It’s so hard to get ‘it’ right.  If others don’t find fault we do.  And if they do, we may not, or be pushed to out-do them.  But what matters most is that we cultivate love in this life, and freedom in its expression.

I daresay that if the love we have, first for ourselves, then for those closest to us, and if we are inwardly free–not bound by mental chatter, obsessive thoughts, compulsive habits, harsh judgments or attitudes that take us away from our center, our integrity stands the greatest chance of remaining steadfast.  The threads of the cloth hold together so we can clean up in all dimensions. When tapestry holds together, indeed, it has integrity.

And when we hide, suppress our feelings, hide them even from ourselves, integrity disintegrates, and leaves a pool of water on the ground.  We go underground and fear or anxiety dominate our field.  We isolate ourselves, do not feel connected to others and tend toward depression.

In this state, and usually in subtle forms of it, compensation for the loss of connectedness, usually based on a feeling of not being loved or being lovable, or worthy of love, begins to occur.  This compensation is usually expressed through pathological actions such as unbridled greed, the manic quest for power and control, as well as acts of domination.

The worst expressions in our macro-world, in government and mega-corporations, are but, I suggest, compensations for the lack of love, compassion, freedom and joy.  The inner anger and frustration come out as “I’ll show them!” and the outside world is the clay through which revenge is rendered.

Join me this coming Monday evening to discuss the psycho-emotional mechanisms under and riddling the Body Politic and our society at large.  It starts personal, ends personal, and in between, can become of high service or low. It’s all in our hands.

Join me again every Wednesday evening at 6pm EDT on Blog Talk Radio, for a half hour of monologue, q&a or dialogue largely about Spiritual Capitalism,

Thomas Huebl is well-known teacher in Europe and just getting known here in the U.S.  This week’s interview with him was actually my first, and I enjoyed our rapport very much.  He has much to share, from clarity to a larger view of reality from which we can all benefit. I hope you tune in to hear this lively conversation.

Can you imagine if the schoolyard were filled with only bullies?  What fun is that?!  But that’s exactly how our society is run.  There are a group of old-monied families who feel they control the schoolyard–the rules (government) and the money (banking, Wall St., etc.).

Well, it’s obvious that people are very tired of this. Tired is too gentle a word: the suffering as a result of the set-up–and it is a set-up– is unspeakable.  There is an infra-structure, once based on integrity, that is unraveling.  I have heard that Homeland Security officers are taught all sorts of indecent things about the Founding Fathers, it’s all too bizarre to even say.  It’s Double-Speak all over again.  Orwell was the kind of visionary no one wanted to listen to.

There are intellectuals, scholars, scientists, artists, cultural creatives who find this old story of man being evil to man just for amassing wealth and power a very old and very mediocre one, and we are yearning for more.  There are actually many self-respecting bankers, lawyers and politicians who feel the same way.  Any thoughtful person is watching the collapse, under the weight of corruption and Double-Speak, of our society.  The battle of power between the two parties is symbolic of the issues in duality and the need for a third force to move us forward.

Independent candidates offer hope for the restoration of commonsense Democracy and balance in a way of life.  The two-party monoploy-duolopoly is one that has outlived its usefulness.  I urge people to look into the 3rd party candidates, from Rocky Anderson of the Justice Party, to Gary Johnson of the Libertarian Party to Jill Stein of the Green Party.  For people who hold true humanitarian, ethical values, in respect to sentient life, including our dear Gaia, planet Earth, sustainer and giver of all Life, we are pushed to shape a system of governance that serves the whole, not the 1%, who themselves, actually also suffer from the current set-up. They gain in momentary wealth, prestige and power, but these are a blink of the eye in respect to the larger picture, let alone, eternity!

As it is right now, it took renowned journalist Chris Hedges, with a series of colleagues, to sue President Obama over the NDAA, the National Defense Authorization Act, an unconstitutional piece of legislation we’ve discussed numerous times in these blogs, to bring national attention to something that the commercial, ordinary, bought-and-paid-for media, ignores. Truly among the most important pieces of legislation of all time, wholly disrupting and corrupting the entire moral fabric of our society since the Magna Carta, goes wholly ignored by the most “honored” news shows on CNN, MSNBC and the rest of them.  It’s a veritable blackout.  So the People, most of them, don’t have a clue.  But those who read A Better World Newsletter?  PRN articles?  Natural News?  They are informed! The alternative media, the New Media, the Media that’s about serving the People and is the place to go and send your family and friends if you want to know more of what’s really going on.

