Raw-Food Diet: An Enlightening Interview

Publicado el enero 30, 2012 por Create and Share

Today we want to share with you all an old interview on raw-food or fruitarian diet. This is an excerpt from a classic 1997 interview with Stephen Arlin & David Wolfe, co-authors of one of the first major raw food books, the one that started it all – Nature’s First Law: The Raw-Food Diet.

Stephen is a personal trainer and weight lifter that has been eating raw living foods for about 5 1/2 years. He claims that this lifestyle makes him stronger, with more endurance. David Wolfe has been raw for 6 years, comes from a family of M.D.’s, and is one of the foremost proponents of a raw food lifestyle. Sigue leyendo →

“Self-centred people are stressed out”, interview with Swami Parthasarathy

Publicado el septiembre 9, 2011 por Create and Share

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Swami Parthasarathy, a Vedanta master: “A culture based only on individual rights does not result in personal or collective harmony, because, those who are educated in the belief that they have right to everything, always find reasons to complain.”

Can you be in a toxic work situation and have a great attitude?
Everybody is toxic. Everybody is troubled. The whole thing boils down to being self-centred; it has nothing to do with work, nothing to do with the environment, nothing to do with the employer or your spouse. Anybody who is self-centred will be stressed out.

How do you manage expectations in this day and age…
This is called the herd instinct because you don’t think and therefore you suffer. You went to school, right? You earned a degree. But, you never thought why you are going to school or to university. Then you got a job, but never thought why you should get a job. Then you get married and have children. You don’t think. By the age of 10 or 12 you say you are Christian, Muslim, Hindu or Buddhist. But, you have no clue what your religion is, and all the wars are fought in the name of religion. Start thinking now. Question everything and you won’t have this problem.

With each generation, you see increased evidence of attention deficit disorders…
There are two things in you: mind and intellect. It’s the mind that plays havoc. Mind wants alcohol, money, women. The mind has no limit. The mind needs the governance of intellect. If it does not govern, then all this happens, and they put labels and give medicines. Intelligence is knowledge acquired from schools and universities. With intelligence you make a living, but it doesn’t teach how to handle a wife and children or how to handle your boss and your problems. Intellect, you have to learn yourself.

Where does intellect come from?
From yourself. It’s like muscle. You have emaciated muscles. You stretch in the gym and you build strong muscles. Similarly, intellect is emaciated because you are not thinking but just following the herd. Now, once you question and not take anything for granted, within six months you will be different.

Time management is a huge issue these days…
When you say time management, you are not using the word ‘work’. You have got to manage the work given to you by yourself or others. It’s work management and not time management, in a given time. You are not able to manage work, because you are not self-managed. There is a conflict between mind and intellect. The whole thing is to manage your mind; it’s the mind that causes the entire problem in finishing the work.

Do you see different kinds of work-related problems in the West vis a vis India?
All are the same. All are self-centred. But, they are relatively better off. They are all dedicated, at least to the company they work for. When it comes to a larger cause, they are selfish. Here, it’s just ‘me’. Like what can the company do for me, not what can I do for the company.

How do you manage to have the same weight and waist size for 60 years?
For 63 years, my weight has been 69 and waistline has been 32 inches. The reason is no worry for the past and no anxiety for the future. That keeps you trim. Of course regular habits, minimum exercises, I eat properly, but not indiscriminately. I have a disciplined lifestyle, but I am not a fanatic. People give me chocolates, I eat, but that’s not my regular habit.

Source: DNA India
Image: David Airob

Interview with Radwan Ziadeh: “the Syrian revolution is the revolution of YouTube”

Publicado el agosto 13, 2011 por Create and Share

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Today we share an interview with Radwan Ziadeh, Founder and Director of Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies in Syria. The interview was focused on the role of social media in the Syrian uprising.

In recent news articles, many young Syrian activists are quoted as saying that they are too nervous to use social-media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Can you explain the use of social media in Syria?

If we call the Egyptian revolution “the revolution of Facebook,” we can say that the Syrian revolution is “the revolution of YouTube.” The social-media networks have played crucial roles in showing the world what is going on in Syria. Since Day 1, the Syrian government has banned any media presence and kicked out all the reporters. This is how every Syrian citizen became an activist, and, at the same time, a journalist. This is the perfect model of citizen journalism. It has empowered more young activists, and has made many young leaders interested in journalism. Every day, I receive emails from young activists saying, “Radwan, look at that video on Al Jazeera – I did that!” And then these stories go on to be used in international media. Sigue leyendo →

Interview with Martín Prechtel, a Native American Shaman

Publicado el julio 25, 2011 por Create and Share

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Martín Prechtel was raised in New Mexico on a Pueblo Indian reservation where people still lived in the old, pre-European ways. His mother was a Canadian Indian who taught at the Pueblo school, and his father was a white paleontologist.

