10 Interviews at Conference on Consciousness

I've been back from a Conference on Consciousness and Healing put on by the Institute of Noetic Sciences for a few days now, but my Internet has been down again preventing me from making too many updates.

My wife and I attended the conference for our personal and professional interests, and I was able to conduct 10 brief stand-up interviews with consciousness researchers, quantum physicists, human rights advocates, Worldview & Values researchers, and leaders from the Complementary & Alternative Medicine movement.

What insights did I gain?

Well, there are actually a lot of parallels between the conflicts between Objective Mainstream Media vs. Subjective Blogs / New Media Technologies and between Objective Mainstream Medicine vs. Subjective Mind-Body Healing techniques.

The conference participants provided a lot of insight for the importance of holistic thinking, being inclusive of many different perspectives, how subjectivity and worldviews filter perception, and the importance of how community and collaboration can be facilitated through relationships and conversation.

I got a lot of great sound bites to flesh some of these ideas out, and I plan on introducing some of the concepts in my videoblog in order to start spreading some of these ideas to a wider audience. I intend for this to help build community and momentum around this project to develop the tools for collaborative citizen videojournalism that makes it both viable and scalable.

Below is a list of the people that I interviewed at the Consciousness & Healing Conference

	Don Beck	National Values Center & Spiral Dyanamics Integral Model of Worldviews and Value structures
	Marilyn Schlitz	Vice President for Research and Education, Institute of Noetic Sciences (bio)
	Dean Radin	Senior Scientist at Institute of Noetic Sciences (bio)
	Fred Alan Wolf	Quantum Physicist featured in What the Bleep Do We Know?
	Lynne Twist	Author of The Soul of Money
	Van Jones	Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (bio)
	Susan Davis	President of Capital Missions Company (bio)
	Peter Russell	Eastern Philosophy Author & Futurist (bio)
	Duane Elgin	Futurist & Media Activist, OurMediaVoice.org (bio)
	Sharif Abdullah	President of the Commonway Institute (bio)