"The ultimate crisis we face is a crisis of consciousness." Daniel Pinchbeck
See DVDs below for information about the new companion DVD for the film. 
See the trailer at: http://2012timeforchange.com/demo/media-movies.html#0
Featuring: DANIEL PINCHBECK, STING, PAUL STAMETS, PENNY LIVINGSTON-STARK, RICHARD REGISTER, TIOKASIN GHOSTHORSE, DEAN RADIN, DAVID LYNCH, ELLEN PAGE, GILBERTO GIL, SHIVA REA, BARBARA MARX HUBBARD, BERNARD LIETAER, BUCKMINSTER FULLER, DENNIS MCKENNA, and TERRANCE MCKENNA.
See the Chicago Panel Discussion at: http://2012timeforchange.com/demo/media-movies.html#3
| http://www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/node/130 “2012: Time for Change” presents an optimistic alternative to apocalyptic doom and gloom. Directed by Emmy Award nominee João Amorim, the film follows journalist Daniel Pinchbeck, author of the bestselling 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, on a quest for a new paradigm that integrates the archaic [sic] wisdom of [Indigenous] cultures with the scientific method. As conscious agents of evolution, we can redesign post-industrial society on ecological principles to make a world that works for all. Rather than breakdown and barbarism, 2012 heralds the birth of a regenerative planetary culture where collaboration replaces competition, where exploration of psyche and spirit becomes the new cutting edge, replacing the sterile materialism that has pushed our world to the brink. |
http://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Pinchbeck/e/B001IXQ94E/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0
Film Table of Contents
DVDs
| "Vol. 1 Psychedelic Science" is the first companion DVD for the film 2012: Time for Change. It was on sale at the premiere and is available online. The DVD features interviews by author Daniel Pinchbeck on the use of hallucinogens to spark a quick evolution in consciousness in Western cultures.  See the 2012 DVD page of this site for more information on the DVD and ayahuasca.
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2012 Film Participants
For more participants, see: http://2012timeforchange.com/demo/about.html
Table of Contents
2012: Time for Change is the result of a collaboration between many people, but most especially between director João Amorim and author Daniel Pinchbeck.
As Joao tells the story: One late night near the end of 2006, in an East Village apartment, I was engaged in a long conversation with some Serbian friends. One of the Serbs, Nino, started talking about 2012 and Daniel Pinchbeck. Being a skeptic, I initially dismissed the talk as New Age nonsense. Nino insisted it wasn’t crap, and eventually convinced me to go get Daniel’s book. While reading it, I could not help but find myself identifying profoundly with the views expressed in it.
The idea that we are steadily moving toward oblivion, that somehow our system has enslaved us to an erroneous notion of time, and that we need to re-align ourselves with the natural world and evolve our consciousness, had a profound resonance with my own ideas. The book revived many of my earliest ideals, and also memories of my own shamanic experiences, which I had suppressed as I entered the working world, running large-scale animation productions and directing commercials. By the time I finished the book, I was convinced that a movie around these ideas, one that combined an investigation into our potential for conscious evolution with practical solutions, was absolutely necessary. I also realized that my skills in animation could help illustrate these ideas, creating a compelling narrative that could help people in their own process of self-realization and the actual work of transformation....
As Daniel tells the story: After 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl came out in the spring of 2006, I was approached by a number of New York production houses and directors. I met with them but somehow wasn’t inspired to want to work out a deal with any of them, until I met Joao Amorim. As soon as we met, I knew he was the guy. His passion for the subject and his intelligent understanding of the ideas were very inspiring to me. We became fast friends and colleagues. While I sparked the project, this amazing film is the result of Joao’s incredible persistence and artistic vision. I believe it will be watched and studied by people for many years to come.
Terence McKenna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-prt5d6m6s&feature=related
Paul Stamets
For fascinating information about Stamets' use of mushrooms, see the Mushrooms / Trees page of this site.
NOTE: Stamets is offering New Yorkers his Life Tree Box for FREE until July 14!
Andre Soares
Penny Livingston-Stark
http://www.regenerativedesign.org/pennybio
Video
See the video at: http://www.regenerativedesign.org/
Richard Register
http://www.ecocitybuilders.org/rr-bio.html
| Well-prepared with vision, enthusiasm and powerful, practical tools, EcoCities enables us to challenge the doom-sayers and doom-makers to this race for a healthy, sane, compassionate future. We have to win, and the author explains how.