Martín loved the culture there, and the land.

“I spent the whole of my very early life,” he says, “in a state of weepy terror about the possibility of the total annihilation of this beautiful world at the hands of a few white men who couldn’t understand the beauty we had in this way of life.” Sigue leyendo →

Interview with Alejandro Jodorowsky

Publicado el julio 15, 2011 por Create and Share

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- Are we imaginary beings?

There is a real part, the essence, but the rest, well, we create it in our minds, through the perspective of the society, the environment, the education, the culture and the family! All that is what the being you believe to be is creating. Thus, we don’t see what we are: we see what we have invented. What we truly are lies only within ourselves. That’s why I think that happiness can be achieved when we become what we are. Our lives are full of demands, rules, patterns… We accept them, follow them, comply with them… and we are unhappy. Sigue leyendo →

Interview with Masanobu Fukuoka – a revolutionary farming concept

Publicado el julio 6, 2011 por Create and Share

Masanobu Fukuoka, with his grizzled white beard, subdued voice, and traditional Oriental working clothes, may not seem like an apt prototype of a successful innovative farmer. Nor does it, at first glance, appear possible that his rice fields—riotous jungles of tangled weeds, clover, and grain—are among the most productive pieces of land in Japan. But that’s all part of the paradox that surrounds this man and his method of natural farming.

On a mountain overlooking Matsuyama Bay on the southern Japanese island of Shikoku, Fukuoka-san (san is the traditional Japanese form of respectful address) has—since the end of World War II—raised rice, winter grain, and citrus crops . . . using practices that some people might consider backward. Yet his acres consistently produce harvests that equal or surpass those of his neighbors who use labor-intensive, chemical-dependent methods. Fukuoka’s system of farming is amazing not only for its yields, but also for the fact that he has not plowed his fields for more than 30 years! Nor does he use prepared fertilizer—not even compost—on his land, or weed his rows, or flood his rice paddies.

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Interview with Gunter Pauli, creator of the Blue Economy

Publicado el junio 28, 2011 por Create and Share

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Gunter Pauli founded and directs ZERI, the “Zero Emissions Research Initiative” of the United Nations University in Tokyo, redesigning manufacturing processes into non-polluting clusters of industries. He is the creatror of the so-called “Blue Economy“, a system where the best for health and the environment is cheapest and the necessities for life are free thanks to a local system of production and consumption that works with what you have. Recently he published the book “Heat, Cool, Transport, Transform”, where he further explains the concept of Blue Economy. Sigue leyendo →

Interview with Amasina, a shaman in the Amazon rainforest

Publicado el junio 22, 2011 por Create and Share

Amasina, shaman of the Trio tribe Deep in the Suriname rainforest, an innovative conservation group is working with indigenous tribes to protect their forest home and culture using traditional knowledge combined with cutting-edge technology.

The Amazon Conservation Team (ACT) is partnering with the Trio, an Amerindian group that lives in the remote Suriname-Brazil border area of South America, to develop programs to protect their forest home from illegal gold miners and encroachment, improve village health, and strengthen cultural ties between indigenous youths and elders at a time when such cultures are disappearing even faster than rainforests. Sigue leyendo →

The Sharism Age

Publicado el junio 16, 2011 por Create and Share

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Isaac Mao has been called the ultimate Chinese digital guru, maintaining interests in commerce, electronic communication, and, increasingly, network politics. He is broadly labelled a venture capitalist, blogger, software architect, entrepreneur, and researcher in learning and social technology, dividing his time between research, social work, business, and technology.

Sharism, broadly speaking, is an ideology that attempts to reconcile the sometimes idealistic cultures of open source and new media theory with the tech business community, creating viable options for both content sharing and progressive models of profitability. Expanding on a conception of “cloud intelligence” that he has presented previously in several exhibitions and essays, Isaac Mao here clarifies how and why everyone from artists and dissidents to investors and marketers should open up their lives and work in order to protect their own interests, offering a solution for networked creativity that moves beyond the Californian ideology at long last. Sigue leyendo →

Interview with Sir Ken Robinson

Publicado el junio 13, 2011 por Create and Share

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Sir Ken Robinson, a leading thinker on education, creativity and innovation, who has advised various governments and major global corporations says that most education systems around the world including Australia’s, are still modelled on the needs of the industrial age, were already narrow and are getting narrower.

INTERVIEWER - Ken Robinson, you tell the stories of a number of famous people whose traditional education failed to help them identify their real talents before they went on to brilliant careers, Paul McCartney, for instance: you say he went through his entire education without anyone noticing he had any musical talent at all. Are you saying that’s a common story?
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