The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and Social Change - Kindle edition by Gordon Davidson, Corinne McLaughlin. Religion & Spirituality Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
The Practical Visionary: A New World Guide to Spiritual Growth and Social Change Kindle Edition
by Gordon Davidson (Author), Corinne McLaughlin (Author)
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Corinne McLaughlin
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Biography
Corinne McLaughlin is co-author of The Practical Visionary, Spiritual Politics: Changing the World from the Inside Out (Forward by the Dalai Lama) and Builders of the Dawn, and is Executive Director of The Center for Visionary Leadership, based in California and North Carolina. She is co-founder of Sirius, an ecological village in Massachusetts, and is a Fellow of The World Business Academy and the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. Corinne directed a national task force for President Clinton's Council on Sustainable Development and taught politics at American University. She has lectured around the U.S., Europe and South America for over 25 years, and has been interviewed by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Fox News. She can be reached at: The Center for Visionary Leadership: www.visionarylead.org or at www.thepracticalvisionary.org or email corinnemc@visionarylead.org
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn Excellent Roadmap!
By Pat Palmer on June 14, 2010
Format: Paperback
I have read so many spiritual development books over the years, that now I generally skim for the good parts. So I was taken by surprise to find, when I picked up "The Practical Visionary," that I was drawn into actually reading the whole book. In fact, I ended up underlining and making !!!s in the margin more than any book I've read in years.
Corinne and Gordon actually share the practical, spiritual approach to life that they live. It feels do-able and effective, yet not overwhelming.
I especially needed this book right now because I have been torn lately - between being pulled among so many possibilities for making a difference in the world, or giving up because of the enormity of the challenges we are facing. This book left me hoping again - based on facts, not just probabilities. I truly got that there IS a new world growing right in the midst of the old!
The authors detail eight keys to spiritual growth and social change. Each one held a special gift for me. Corinne and Gordon have a deep understanding of the shift that is taking place in the human race, and that can also unfold in each one of us personally. They powerfully address both.
Rev. Pat Palmer
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5.0 out of 5 starsMust Read - Practical Visionaries
By Kimberly Weichel on April 26, 2010
Format: Paperback
Practical visionaries Corinne McLaughlin and Gordon Davidson offer the most inspiring, comprehensive and practical guide to spiritual growth and social change yet written. This remarkable book includes everything from practical tools to help us clarify our vision and chart our own path, guided mediations that can help us deepen spiritually, examples of innovative solutions that highlight what is possible, different ways that practical visionaries transform problems into creative solutions, and much more. The book gives us a wider sense of what is possible and offers hope for the future - so important in these times. The book inspires, and even challenges, us to find our part in creating the kind of society we wish to see, offering the tools to make our own vision a reality. Bravo!
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5.0 out of 5 starsreview of The Practical Visionary
By Joanne Brem on May 2, 2010
Format: Paperback
Corinne and Gordon lay out for those who may be first coming to this conversation about how to connect into the amazing myriad of initiatives that are part of the emerging new world. It is powerful to read this all in one place, coming from a perspective of having been connected into this world for so many years.
The context they articulate for this time and perspective of how to be "with it all" is well articulated and is an excellent synthesis of so many aspects of being alive at this time on earth. They capture the many questions we all have as we observe the current situation in our country and globally.
This book inspires both just awakening and already awakened humans to new levels in their awareness of and commitment to global transformation.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Excellent Conscious Resource to Help Guide You Into the Future
By Suzanne Strisower, Author of Award-Winning Life Purpose Books on July 22, 2014
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Excellent book with lots of links and resources for people wanting to know what is happening on the planet and how to fall into the future with consciousness and connection. I highly recommend this book - it offers many resources, meditations, contemplations and a positive perspective about the future.
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5.0 out of 5 starsOutstanding! Inspiring!
By Joe Vitale on December 13, 2010
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The Practical Visionary offers overwhelming proof that every social problem you can name is being addressed by some person or group. There are entire chapters stuffed with resources. It does the soul good to see so much being done in the world to move us forward to unity. In a time when the mainstream media rarely nods in the direction of the good deeds people are doing, seeing all this evidence for the positive is wonderful.
None of this is to say you or I are off the hook. We can't let others solve all the problems we see. We have work to do. But the best way to do it is to align with your connection to the Universe and do what's right for you. As you do what you are called to do, you become The Practical Visionary.
Besides all the resources, wisdom, and optimism in the book, another reason I love it are the meditations in it. Early on there is a vivid one about pretending to turn an inner knob to raise the vibration of your energy until it matches that of Spirit. I was a little tired as I began the meditation, but just imagining playing with an inner frequency dial that raised my energy actually did raise it. Nice.
The Practical Visionary reveals eight keys for transforming yourself and the world. It's not an either-or approach. As you work on yourself, you work on the world; as you work on the world, you work on yourself.
The Practical Visionary is a mind-expanding and soul-enriching book that helps move you into a new paradigm. You might even call it The Abundance Paradigm. :)
There are some statements in the book that make you sit bolt upright and take notice, such as:
"To progress spiritually, you shouldn't just go with the flow of whatever is happening, as some people mistakenly advise, as some flows of energy are good and some are harmful."
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"On a deeper, metaphysical level money is concretized energy or prana (life force)."
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"Schedule your activities. While planning is an intention, scheduling is a commitment."
There's so much more in The Practical Visionary that I just want to keep writing about it. But instead of reading this review, go read the book. I love this book and suggest you read it, share it, and act on it. It's at Amazon, in book stores, and available from the publisher: Unity.
Remember, The Practical Visionary is you.
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