While most green city books are at best sustainability-light, Richard Register's EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature steers a course to deep green. His hard-hitting solutions are on a scale commensurate with the problem. Read it and work quickly to implement his many suggestions if you want a tolerable planet upon which to house your home.
—RANDY HAYES, Executive Director, International Forum on Globalization & Founder of Rainforest Action Network
EcoCities takes you on an exploratory journey into the cities of the future. You will wander along streets flanked by clear streams and flowering shrubs where there is no polluting traffic, or traverse bridges linking gardens and fruit trees many stories above the ground. Yet, this is no half-baked dream, but rather a reality based on technologies, architectural designs, and functioning buildings that actually exist in several places around the globe, and concepts that have been approved by down-to-earth city planners.
I want everyone, especially high school and college students, to read and think about Richard Register's book. A copy of EcoCities should be in every school library.
—DR JANE GOODALL, DBE, Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace |
Tiokasin Ghosthorse
Tiokasin has been described as "a spiritual agitator, natural rights organizer, Indigenous thinking process educator, and a community activator." One reviewer called him "a cultural resonator in the key of life." Politics for the Lakota is spiritual and is not separate from the rest of life. Indigenous peoples are after an inclusive politics, an inclusive world.
Tiokasin has had a long history in Indigenous rights activism and advocacy. He spoke, as a teenager, at the United Nations Conference on Human Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights in Geneva, Switzerland. He has supported or participated in many of the major occupations including Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973, as well as Lyle Point, Washington, Western Shoshone, Nevada, and Big Mountain, Arizona. Ever since his UN work, he has been actively educating people who live on Turtle Island (North America) and overseas about the importance of living with each other and with the earth.
He is a survivor of the "Reign of Terror" from 1972 to 1976 on the Pine Ridge Lakota Reservation, and the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs Boarding and Church Missionary School systems designed to "kill the Indian and save the man."
Tiokasin Ghosthorse is also a master musician and one of the great exponents of the ancient red cedar Lakota flute, and plays traditional and contemporary music, using both Indigenous and European instruments. He has been a major figure in preserving and reviving the cedar wood flute tradition and has combined "spoken word" and music in performances since childhood. Tiokasin performs worldwide and has been featured at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Lincoln Center, Madison Square Garden and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at the United Nations as well as at numerous universities and concert venue. |
See the video interview with Tiokasin at: http://2012timeforchange.com/demo/media-movies.html#2
Tiokasin's website is at: http://www.firstvoicesindigenousradio.org/
Tiokasin, a musician, is the host of the 1-hour WBAI radio show that airs Thursday on 99.5FM at 10AM
Hear a discussion about the film on the Thursday, July 1 10AM First Voice Indigenous Radio Show
on the WBAI Archives site at: http://archive.wbai.org/
The discussion with the author Paul Stamets starts around 36 minutes into the 1-hour show.
Stamets points out the role mushrooms can play in cleaning up the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
He also discusses the fact that sacred mushrooms can be used to raise consciousness.
Stamets is the author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World
His website is at: http://www.fungi.com/
The discussion with the author Daniel Pinchbeck starts around 45 minutes into the 1-hour show.
Pinchbeck says that the film shows that our money system is destructive and unsustainable.
The film discusses alternatives alternatives to the debt-based system controlled by the banks.
