[Oe List ...] Tikkun and Spiritual Progressives

[Herman Greene]

This is helpful Dick.

Would you be willling to write a review of this book for The Ecozoic Reader?

Herman
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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:
    a.. The permanent elimination of poverty in the United States
    b.. The transformation to a totally sustainable society
    c.. A massive retooling of the infrastructure of our cities
  And an 8 point covenant:

    a.. Covenant with American Families
    b.. Covenant for Personal Responsibility
    c.. Covenant for Social Responsibility
    d.. Covenant for Values-Based Education
    e.. Covenant for Health Care
    f.. Covenant of Environmental Stewardship
    g.. Covenant for Building a Safer World
    h.. 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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