
Martin Geddes, British computer scientist, author, collection of essays Open Your Mind To Change. A Guidebook To The Great Awakening, Open Minds Media, 24. December 2020, 21. July 2022

Externe Weblinks

Wikipedia-Einträge 2012, Alchemie, Metamorphose, Moksha radikale Bewusstseinsveränderung, Stein der Weisen, Tabula Smaragdina, Transhumanismus, Transformation

Interview mit Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D. (*1931) tschechisch-US-amerikanischer Psychiater, Psychotherapeut, Medizinphilosoph, Mitbegründer der transpersonalen Psychologie, Die Welt ist perfekt, präsentiert von der aufgelösten deutschen Publikation "Transpersonale Perspektiven", Kareem van Gennip, Heft 4/98, Logos-Verlag-Berlin, Juli 1998
Isabelle Fritzsche, Veränderungsintelligenz. Wie kann ich dem Strom des Lebens folgen, statt Kanäle zu bauen?, präsentiert von der Zeitschrift für Organisationsentwicklung PRAXIS, S. 31-34, Februar 2000
Interview mit John White (*1939) US-amerikanischer Bewusstseinsforscher, Dozent, Autor, Richtung Homo Noeticus, präsentiert von dem Magazin "Was ist Erleuchtung? (WIE)", Craig Hamilton, US-amerikanischer WIE-Chefredakteur (1998-12/2006), Heft 9, 2003

Buchauszug

Interview mit Nicanor Perlas (*1950) visionärer phillipinischer Aktivist, Träger des Alternativen Nobelpreises, 2003, Mitgründer des Zentrums für alternative Entwicklungsinitiativen (*2004), Autor, Raupe und Schmetterling, Auszüge aus dem Buch »Zukunft entsteht aus Krise«, präsentiert von wir und jetzt, Gastgeber Geseko von Lüpke, undatiert
Gekürzte und leicht veränderte Fassung eines Beitrags von Prof. Robert Schlögl, Fritz-Haber-Institut, Katalyseforschung – eine Herausforderung, präsentiert vom Stifterverband für die deutsche Wirtschaft, Joost Wintterlin, Fritz-Haber-Institut, 2006

Links zum Thema Transformation – Quora

Beiträge verfasst von Elfriede Ammann, präsentiert auf der kalifornischen Frage-und-Antwort Webseite Quora DE

Beitrag Was ist eine Katalyse?, 163 Aufrufe · 5 Likes, 12. Dezember 2019
Beitrag Was bewirken menschliche Katalysatoren?, 256 Aufrufe · 9 Likes, 13. Dezember 2019
Beitrag Welche menschlichen Katalysatoren, die wandlungswirksam aktiv waren, kannst Du nennen?, 305 Aufrufe · 12 Likes,
14. Dezember 2019

External web links (engl.)

Wikipedia entries 2012, Alchemy, Catalyst poisoning, Metamorphosis, Minority influence, Moksha, Reciprocal causation, Tabula Smaragdina, Transhumanism, Transformation

Nicanor Perlas, Filipino activist, "Alternative Nobel Prize" winner (2003), Editorial The other Philippines, "The "Butterfly Effect" and Societal Transformation", March 2005, reposted by the publication philstar GLOBAL, 20. November 2005

Importance of imaginal cells

Article 5 Lessons My Dark Night of The Soul Has Taught Me, presented by the stories outlet Medium, Patricia S. Williams,
22. December 2020

1. Suffering is necessary.
2. Our loved ones can be the most resistant to our growth.
3. Nobody knows us better than we know ourselves.
4. The real strength lies in our ability to be with ourselves.
5. There's always a hidden meaning that's serving our own evolution.

Audio- und Videolinks

Videointerview mit Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse (1955-2015) deutscher Honorarprofessor für Allgemeine und Organisationspsycholo-
gie, Universität Bremen, Psychologe, Netzwerkforscher zur Komplexitätsverarbeitung in intelligenten Netzwerken und kohärenter Musterbildung, Geschäftsführer von Nextpractice, Unternehmensberater, Über Changemanagement, YouTube Film,
6:08 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 18. Mai 2008
Audiointerview mit Dieter Broers (*1951) deutscher Biophysiker, interdisziplinärer Forscher, 2012 – Kommt der Bewusst-
seinssprung?, Teil 1 von 8, EP #14, präsentiert von dem Podcast-Anbieter ExoNews, Gastgeber Carsten Dreesbach und
Robert Fleischer, YouTube Film, 9:46 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 10. März 2009
Videopräsentation von Dr. Daniele Ganser danieleganser.ch (*1972) Schweizer Historiker, Universität St. Gallen, NATO-Kenner, Experte für verdeckte geostrategische Kriegsführung, Energie- und Friedensforscher, Gründer und Leiter des Swiss Institute for Peace and Energy Research (SIPER) (*2011), Dr. Daniele Ganzer: Wir müssen endlich die Verbindung zwischen Hitler & Deutschland kappen, präsentiert von der deutschen Online-Plattform für investigativen Journalismus KenFM,
YouTube Film, 13:00 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 29. September 2017
Videovortrag von Silke Schäfer, Schweizer Astrologin, Die Chancen waren nie so groß wie jetzt! | Gigantische Transfor-
mationsphase, YouTube Film, 3:02 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 27. Juli 2022

Erklärvideo Imago – Von der Raupe zum Schmetterling, präsentiert von dem Podcast T.Time, YouTube Film,
6:01 Minuten Dauer, eingestellt 29. Mai 2020

Audio and video links (engl.)

