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A NEW WAY OF LIVING Essays on human evolution and transformation

Roy Posner

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INTRODUCTION

New Age thinker/author Roy Posner presents ~400 short essays on human evolution and transformation. Influenced by the Indian sage and seer Sri

Aurobindo, Roy offers startlingly new insights into the human condition, and the emergence of a new consciousness and way of living for individuals and society. Among the topics covered are the process of creation and accomplishment, the

keys to attracting sudden good fortune, how to experience the spiritual dimension of life, insights into the character of life, the meaning of world events

in light of our evolutionary potential, and many others. The entries cover the period 2008-18.

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A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

From ~2007 through ~2014 I penned ~400 short essays on the subject of human evolution and transformation. They were initially presented weekly at the Growth Online website, and were later gathered into this single volume, 'A New

Way of Living.'

The many essays are categorized into a half dozen main subjects, and further divided into many more sub-topics, making it easier to navigate the 650 page book.

I hope you find these unconventional, and at times startling views of reality helpful in your own life.

I welcome you to an adventure in consciousness!

- Roy Posner

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PERSONAL GROWTH .................................................................................................. 1

WHAT WE CAN BECOME .......................................................................................... 1 You Become What You Believe You Can Become ................................................................... 1 The Determinants of Who We Are and What We Can Become ................................................. 1 Aligning with the Cosmic Governance .................................................................................. 2 Four Levels of Human Progress ........................................................................................... 3 Conscious vs Unconscious Life Response .............................................................................. 4 The Pure, Self-Existent Consciousness Unfolding in Life that We are Destined to Realize, to Become ...................................................................................................................................... 5 Choosing a Growth Path to the Future ................................................................................. 5

OVERCOMING OUR LIMITATIONS ............................................................................... 7 Take Inventory of Yourself as the First Step to Endless Progress ............................................. 7 Bridging the Psychological and Spiritual Gap ........................................................................ 8 Mr. Darcy's 180 Degree Change .......................................................................................... 9 Overcoming Our Illusions and Superstitions that Replaces the Finite with the Infinite .............. 11 Doing the Right Thing at Every Moment ............................................................................. 12 Assumptions: Fact Checking Our Lives............................................................................... 12 Shifting to Higher Attitudes .............................................................................................. 13 Overcoming Negative Consequences of Ego When Engaging in a Good Act ............................. 14

FACTORS, STRATEGIES THAT ENABLE VAST ACCOMPLISHMENT ....................................... 15 Overview ............................................................................................................................. 15

Accomplishment in Life: Levels ......................................................................................... 15 Keys to Infinite Success in Life ......................................................................................... 17 Individual's Capacities and Character ................................................................................ 19 Bringing About Success in Life in Short Order ..................................................................... 19 Achievement Concerns, Limiting Attitudes, and Higher Consciousness Strategies .................... 20 Organizing the Lower into the Higher for Accomplishment .................................................... 21 Two Inner Approaches that Will Catapult You to a Whole New Level of Success ...................... 22 Accomplishment in Life: What Creates Unfailing Success ..................................................... 23 Knowledge and Will Fused Enabling Ultimate Accomplishment .............................................. 24 Lessons We Can Learn from Erin Brockovich....................................................................... 25 Life Response Book and the Check .................................................................................... 26 Three Levels of Initiatives and Their Potentials for Success .................................................. 27

Energy and Accomplishment ............................................................................................... 28 Energy Accomplishes ....................................................................................................... 28 Energy at Four Planes ..................................................................................................... 28 Energy-Increasing Strategies ........................................................................................... 29 Tesla, Energy, and Sri Aurobindo's Extension of Vedanta ..................................................... 31 Energy Shifts of Individuals in a Life Response Event .......................................................... 32

Our Ability to Respond to, Negotiating Obstacles ................................................................ 33 The Greater the Opposition, the Greater the Opportunity, Progress ....................................... 33 Opposition When a New Positive Force Rises ...................................................................... 34 Accomplishment in Life: Social Environment ....................................................................... 35 Opposition of Darkness to the Integral Effort ...................................................................... 36 Invisible Negative Entities that Can Destroy Us ................................................................... 36

Non-Initiating ; Life’s Initiatives ......................................................................................... 37 Initiatives of Life Succeed ................................................................................................ 37 Life Coming To You Succeeds ........................................................................................... 38 Life’s Initiative Succeed Much More Often than Your Own..................................................... 39 Life's Initiatives vs Our Own Intention ............................................................................... 41 Power of Embracing Opportunities, Relevant Requests Coming Your Way ............................... 41

How Forces of Life Affect Accomplishment .......................................................................... 42 Human Initiative that Leads to Success or Failure ............................................................... 42 Applying the Subtle Principles of Life to Attract Infinite Success ............................................ 43 Rising to Next Plane, Equilibrium of Energies, and Consecration ............................................ 44

THE POWER OF INTENTION ..................................................................................... 45 Overview ............................................................................................................................. 45

Intention that Attracts Instantaneous Luck ......................................................................... 45 The Response that Changed My Life .................................................................................. 45 The Power of Intention that is Great; that Backfires ............................................................ 47

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Hurricanes, Tsunamis, and the Power of Intention .............................................................. 48 The Power of Intention on the Eve of the IPhone ................................................................ 49 Young Albert Einstein and the Power of Intention ................................................................ 51

Knowledge and Will Together ............................................................................................. 55 Knowledge + Will + the Force that Enables Ultimate Accomplishment in Life .......................... 55 Knowledge that is Matched by a Will to Accomplish It Produces Ultimate Results in Life ........... 56 Harnessing Will-Power ..................................................................................................... 57

Subconscious Intention ....................................................................................................... 58 Our Subconscious is Conscious ......................................................................................... 58 The Great Linkup ............................................................................................................ 59 Contemplating Causes that Have Thrust Us Forward ............................................................ 61 Confluence of Histories of Garry Jacobs and Roy Posner ....................................................... 62 The Role of the Subconscious in Attraction ......................................................................... 63