Just this morning, Chris announced that the judge in the law suit, ruled that indeed, those provisions regarding indefinite detention are unconstitutional and she struck them down.  Amen!

This is a great relief for Democracy in this country, as it is being slowly restored by such acts.  A Better World wants to acknowledge this act of courage and American heroism of Chris and his colleagues, and this is the way the world changes. As well as the fortitude and integrity of the Judge presiding over this critically important case.

As Margaret Mead said, Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

For over a year now, Mitchell, invited by Arianna Huffington, has been writing for the Huffington Post. The subjects range from how to deal with stress to socially-conscious lending, from challenging hydro-fracking to how to develop sustainability, green-thinking and humanity in the new-paradigm corporation & society.

Then there is Mike Adams’ www.naturalnews.com which is another place where I’ve published articles on Health, Stress, Total biology and Wellness, a site that tells so much about what’s really going on in our society, you really don’t want to miss it!

Go to: www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-j-rabin for a list of all the blogs/articles and

The outer world is peeling back its layers to show a shaky core, and the world is rocking this way and that.  Between economic, political and social stress, the Earth Herself is expressing her own upsets, through the geological shifts that are taking place with Earthquakes, tsunamis, unusually severe storms and is it Climate Change?  Change is the name of the game.  As the ancient Chinese said: “The only constant is change itself…”

The inner world can be as tumultuous as the outer world for sure, however, thank God for the Mind and Humor, we do have a modicum more control over it.  We can actually give our minds instruction to be quiet, to be lively, to think, to be humorous, to remember, to image, to pay attention and focus.  In fact, in general, it’s very responsive!

And I say that it’s so healthy to have gratitude for the Mind, because it helps to govern the body, it’s every thought shifts the biochemistry of every cell in the body, like a material image of an electrical image-language-event.  Remarkable!

Full cognition of this miraculous loop, or inner hall of mirrors, delivers us into a spiritual state of consciousness, standing before the Divine.  Humor is the natural expression of the awe we feel beholding the miraculous (well, if you’re me, that is, or perhaps a Jewish comedian?) and neuro-science is the brilliant, modern-day mapping system, laying out the system like an elaborate, multi-dimensional pinball machine, with portions lighting up, moving, speeding through neuro-pathways, dendrites and circuitry as we feel impassioned, calm or simply alive.

When we contemplate our inner life, we can reach ecstatic heights as we merge with the Noumenal and allow ourselves to sink into the simplicity of Being.  Knowing that we can exert some level of discipline over inner processes, such as our ability to relax and de-contract, is one of life’s greatest gifts.  So no matter what is going on ‘out there’, we can ‘come home’ to ourselves, and be at peace in the place where we can pretty much assure “peace reigning”, if, that is, we can sufficiently detach from ‘out there’.

And interestingly, when we become a center of peace, or “a peace center”, inner and outer take on a different tone.  Indeed, the world around us takes on the tone of what’s in us.  Remarkable yet again!  And so the evolutionary spiral keeps spiraling, and we continue to make more of a difference in our own circles, and the world becomes a better place, because we’ve meditated, relaxed, practiced wakefulness, being present and letting go.

Then, can we talk to others in a more intelligent, calmer, more rational way?  You bet we can!  Can we be more creative and intuitive? But of course!  And we take humanity with us on this joyous journey, surely with many bumps in the road, but there is a center to which to return.

Well, managing our stress, calming our minds, developing patience, a healthy outlook and attitude, entering the cells with our fertile imaginations, well, this will be the subject of this week’s radio show on PRN, Monday evening.  And it will be a Roundtable with two very interesting guests, both of whom have different ways of expressing some similar, universal experiences and truths.  I look forward to our trialogue and bringing some practical knowledge about stress management to you and how you can improve your health and the very quality of your life through these simple, daily practices.

Also note that Dr. Norman Suhu, naturopath and acupuncturist (we went to the same acupuncture school in fact) talks about Bio-syntonie, a profound method of healing that takes place while one is usually lying down on specialized ceramic disks, effectively meditating.  So this is in synchrony, indeed, with the Monday evening Roundtable.  Join us in both!  And well, one more: Wednesday on Blog Talk Radio, I’ll be speaking about Socially-Conscious, Responsible Business and a book I have a chapter in called Heart at Work, edited by Jacqueline Miller.

Let’s be realistic and just expect a miracle!  At this point in time, considering all that’s going on, or down, a breath of fresh air in Washington could literally help to save our Democracy from crashing and burning.  That breath could be a President of a Party that isn’t the same old, same old.  That President could be someone who actually cared about the People the government is there to serve, and one who cannot be bought.  How unusual!

