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A Sounds True Podcast. episode number five the mystery of 2012, Corrine McLaughlin, on the Politics of Dynamic Change.

This week I speak with longtime social change agent and the co-author of spiritual politics,

Corrine McLaughlin.

Corrine explains the coming changes of 2012, largely in terms of their economic and political

significance. She asserts that there are drastic changes underway in both areas,

particularly as a result of budding social entrepreneurship

and what she calls non-adversarial politics.

You know, Korean, I know that you've been working in the field of social change.

And I'm curious how you feel and why you are associating your work with the phenomenon of 2012, the mystery of 2012.

You know here there's so much talk of my in calendar dates and

the potential galactic alignment etc etc and here you've been doing serious in the trenches social change work for over three decades.

How do you feel about being associated with this mysterious phenomenon that some people think is suspect?

Well I see it's an opportunity to talk about the future and how we're creating the future moment to moment in our choices

and on our actions.

You know, we're right now in this period leading up to 2012, which is really this period of transformation.

It's going on right now.

Do you believe there's something special about the date 2012?

Well, it's also an election year.

But I think what's really happening is it's giving a lot of people a focus point to think about the future.

It's sort of a Rorschak test in a way that people project on to the future date, either their fears about the future and of course

right now with all the economic financial crisis we could feel pretty fearful about where the direction things are going.

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