Interest in a Thing Attracts Things Related To It ................................................................ 64 How Life Responds to Focus, Interest, and Aspiration .......................................................... 64 Buddha's Way Out of the Darkness ................................................................................... 66 Focusing on Something Attracts More of It Instantaneously ................................................. 67 A Startling Experience Up On the Roof ............................................................................... 68 Incident at McDonald's .................................................................................................... 69 Being Attached and Unattached To a Problem ..................................................................... 70 Recognition from the Universe .......................................................................................... 70 Piano Synchronicity and the Power of Intention .................................................................. 71 Startling Sales Training Technique .................................................................................... 71 Embracing One Area of Your Life that Evokes Positive Response in Another ............................ 72

THE PROCESS OF CREATION FOR THE INDIVIDUAL ....................................................... 73 Overview ............................................................................................................................. 73

Evoking Luck .................................................................................................................. 73 Energy in the Process of Creation...................................................................................... 73 The Complete Act in the Process of Creation....................................................................... 75 Life Responds to Task Breakdown, Sequence, and Focus ..................................................... 76 Background to Writing My Book On 'The Life Divine' (And A Wonderful Response) ................... 77 The Complete Opportunity ............................................................................................... 77 Consecration Contains “The Complete Act” ......................................................................... 78 Creation Process Same for Divine and Us ........................................................................... 78

THE POWER OF PERSONAL ORGANIZATION ................................................................ 79 Life Response Power of Cleanliness and Orderliness ............................................................ 79

THE POWER OF PERSONAL ATTITUDES ...................................................................... 81 Overcoming Wanting, Maintaining Positive Attitudes .......................................................... 81

The Power of Changing Our Attitudes ................................................................................ 81 The 1000% Solution ........................................................................................................ 82 A Captain's Change of Heart ............................................................................................. 83 Power of Positive Attitude in City of Joy ............................................................................. 83 Perceiving and Overcoming Our Negative Attitudes ............................................................. 85

Embracing the Given Conditions of Life ............................................................................... 85 From Reluctance to Acceptance to the Pinnacles of Success ................................................. 85 The Road to Hana ........................................................................................................... 86 A Reluctance Overcome on the El Camino Real ................................................................... 88 Effect of Taking to Truth in Ordinary and Spiritual Life ......................................................... 89 Consciousness Responsibility ............................................................................................ 90 Perceiving Conflict as Opportunity in ‘You’ve Got Mail’ ......................................................... 90 The Startling Secret of Criss-Cross Circumstance In Our Lives .............................................. 91

Overcoming Wanting Attitudes Toward Others ................................................................... 92 Turning a Problem into a Vast Opportunity ......................................................................... 92 Moving Beyond Our Contradictions with Others ................................................................... 93 Overcoming Jealousy in Our Lives ..................................................................................... 94 Cause of and Solution to (Negative) Assertion .................................................................... 95 Overcoming the Vitriol of Fans .......................................................................................... 96

Overcoming Wanting Attitudes Toward Self, Life ................................................................ 96 Acceding To the Truth Attracts Overwhelming Good Fortune in Downton Abbey ...................... 96 Perceiving and Overcoming Our Negative Attitudes ............................................................. 97

Negative Attitudes Attract Negatively ................................................................................. 97 Dishonesty Attracts the Negative in Film Win Win ............................................................... 97 Not Addressing Problem Causes It to Spread ...................................................................... 99 Life Repeats Negatively ................................................................................................... 99

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The Humiliation of Henry Ford .......................................................................................... 99 Check-Out Incident: Sarcasm and Negative Response From Life ......................................... 100 French Fry Ego Lesson ................................................................................................... 101 Distortion of Truth and the Doubly Failed Businessman ...................................................... 101 Ways We Spoil an Activity .............................................................................................. 102

DEVELOPING PSYCHOLOGICAL STRENGTH ................................................................ 102 Eowyn's Strength Attracts in 'Lord of the Rings' ................................................................ 102 Decision of Strength Attracts Love in 'The Apartment' ....................................................... 103 Strength of Young Elizabeth ........................................................................................... 105 Life Response Power of Eliminating a Dominating Negative Influence .................................. 106 Lenience vs. Strength toward Workers............................................................................. 107

OVERCOMING LIMITS OF HABIT, THE ROUTINE ......................................................... 107 Breaking the Habit ........................................................................................................ 107 Breaking Our Habitual Nature ......................................................................................... 108 Another Road Taken at Fort Mason.................................................................................. 109 Changing the Habit, Routine ........................................................................................... 111 The Life of Spiritual Adventure that Attracts ..................................................................... 113 Disney's Discovery Beyond the Routine ........................................................................... 115 Perfect Parking Space .................................................................................................... 115 Unplanned, Extemporaneous Speech Attracts Startling Outcome ........................................ 116 Beyond the Straight Jacket of the Physical Consciousness .................................................. 117

THE POWER OF PERSONAL VALUES ......................................................................... 117 Application of Specific Values ........................................................................................... 117

Purity of Values Wins Case in Film 'A Civil Action' .............................................................. 117 Power of Values to Shape Our Lives ................................................................................ 118 Cosmic Accounting ........................................................................................................ 120 Less is More ................................................................................................................. 121 Pollyanna's Conscious Happiness Attracts ........................................................................ 121 Life Response Power of Truth ......................................................................................... 122 A Salesperson's Personal Value of Truth Attracts ............................................................... 123 Consciousness Responsibility .......................................................................................... 123 What Do I Deeply Value? ............................................................................................... 124

POWER OF PERFECTION ....................................................................................... 125 Consultant's Effort of Perfection Rewarded In an Unexpected Way ...................................... 125 Life Response Book and the Check .................................................................................. 125

THE TRUE PSYCHOLOGICAL, SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUAL .................................................. 126 The True Individual ........................................................................................................... 126

General ........................................................................................................................... 126 Questions and Answers on True Individuality .................................................................... 126 Power of Human Individuality ......................................................................................... 127 Dan in Real Life ............................................................................................................ 128 The Internet and the Emerging True Individual ................................................................. 129 The Subtitle/Motto of 'The Book' ..................................................................................... 131