I would encourage you to circulate this to your friends and bring them to awareness of Rocky Anderson, former two-term Mayor of Salt Lake City, even after having given up his Mormon affiliation!  He’s a humanitarian, an environmentalist, and believes in Peace and the Rule of Law.  Isn’t it about time?

I have two near-hour-long interviews with Rocky under Archive at www.abetterworld.tv and video footage of him right on the lower left-hand side of the Home Page.  You can also visit www.voterocky.org and www.justicepartyusa.org.  It’s way past due to expand our horizons and bring a new vibration to the body politic.

Anyone who can help get Rocky onto Colbert, Jon Stewart, Leno or Letterman, please let me know and contact me through our website or this Newsletter.  I’ll be waiting to hear from you.

For over a year now, Mitchell, invited by Arianna Huffington, has been writing for the Huffington Post. The subjects range from how to deal with stress to socially-conscious lending, from challenging hydro-fracking to how to develop sustainability, green-thinking and humanity in the new-paradigm corporation & society.

Then there is Mike Adams’ www.naturalnews.com which is another place where I’ve published articles on Health, Stress, Total biology and Wellness, a site that tells so much about what’s really going on in our society, you really don’t want to miss it!

Go to: www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-j-rabin for a list of all the blogs/articles and

Biology is the basis of the way we work and all of our ancestors going back to the amoeba.  At a certain point, homo sapiens developed “sekel”, commonsense, developed self-awareness and the function of the nervous-brain system became known as “Mind”.  It is the software derivative of the hardware.  It cannot be located, sort of like Spirit, it is everywhere at once.  It is alive with a stream of thoughts which are often charged with emotion, judgment, likes-dislikes, memory, nuance, the array of perception, and influences life and the life of the organs as well as overall, systemic biochemistry with each passing thought, experience, belief, assumption and perception.

To tease the body and mind apart is a gargantuan activity and makes no sense.  Yet, allopathic medicine acts as though the two are not one and as a result, has a heck of a time explaining why it seems that they are influencing each other just so much, i.e., just about constantly (think J.D. Salinger, Franny & Zooey).

Seeing the absurdity of separation (on many levels, that is), long ago, through my T’ai-Chi practice, my involvement in the Gurdjieff Work and Tibetan Buddhism, I had surrounded myself with consensual agreement of the Oneness of Mind-Body and the Oneness of all sentient life.  So about this, I didn’t suffer confusion as so many of my peers and elders did–I could explain it, but that wouldn’t necessarily ‘sink in’ to my listeners.

Those that came as clients were more open, since they were coming to me because of some knowledge of my more holistic point of view, and were looking for a perspective outside the box.  They got it!  And over the years, I would say that by and large, they have benefited from regarding themselves as a whole, a continuum, as an integrated being, not as “man-as-machine”.

This week, my two guest’s work is much in common with each other’s and with mine.  We are all integral thinkers, who act locally but think universally.  Henry Grayson has spent his professional life integrating the scientific with the spiritual with neuro-science and kinesiology as bridges.  Isabelle Benarous, a different angle, but bringing together the somatic with the underlying emotional, often cause, of an illness, in a sense, body as metaphor.  Mitchell Rabin blends all these elements and extends the perspective from the personal to the transpersonal, from the individual to the collective, from the local neighorbhood to an identity with the planet and beyond.

Walls are there to protect, separate and to boundary.  But they’re also there to be climbed, hopped over, used and traversed.  They boundary vertically only so high.  No wall has ever reached Heaven so there are those of us who see this as a challenge.  Whatever’s conventional acts as a curiosity to be moved beyond or transcended.

This week continues the themes of health and healing from last week, into greater specificity so do join us for these fascinating explorations of consciousness.

In the beautiful Catskill Mountains at Sivananda Yoga Ranch, I taught this workshop this past weekend which opened with the grounding of the Body-Mind through Chi-Kung with a group of Yogis and Yoginis (who learned to love the flowing movements of Chi-Kung) and having warmed up the Chi-Body so well, swung into the deep inquiry that Therapeutic Theater offers into the way human beings communicate verbally and non-verbally, the way we defend, ignore, interact and ultimately open to what authentic, what’s true for us, and what’s real in the heart.

I’ve been directing these workshops for many years now, and each and every time, I enter not knowing what it will be, and inevitably, magic happens.  People’s psyche become gently revealed, opened and heart-based feelings and communication moves through all present, uniting us in a common morphogenetic, highly human field of being.  I am humbled and awed every time.  By simply playing in and around certain roles, our human beingness emerges, quivers with feeling for all to feel, and we are all awakened by its vivifying nature.  Join us next year!

