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  McKinsey & Company Impales Our Youth on the Pike of Their Profits, by J. Deckman This is a difficult article for me to write without expressing a strong personal bias; either in words or energies. I am struggling for two reasons. The first is because I have first-hand experience with the death, devastation and the hell caused when ones close to you find themselves in the jaws of the most brutal addictions one can imagine: Opiates. The second is that as someone who is devoted to bringing a higher level of consciousness to both leadership and business, I find predatory capitalism and those who engage in it to be beyond reprehensible. So, I will do my best to write clearly. And we will see where this goes… When I first read of McKinsey and Company’s role in furthering the opioid epidemic that is killing tens of thousands of young people every year and devastating the lives of hundreds of thousands of their family members, I was stunned numb for a moment and then I became increasingl
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The Cosmos and Consciousness, by Ashok Bhatia (2022) Naval aviator and NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell believed that there is a spectrum of consciousness available to all human beings. At one end of the spectrum is what one may refer to as material consciousness. At another end one may experience what could be referred to as ‘field’ consciousness, where a person becomes one with the universe, perceiving the universe. When he was out in space and looked at our beautiful planet, Mitchell said that he felt having attained a state of field consciousness. Different Hues of Consciousness Identifying different hues of consciousness is akin to the case of seven blind men trying to describe an elephant. People have different perspectives. Many of us use our brains to explain what we understand it to be. Many others use our hearts to do so. But the concept of consciousness is rather profound. It is beyond the sensory limitations of the human mind, which has an uncanny ability to divide and analyze