THE MAKEUP, PLANES OF OUR BEING ..................................................................... 131 Planes of Being of the Individual ..................................................................................... 131 Perceiving Things as Physical, Vital, Mental, and Spiritual .................................................. 133 Considering the Plane from which We Act ........................................................................ 134 Positive and Negative Human Traits ................................................................................ 134 The Domination of Our Physical/Material Being ................................................................. 136 Power of Perceiving Gradation of Planes in Life ................................................................. 136 Bringing the Powers of the Subtle Planes Down on Earth ................................................... 137 Perception of an Idea at Five Planes ................................................................................ 137 Experience of Time Among Person Types ......................................................................... 137 Subtle Physical Plane ..................................................................................................... 138 Ascent and Descent in Spirit-based Problem Solving.......................................................... 138

HEALTH, WELL-BEING, ENERGY ............................................................................ 139 Reluctance to Overcome Inner Causes of Illness ............................................................... 139 Restoring Our Physical Health ......................................................................................... 140 Power of Preserving our Energies .................................................................................... 141 Willed Immortality ........................................................................................................ 142

LOVE, ROMANCE ................................................................................................ 142 Attracting Romantic Love Out of Nowhere ........................................................................ 142

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SPIRITUAL GROWTH ............................................................................................. 145

OVERVIEW ........................................................................................................ 145 A New View of Spirit ......................................................................................................... 145

The Integral View of Spirit and Life Emerging in the World ................................................. 145 Life Divine ... Here on Earth ........................................................................................... 146 Connecting to Spirit as Householder, Aspirant, or In Between ............................................. 147 All Paths Are One, and Beyond ....................................................................................... 148 Detachment Power ........................................................................................................ 149 Knowing the Ways of the Supramental Force in Our Lives .................................................. 150 Resolving the Play of He and She .................................................................................... 150 Experiences of Spirituality .............................................................................................. 151

Levels of Spiritual Progress We Can Attain ....................................................................... 151 Yoga and Four Levels of Personal Progress ....................................................................... 151 The Pure, Self-Existent Consciousness Unfolding in Life that We are Destined to Realize, to Become (by MSS, Roy Posner) ................................................................................................... 153 Levels of Spiritual Realization ......................................................................................... 154 Ascending Planes of Security in Life................................................................................. 154 Ascent and Descent in Spirit-based Problem Solving.......................................................... 154 Overmental to Supramental Change ................................................................................ 155

Spirit-oriented Expression................................................................................................. 156 Qualities of the Spiritual-Oriented Individual .................................................................... 156

Spiritual Methods of Progress ........................................................................................... 157 A New Way of Living ..................................................................................................... 157 Overview of Spiritual Habits ........................................................................................... 160

Transforming the Subconscious Being .............................................................................. 162 The Spectrum of Human Consciousness ........................................................................... 162 Transforming the Subconscious, Enabling our Supernature ................................................ 163

EVOLVING OUR BEING ......................................................................................... 164 Bridging the Psychological and Spiritual Gap .................................................................... 164 The Other Part of Spiritual Growth: The Personal Purification Process .................................. 165 Overcoming the Unique Contradiction of Who We Are ........................................................ 166 Overcoming our Blind Spots ........................................................................................... 167

CONSECRATION, I.E. OPENING TO THE SPIRITUAL FORCE ............................................ 169 Overview ........................................................................................................................... 169

The Great Secret: Opening to the Spiritual Force (Consecration)......................................... 169 Consecration and Life Response ...................................................................................... 173 Consecration and Spirit-based Living ............................................................................... 174 How to Create Luck in Your Life ...................................................................................... 175 The Power of the Spiritual Force ..................................................................................... 176 Factors that Determine our Receptivity to Life Power and the Incoming Grace ...................... 177 An Experience at the County Courthouse ......................................................................... 178 Miracle Meetings through the Power of Spirit .................................................................... 179 Miracles of the Divine Mother ......................................................................................... 180 The Divine-Net ............................................................................................................. 182 Focusing On Mother, Not the Problem, in Consecration ...................................................... 183 Methods of Consecrating One's Self to Mother's Life .......................................................... 183

Case Studies...................................................................................................................... 184 Overcoming Repetition through the Power of the Spiritual Force ......................................... 184 The Moment that Changed Everything ............................................................................. 186 California Fires and the Response from Life ...................................................................... 187 The DMV: Another Magical Moment through Mother .......................................................... 187 Return Trip & Miraculous Power of the Force .................................................................... 188 Supermind Knows at the Outset the Right Path Among All Paths ......................................... 191

Consecration that Affects Others; the Collective ............................................................... 191 Consecrating for the Benefit of Others ............................................................................. 191 Imagining Spiritual Light Descending on Others ................................................................ 193 Repeating a Life Response for the Collective ..................................................................... 194 Perceiving That Opportunities Can Emerge from the Negative Causes It to Happen in Software Incident ....................................................................................................................... 195 Flat Tire Turnaround...................................................................................................... 196 Consecration Brings Vision & Intuition that Instantly Resolves Problems .............................. 196 Inner Power that Helped End the California Drought .......................................................... 197

FAITH .............................................................................................................. 198

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Your Level of Trust in Life .............................................................................................. 198 Taking Our Faith to the Next Level .................................................................................. 199 Individuality, Faith, and Life Response In ‘Interstellar’ ....................................................... 200

METHODS OF SPIRITUAL SILENCE .......................................................................... 201 Overview ........................................................................................................................... 201

Spiritual Silence and Inner Equality ................................................................................. 201 Beingness and Life Response .......................................................................................... 207 Inner Strategies of Silence that Move Life ........................................................................ 209 Squandering Our Mental Energy ..................................................................................... 210 Moving Life from Within as Harbinger of New Way of Living ................................................ 212 Detachment Power ........................................................................................................ 214 Roofing Contract and the Power Of Silence ....................................................................... 215 Silent Will .................................................................................................................... 216

Equality of Being, Non-Reaction ........................................................................................ 217 The Phone ................................................................................................................... 217 Detachment that Overcomes Delay ................................................................................. 218 Louis Pasteur and the Power of Inner Equality .................................................................. 219 Consciously Abridging Time ............................................................................................ 220 Around the World with Phileas Fogg ................................................................................ 222 The Nature of Complaining and the Power of Non-Complaint .............................................. 223 Return Trip & Miraculous Power of the Force .................................................................... 225 Metro Miracle ............................................................................................................... 227 Flat Tire Turnaround...................................................................................................... 228 Opposition of Darkness to the Integral Effort .................................................................... 228 Invisible Negative Entities that Can Destroy Us ................................................................. 229 Non-Reaction Power ...................................................................................................... 230 Not Reacting to False Action of Another Takes Man to Better Locale .................................... 230

