Bringing years of scholarship to his thoughtful argument, Michael Nagler contends that many of the social, cultural, and even economic problems now faced by American society today are direct results of an overemphasis on material consumption, which in turn reflects spiritual poverty. These ills, he posits, spring from a false way of looking at the world — namely, from considering material things to be fundamental, and consciousness merely derivative. He advocates a return to the ancient Eastern spiritual view that consciousness is fundamental — that it is the basic stuff of the universe, and matter and energy merely ephemeral forms or appearances. In developing this conception and applying it to the nation's social problems, Nagler explains how readers can best oppose war, consumerism, commercialism, and scientism, and heal the spiritual deficit many feel today.
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Not one word in this eloquent essay is unecessary. One simply cannot skim. Nagler gives an uplifting, well developed vision for a future where we know who we are and act from that place as a "third force" in the world.
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IT IS INDEED AN HONOR TO BE INVITED to present the fourth annual memorial lecture in the name of Master Hsüan Hua, whom I once metor rather in whose presence I was briefly privileged to beand I still feel some effects of that meeting after more than thirty years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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IT IS INDEED AN HONOR TO BE INVITED to present the fourth annual memorial lecture in the name of Master Hsüan Hua, whom I once metor rather in whose presence I was briefly privileged to beand I still feel some effects of that meeting after more than thirty years. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
principled nonviolence, nonviolent future, reverent study Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Huston Smith, Mother Teresa New!
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- The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell on page 64, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Modern Theologians: An Introduction to Christian Theology Since 1918 (The Great Theologians) by David F. Ford in Back Matter
- Human Behavior by Eleanor S. Nash in Back Matter
- The Lost Religion of Jesus: Simple Living and Nonviolence in Early Christianity by Keith Akers in Back Matter
- Brave New World Revisited (Perennial Classics) by Aldous Huxley in Back Matter
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