3 Quotes & Sayings By Gerry Canavan

Gerry Canavan is an author and speaker, who has spent his life in the service of others. His career has spanned over 30 years in the fields of Education, Business and Management, Community Relations, International Relations and Political Science. For over 25 years he worked for the UN in various capacities including Deputy Special Representative for South Africa, UNEP Executive Director (international preservation), Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning (Environment), Director-General (Biosafety). After leaving the UN he helped build one of the world's largest non-government health care systems through his work with Medi-Ease Read more

He founded The Canavan Group in 1994. He has written three books - "LIFE WITHOUT LIMITATIONS", "THE GOLDEN KEY" and "THE COMING CRISIS". He is the founder of the Gerry Canavan Foundation which is dedicated to helping individuals understand that they have unlimited potential to live a happy and fulfilled life by living in harmony with their true selves.

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Change biology, and you could change society--but could you change society on its own? Were we as a species simply condemned to permanent misery, all because of how we have evolved? This was the conundrum that the Oankali books had posed to her, and the Parables had been intended (but failed) to solve: How do you create a more sustainable, more benign, more livable society when you're stuck working with human beings? . Gerry Canavan
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The Paraclete and "Book of Martha" narratives were ultimately versions of the dream of "fixing" of the human species that had driven (and stymied) the Parables books: "On the one hand, " she writes in her journal, "I want to write fix-the-world scenario. I seem to need to write them. The fact that I don't believe in them--don't believe humanity is fixable--does create a problem Gerry Canavan