Quote To the Crazy Ones, Apple MacIntosh, TV spot on Change and the Motto: "Think different!", first issued 1997
- Apple MacIntosh, TV spot on Change; Motto: "Think different!", Apple Steve Jobs Heres To The Crazy Ones, YouTube film, 1:01 minutes duration, first posted 17. March 2006, reposted 26. September 2012
Video interview with Teri Mahaney, Ph.D., US American expert in higher education, administration and leadership, teacher on brain states and their effect on performance, creativity, healing, consciousness, karma and transformation, Teri Mahaney on Changing your Mind, presented by the US American Conscious Media Network via Gaia TV, host Regina Meredith,
35:46 minutes duration, posted December 2005 Subject to fee
Video interview with John Major Jenkins (1968-2017) US American independent researcher on the pre-Columbian Mesoame-
rican Mayan Mayan calendar, cosmology and philosophy, lecturer, author, John Major Jenkins on 2012 and the Mayan Calendar, presented by the US American Conscious Media Network via Gaia TV, host Regina Meredith, 28:41 minutes duration, posted February 2006 Subject to fee
Video presentation by Malcolm Gladwell, CM (*1963) Canadian historian, sociologist, civil engineering professor emeritus, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, business consultant, speaker, journalist, staff writer with magazine New Yorker, since 1996, author, Genius: 2012, location 2012: Stories from the Near Future conference, sponsored by the US American magazine The New Yorker, introduced by David Remnick, host Henry Finder, 7. May 2007

Discussing the importance of stubbornness and collaboration in problem-solving, the 10,000 hours of practice to master any challenge, example given by role model Andrew Wiles

Audio teleseminar / interview with Ralph Metzner, Ph.D. (1936-2019) German-British US American philosopher, psychologist, psychedelic researcher with Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert in the early 1960s, Harvard University, writer, Alchemical Divination, presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Shift in Action, host Stephen Dinan, US American CEO of The Shift Network, 1:08:23 duration, aired and posted 2. January 2008
Video interview with Richard Moss, richardmoss.com US American visionary thinker, teacher, author on transformation, awareness and self-healing, Richard Moss on Our Multidimensional Selves, sponsored by The 10th Annual Science and Consciousness Conference, Santa Fe, April 2008, presented by the US American Conscious Media Network via Gaia TV,
host Regina Meredith, 40:39 minutes duration, posted May 2008 Subject to fee
Video presentation by Werner Erhard (*1935) US American founder of the est Training (1971-1983) and the "Forum" (1984-1991), cofounder of the Hunger Project, author, Transformation, presented by TransformationFilm.com, 1:16 minutes duration, posted 9. September 2008
Video documentary featuring Marion Woodman (1928-2018) Canadian Jungian analyst, women's movement figure, mythopoetic author, Dancing in the Flames, interviewed by Andrew Harvey (*1952) Indian-British religious scholar, Rumi translator and explicator, teacher of mystic traditions, architect of Sacred Activism, poet, novelist, author, presented by the FilmFestival TV Culture Unplugged, directed by Adam Reid, produced by Robin Crumley, 83:04 minutes duration, produced 2009
Video presentation by William R. Miller, Ph.D., US American professor of psychology and psychiatry, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, author, Motivational Interviewing: Facilitating Change Across Boundaries, presented at the "Fourth Annual Health Disparities Conference", sponsored by the Teachers College, Columbia University, 6. March 2009, YouTube film, 9:32 minutes duration, 22. October 2009

Empathic therapists have the highest success rate with alcohol addicts.

Video presentation by Dan Buettner (*1960) US American longevity coach, explorer, journalist for the National Geographic, educator, author, Health and Well-Being: Keys to Transformation, part 2 of 3, presented by The Nashville Health Care Council, wnptvideos, 58:18 minutes duration, posted 7. January 2010
Audio teleseminar with Corinne McLaughlin (1947-2018) US American educator, author, Practical Visionary. 8 Keys to Spiritual Growth and Social Change, part 1, presented by Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), Shift in Action, program "Exploring the Noetic Sciences" #3, 52:43 minutes duration, posted 18. March 2010
Video teleseminar interview with Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. drdansiegel.com (*1957) US American clinical professor of psychiatry, UCLA, co-director of the Mindful Awareness Research Center, UCLA, executive director of the Mindsight Institute, educator, author, Science of Transformation – MP3, presented by Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), "Essentials of Noetic Sciences" Teleseminar Series, host Cassandra Vieten, 57:37 minutes duration, posted 3. November 2010

The concept of integration, mindfulness techniques are one way to monitor and modify our internal states and create integration, thus facilitating transformation into better states of health.

