This is new and old paradigm. New in that the cost of medical care has gone through the roof and yet one doctor remembers his neighbors and community and demonstrates his love and compassion through his low charge. Old in that this was the way it used to be. What an inspiring man. If only other doctors would take his lead and offer their services at rates people could afford, doctors, patients and the country would all be a lot better off.

–by Bob Dotson, Original Story, May 11, 2012

Charging the price of a fancy cup of coffee, Dr. Russell Dohner has cared for Rushville, an Illinois town of 4,300 people, for more than half a century, delivering 3,500 babies, and never taking a vacation — or even an entire day off.

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Several years ago, my good friend Joe Simonetta was approached by Neale Donald Walsh after Neale had read a book of Joe’s and asked if he could rename it and publish it through his publisher. Joe agreed and Seven Words That Can Change the World was born. A few years later, I was visiting Joe in Vilcabamba and suggested that he turn the book into a video. He thought that was a good idea and I soon found myself shooting, directing and editing the DVD. Over the years it sold a few hundred copies and most recently, Joe decided it was time to gift his work to the world so here it is.

Seven Words That Can Change The World – Part 1 from Joe Simonetta on Vimeo.

Here’s the backstory on Seven Words:

At Harvard Divinity School in the fall of 1992 at a senior thesis seminar, each graduate student stated the subject of the paper he or she would present for graduation. Joe Simonetta, then nearly 50, said he would write on a new world belief system. His fellow students, incredulous, were taken aback that someone would undertake such a frivolous endeavor. Seven Words That Can Change the World is that belief system.

The author and speaker, Joe Simonetta, has had rich experiences in a broad range of fields: military, professional sports, business, politics, architecture, religion, writing, and higher education. His interdisciplinary journey has yielded clear, easy to understand, insights relevant to the challenges humanity faces.

Those who have heard Simonetta speak say he is “ingenious”…”brilliant”…”inspiring”…”the clearest presenter of reality”…”he provides the basis for a new world belief system”…

John Raatz, Founder of GATE (Global Alliance of Transformational Entertainment), says that “Simonetta brilliantly connects the dots of cosmology, evolutionary biology, religion, science and belief systems and presents a new understanding of the architecture of life itself.”

A graduate of Harvard Divinity School (Master of Divinity), Simonetta also holds a Master of Architecture degree. He is the son of an immigrant blue-collar worker who raised him in a World War II housing project.

Simonetta says that “a completely new understanding of reality is needed to arrest and reverse humanity’s destructive and unsustainable momentum, end its needless suffering, prosper together, find peace, achieve sustainability and advance civilization.”

“Our window of opportunity to accomplish the necessary and monumental transition in thinking is small compared to the large obstacles within our current belief systems (business, political and religious) that must be dissolved” he continues. “Yet, we must do this if we and all the life forms that share this jewel of a planet are to survive.”

In the film, Simonetta guides the viewer on a powerful journey through time, the cosmos, evolutionary biology, the world of religion, and our competing sets of survival instincts that have produced the troubled world we live in today.

“Simonetta has been able to see through all the garbage of the centuries like a laser beam and then state the obvious – truth – in such simple, straightforward words.” says Phyllis Leonard, of Sherborn, MA.

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“Always set high value on spontaneous kindness. He whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” — Samuel Johnson

My roommate and I are co-conspirators in kindness. We hold the door open for people in our apartment block all the time. We saw this girl with tons of things wheeling her trolley and helped her move everything. We helped a lady move her stuff from the elevator to her house, took the groceries to an old woman’s apartment and washed our friend’s car anonymously. Today we saw an old woman fall down at the bus stop. We stopped, inquired if she was fine, got her water and made her laugh by telling her about times we had fallen So much fun having a roommate who is a kindness conspirator!” –monkeyinpajamas