Coast to Coast July 6, 2016
Sacred Principles & USA

Stephen Dinan, is the CEO of The Shift Network and also directed and helped to create the Esalen Institute's Center for Theory & Research. In the first half, he discussed his plan for helping America grow beyond its current challenges and lead the world toward peace, sustainability, health, and prosperity by promoting a return to the sacred principles cherished by America's forefathers. The planet is shifting to a new paradigm for understanding reality and society, a more sacred worldview that includes spiritual teachers, enlightened businesses, holistic health and plant medicine, he detailed.

He suggested proposals to combat the "toxic political culture" in which the left and right have taken opposite stances, creating a warlike, polarized environment. For instance, by raising the minimum wage (a goal of the left), you can decrease the size of government and tax burdens, while increasing personal responsibility-- priorities of the right, he cited. Dinan also mentioned #cut50, a bipartisan initiative to reduce America's prison population by 50%, and the idea to dissolve the Federal Reserve and move to state-owned banks, which is being successfully done in North Dakota. Further, he recommended "Solutions Councils," grassroots groups that collaborate with government to discover and replicate innovative programs around the world.
 
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