Joel Levey's Page

As a social architect working with large global organizations, a contemplative educator and professor at a number of universities around the world, my life-work weaves elements, principles, and practices from a myriad of different traditions of contemporary, emerging, and ancient wisdom traditions.

For a glimpse of I invite you to explore:
http://WisdomAtWork.com (Our organizational transformation work in the world)
http://Kohala Sanctuary.com (Our learning center and organic farm on the Island of Hawaii)
http://web.mac.com/levey1/iWeb/Meditation/Meditation%20Guidelines.html (Guidelines on the Contemplative Arts)
http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/files_people/Levey_Joel.htm (A bio and set of reflections)

One of the most meaningful blessings for my work (with my beloved wife Michelle) came from the Dalai Lama who has been a close supporter of a number or initiatives we have worked on over the years. Speaking of our work, His Holiness said:
"You are presently engaged in work that has great prospects for bringing the inner sciences and technologies of human development and transformation to a very wide section of people who may not under ordinary circumstances come into contact with these teachings.”

Our work is also inspired by a quote by Vaclav Havel - former president of the Czech Republicin his historic address to the U.S. Congress when he said:
“Without a global revolution in the sphere of human consciousness, nothing will change for the better in the sphere of our being as humans, and the catastrophe towards which this world is headed - be it ecological, social, demographic or a general breakdown of civilization - will be unavoidable. . . The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and in human responsibility.”
-- Vaclav Havel, President of Czechoslovakia in his address to the U.S. Congress

And by Vimila Thakar - another of our teachers who said:
"In this era, to become a spiritual inquirer without social consciousness is a luxury that we can ill afford, and to be a social activist without a scientific understanding of the workings of the mind is the worst folly. There is no question now that an inquirer will have to make an effort to be socially conscious or that an activist will have to be persuaded of the moral crisis in the human psyche."
Vimilar Thakar from "Spirituality and Social Action: A Holistic Approach"