Dancing in the Shadow of Tyranny: An Activist's Guide to Inner Disarmament [Paperback]

Neriah Lothamer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 20, 2005

Dancing in the Shadow of Tyranny is a moving social testament for our times. The author, Neriah Lothamer, has been involved in many forms of activism, from the Kent State student protests to the Vietnam war, to the most recent marches opposing the Iraq war. He has videotaped and documented the outrage felt by many activists.What makes this book unique is that Lothamer does not simply turn the searchlight on corporate corruption and government folly. He turns an equally probing eye on himself. He asks, where do the roots of such social behavior lie, and he is shocked to find echoes of it resounding in his own behavior, toward his children, his wife, his business partners. He realizes that externalizing such behavior in order to confront it in "the other" may be little more than a distraction from the work at hand: confronting the inner bully and tyrant. Written in deeply moving and lyrical prose-sometimes searing, sometimes singing-Lothamer's moving story of heartbreak and radical inner reconstuction is a full of insights and compelling contemporary wisdom.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

We at Elite Books were so impressed by Dancing in the Shadow of Tyranny, An Activist's Guide to Inner Disarmament by Neriah Lothamer that we selected him to be one of the few "New Voices" in our anthology Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of Change Within to Change the World. Along with the Dalai Lama, Neale Donald Walsch, Ram Dass, Helen Caldicott, Gay Hendricks, Deepak Chopra, Debbie Ford, Amazon John Easterling, Joan Boryhenko, Darryl Hall and many other coauthors, Neriah displays an astute perspective of the current world-wide personal growth movement and how that applies to our individual and collective experience.

His book is a groundbreaking style-setter, it uses personal growth experiences as ways to describe some of the chaotic emotions we all face in the modern world and to editorialize about the politically evolving face of humanity. With a humor and piercing insight, Neriah examines problems threatening the survival of the world and comes up with common sense solutions and creative alternatives.

This is not a self-help or how-to guide. it is a challenge to wake up out of denial and to take responsibility for our experience by actualizing what we know about change and applying that to actually changing our world.

From the Author

An anger monger’s critique of the personal and global conflict inside us all. From ‘Boomers’ to bombers and bullies: how to deal with the world’s inner-child tyrant. Activism’s insight to the human problem of anger. My struggle with anger against the bullying tyranny of my father and my government. Freedom’s waltz through the inner tyrant of terrorism. Anger, Tyrants, Freedom and the inner child. Lessons from the Lilac bush Mother. Y2K 9/11 S.O.S.—USA!!! Dealing with the frustration of living under a tyrant. Boomers’ inner child and war. My struggle against pop and politics. My tyrant, my dad. "Don’t worry it’s only Goliath," said David Boomers, Bush, and Buddha in the New Millennium

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Elite Books; First Edition edition (August 20, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 097200288X
• ISBN-13: 978-0972002882
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,298,602 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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