How the Leopard Changed its Spots: Evolutionary Values for an Age in Crisis

Nobel laureate Albert Szent-Gyorgi once observed “discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.” This lyrical autobiography tells the tells the story of the author’s remarkable discoveries concerning Love, Beauty, Vitality, Wisdom, and Synchronicity derived from his training with grandmasters in Zen, qigong, and martial arts in Japan and the West. It also describes his current work as a public interest international and environmental lawyer through the organization he cofounded, the Broadband International Legal Action Network. BBILAN is dedicated to restoring reasonable balance and sanity in challenging an industrial Wireless Juggernaut that is endangering the lives of millions of people around the world by enmeshing the Earth, Heavens, and Oceans in a network of radiation emitting surveillance devices.

For an Age in crisis, the book offers a vision of hope and a practical path through chaos. It is an economic innovation to empower local communities called the Big Heart Connectome (BHC). BHCs share with the Humanist perspective of the Renaissance the inspiration that societies can rapidly change for the better when there is a shift upward toward “evolutionary values,” such as Love, Beauty, and Wisdom. Under most current economic models these and other life- affirming values are treated as “non-economic” in nature, and therefore marginalized. BHC’s create practical incentives for technological and scientific virtuosity to flourish by meeting urgent community needs, and for those who actively engage in these BHCs, to realize their“soul’s work” and be paid well for it.