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Transforming Our World: Corporate Greed Meets Indigenous Spirituality
For the first time in history every human being faces the same crises, including climate change, diminishing resources, and economic inequality. Because of deliberate strategies by the financial elite, motivated by gluttonous appetites for money and power, we find ourselves catapulted toward a future that appears catastrophic to some.
Yet Perkins believes this time also offers unprecedented opportunities for monumental change toward a sustainable and just economic order. Every major crisis we face today can be traced to corporate goals of maximizing profits regardless of the social and environmental costs.
By recognizing that the market place is a democratic voting booth, we the people have the power to demand new goals that are focused on generating a sustainable, just, and peaceful world.
Perkins has inhabited both the rarified ranks of the highest levels of corporate strategizing and communities of indigenous peoples where he has trained with shamans and experienced spiritual transformation.
His bestselling books have sold millions of copies in many languages around the world and spent years on the New York Times bestseller list. His appearance in San Miguel is the launch event for his latest book: The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman.
John Perkins’s keynote event is a benefit for the San Miguel non-profit called Caminos de Agua (formerly “CATIS”). The group is actively engaged in helping communities at risk confront environmental challenges, especially access to safe, healthy water supplies. Much of the water in rural areas is contaminated with arsenic and fluoride. Excess fluoride in water removes all the enamel from teeth. Caminos de Agua is making a major assault on this problem in numerous rural communities.
Meet John Perkins
John Perkins advises corporations, executives, and entrepreneurs on ways to make the transition from a Death Economy (exploiting resources that are declining at accelerating rates) to a Life Economy (cleaning up pollution, recycling, and other technologies that create life-styles millennials want to inherit).
A former Chief Economist at an international consulting firm and CEO of a successful alternative energy company, he is best known for his bestseller, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (NY TIMES bestseller for 70 weeks, published in over 30 languages). His The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (Feb 2016) delves deep into global systemic problems and describes what we can do – individually and collectively – to correct them. He has also written many books on Indigenous cultures, including Shapeshifting and The World Is As You Dream It.
John is a founder of Dream Change and The Pachamama Alliance, nonprofit organizations that partner with indigenous people to protect environments and that offer global programs to turn the Death Economy into a Life Economy.
John has lived four lives: as an economic hit man (EHM); as the CEO of a successful alternative energy company, who was rewarded for not disclosing his EHM past; as an expert on indigenous cultures and shamanism, a teacher and writer who used this expertise to promote ecology and sustainability while continuing to honor his vow of silence about his life as an EHM; and as a writer who, in telling the real-life story about his extraordinary dealings as an EHM, has exposed the world of international intrigue and corruption that is turning the American republic into a global empire despised by increasing numbers of people around the planet.
Website: www.johnperkins.org.
Face Book: johnperkinsauthor
Twitter ID: economic_hitman
