Eric Leskowitz, M.D., Harvard Medical School
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This month's Questions & Answers with Alexander features these topics: Money • Global Warming • Life Between Life • Finding One's Calling • more! Join the conversation here! |
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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. Order book or ebook. |
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.[from the Global Warming chapter of Spirit Wisdom II. More here]