by Gita Wisdom
Hari Shyama Das hosts a weekly sanga, Thoughtful Thursdays, from Chicago. Joshua joined them to talk about Cultivating a personal relationship with the divine. Some topics touched are
Recorded on June 10, 2021
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by Gita Wisdom
Recorded on May 15, 2021
How we see the past shapes our understanding of the present. Scholarship defines the past as something shaped by temporal human forces, primarily politics, power, and market trends. Wisdom traditions, on the other hand, see the past as shaped by universal, timeless truths. In this dialog, religious studies professor Ravi Gupta and host Joshua Greene explore competing narratives of the past, their impact on the present and their role in shaping humanity’s future.
Ravi M. Gupta (Radhika Ramana) holds the Charles Redd Chair of Religious Studies at Utah State University. He is the author or editor of four books, including an abridged translation of the Bhagavata Purana (with Kenneth Valpey), published in 2017 by Columbia University Press. Ravi has received four teaching awards, a National Endowment for the Humanities summer fellowship, three research fellowships, and a book award. He is a Permanent Research Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and a past president of the Society for Hindu Christian Studies. His current research focuses on the Bhagavata Purana’s Sanskrit commentaries. He enjoys teaching World Religions, Hinduism, Sanskrit, and Religious Studies Theory and Method.
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by Gita Wisdom
Recorded on April 17, 2021
Iain McCaig and Joshua Greene have a forty-year history as collaborative storytellers. Whether to entertain or enlighten, their relationship sprang from a mutual desire to create stories to remember and share them with the world, Join them for an intimate conversation about creation and collaboration, of a forty-year journey to tell an ever-changing version of ’The Sorcerer’s Apprentice’ and the story of ‘Hanuman’, and their joy of using make-believe to search for the truth.
Iain McCaig has worked for over 40 years in the entertainment industry. Many of his creations have become pop-culture icons, like his cover for Jethro Tull’s ‘Broadsword and the Beast’ and his Star Wars designs for Queen Amidala and Darth Maul. He has collaborated on many films, among them ‘Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire’, ‘The Jungle Book’, ’Guardians of the Galaxy’, ’The Avengers’, and the ongoing ‘Star Wars’ franchise of movies, graphic novels, and theme parks.
In his spare time, McCaig writes, produces and directs, and wanders the land encouraging people to draw and tell stories. In May 2008, Spectrum Fantastic Art gave McCaig the prestigious GRAND MASTER award for Lifetime Achievement.
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by Gita Wisdom
Recorded on March 20, 2021
A candid and practical discussion with renowned business consultant Elsie Maio about dramatic changes occurring in business and finance. This is a Gita Wisdom program for professionals and non-professionals alike, an open-ended dialog about how real people are dealing with real-world shifts in priorities.
Topics include:
FINANCE
Future Capital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0YsAFCCKpU&t=2798s
INTERFAITH COUNCIL ON CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY
(ICCR)https://www.iccr.org/
The Lumen Society https://lumensociety.com/
FINANCIAL/CITIZENSHIP EDUCATION:
Teaching guide for The Purpose of Capital, Babson College
https://www.blendedvalue.org/the-purpose-of-capital
PERSONAL AGENCY/EDUCATION
https://www.lenerachelandersen.com/
THOUGHT LEADERSHIP/PROBLEM-SOLVING COMMUNITIES
Humanity Rising https://humanityrising.solutions/
Future Capital/World Academy of Art and Science
Wellbeing Economy Alliance
MISC
The Story of Stuff
https://www.storyofstuff.org/movies/story-of-stuff/
Elsie Maio is one of the world’s leading advisors to corporations seeking to bring soul-wisdom into their business. Known for uncanny insight into emerging trends, Elsie and her company’s SoulBranding℠ System have guided niche clients to lead in such diverse arenas as social-impact banking, gender-lens investing, environmentally sensitive household products, and public/private national infrastructure. She is a frequent guest on national media such as Marketplace and American Public Radio and cited in The Wall Street Journal, American Banker, and The Journal of Business Ethics. Most recently as a voice for “the New Narrative,” she has been a guest in the provocative webinar programs of Humanity Rising and Future Capital.
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