Dr. Marc B. Cooper

AN ELDER FOR OUR TIMES

Award-winning consultant, author, Futurist and Leader

The Transformation from Older to Elder

There will come a time in your life when the reality of growing old becomes your personal intimate reality. A reality much different from the reality you mastered over your lifetime. An unfamiliar reality. An uncertain reality. A reality never experienced. A reality that faces the end of life. A reality where everything you thought you knew no longer applies. You’ve never gotten old before. Now what?

Dr. Marc B. Cooper has walked this ageing path. And on his journey, he discovered the corridor from older to elder. While business, family, and social accomplishment are extolled, they are finite. Finite always has an end. Whereas the way of the elder is infinite. As an elder, you acquire higher wisdom, a wisdom that is eternal, a higher wisdom that intellectually, intuitively and spiritually guides you to grow old successfully.   

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The Elder Essays: The Thinking and Being of a Contemporary Elder

Dr. Cooper’s new book, The Elder Essays: The Thinking and Being of a Contemporary Elder, is a collection of essays, various fables, and a few self-revealing surveys. A body of work that captures being an elder in our Western, ultra-modern, youth-obsessed, “more is better” culture. This book aims to help those through their late aging journey by illuminating access to an elder’s deeper self-understanding, attainment of higher consciousness, and the opening of spiritual portals, allowing an elder to navigate growing old successfully. 

Our culture purposely as well as covertly pushes growing old into a downward spiral. A debilitating future characterized by marginalization, depression, and loss of purpose and self-worth. On the other hand, a contemporary elder consciously creates a future of fulfillment, accomplishment, attainment, realization, and actualization. The book is written standing on this elder platform.

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Being a Contemporary Elder

Dr. Marc Cooper gets to “source,” the headwater, the roots, the core, the birthplace of thoughts and emotions of aging. Throughout various career experiences, he used his gift of insight and self-discovery to uncover the sources that determine his and others’ authentic humanity. 

Marc recognized those often-concealed parts of us, unspoken or hidden, inflict a self-imposed confinement of the true, original self. You can’t escape from prison if you don’t know you are in prison. Honest, no-nonsense, truthful self-examination is the key to the cell door.

This is especially needed in growing old. As elders, growing old is about returning to who you really are, not their past, not the many masks worn, not the various identities upheld. Elders don’t age backwards.

Elders learn to detach from the internal and cultural harmful conversations about aging. Elders create other life-altering conversations that adjust their future of growing old. Conversations that grant higher purpose, grace, peace, and equanimity, for themselves and the world.

Is the Elder Path for You?

Albert Einstein proclaims, “There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why. All great discoveries are made in this way.”

If you are at that stage of life, where the horizon has moved inexorably closer, you sense there is something much more for you to realize as you traverse the last third of your life, where time’s speed is only accelerating, where the body is sending messages of its decline, and your intuition tells you the path of elder feels right, trust your intuition.

You can find the work of Dr. Cooper on his blog, podcasts, or purchase his latest book, the Elder Essays: The Thinking and Being of a Contemporary Elder.

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“Don’t Just”

Don’t just learn, experience.

Don’t just read, absorb.

Don’t just change, transform.

Don’t just relate, advocate.

Don’t just promise, prove.

Don’t just criticize, encourage.


Don’t just think, ponder.

Don’t just take, give.

Don’t just see, feel.

Don’t just dream, do.

Don’t just hear, listen.

Don’t just talk, act.

Don’t just tell, show.

Don’t just exist, live.”


― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart

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