Restraint ........................................................................................................................... 230 The Life Response Power of Restraint .............................................................................. 230 From the Liberty of Ego to the Infinite Power of Self-Restraint ............................................ 231 Non-Judgmental Business Partner Attracts ....................................................................... 233 Roofing Contract and the Power of Silence ....................................................................... 233

GROW BY GIVING ............................................................................................... 234 Self-Givingness, Goodness ................................................................................................ 234

Overview ......................................................................................................................... 234 The Art of Self-Givingness.............................................................................................. 234 Life Response Power of Self-Givingness ........................................................................... 235 Subtle Gesture that Overcomes Disharmony in Still Walking ............................................... 236 How Life Responds through Our Relationships with Others ................................................. 238 Breaking a Money Backlog through Self-Givingness ........................................................... 239 Strategies for Meeting with an Acquaintance .................................................................... 240 Self-Giving through Soul Perception and Connection ......................................................... 241 Life Repeats in Business ................................................................................................ 241

Life Response Power of Self-givingness in Literature and Film ................................................. 242 Acts of Goodness Instantaneously Attract ........................................................................ 242 Generosity of Spirit in Julie and Julia ............................................................................... 242 Self-Givingness Attracts Love in 'Scent of a Woman' ......................................................... 243 Witness for the Prosecution ............................................................................................ 245 The Power of Goodness in Arden Forest ........................................................................... 246 Esther Summerson's Goodness in Bleak House ................................................................. 247 Generosity of Spirit Evokes Life Response ........................................................................ 248

Goodwill ............................................................................................................................ 249 Referral of a Lifetime ..................................................................................................... 249 Evoking the Darkness and the Light ................................................................................ 250 Complete, 180 Degree Turnaround ................................................................................. 253 Goodwill Attracts New Female CEO.................................................................................. 254

Gratitude ........................................................................................................................... 254 Gratitude that Attracts Good Fortune ............................................................................... 254

HARMONY, ONENESS ........................................................................................... 255 Overview ........................................................................................................................... 255

The Infinite Power of Harmony ....................................................................................... 255 Overcoming Ego, Separateness; Power of Harmony .......................................................... 257

Coming Out of Ego as First Step of Conscious Evolution ..................................................... 257 Formula for the End of the Reign of Ego .......................................................................... 258

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Overcoming Ego ........................................................................................................... 259 Overcoming Ignorance and Separativeness, and Becoming One with the Divine Reality ......... 259

Oneness of Life ................................................................................................................. 260 Interconnectedness of All ............................................................................................... 260 Experience of Simultaneous Time ................................................................................... 261

Oneness with Life and Surroundings ................................................................................. 263 Experiencing Oneness in the Depths ................................................................................ 263 Discovering the Oneness of Life ...................................................................................... 263 Recognition from the Universe ........................................................................................ 265 Multiple Responses from a Single Higher Consciousness Movement ..................................... 266

Oneness with Others ......................................................................................................... 267 The Oneness of Adams and Jefferson .............................................................................. 267 Work-Family Balance Evokes Startling Response for Chef .................................................. 267 Oneness and "Consciousness Responsibility" .................................................................... 268

JOY, DELIGHT OF BEING ...................................................................................... 269 Bringing the Sweetness of the Spirit to the Surface of Life ................................................. 269 Thoughts on True, Inner Happiness (i.e. Joy and Delight of Being) ...................................... 270 Pollyanna's Conscious Happiness Attracts ........................................................................ 270

THE TRUE SPIRITUAL INDIVIDUAL ......................................................................... 271 The True and the Spiritually True Individual ..................................................................... 271 Five Levels on the Scale of Personality............................................................................. 274 Levels of Depth of Being of the Individual ........................................................................ 275 Tending the True Self that Fosters Individuality ................................................................ 278 The Life of Spiritual Adventure that Attracts ..................................................................... 279 Karmayogi: Supramental Avatar of Knowledge ................................................................. 281

DEVELOPING AN INNER LIFE ................................................................................. 282 Living from the Depths ...................................................................................................... 282

Moving to the Depths Within .......................................................................................... 282 Moving Within .............................................................................................................. 283 What Does it Mean to Live in the Depths? ........................................................................ 283 Meditations on Spirit and Evolution of Life ........................................................................ 284 Influencing Sports Events from Within ............................................................................. 285 Go Within Rather than Outside to Accomplish a Work ........................................................ 286 Supramental Existence and the Integral Yoga ................................................................... 286 The Yoga of Constructing the Chart of Life ....................................................................... 286

The Psychic Being (True Self, Evolving Soul) .................................................................... 287 Ways of Connecting to the Evolving Soul ......................................................................... 287 Psychic Being ............................................................................................................... 287 The Personal Evolving Soul (The Psychic Being, the True Self) ............................................ 288 The Amazing Journey of the Evolving Soul ....................................................................... 289 The Psychic Being (the Personal Evolving Soul) ................................................................ 289 Methods of Discovering Our Psychic Being and Our Ultimate Transformation ........................ 290 Connecting with One's Personal Evolving Soul .................................................................. 291 The Journey of the Soul ................................................................................................. 293 The Journey of the Soul and the Fulfillment of Our Life's Purpose ........................................ 295 Relations Among Past, Present, and Future in Life Response .............................................. 296 Essence of the Gita ....................................................................................................... 297 Conversation on Making Our Connection with Mother (Supramental Power) More Effective ..... 297

Surrender .......................................................................................................................... 298 Surrender and Our Ultimate Purpose in Life ...................................................................... 298

ACQUIRING TRUE, INTEGRAL KNOWLEDGE ............................................................... 299 Our Essential Ignorance; Movement to Integral Knowledge ............................................. 299

The Journey from Ignorance to Integral Knowledge ........................................................... 299 Progressive Movement Out of Ignorance .......................................................................... 300 Spiritual Approach for Overcoming Human Ignorance Born of Creation ................................ 301 Our Experience of Existence, Conscious Force, Delight (Sat-Chit-Ananda) ............................ 302 Not Yet Titled ............................................................................................................... 302 Mistake of the "Practical Ignorance" ................................................................................ 303 Assumptions: Fact Checking Our Lives............................................................................. 304 Fact-Checking Life ........................................................................................................ 305

