[Dialogue] Quote from Lerner, Left Hand of God

[Sunny Walker]

I heard Van Jones at the IONS conf in DC last summer (Institute of Noetic
Sciences) - he is amazing!

 

Sunny Walker

Institute of Cultural Affairs, Denver

303-671-0704

swalker at ica-usa.org 

 

Releasing the capacity to create positive, sustainable futures in every
individual, organization, & community

 

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From: dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net
[mailto:dialogue-bounces at wedgeblade.net] On Behalf Of Ellen and David
Rebstock
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 12:05 PM
To: Colleague Dialogue
Subject: Re: [Dialogue] Quote from Lerner, Left Hand of God

 

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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From: KarenBueno at aol.com 

To: Dialogue at wedgeblade.net ; OE at wedgeblade.net 

Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 6:41 AM

Subject: [Dialogue] Quote from Lerner, Left Hand of God

 

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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