SOCIETY, SPIRIT and SELF

In this book, you can enjoy essays on societal, spiritual, and personal transformation. In three collections, these sixty-five essays written over fifty-six years (1966 - 2021) provide you with helpful insights, inspiration, models, and methods. You will encounter ideas and experiences of the author and also drawn from UNDP, the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jean Houston, Ken Wilber, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joseph Mathews, Norman O. Brown, Angeles Arrien, Landmark Forum, Humberto Maturana, Willis Harman, Paul Tillich, Rudolph Bultmann, and others. You will explore nine themes of whole systems change, sustainable human development, visionary social activism, demythologized Christianity, progressive Buddhism, worldly spirituality, and intimate reflections on the author's vocation, awareness, and presence. Individual topics include 9/11, Venezuela, Order Ecumenical, HIV/AIDS, governance, urbanization, urban development, the movement of movements (MoM), democracy, social artistry, seminar design, personal grief and joy, and pandemic living. In our time of crisis and opportunity, this book can bring a peaceful perspective and help strengthen your compassion for self, others, and the Earth-community. Enjoy being part of the One Dance! "At the still point of the turning world . . . there the dance is . . . Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance." - T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets