John David

This book uses machine-learning to identify the causes of conflict from among the top predictors of conflict. This methodology elevates some complex causal pathways that cause civil conflict over others, thus teasing out the complex interrelationships between the most important variables that cause civil conflict. Success in this realm will lead to scientific theories of conflict that will be useful in preventing and ending civil conflict. After setting out a current review of the literature and a case for using machine learning to analyze and predict civil conflict, the authors lay out the data set, important variables, and investigative strategy of their methodology. The authors then investigate institutional causes, economic causes, and sociological causes for civil conflict, and how that feeds into their model. The methodology provides an identifiable pathway for specifying causal models. This book will be of interest to scholars in the areas of economics, political science, sociology, and artificial intelligence who want to learn more about leveraging machine learning technologies to solve problems and who are invested in preventing civil conflict.

KRISHNA DAS, JOHN DAVID, RAM DASS, MOOJI, RAM CHARAN, USHA, GANGAJI, MICHAEL BARNETT, ISAAC SHAPIRO, GANGA, MUKTI, ANDREW COHENTouching life stories by twelve spiritual teachers from USA, Europe, Australia and India. In a deeply honest and authentic way, each of them shares their inspiring paths. The book is a deep dive into the mystery of life, encouraging us to follow our inner navigation, our intuition.The spontaneous flow of the interviews takes us on unexpected journeys guided by existence. We witness miraculous adventures and blissful times as well as confusion and pain. The deep longing and perseverance for truth leads each of them to a spiritual master, to Papaji, Neem Karoli Baba, Osho, Nannagaru.The profound relationship between teacher and student radically changed their lifes and transformed the seeker to a teacher in their own right.A wonderful collection of vivid and colorful pointings to Truth, that inspire us to deeply trust, that every moment on our path is absolutly the right moment.

Leucadia author John David leaves corporate life to reconnect with- and reflect upon- family, faith, forks, BB guns, and vehicles aflame. John David's bite-sized stories and playful literary style bring the reader on a hilarious, poignant, chaotic and sometimes terrifying journey of life and family in a pre-tech era.

This book should be useful to anyone interested in identifying the causes of civil conflict and doing something to end it. It even suggests a pathway for the lay reader. Civil conflict is a persistent source of misery to humankind. Its study, however, lacks a comprehensive theory of its causes. Nevertheless, the question of cooperation or conflict is at the heart of political economy. This book introduces Machine Learning to explore whether there even is a unified theory of conflict, and if there is, whether it is a ‘good’ one. A good theory is one that not only identifies the causes of conflict, but also identifies those causes that predict conflict. Machine learning algorithms use out of sample techniques to choose between competing hypotheses about the sources of conflict according to their predictive accuracy. This theoretically agnostic ‘picking’ has the added benefit of offering some protection against many of the problems noted in the current literature; the tangled causality between conflict and its correlates, the relative rarity of civil conflict at a global level, missing data, and spectacular statistical assumptions. This book argues that the search for a unified theory of conflict must begin among these more predictive sources of civil conflict. In fact, in the book, there is a clear sense that game theoretic rational choice models of bargaining/commitment failure predict conflict better than any other approach. In addition, the algorithms highlight the fact that conflict is path dependent - it tends to continue once started. This is intuitive in many ways but is roundly ignored as a matter of science. It should not. Further, those causes of conflict that best predict conflict can be used as policy levers to end or prevent conflict. This book should therefore be of interest to military and civil leaders engaged in ending civil conflict. Last, though not least, the book highlights how the sources of conflict affect conflict. This additional insight may allow the crafting of policies that match a country’s specific circumstance.

John David's new book The Pointless Joy of Freedom is a profound and indispensable guide for facing the modern world with the whole wisdom of humanity at your fingertips.

This new film gives an insight into the life and work of the English spiritual teacher John David, into the workings of his multi-faceted approach to freedom and the way he works with residents who live with him in the Open Sky House Communities.

DVD 75 min. Estas nuevas peliculas ofrecen una vision de la vida y el trabajo del maestro espiritual ingles John David con un enfoque multifacetico de la libertad y la forma en que trabaja con los residentes que viven con el en la comunidad de Open Sky House. Lleva al observador a un viaje a traves del mundo espiritual que comienza con la curiosidad por uno mismo para comprender cual es la verdadera libertad....

DVD 75 min. Grundlos glucklich - Die Freiheit des Seins ist ein wertvoller Wegbegleiter von grosser Tiefe, mit dem uns der englische spirituelle Lehrer John David die Weisheit der Menschheit an die Hand gibt. Die faszinierenden Zitate bedeutender spiritueller Persoenlichkeiten aus allen Epochen und Traditionen bereichern John Davids Dialoge mit seinen Schulern und inspirieren ihn zu erkenntnisreichen und humorvollen Interpretationen.

The films take you on a journey from the ancient spirituality of India, to the modern western understanding of spiritual awakening. They bring together many different aspects of spirituality, allowing for a deep immersion and introduction into this fascinating subject.

About the AuthorAs of July 15, 2017, Ethel Johnson was 85 years old and living in Lake Havasu City, Arizona.She is more devoted to her Church and her faith than ever, and has refused to let middle age slow her down personal ministry. While she no longer fosters, she is an active supporter of Charismatic Ministries worldwide, with a special interest in the incarcerated and the elderly. Ethel still travels frequently to visit her enormous extended family, but no matter wherever she is, she seldom misses a Mass. Why?If I had one grand piece of advice to give my descendants and family members, and to anyone else who is about to start reading, it would be: Go to church It's our strength. We hear the word of God, and it increases our faith. If you don't have faith within you, ask for it. Pray always.Ethel JohnsonJF+CM

Blueprints for Awakening is for everyone who has an inner passion to know what they are doing here as a human being. 1 of 2 volumes, this books features 7 interviews with important Indian spiritual teachers on the teachings of their fellow Master, Sri Ramana Maharshi, and on the ancient teachings of India.

Blueprints for Awakening is for everyone who has an inner passion to know what they are doing here as a human being. 1 of 2 volumes, this books features 7 interviews with important Indian spiritual teachers on the teachings of their fellow Master, Sri Ramana Maharshi, and on the ancient teachings of India.