Mind's Limits, Higher Functionings.................................................................................... 305 Beyond the Brain to Mind and Knowledge ........................................................................ 305 Limits of Mind and the Opening to Spiritual Mind .............................................................. 307 Limits and Higher Functionings of Mind ............................................................................ 308

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Levels of Mind that Open to Cosmic Planes of Knowledge ................................................... 310 Planes of Mind in the Individual Human ........................................................................... 312 Different Expressions and Results of Mental Energy ........................................................... 315 The Truth About a Sandwich .......................................................................................... 316 Incident at Hearst Castle ............................................................................................... 317 The Delusions of Sense Mind .......................................................................................... 319 Preventing Major Catastrophes and Problems to Come ...................................................... 320 Mistake of the "Practical Ignorance" ................................................................................ 321 New Age of Speed and the Emergence of Spiritual Mind ..................................................... 321 New Human Orientation and Functioning ......................................................................... 322

Moving from the Part to the Whole ................................................................................... 322 Moving from the Part to the Whole .................................................................................. 322 Perceiving All Sides of a Matter ....................................................................................... 323 The Emerging Multi-Sided Understanding in the World ....................................................... 324 Becoming Truth's Instrument ......................................................................................... 325 Opening the Locked Box ................................................................................................ 326 A Thing and Its Opposite are True ................................................................................... 326 Holding a Thought in Our Mind and Its Opposite ............................................................... 327 The Reality, The All That We Can Realize ......................................................................... 328 Startling Life Response Story of Indian Actress ................................................................. 328 Reconciling Opposites - The Supramental View ................................................................. 329

Taking Another’s Point of View ......................................................................................... 329 Taking the Other Person's Point of View and Life Response ................................................ 329 Embracing Another’s Point of View .................................................................................. 331 Perfect Parking Space .................................................................................................... 331 Taking Another's Viewpoint Attracts Great Benefit for One's Self ......................................... 332 Life Response Power of Embracing Another's Point of View ................................................. 333

Insight, Illumination, Intuition, Supramental Perception .................................................. 333 Archimedes Eureka Moment of Vision through Spiritualized Mind ........................................ 333 Ignorance of Mind vs. Integral Knowledge and Power of Supermind .................................... 334 Practical Applications of Supermind, i.e. Truth Consciousness ............................................. 336 The Coming Super-Revolution in Our Ability to Know ......................................................... 338 Knowing without Thinking .............................................................................................. 339 The Decisive Competitive Advantage of Intuition .............................................................. 340 A New Way of Living through Sudden Descents of Truth Knowledge .................................... 341 "This Morning I Awoke with the Entire Solution in My Mind" ............................................... 342 The Divine-Net ............................................................................................................. 343 Consecration Brings Vision & Intuition that Instantly Resolves Problems .............................. 344 Supermind Knows at the Outset the Right Path Among All Paths ......................................... 344 Preventing Major Catastrophes and Problems to Come ...................................................... 345 Process that Brings About the Supramental Divine Life on Earth ......................................... 345 'ANWL' Book & Supramental Life ..................................................................................... 346 Supramental Decision Making on the Sunlit Path ............................................................... 346 From Conscious to Subtle Learning ................................................................................. 348 Supramental Perception and Integral Knowledge .............................................................. 348 Supramental Perception of the Event ............................................................................... 348 Supramental Perception of Subtle Signs .......................................................................... 349 Resolving the Play of He and She .................................................................................... 349 Supramental, The Mother in Creation Process ................................................................... 349

Inner Orientation and Integral Knowledge ....................................................................... 350 Go Inward to Soul to Move Upward in Mind to Truth .......................................................... 350 Thought that Evokes Ultimate Response .......................................................................... 351 Consecration that Connects Us to the "Inner Voice" .......................................................... 352 Experiencing the Reality from Within ............................................................................... 353 Overcoming Billions of Error-Filled Perceptions in the World ............................................... 353 The Subliminal Influence that Checks Irritation ................................................................. 355 Famous Individuals' Catharsis on the Road to Greatness .................................................... 355 Inner Approaches to Relating to Another's Problem ........................................................... 356 "Inner Selling" That Attracts Ultimate Sales Results .......................................................... 356

INNER-BASED DECISION MAKING & PROBLEM SOLVING ............................................. 357 Solving Problems in Life; Decision Making ........................................................................ 357

Overcoming Serious Problems in Life ............................................................................... 357 Problem Solving and Life Response ................................................................................. 360 Supramental Decision Making ......................................................................................... 361 Consecration that Connects Us to the "Inner Voice" .......................................................... 363

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Three Levels of Problem Solving: Rationality, Life, and Spirit .............................................. 364 Being Attached and Unattached to a Problem ................................................................... 365 Consciousness Responsibility .......................................................................................... 365 Three Levels of Initiatives and Their Potentials for Success ................................................ 366 Aligning with the Cosmic Governance .............................................................................. 367 Inner Approaches to Relating to Another's Problem ........................................................... 367 A Salesperson's Personal Value of Truth Attracts ............................................................... 368 “What Should I Do with My Life?” ................................................................................... 368

Solving Society's Problems through Higher Consciousness ............................................... 368 Move to a Higher Level to Resolve a Lower Level Problem .................................................. 368 Inner & Outer Strategies to Cope with the World's Problems and Potentials .......................... 369 Solving the Problems of the World through Spiritualized Mind ............................................. 371 Affecting the Problems of the World from Within ............................................................... 372 Spiritual Approaches to a Mission to Mars ........................................................................ 373 Intuitive Knowledge that Overcomes the Expanding Problems of Society ............................. 375 Individuality, Faith, and Life Response In ‘Interstellar’ ....................................................... 375 Preventing Major Catastrophes and Problems to Come ...................................................... 376 Inner Power that Helped End the California Drought .......................................................... 377