Shiva Rea
See her website at: http://www.shivarea.com/
Ganga White
Sting
| Sting's support for human rights organizations like the Rainforest Foundation, Amnesty International, and Live Aid mirrors his art in its universal outreach. Along with wife Trudie Styler, Sting founded the Rainforest Foundation in 1989 to protect both the world's rainforests and the indigenous people living there. Together they have held 16 benefit concerts to raise funds and awareness of our planet's endangered resources. Since its inception, the Rainforest Foundation has expanded to a network of interconnected organizations working in 18 countries over 3 continents.. |
Rainforest Foundation Fund
http://www.rainforestfoundationfund.org/
See the article about Sting's efforts in Brazil at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8373504.stm
During the Panel Discussion after the film, Sting and others discussed Ayahuasca.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1889631,00.html
http://www.shamanicjourney.com/article/5969/ayahuasca-sacred-teacher-plant-used-by-indigenous-tribes
http://www.ayahuasca-info.com/quotes/
Gaspar Pedro Gonzalez
Barbara Marx Hubbard
Barbara Marx Hubbard is the author of the 2001 book Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
Hubbard also wrote Conscious Evolution: Awakening Our Social Potential
| Humanity Ascending: A New Way through Together. Part One: Our Story, is now translated into seven languages, and in Part Two: Visions of a Universal Humanity, she brings together some of the finest minds of our time, presenting us with positive, future scenarios for humanity based on the latest scientific, social and spiritual realities. She co-founded the Foundation for Conscious Evolution through which she developed the Gateway to Conscious Evolution, a global educational curriculum enrolling participants in the developmental path toward the next stage of human evolution. She first came to national attention when her name was placed in nomination for the US vice presidency of the Democratic Party in 1984. She ran on the platform of creating a Peace Room to be as sophisticated as our War Rooms to scan for, map, connect and communicate what is working in America and the world. She co-founded The Committee for the Future in Washington D.C., which developed the New Worlds Educational and Training Center based on her work. She co-produced 25 SYNCON conferences to bring together people from every field and function to seek common goals and match needs and resources in the light of the growing edge potentials of humanity. She was one of the original directors of the Center for Soviet American Dialogue and served as a citizen diplomat during the late 1980's. She has been instrumental in the founding of many important organizations and initiatives including the World Future Society, New Dimensions Radio, Global Family, Women of Vision and Action, The Foundation for the Future, and the Association for Global New Thought. She was awarded the first Doctorate in Conscious Evolution by Emerson Institute" *Barbara’s books include: The Hunger of Eve: One Woman’s Odyssey toward the Future; The Evolutionary Journey: Your Guide to a Positive Future; Revelation: Our Crisis is a Birth –An Evolutionary Interpretation of the New Testament; Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential, and Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence. |
Michael Coe
Gilberto Gil
See his website at: http://www.gilbertogil.com.br/index.php?language=en
Bernard Lietaer
Bernard Lietaer is an economist, author, and professor. He studies monetary systems and promotes the idea that communities can benefit from creating their own local or complementary currency, which circulate parallel with national currencies.
Bernard Lietaer, the author of "The Future of Money: Beyond Greed and Scarcity" and the forthcoming "Of Human Wealth," has been active in the realm of money systems for close to 40 years in a wide variety of functions. With the publication of his post-graduate thesis at MIT in 1971 (which included a description of "floating exchanges") and the Nixon Shock of that same year which eradicated the Bretton Woods system by unhinging the US dollar value from its gold standard and inaugurated the new era of universal floating exchanges, the fledgling management consultant suddenly found himself to be at the center of the financial world's attention.
The techniques he had developed for marginal Latin American currencies were overnight the only systematic research which could be used to deal with all of the major currencies of the world. A major US bank negotiated exclusive rights to his approach which required that he begin another career. While at the National Bank of Belgium, he implemented the convergence mechanism (ECU) to the single European currency system. During that period, he also served as President of Belgium’s Electronic Payment System. His consultant experience in monetary aspects on four continents ranges from multinational corporations to developing countries.
He co-founded GaiaCorp, one of the largest and most successful currency management firms, and managed Gaia Hedge II, an offshore currency fund which was the world's top performing managed currency fund during the '87-'91 period he ran it. Business Week named him “the world’s top currency trader” in 1992. Lietaer currently lives in Boulder, Colorado. He was Visiting Scholar at Naropa University from 2003 - 2006 where he designed and implemented the University's Marpa Center for Business and Economics.
Books
The following highlighted authors appear in the film:
Daniel Pinchbeck is the author of the 2007 book 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl
Richard Register is the author of the 2006 book EcoCities: Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature
Barbara Marx Hubbard is the author of the 2001 book Emergence: The Shift from Ego to Essence
Hubbard also wrote Conscious Evolution: Awakening Our Social Potential
David Lynch is the author of the 2007 book Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
Dean Radin wrote the 2009 book The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena
Dr. Bruce Lipton/Steve Bhaerman Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here)
Bernard Lietaer is the author of the 2002 book The Future of Money: Creating New Wealth, Work and a Wiser World
Additional Trailer
See another trailer at: http://2012timeforchangenewyork.eventbrite.com/
Rainforest SOS: Prince Charles
During the Panel Discussion after the NYC Premiere of the 2012: Time for Change film in on July 8, 2010,
the Rainforest SOS was mentioned. Sting is associated with efforts to save the Amazon Rainforest.http://www.rainforestsos.org/
