The
2005/2006
Creating The Future Lecture Series
This series of three lectures consists of an introductory
lecture explaining the general tools (applied general systems theory)
used in the application of the New Way of Thinking and then two
internationally renowned experts in their field who explain how they
are applying these techniques to their own disciplines.
The
second lecture in this series shall be held by the Economics Society
with Dr. Paul Ormerod speaking. Dr. Ormerod is one of
Britain’s leading Economists and one of the first to apply
the New Way of Thinking to Economics where it has already given insight
to many traditionally insoluble problems. He is an internationally best
selling author of popular books on Economics such as The
Death of Economics, Butterfly Economics
and Why Things Fail. A founding director of the
Henley Centre for Forecasting where he pioneered the use of many
quantitative techniques of analysis in marketing, he now runs a
successful consulting firm called
Volterra
Consulting and continues to play a large role in the
Post-Autistic
Economics Network which calls for reform in the academic
teaching of Economics.
The
third lecture in this series shall be on the religious implications of
the New Way of Thinking by Dr. Satish Kumar. A deeply spiritual man, he
is a former Indian (Jain) monk and has been called by Fritjof Capra
"the sage of the deep ecology movement". A disciple of Vinoba Bhave (a
disciple of Mahatma Gandhi and considered his spiritual successor), in
1962 he walked around the world penniless to Moscow, Paris, London and
Washington DC to present teabags to the then four nuclear power leaders
in the world to remind them to think before destroying the world. In
1982 he founded his own secondary school, The Small School.
In 1991 he founded the Schumacher College, an international centre for
ecological studies. An associate of Bertrand
Russell, Martin Luther King, E.F. Schumacher and J. Krishnamurti, he is
the author of many books such as No Destination: An
Autobiography,
You Are, Therefore I Am: A Declaration of Dependence
and is the editor of Resurgence Magazine
which for over thirty years has published articles that are on the
cutting edge of current thinking, promoting creativity, ecology,
spirituality and frugality.
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