Catalyst Defined


cat.a.lyst n. any substance serving as the agent in catalysis.

ca.tal.y.sis n. the causing or speeding up of a reaction by the addition of some substance which undergoes no permanent change thereby.

Some Individuals Who Have Been Historical Catalysts Are:

• Albert Einstein • Stewart Brand • Moses

• Nelson/Winnie Mandela • Rachel Carson

• Woody Guthrie • Cesar Chavez • Joan Baez

• Edgar Cayce • Gorbachev • Feldenkrais

• Golda Meir • Shakespeare • Goethe • Dickens

• Plato • Tolstoy • Jung • Confucius

• Joseph Campbell • Gandhi • Mother Teresa

• Wayne Morse • Bob Dylan • The Beatles

• Herman Hesse • Pablo Picasso • Socrates

• Jesus • Buddah • Mohammed • Lao Tsu

• Schopenhaure • Malcom X • Kahlil Gibran

• Martin Luther King Jr.• Rosa Parks

• Bill Moyers • Alan Watts • Ken Keyes

• Black Elk • Deganauirda and the Iroquois League

• Geronimo • Doris Lessing • Werner Erhard

• Ursula LeGuinn • Adrienne Rich • Judy Chicago

• Starhawk • Eleanor Roosevelt • Angela Davis

• John Brown • Lenny Bruce • Thomas Moore

• Rabindranath Tagore • Buckminster Fuller

• E.F. Schumacher



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