The Way Ahead: A Visionary Perspective for the New Millennium - Softcover

9781862042209: The Way Ahead: A Visionary Perspective for the New Millennium

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862042209 ISBN 13: 9781862042209

Publisher: Element Books Ltd, 1998

A collection of essays addresses such individual and collective issues as education, the environment, health, politics, and spirituality

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From Kirkus Reviews:

A who's who of the New Age movement, and guests, prescribes a what's what for global change--and despite the brevity of these short essays by 52 celebrities with a conscience, there's much to chew on. Not in Richard Gere's vague foreword, though (``If the cycles of conditioned violence and counter-violence can be avoided...we may re-enter the Garden of Peace and Bliss''); not in Yoko Ono's self-serving poem (``Remember you are loved. Remember I love you''); and not, let's hope, in the rather eccentric advice of physicist Helen Caldicott, who asks that we carry our groceries home by placing them--eggs, flour, what have you--into our own bottles and jars at the checkout counter, leaving the manufacturers' packaging behind. More moving and sound--sometimes extraordinarily sound--advice comes from more formidable figures- -the Dalai Lama, Vaclav Havel, Rupert Sheldrake, Allen Ginsberg, Thich Nhat Hanh, Father Thomas Keating, Prince Philip (calling for ``a new vision in business''); and then there're Paul and Linda McCartney, who come up with a neat guideline for aspiring vegetarians: ``If it has a face, don't eat it!'' All the royalties go to the charity Oxfam America. -- Copyright �1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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