PHYSICAL TRANSFORMATION ................................................................................ 377 Astonishing Spiritual Experiences of The Mother ............................................................... 377 The Mind of the Cells ..................................................................................................... 379 Willed Immortality ........................................................................................................ 380 Santa's Miraculous-Like Delivery of Presents and Mother's Cosmic Experiences of Space Time 381 Getting in Touch with the Mind of the Cells ...................................................................... 381 Mother’s Attempt at the Transformation of the Physical Body ............................................. 382

OVERCOMING TIME AND SPACE ............................................................................. 382 The Ever-Present and Simultaneous Time ........................................................................ 382 Time's Arrow ................................................................................................................ 383 Becoming the Master of Time ......................................................................................... 384 Beyond Science Fiction to the Truths of Higher Consciousness ............................................ 387 Timelessness in Time .................................................................................................... 388 Thoughts on the Nature of Time for the Spiritual Individual ................................................ 388 Shifting Our Time Perspective and the Response of Life ..................................................... 389 Cosmic Causality vs. Synchronous Alignment in Life Response ............................................ 391 Relations Among Past, Present, and Future in Life Response .............................................. 392 Vast Benefits of Being in "Time" Instead of "time" ............................................................. 392 Santa's Miraculous-Like Delivery of Presents and Mother's Cosmic Experiences of Space Time 393 Experience of Simultaneous Time ................................................................................... 393 Eliza and Darcy Align in Space-Time ................................................................................ 395 Quantum Entanglement and Simultaneous Time ............................................................... 396 Examples of Experiencing Simultaneity of Past, Present, Future .......................................... 396

THE CHARACTER OF LIFE ....................................................................................... 397

Nature vs. Soul's Method of Progress ................................................................................ 397 Nature, Soul, and Human Progress ................................................................................. 397 Nature's vs. Self-Directed Tapas ..................................................................................... 397 Increasing Progress through the Positive in the Emerging Mental Age .................................. 398 Questions about the “Character of Life” ........................................................................... 398 Life Works on Many Fronts Simultaneously ....................................................................... 399

Moving Beyond Contradiction ............................................................................................ 400 Progress through Resolution of Contradiction ................................................................... 400 Contradictions Between Dual Pairs Enables Further Progress .............................................. 401 Methods of Overcoming Our Contradiction with Others ...................................................... 401 Contradictions are Complements .................................................................................... 402 Beyond Division and Contradiction to Higher Resolutions in Life .......................................... 403 Developing Complementarity in Intensifying Relationships ................................................. 404 Positive and Negative Arriving Together to Work Out The Conflict ....................................... 404 Perceiving Conflict as Opportunity in ‘You’ve Got Mail’ ....................................................... 405 Inner Approaches to Relating to Another's Problem ........................................................... 406 Purpose of Life’s Difficulties and Challenges ..................................................................... 406

Seeing Beyond the Positive and Negative ......................................................................... 407 Three Life Principles that Demonstrate How the Darkness Serves the Light .......................... 407 Perceiving the Negative in the Right Light ........................................................................ 409 Seeing the Marvel of Existence ....................................................................................... 409

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The Greater the Opposition, the Greater the Opportunity, Progress ..................................... 411 Greater Intensity of the Positive through Its Opposite ....................................................... 412 There's No Success Like Failure ...................................................................................... 413 The Divine Sanctions Progress through Darkness or Light .................................................. 414 The Utility of Evil as Expressed in Mythology and Reality .................................................... 415 Fascinating Relationship Between Good and Evil ............................................................... 416 Perceiving that Opportunities Can Emerge from the Negative Causes It to Happen in Software Incident ....................................................................................................................... 416 Divine Perspective of Devastating Floods in Chennai.......................................................... 417 Evoking Progress On Many Fronts Simultaneously ............................................................. 418 Source & Purpose of Evil in the World .............................................................................. 418 Being Prepared for Our Future ........................................................................................ 419 Positive and Negative Arriving Together to Work Out The Conflict ....................................... 420

Embracing the All .............................................................................................................. 420 Accepting All and Every Thing ........................................................................................ 420 How the Spiritual Aspirant Can Embrace Social Existence ................................................... 421 The Pantheon of the Indian Gods and Beyond................................................................... 422 Power of Embracing Opportunities, Relevant Requests Coming Your Way ............................. 423

Perceiving Life’s Subtle Signs ........................................................................................... 423 Vast Accomplishment by Following the Flow of Life ........................................................... 423 Reading Life’s Subtle (and Not So Subtle) Signs ............................................................... 424 The Ticket .................................................................................................................... 426 Signs Along the Way ..................................................................................................... 427 Fully Engaging the Acts of Life ........................................................................................ 428 The Miraculous as Commonplace .................................................................................... 428 Return Trip & Miraculous Power of the Force .................................................................... 429 Life Mirrors Our Nature, though in Subtle Variation ........................................................... 431 Contemplating Causes that Have Thrust Us Forward .......................................................... 432 Big Life Lessons from a Big Tree Branch .......................................................................... 432 What Occurs at Outset Indicates Final Outcome In Computer Consulting Incident ................. 433 Life Repeats in Business ................................................................................................ 434

The Infinite from the Finite ............................................................................................... 434 How the Small Opens the Portals of the Infinite ................................................................ 434 Our Experience of Existence, Conscious Force, Delight (Sat-Chit-Ananda) ............................ 436 Turning the Finite, the Small into the Infinite, the Great .................................................... 436 Infinite from Finite Example ........................................................................................... 436

Predecessor and Beginning Indicators .............................................................................. 437 Preventing Life from Repeating Negatively ....................................................................... 437 Insuring Splendid Outcomes by Tracing Its Beginnings ...................................................... 439 Sudden Memory as Predecessor of Car’s Return ................................................................ 442 Each Thing is Indicated Beforehand ................................................................................. 442 The Tutor: Astonishing Life Response Association Between Distant Past and Present ............. 443

The Phenomenon of ‘Life Response’ .................................................................................. 444 On the Nature of Luck ................................................................................................... 444 Attitude, Aspiration, Decision, Action: Four Determinates that Evoke Great Response from Life445 Spiritual Approaches to Life Response ............................................................................. 446 Subconscious Presentation of Life Response that Can Be Conscious ..................................... 447 The Many Methods of Attraction Beyond 'The Secret' ......................................................... 449 The Inner Moves the Outer: Spirit, Aspiration, Attitudes, Values ......................................... 449 Building Up Your Consciousness at the Physical Level ........................................................ 450 A Whale of a Story (Predicting Life Response) .................................................................. 451 Startling Simultaneity on a Working Contract ................................................................... 452 Conscious vs Unconscious Life Response .......................................................................... 452 Relations Among Past, Present, and Future in Life Response .............................................. 453 Life Mirrors Our Nature, though in Subtle Variation ........................................................... 454 Background Research On Life Response ........................................................................... 454

