[Oe List ...] Tikkun and Spiritual Progressives

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Lerner seems to have put his finger on a major contradiction in western  
society.  Productivity has become the only operating criteria for the way  we live 
our lives.  Money and power are the way we keep score.  We see  nature and 
one another as assets to be exploited.
 
He offers 3 Foci:
    *   The permanent elimination of poverty in the United States 
    *   The transformation to a totally sustainable society 
    *   A massive retooling of the infrastructure of our cities
And an 8 point covenant:
 
    *   Covenant with American Families 
    *   Covenant for Personal Responsibility 
    *   Covenant for Social Responsibility 
    *   Covenant for Values-Based Education 
    *   Covenant for Health Care 
    *   Covenant of Environmental Stewardship 
    *   Covenant for Building a Safer World 
    *   Covenant to Separate Church and State and  Science

He discusses in some depth the means to mobilize to achieve  these ends.
 
His conclusion begins with a Chardin quote:
 

Someday, after mastering the wind, the rains, the tides  and gravity, we 
shall harness for God the energies of love, and then for a  second time in the 
history of the world, humanity will have discovered  fire.


 
 
In a message dated 2/18/2006 9:59:16 PM Central Standard Time,  
SVESjaime at aol.com writes:

Dick,

Read a 1998 book of the same title by Adolf Holl,  subtitled, a biography of 
the Holy Spirit.  Richard, mind summarizing  what you find exciting about 
Lerner's book?  

Been ten years  now and I still have to finish his Politics of Meaning.

Maybe Tikkun is  too much East Coast to be relevant to my little dot in the 
Western  Pacific.

I seek enlightenment.

Jaime  Vergara
Saipan




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