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Alexander Spirit Wisdom II

The wait is over! Alexander's new book, Spirit Wisdom II: The Enlightened Warrior's Guide to Personal and Cultural Transformation, is rolling off the press. Spirit Wisdom II ranges over a broad range of subjects both timely and timeless; from a "guided tour" of the spirit realm to the gritty realities of global warming and terrorism.

For seven years The Alexander Journal, a bimonthly newsletter, offered readers Alexander's wisdom and insight into a wide range of topics. Spirit Wisdom II offers the best of the Journal's final four years; but even better, the original essays have been newly reviewed, edited, and expanded by Alexander for this volume. In addition, Alexander offers new essays on subjects of timely concern, including global warming, terrorism, and polarized politics. Weaving these themes into a critique of the American Empire, and civilization itself, Alexander points the way to a future society rooted in principles of nature and spirit.

For an excerpt, see below. For full table of contents and excerpts, click here. To order, click here. Spirit Wisdom II by Ramon Stevens

Book Excerpt

Finding a Zone of Safety Amid a World in Crisis

What is the foundation of civilization, any civilization? Agriculture: settled food production. Agriculture is more efficient than hunting-and-gathering, freeing some members of society to pursue other paths as priests, soldiers, and merchants. Someone has to organize and control the growing complexity, giving rise to a ruling class and monarchy. However vast and high-tech your societies are today, and however remote they appear from the first rude rice plots, they still rest on the efficient and reliable production of food. Imperil that and civilization itself is imperiled.

We mention this because imperiled food production is one of the forecasted effects of global warming. Just as the Earth is groaning under burgeoning billions of hungry human mouths, the ability to feed those mouths will be hindered by erratic weather and temperature patterns. Wars will be fought over increasingly scarce food and fresh water.

This scenario may inspire thoughts of fashioning a personal zone of safety to ride out the global warming crisis, and other crises coincident with or successive to it. It is not our intent to utter dire prophecies of "the end is near," but we would be remiss if we didn't underscore the risks to civilized life that global warming and other crises portend, and how quickly civilization can unravel.

Our purpose here is to outline which regions of the planet will be most conducive to establishing a Zone of Safety. The first order of business is to find an area to live in—if not a country to live in. Surprisingly, some First World countries will be among the worst to weather the shock; whereas some Third World countries will offer a smoother ride…

[from the “Global Warming” chapter of Spirit Wisdom II. More here]