Synchronicity and Parallelism ........................................................................................... 455 Focusing on Something Attracts More of It Instantaneously ............................................... 455 Obama – Solyndra – Solar City Synchronicity ................................................................... 456 Background to Writing My Book On 'The Life Divine' (And A Wonderful Response) ................. 457 Cosmic Causality vs. Synchronous Alignment in Life Response ............................................ 458 Piano Synchronicity and the Power of Intention ................................................................ 458 Startling Simultaneity on a Working Contract ................................................................... 459 Recent Historical Context of Life Response ....................................................................... 459 Sudden Memory as Predecessor of Car’s Return ................................................................ 460

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Angels in the Architecture .............................................................................................. 461 The Tutor: Astonishing Life Response Association Between Distant Past and Present ............. 461 Startling Double Synchronicity with Baggar Vance ............................................................ 462 Distortion of Truth and The Doubly Failed Businessman ..................................................... 463 Eliza and Darcy Align in Space-Time ................................................................................ 464 Cosmic Coincidence Over LaLa Land ................................................................................ 464 Disparate Things Arising Together Are Related ................................................................. 465

THE REALITY, & THEORY OF CREATION ................................................................. 467

The Reality (Brahman) ...................................................................................................... 467 Realizing the Reality (Brahman) In Our Lives ................................................................... 467 Experiencing the Reality from Within ............................................................................... 468 First Glimpse of the Omnipresent Reality ......................................................................... 469 Our Illusory View of Reality ............................................................................................ 469 The Profoundest Friendship with the All of Life .................................................................. 470 Manifesting the Spiritual Aspects of the Creator in Creation ................................................ 471 The Reality, The All That We Can Realize ......................................................................... 472 Our Experience of Existence, Conscious Force, Delight (Sat-Chit-Ananda) ............................ 472 Finite and Infinite are Part of Same Reality; Turning Finite into the Infinite .......................... 473 Turning the Finite, the Small into the Infinite, the Great .................................................... 473 On Buddha’s Limited View of Reality................................................................................ 474 Connecting with the Reality So We Can Navigate Vast Change in Our Lives .......................... 475 Resolving the Play of He and She .................................................................................... 475 Questions about God that Demand Explanations. .............................................................. 475

Theory of Creation ............................................................................................................ 477 The Process of Creation, Involution, and Evolution ............................................................ 477 How Infinite Variety Emerges in the Universe ................................................................... 478 Knower Knowing the Known, Lover Loving the Beloved in Involution and Evolution ............... 480 Self-Conception, Self-Limitation, Self-Absorption in the Creation Process ............................. 481 The Divine's Power of Creation that is Available to Us ........................................................ 482 Creation for the Creator, the Individual, Society, and an Organization ................................. 483 Aligning Ourselves with the Cosmic Intent, Fostering Progress in the World ......................... 484 Application of Satchitananda in Our Lives ......................................................................... 484 Ascent and Integration in the Evolutionary Process ........................................................... 486 Aligning Ourselves with the Cosmic Intention ................................................................... 487 Reason for Physical and Psychological Suffering in Creation ............................................... 488 Dividing and Harmonizing Power in Creation .................................................................... 490 The Complete Opportunity ............................................................................................. 490 Creation and Evolution Process ....................................................................................... 491 To Be Titled ................................................................................................................. 491 How Supermind Enables Triplicities from Real Ideas in the Involutionary and Evolutionary Process .................................................................................................................................. 492 Equivalencies Between Involution of the Supreme and Human Evolution .............................. 492

The Nature of Energy ........................................................................................................ 493 Form and Energy .......................................................................................................... 493 Reemergence of Conscious-Force in Life .......................................................................... 494

Sri Aurobindo’s Vision and Spiritual Life ........................................................................... 495 Divine Life on Earth ....................................................................................................... 495 Sri Aurobindo’s View of Existence ................................................................................... 497 Background to Writing My Book on 'The Life Divine' .......................................................... 499 The Supramental Beyond the Universal ........................................................................... 500 Sri Aurobindo's 'The Life Divine': The Ultimate Adventure of Consciousness & Joy ................. 500 Inheriting Sri Aurobindo and Mother's Work to Bring About the Supramental Change ............ 501 The Nature of the Gnostic/Supramental Being .................................................................. 502

SOCIETY’S GROWTH .............................................................................................. 505

HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF HUMANITY ................................................................... 505 Four Stages of Society's Evolution................................................................................... 505 Integrating the Progressive Forces of Society & the Individual ............................................ 507 Increasing Progress through the Positive in the Emerging Mental Age .................................. 509

EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS IN OUR TIMES ........................................................ 510 A New World Emerging .................................................................................................. 510 Levels of Collective Change in Consciousness in the World ................................................. 510

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Rapid Evolution of Society in Recent Decades ................................................................... 511 Man at the Center of Life ............................................................................................... 512 Seeing through the Fog of Social Change to a Human Centered World ................................. 512 Overcoming the Ego of the World ................................................................................... 513 Our Subtle Connection to Corresponding Elements in the World .......................................... 515 Recent Historical Context of Life Response ....................................................................... 516 Famous Individuals' Catharsis on the Road to Greatness .................................................... 517 Vast Benefits of Being in "Time" Instead of "time" ............................................................. 517 The Pure, Self-Existent Consciousness Unfolding in Life that We are Destined to Realize, to Become (by MSS, Roy Posner) ................................................................................................... 518 Benefits, Limits of Materialism ........................................................................................ 519

INDIVIDUALITY, CHANGE MAKERS, PIONEERS .......................................................... 519 Individuality and Society .................................................................................................. 519

