The Wisdom Page 

 
The Wisdom Page Podcast Since 1995, THE WISDOM PAGE (now at www.wisdompage.com) has made wisdom-related resources available to the Internet community: information about the nature of wisdom and how it can be developed, various on-line texts concerning wisdom, references to books about wisdom, information about organizations that promote wisdom, wise activities, listserv groups concerned with aspects of wisdom, and streaming audio and video presentations related to wisdom. THE WISDOM PAGE PODCAST is the latest effort to serve the informational needs of wisdom-interested people worldwide. Individual podcast episodes by WISDOM PAGE founder Copthorne (Cop) Macdonald and others focus on issues related to the development of personal wisdom and the introduction of wise values into societal institutions. All audio episodes are in 32 kbps MP3 format that works well with either a hi-speed or a good quality 56K dialup connection.


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Episode 16: A Wisdom-Based Culture
Adapted from Chapter 13 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 20minutes       File size: 4.824 Megabytes
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Episode 15: Freedom
Adapted from Chapter 11 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 17 minutes       File size: 4.180 Megabytes
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Episode 14: The New Story and Landscape of Learning and Schooling: A Call to Leadership
Presented 19 March 2007 at the ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) 2007 Annual Conference in Anaheim, California

File type: MP3       Duration: 51 minutes       File size: 12.376 Megabytes
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(CDs of this and other Conference talks are available from ASCD.)

Episode 13: The Path to Wisdom
Adapted from Chapter 10 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 35 minutes       File size: 8.424 Megabytes
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Episode 12: Seeing the Unity: Identifying with Being
Adapted from Chapter 9 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 40 minutes       File size: 9.537 Megabytes
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Episode 11: Seeing the Unity: Disidentifying
Adapted from Chapter 8 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 42 minutes       File size: 10.077 Megabytes
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Episode 10: Seeing the Unity: The Three Stages
Adapted from Chapter 7 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 27 minutes       File size: 6.417 Megabytes
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Episode 9: Dealing with Reactivity, Part 2
Adapted from Chapter 6 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 16 minutes       File size: 3.866 Megabytes
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Episode 8: Dealing with Reactivity, Part 1
Adapted from Chapter 6 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 24 minutes       File size: 5.862 Megabytes
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Episode 7: The Need for Wisdom
Adapted from Chapter 5 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM

File type: MP3       Duration: 30 minutes       File size: 7.370 Megabytes
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A VIDEO PODCAST EPISODE
Episode 6:
An Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell

Professor Maxwell talks about the need for a wisdom focus in academia, and about a new book he is writing. This video is available in two file formats:

An Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell for viewing on QuickTime Player or an iPod.
File type: M4V      Duration: 7 minutes       File size: 46.594 Megabytes

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(Free QuickTime Player download at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/)

An Introducton to Nicholas Maxwell for viewing on Windows Media Player.
File type: WMV      Duration: 7 minutes       File size: 13.072 Megabytes

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QuickTime / iPod version

Episode 5:
Wisdom, Knowledge Management & Leadership

Bruce Lloyd's talk at the October 2006 "Business as an Agent of World Benefit" conference. The full paper is at: http://www.collectivewisdominitiative.org/papers/lloyd_wisdom.htm
File type: MP3       Duration: 9 minutes       File size: 2.133 Megabytes

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Episode 4: The Identity Delusion
Adapted from Chapter 4 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM
File type: MP3       Duration: 25 minutes       File size: 6.090 Megabytes

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Episode 3: What is Wisdom?, Part 2
Adapted from Chapter 1 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM
File type: MP3       Duration: 24 minutes       File size: 5.610 Megabytes

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Episode 2: What is Wisdom?, Part 1
Adapted from Chapter 1 of Copthorne Macdonald's book TOWARD WISDOM
File type: MP3       Duration: 20 minutes       File size: 5.000Megabytes
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Episode 1a: Personal and Societal Wisdom — Some thoughts on their nature and development
A talk given by Copthorne Macdonald at Orlando, Florida's University Unitarian Universalist Society on April 2, 2006.
File type: MP3       Duration: 43 minutes       File size: 10.636 Megabytes
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Episode 1b: Personal and Societal Wisdom [Text-with-Slides PDF file]
A text-with-slides transcript of the above document in Acrobat .pdf format
File type: PDF      File size: 168 Kilobytes