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.
The Elder Essays: The Thinking and Being of a Contemporary Elder
Dr. Cooper’s new book, Older to Elder: 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 often pushes aging into a downward spiral, a future of marginalization, depression, and loss of purpose. But a contemporary elder, armed with the wisdom and insights expressed in this book, can consciously create a future of fulfillment, accomplishment, and self-realization. This book is a platform for empowerment, inspiring elders to take control of their aging journey.
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.”
Suppose you are at that stage of life where the horizon has moved inexorably closer. In that case, 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 and podcasts or purchase his latest book, the Older to Elder: The Thinking and Being of a Contemporary Elder.
“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