Those of you who read my writings here every week, thank you for paying such attention!  I appreciate it more than you may ever know. And some of you write to me with your comments, which I totally appreciate, as it says below: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly!

So those friends and colleagues of mind who read, know that I met Rocky Anderson, former two-term Mayor of Salt Lake City back in mid-December, interviewed him on A Better World Radio on Progressive Radio Network, introduced him to Gary Null who also greatly appreciates him (as does Ralph Nader and many others), and some know that I am, at Rocky’s request, on the Justice Party National Steering Committee.  In short, all I care to do is to expand the political playing field so it becomes humane, just, environmentally conserving, (does that mean I’m a conservative?!) and one that returns our government and economy to the People.  Rocky speaks this language and Rocky represents an evolutionary step we all, many of us, are hungry to take.  Time for a change!  Not talk, but action.

I would encourage you to listen to my interviews with Rocky at www.abetterworld.tv and I have also posted some videos of his on the Home Page there too, on the lower left-hand corner.  Donations and volunteers in all states are needed.  Miracles happen if  you expect them and at least, let’s shift the political conversation in this country toward the People, which would be a progressive turn of events.

Also do visit www.voterocky.org and www.justicepartyusa.org where you can learn his positions on many key matters.  Our society is falling apart as I’m sure you’ve noticed, at the very seams, all toward what will be a mighty re-construction based on deep, humane, spiritual, ecological values, which I spell out in my upcoming book on Sacred Stewardship: Awakening the Soul to Action.

We’re in May, the heart of Spring, the time of my Birthday and well, a time to celebrate the beauty of Nature and the gift of Life.  Everything comes alive in Spring, love is in the air, so let’s celebrate!

   May 7th, The Physics of the Future Lecture with Dr. Michio Kaku

How will you be living 50 years from now?

Join Dr. Michio Kaku, Monday, May 7^th for one night only,

for a discussion on Physics of the Future

WBAI Pacifica Radio is pleased to announce, for one night only, Dr. Michio Kaku, the world renowned theoretical physicist and futurist, will take you 20, 50, even 100 years into the future at a lecture and book signing event at the New York Society for Ethical Cultural, 2 West 64th Street, Monday May 7^th, starting at 6 PM.  In his discussion he will explore the future of medicine, biotech, artificial intelligence, space travel, computers and nano-technology.  All proceeds from the event benefit WBAI Pacifica Radio.

Dr. Michio Kaku is known as the co-creator of string theory and for his research on Einstein’s “Theory of Everything.”  As a precocious youngster he assembled an atom smasher in his parents’ garage for a science fair project.  He hosts Explorations over WBAI Radio 99.5FM in New York, heard on Saturdays at 2pm Eastern, and he has hosted several science specials including Science Channel’s “Visions of the Future,” “Time” and “2057.”

The event is in celebration of the publication of Dr. Kaku’s book The New York Times best-seller Physics of the Future, based on his interviews with over 300 top scientists, now in paperback, and to benefit listener supported, non-commercial radio WBAI Pacifica Radio 99.5FM.

Following the discussion will be a book signing. Books will be available for purchase. Buy tickets online  6PM – Reception, meet and greet, followed by lecture: $99 (includes a copy of book), 7PM – Lecture, General Admission: $35 (with Student ID at the door $20).  All proceeds go to benefit WBAI.

New Technology, New Science = New Future?

The New York Times best-seller, and popularizer of science, Michio Kaku will take you 20, 50, even 100 years into the future to explore medicine, biotech, artificial intelligence, space travel, computers, nanotech and also jobs and technology.

Dare to believe that we can change our world!

 Master of Ceremonies: Robert Knight, host of Earthwatch and Five O’Clock Shadow.

Dr. Kaku is known in the world of physics as the co-creator of string theory, and for his research on Einstein’s “Theory of Everything”. He hosts Explorations over WBAI Radio 99.5 FM

For over a year now, Mitchell, invited by Arianna Huffington, has been writing for the Huffington Post. The subjects range from how to deal with stress to socially-conscious lending, from challenging hydro-fracking to how to develop sustainability, green-thinking and humanity in the new-paradigm corporation & society.

Then there is Mike Adams’ www.naturalnews.com which is another place where I’ve published articles on Health, Stress, Total biology and Wellness, a site that tells so much about what’s really going on in our society, you really don’t want to miss it!

Go to: www.huffingtonpost.com/mitchell-j-rabin for a list of all the blogs/articles and