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Business leadership in climate change

1 May ’19 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett
I am consistently surprised by the initiative and leadership taken by businesses to address the climate crisis. Not all businesses obviously (e.g. ExxonMobil, the Koch brothers and the other vested interest that have funded climate denial movement and created vast climate confusion), but MANY businesses and business analysts, scholars and consultants are doing a extraordinarily better job than many governments have when it comes to taking the science seriously and responding accordingly. As the Read more [...]
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Orwellian Australia: the “[Un]Fairer Parental Leave Bill 2015”

1 May ’16 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett

On 15 April 2016 the so-called "Fairer Parental Leave Bill 2015" was "Lapsed at prorogation" and the current status on the bill is (thankfully, at this stage) "Not proceeding". I'm not sure whether this is a permanent status, or whether they just ran out of time and will return to the bill later... 

When I see the word "fairer" associated with this bill I can't help worry about the extent that we are living in an Orwellian Australia in which "discrimination is fair", "slavery is freedom", Read more [...]

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A new lens to view the world: the world as process

14 Jan ’16 1 Comment Written by Juliet Bennett

My PhD is essentially an exercise in communicating and examining the potential for an  alternative worldview to the mechanistic materialism offered by process philosophy to contribute to addressing structural forms of violence and working toward peace.

Process philosophy is too rarely taught in university philosophy as the current fashion there is divided between analytical or postmodern navel gazing. Yet process philosophy contains deeply enlightening ideas for anyone's search for wisdom - which Read more [...]

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Thoughts on a morning walk

15 Jan ’14 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett

On my walk this morning:

-       I realised that truth, reality, and illusion, are completely relative and self created

-       the truth of a religion is truth for that person, it is made real by the stories that are told, and because each moment is in a way timeless, these truths are eternally real

-       yet when truths are examined from different layers, from groups, from societies, from species, from planets, different truths, realities and illusions are illuminated.

-       Read more [...]

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Boundaries between Self and World

11 Oct ’13 1 Comment Written by Juliet Bennett

"Your skin doesn't separate you from the world; it's a bridge through which the external world flows into you, and you flow into it."

More Alan Watts? Yes, it's always a good time for more Alan Watts. Over and over and over, repeat.

"The whole world is moving through you, all the cosmic rays, all the food you're eating, the stream of steaks and milk and eggs and everything is just flowing right through you."

Have you ever thought about your self in this way? In goes oxygen, water, sunshine Read more [...]

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A Call to Philosophical Literacy

6 Sep ’13 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett

Philosophy, ideas, culture, intellectual development in the Arts, have been ridiculed by the right-wing "Liberal" political party in Australia. A Coalition Press Release yesterday read:

'The Coalition would look to targeting those ridiculous research grants that leave taxpayers scratching their heads wondering just what the Government was thinking.

Taxpayer dollars have been wasted on projects that do little, if anything, to advance Australians research needs. For example:

The quest for Read more [...]

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Legitimate & Illegitimate Authority

30 Aug ’13 2 Comments Written by Juliet Bennett

On Thursday evening the widely acclaimed author Susan George presented the Ted Wheelwright Memorial Lecture at the University of Sydney, on the difference between legitimate and illegitimate authority. These are some of my scribbles.

Susan George started by reminding us that democracy is and will always be a work in progress—something you do not something you get.

The Problems with Neo-liberalism

She put into perspective the new neo-liberal model of politics, which continue to get Read more [...]

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Blessed by His Holiness the Dalai Lama

30 Jun ’13 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett

On Tuesday 18 June, I shook hands and looked into the eyes of the man who seems to be the happiest man in the world—His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet. More than meeting him, at the end of our event I received a blessing from him. It was very real but also surreal.

As one might imagine, it takes a lot of work and preparation, and a bit of stress. Ok, a lot of stress. Every detail must be taken care of. Every person must have a seat, but no seat should be empty. This Read more [...]

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You are the Big Bang, if it weren’t for your “Discontinuous Mind”

22 Jun ’13 Leave a Comment Written by Juliet Bennett

It is a common misinterpretation of the Theory of Evolution to think that there is a clear line between species—this is what Richard Dawkins calls “The Tyranny of the Discontinuous Mind.” If we are connected in time to all species, then are we not also connected to the big bang? In fact, within such a continuity, can we not define our selves as the Big Bang, expressing itself in different forms? Let's explore Dawkins' tyranny along with my all time favourite, Alan Watts.

In The Ancestor’s Read more [...]

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Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A Personal Statement

As a "non-indigenous" Australian living on what was once the land of the Cadigal and Wangal Wangal communities, I wish to acknowledge the inter-generational responsibility that I feel toward the colonial past. As a beneficiary of "White Australia", to the Eora people of Sydney, I request your forgiveness. I stand in solidarity with your rightful demands to self determination and active participation in governmental decisions, and I hope I may learn from your eco-spiritual connection. May we, as Tom Trevorrow of the Ngarrindjeri puts it, learn to 'respect, care and share' the gifts that our planet offers us.

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