Video Hi-quality DVD presentation by Joe Marshalla, Ph.D., US American whole-osopher, lecturer, author, Mind Control – The Mechanics of Mind Control – Tools for the Awakening, sponsored by Brave New Books, Austin, Texas, YouTube film, 1:52:48 duration, posted 25. May 2011
Video presentation by Richard Barrett, FRSA (*1945) British social commentator, speaker, author on the evolution of leadership and human values in business and society, A Compass for Navigating Cultural Transformations, Building Capacity for Sustainable Transformations conference, sponsored by the Italian company Asterys, Rome, 7. June 2012, YouTube film,
48:33 minutes duration, posted 29. October 2012
Video presentation by Robb Smith, US American social entrepreneur, co-founder of Integral Life and Chrysallis, The Transformational Life, presented by TEDx Integral Talks, University of Nevada, YouTube film, 16:25 minutes duration, posted
14. February 2013

Thriving in the Transformational Era by Robb Smith

Video presentation by Stephan A. Schwartz, Ph.D., US American futurologist, senior fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing, Samueli Institute, cognitive sciences research associate, Laboratories for Fundamental Research, author, Eight Laws of Change, presented by TEDxVail, Beaver Creek, Colorado, YouTube film, 12:27 minutes duration, recorded 8. January 2016, posted
25. January 2016

These eight science-based strategies of behavior enable any person or small group – even ordinary people without great wealth,
official position, or physical power – to bend the arc of history to create successful lasting life-affirming transformation.

Linkless media offerings

Audio interview with James O'Dea, Irish US American president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), faculty member of the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies, co-director of The Social Healing Project, educator, activist, speaker, author, Yes We
Can Transform the World, presented by the US American podcast Theatre of the Mind, host Kelly Howell, 60 minutes duration, aired 10. April 2009
Audio interview with Lawrence Ellis, US American sustainability advocate, founder and president of Paths to Change, complexity-science organizational consultant, activist, studied application of Satyagraha (Gandhian militant non-violence) to individual and large-scale change via Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University, has an interdisciplinary master’s degree weaving fields as Asian religions and ethics, change-practices of theoretical physicist David Bohm, liberation politics, linguistics and psychology, filmmaker, Embodied Leadership for The Great Turning, presented by the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS),
Shift in Action, 46:51 minutes duration, produced and uploaded 12. May 2009
Vimeo video keynote address by Riane Eisler, Ph.D., J.D. (*1931) Austrian-born US American scholar, cultural historian, systems scientist, partnership researcher, activist, attorney, educator, writer, From Domination to Partnership. Transforming Education and Society, sponsored by 8th annual AERO conference, Transforming Education & Our World, Portland, Oregon, 4-7 August 2011, 62:37 minutes duration, posted 21. August 2011

Audio and video links – ⚡ Ray Kurzweil

Video presentation by ⚡ Ray Kurzweil (*1948) US American computer scientist, inventor, futurist, author on transhumanism, technological singularity, The accelerating power of technology, presented by TED Talks, Monterey, California, 23:41 minutes duration, filmed February 2005, posted November 2006, posted on YouTube 12. Januar 2007
Video presentation by ⚡ Ray Kurzweil (*1948) US American computer scientist, inventor, futurist, author on transhumanism, technological singularity, A university for the coming singularity, YouTube version, presented by TED Talks, Monterey, California, 8:42 minutes duration, filmed February 2009, posted June 2009

Audio and video links (engl.) – Michael Meade

Audio interview with Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org US American storyteller, author, mythologist, The Light Inside Dark Times with Michael Meade, presented by the US American web radio station Shrink Rap Radio, psychology podcast #216,
host David Van Nuys, Ph.D., US American professor emeritus of psychology Sonoma State University, California, 1:10:11 duration, aired 21. August 2009
Video presentation by Michael Meade Mosaicvoices.org US American storyteller, author, mythologist, The Soul of Change, YouTube film, posted 23. March 2010
- The Soul of Change, part 1 of 2, 8:01 minutes duration
- The Soul of Change, part 2 of 2, 6:02 minutes duration
"Change [i.e. transformation] is magic. –
When people cannot effect change it is usually soul that is missing. –
The soul will get us into trouble to get us to change."

Audio and video links (engl.) – Hans Rosling

Audios und Videos featuring Hans Rosling, M.D., Ph.D. (1948-2017) Swedish professor of global health, medical doctor, statistician, data visionary, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, public speaker

Type	Offering	Heading	Sponsor ♦ Location♦P-Date	Minutes duration	Release date
YouTube video	Presentation	*200 years that changed the world*	200 years that changed the world, presented by Gapminder	4:38	22. March 2009
Historical change in life expectancy and income per person within the period 1809-2009
YouTube video	Presentation	200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes	British free-to-air television channel BBC Four, "The Joy of Stats"	4:48	26. November 2010

See also: ► Health: Audio and video links (engl.) – Hans Rosling

Inspirational short movie

Video The emergence of the butterfly: Ideopsis similis, YouTube film, 5:40 minutes duration, posted 23. July 2007

Miracle and beauty of the life cycle of the butterfly Ideopsis similis, native to Okinawa, Japan, condensed and captured on video