Individuality and Social Development .............................................................................. 519 Individuality: Creating Something Out of Nothing ............................................................. 523 The Ultimate Basis for the Emergence of the True Individual .............................................. 524 Tending the True Self that Fosters Individuality ................................................................ 526 Individuality, Faith, and Life Response In ‘Interstellar’ ....................................................... 526 On Ayn Rand ................................................................................................................ 527 Society & The Individual ................................................................................................ 528 Practical Example of Interrelation Among the Individual, Universal, and Transcendent ........... 528

Making an Impact on the World ........................................................................................ 529 Making an Impact on the World ...................................................................................... 529 Famous Individuals' Catharsis on the Road to Greatness .................................................... 530

Pioneer Individuals ........................................................................................................... 530 The Pioneer who Expresses the Subconscious Urge of Society ............................................ 530 Society's Reactions to the Efforts of the Pioneer Individual ................................................. 532 Higher Consciousness Individuals Move the World ............................................................. 533 Karmayogi: Supramental Avatar of Knowledge ................................................................. 533

VALUES IN SOCIETY ............................................................................................ 534 Silicon Valley Values Attract Overwhelmingly .................................................................... 534 Individuality and Collaboration ....................................................................................... 535 Spiritual Values and Fulfillment in Sales ........................................................................... 536 Correspondence of Vulgarity .......................................................................................... 537

MOVEMENT TOWARD WORLD UNITY ....................................................................... 538 Negative Events Forge the Unity of Nations ...................................................................... 538 The Infinite Power of Harmony ....................................................................................... 539 The Current Financial Crisis and World Unity .................................................................... 541 Human Unity and the Global Financial Crisis ..................................................................... 541 Solving the World's Problems through World Parliament .................................................... 542 Microcosm of the Coming Social and Cultural Unity of the World ......................................... 544 Emerging World Unity Amidst the Chaos (2006) ............................................................... 545 First Indicators of an Emerging Global Society .................................................................. 546 Emerging Social Movements in the World ......................................................................... 547

THE EMERGING SPIRITUALITY IN SOCIETY ............................................................... 548 Evolution of Spirituality ..................................................................................................... 548

The Evolution of Spirit in India ....................................................................................... 548 The Evolutionary Aspect of Spirit in India ......................................................................... 550 The Evolutionary Spirituality that is Now Emerging ........................................................... 551 Meditations on Spirit and Evolution of Life ........................................................................ 552 The Force, Not Artificial Technology Can Establish True Unending Life ................................. 553

Spiritual Evolution in Consciousness ................................................................................. 553 The Integral View of Spirit and Life Emerging in the World ................................................. 553 New Planetary Change in Consciousness .......................................................................... 554 'ANWL' Book & Supramental Life ..................................................................................... 555

The New Spirituality of Direct Experience ......................................................................... 556 Beyond the Avatar to Personal Realization of the Many ...................................................... 556 Sri Aurobindo's Multi-Faceted Dream ............................................................................... 556 Chopra, Tolle, and the Emerging Integral Spirituality ......................................................... 557 The Pantheon of the Indian Gods and Beyond................................................................... 558

The Spiritual Force Available in the World ......................................................................... 559 The Availability of the Force and the Next Stage of Human Evolution ................................... 559 The Hippies and the Force .............................................................................................. 560 "Conscious-Force" In the Involution and Evolution ............................................................ 561

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Knowing the Ways of the Supramental Force in Our Lives .................................................. 562 Supermind Knows at the Outset the Right Path Among All Paths ......................................... 563 The Force, Not Artificial Technology Can Establish True Unending Life ................................. 563 New Spirit-based Species on Earth .................................................................................. 563 Supramental Truth Consciousness................................................................................... 564

The Spiritual Aspirant’s Role in Society ............................................................................. 565 Personal & Spiritual Growth of the Individual and the Evolution of Society ........................... 565 How the Spiritual Aspirant Can Embrace Social Existence ................................................... 566 Higher Consciousness Individuals Move the World ............................................................. 567 Karmayogi: Supramental Avatar of Knowledge ................................................................. 567 Limits of Current Collective Existence, and Need of Spiritual Change ................................... 568 Qualities of the Supramental Individual ........................................................................... 568

Spiritual Capacity to Change History, World Events .......................................................... 569 Changing History from Within ......................................................................................... 569

Spiritual Mind Emerging in Society .................................................................................... 570 The Coming Super-Rationality of 21st Century Man ........................................................... 570 Increasing Progress through the Positive in the Emerging Mental Age .................................. 571 Being Prepared for Our Future ........................................................................................ 571 New Age of Speed and the Emergence of Spiritual Mind ..................................................... 572 What Would a Supramental Life Be Like? ......................................................................... 572

OVERCOMING SOCIETY'S PROBLEMS ....................................................................... 573 Preemptive Problem Solving ............................................................................................. 573

Overcoming Society's Problems by Changing Our Human Nature ........................................ 573 Preemptive Problem Solving in the New World .................................................................. 574 Preventing Major Catastrophes and Problems to Come ...................................................... 574

SOCIETY AND THE CHARACTER OF LIFE .................................................................... 575 Gulf of Mexico Catastrophe and the Character of Life ......................................................... 575 Incongruities and Dualities of History that Defy Normal Thinking ........................................ 577 Divine Perspective of Devastating Floods in Chennai.......................................................... 578 Democracy Not Always the Best Way Forward .................................................................. 579 Dark State of the World - 2/1/2017 - and the Way Out ...................................................... 579 Life Response in World Events ........................................................................................ 580

THE EVOLUTION OF NATIONS ................................................................................ 580 Overcoming National Ego .................................................................................................. 580

From Nationalistic Ego to Internationalism ....................................................................... 580 The Mocked Become Tomorrow's Dominating Power .......................................................... 581 Global Harmony Among Nations, and Overcoming Terrorism and Economic Failure ............... 581 Collaborating with the Divine Intent ................................................................................ 582

The Evolution of USA ......................................................................................................... 582 Will America Continue as the Evolutionary Leader? ........................................................... 582 The Promise of a Divided America ................................................................................... 583 Multiplicity of Cultures Within Enables the USA to Be a True Nation and Vanguard of the World585 America's Entrepreneurship and Leadership ..................................................................... 586 From a Material to a Human-Centric World ....................................................................... 586 America: Embracing the Other Side of the Coin ................................................................ 587 Not Addressi