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Mar 5, 2009

"I've continued to recognize the power individuals have to change virtually anything and everything in their lives in an instant. I've learned that the resources we need to turn our dreams into reality are within us, merely waiting for the day when we decide to wake up and claim our birthright." --Anthony Robbins

Wake Up Call For the World

Peter Russell, a Cambridge-trained physicist and futurist who has written about consciousness for four decades, should have been at a high point in his life. Fifteen years ago, Russell's book, The White Hole in Time, had just been published; he was a popular teacher and corporate consultant, his work lauded by leading thinkers. But, Russell says, "I was feeling an inner disquiet. What I was saying in the talks was, 'If we could just break out of this old mode of consciousness and, in the spiritual sense, wake up to what we truly are and reconnect with that essential nature, then we could make it through.' Yet there was another voice in me saying, 'It's too late.'" In this article from Ode, physicist-turned-futurist Peter Russell continues on to argue that only communal creativity can get us through current environmental and economic crises.