"Where Does the History of Cultural Crisis Start?

Mel Hoover joins Joy Gilfilen to discuss the crisis of mutually assured destruction if our leaders don't change course. What is the ancient origin of human-created conflict over money, power, and politics? We sing, dance, and are all extensions of nature at work...so why do we divide ourselves by race, religion, land, and culture?In 2025, we have accelerated the pace towards a species tipping point where our habits of perpetuating historical domination and wars threaten life on this planet. What is the pattern? What will it take to change the course of history?Mel comes to the table with his lived experience of growing up in a truly multicultural family with African, Cherokee, Seminole, Scottish, Irish, French, Jamaican, and English heritage, as well as wealth. How does that affect how he sees history, where we are today, and what it might take to help the next generations live into a happier future? It's up to us to bring the changes.

Krueger's near 80-year journey has taken him into conflict zones 💥 where he brought peace talks 🤝 together, to communities healing from disasters 🆘, and the athletic arena . He reveals how the skills that helped him through his career in athletics also empowered him to face trauma in his life and in the lives of others.

Inspired by peacemaking 🕊️, Krueger founded PeaceMakers Circle/Network, using ancient wisdom and modern tools to build a global community of peacemakers around the world.

Learn more about Kurt Krueger and PeaceMakers: https://www.successsystemsinternational.net/founderinspirit.html

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Join Joy Gilfilen in a conversation with Marc Santos, the Founder of NobleGoldman.com as we face the speed of change in a world facing high speed, high volume, and big money change in the midst of chaos, upheaval, war, conflicts and ecological challenges.

How do we turn fear into opportunity, liabilities into assets that can be turned around so our children have a healthier world to inherit from our time on earth?

Developing the aptitude to notice new ways to see things, and learning how to allow different perspectives to exist while finding new pieces of puzzles into a discussion is a learned skill that is necessary in an increasingly complex environment.

In 2025: How do we bridge the gaps that divide and conquer? Joy Gilfilen brings together Eveimai Lotori, Founder of Beyond Your Impossible with guest Eric Thompson of Universal Foundation for Living Design about the complexities of communicating around the world during a time of great transitions.

Our world is facing extreme weather conditions, climate change challenges, human made conflicts, cultural, social, political, emotional and language divides all linked together through a globalized economy. How does this work? How can we separate things into bite-sized pieces so we can focus on small parts, even as we must unite our ideas together to communicate successfully for the benefit of future generations?

Joy asked Eveimai to speak about her questions and deep humanitarian work she has been doing as an indigenous voice and dual citizen of Mexico and the United States. Her environment is the whole west coast of the Cascadian Mountain Range, and the Rocky Mountains through Central America. Eric, as a member of the Universal Foundation of Holistic Design was asked to speak from his perspective as an engineer growing up around the US Capitol and Virginia, who travelled to the Alps to study global issues, sustainable and regenerative living from a whole different point of view.

Together they talk about real-life by illustrating complexity. Specifically starting the conversation about the variety of educational, experiential and philosophical diversities Our goal is to open the gates to healing our hearts using the BodyMindSpirit metaphor that unites us with our divine intelligence and grounds us to the earth. We begin with the question: how we can build bridges to help each other heal physically, mentally, and spiritually across histories, continents, oceans and wars? This is a complex topic that is tough to unravel in a world that is in turn spinning through an also spinning universe. Go to: UnitingCreatives.com and to BeyondYourImpossible.com and to TheRestorativeCommunity.com for more.

The iChange Justice Podcast features Paul Levy, author of "Wetiko: Healing the Mind-Virus that Plagues Our World." Levy explores how this contagious psycho-spiritual disease of the soul acts like a parasite on the mind. Host Joy Gilfilen, Executive Director of the Restorative CommUnity Coalition, delves deeper, examining how the behavior of leaders in the incarceration industry may intersect with the psychosis Levy describes as "Malignant Egophrenia" (ME), or more colloquially, "Mad Emperor Disease."

The discussion highlights how the perceived divisions in our world often mask the presence of wetiko. Levy argues that this mind-virus underlies many of humanity's destructive behaviors, both individual and collective. Drawing on 40 years of experience and study of quantum physics, he explains how wetiko deeply infiltrates our psyches, often undetected. This "blindness" to wetiko empowers it to thrive.

In his earlier book, "Dispelling Wetiko: Breaking the Curse of Evil," Levy emphasizes the contagious nature of this emotionally charged virus. He contends that a collective psychosis of immense proportions is currently unfolding on the world stage, driven by wetiko. This ancient concept, known to Native Americans as "wetiko," subtly operates within the unconscious blind spots of the human psyche, blinding individuals to their own madness and driving them to act against their own self-interest.

This podcast is a valuable resource for anyone involved in justice, healing, or recovery.

Joy Gilfilen interviews Patricia Anne Davis, a Navajo elder, about her reflections about the business of justice as it relates directly to her study of the Origin and Betrayal Stories of her culture and their language.

Her basic analysis of violence, monetary systems, and the jail and justice industries reveals patterns that permeate our worlds. Her research has allowed her to get to the roots of it all so she can tell the stories in a way that enables us all to understand the problems and how we can change the outcomes.

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Thank you, our local radio station KOYS-LPFM 94.1-Bellingham, for airing our show every Thursday at Noon.

At 84, Irene Morgan, the founder of the Restorative Community Coalition since 2006, is the epitome of a trail-savvy, wise 21st-century elder and businesswoman! Now a great-grandmother, Irene speaks about how her family moved from California in the middle of World War II to pioneer a family farm at the Northwest Border of the U.S. She explains how she moved from a slaughter-on-the-farm business, through being a counselor, then into the world of non-profits and studying the issues of criminal justice, poverty, and free enterprise. Ultimately, she began a coaching business and started working to rebuild our jail, prison, and public health and safety systems.

As a foundation, Irene earned her stripes in farm business, with family values and community peacemaking at the center. And, with elder siblings, she cut her teeth learning how to stand up for hard work, fairness, peace, justice, honor, and freedom right in the middle of farming, forestry, fishing, indigenous rights, the issues facing slavery and immigration, during a time of great tumult!

A totally vibrant and working activist for peace and justice, Irene is clear that money spent on bigger prisons, punishment, and privatizing corporations is not a solution—it is a vast sinkhole for community dollars. Our money is far better spent doing recovery and community resilience work. Her vision is clear: To spend our money on reeducating people how to be contributory to a living, vital society. Her steps include: rehabilitation, reconstruction, restoring lives, reclaiming freedom, and investing in our families and local communities.

The Restorative Community Coalition works to:

*Divert individuals from the traditional justice system: By offering alternative pathways to justice, such as mediation, restorative circles, and community service, the RCC helps individuals address the root causes of their actions and take responsibility for their choices. *Support re-entry and rehabilitation: The RCC provides crucial support to individuals re-entering society after incarceration, helping them find housing, employment, and access to essential services. *Advocate for systemic change: Irene and the RCC tirelessly advocate for policy reforms that prioritize restorative justice principles and address the systemic inequities that contribute to mass incarceration.

How does it work to make peace when violence is present? Host Joy Gilfilen asks Kurt Krueger, author of Winning Ways for Living, to talk about the complexities of peacemaking as he has travelled worldwide and experienced many emotionally charged situations.

Kurt has travelled from inner cities and schools to boardrooms, from Africa to India and across the US as he has faced conflict and brought calmness and peace into spaces and places by understanding the nature of our human body and how it works.

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