[Dialogue] Quote from Lerner, Left Hand of God

[Ellen and David Rebstock]

Dick K, Karen, et al

I encourage anyone who is on the east coast to attend the Tikkun conference for the Network of Spiritual Progressives in Washington DC. We attended the one last July in Berkeley with speakers including Bishop Spong, Jim Wallis, John Cobb, George Lakoff, Reanne Eisler, Fritzoff Capra, Mathew Fox and many others.  I found that some of the speakers that I had never heard of before were some of the best like Van Jones, Peter Babel and Michael Nagler. We had eight attend from our church and 40 people from Sonoma County.  The latter group meets every month for a program and we have several groups studying the book.  Had Michael Lerner come up in February for a presentation and book signing with 600 attending and doubled the size of our meeting group.  He has a lot of great things to say in the book especially in the last half that emphasizes where we need to go from hear.  I hope you who attend the conference in Washington will share the high points afterwards with those of us on the west coast.  I see that our Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, who is the chair of the Progressive Caucus is a speaker in Washington on the first day.  Sure would like to see what Obama has to say also.

Dave Rebstock

Dave Rebstock
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  P. 25
  Globalized capital has accelerated the economic, communicative and ecological interdependency of all people on the planet while simultaneously fostering social relations that heighten our mutual isolation and alienation from one another.  It has fostered (or in some cases, brought into fuller focus previously underplayed) "radical needs" that it cannot satisfy:  the need for a life that has higher meaning and purpose than a one-dimensional focus on economic security and accumulation of material goods; the need for work tht contributes to the common good; the need for love and sanctity both in family life and in friendships; the need for privacy and protection from the invasiveness of new technologies; the need for a new relationship to nature that not only fosters ecological sustainabillity and a massive effort to repair of all the environmental damage we have done to the planet but also encourages awe and wonder and joyous celebration at the grandeur of creation; the need to experience and form a life that has a relationship to the spiritual dimension, that is, to the those aspects of reality that cannot be measured or subjected to empirical verification; the need for a society that encourages kindness, generosity, compassion, nonviolence, peace, and social justice, and affirs pleasure and wisdom and rejects the manipulative, tecnocratic, reductionist thinking that today parade as "savvy" or "efficient."

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  Note:  I joined Michael Lerner's group, and they encourage action to begin as a result of reading the book.  This is an action of mine--to share some pithy quotes from his book with you guys.  Somebody can take them further by creating charts, short courses, etc.

  from Karen Bueno, formerly Karen Wright, Fifth City resident 1969 to 1972, Houston house resident to 1973, now in the Denver metro.


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