Healing the Heart of the World

I feel incredibly honored that my essay, The Evolutionary Warrior, is included alongside works by the amazing group of authors, thinkers and visionaries in the anthology, Healing the Heart of the World. Some of the other authors include, Caroline Myss, Neale Donald Walsch, Thich Nhat Hanh, John Gray, Jean Shinoda Bolen and many more.

Upon it's release, the book climbed to number 20 on the Amazon bestseller list and in 2006 it won the prestigious Independent Publishers award for Best Inspirational Book!

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Our individual actions can make a huge difference in the global picture in every way, according to the authors of a new book, Healing the Heart of the World (Elite Books, $25, hardback, ISBN 0-9710888-5-3).

Drawing on recent discoveries in science, psychology, economics, education and medicine, they point out that seeing the links between the planetary ecosystem and our own backyards, according to physicist Fritjof Capra, “involves several shifts of perception that go against the grain of traditional Western science and education.” These shifts counteract what Prince Charles, another contributor, calls “a one-sided approach to economic development which fails to take account of the inter-relatedness of creation.” Best-selling therapist John Gray talks about both facing our problems honestly, and forgiving ourselves; “working through problems in a setting where people don’t have to be perfect, where forgiveness is a part of everyday life.”

Along with thirty other contributors, they show that there are many ways in which our daily acts can contribute to the wellbeing of the whole. Coming from one perspective, such a message might sound unrealistic, but when the voices of so many experts from different disciplines are joined together, the composite picture points towards the possibility of a profoundly hopeful future for humankind, as small individual acts of conscience and responsibility—social and ecological—accumulate to produce huge shifts in communities and the environment.

Chapter Listings

Chapter Highlights

JOHN GRAY: The Radical Power of Forgiveness

John Gray, Ph.D., is the best-selling non-fiction author of the last decade. His blockbuster book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, and a host of subsequent titles, made him a preeminent national authority on gender roles in modern society. His moving chapter reflects on his father’s death at the hands of a hitchhiker, and talks about his work with maximum-security prisoners, demonstrating the possibility that love and forgiveness can flourish even during the greatest of tragedies.

CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES: We Were Made for These Times

Activists given to despair at the state of the nation and the state of the world will find great comfort in these passionate words from the author of Women Who Run With the Wolves. She affirms that the more desperate the times, the greater the call to let our lights shine powerfully and uncompromisingly. She reminds us that despite discouraging circumstances, people of conscience must take heart and remember that “it does not take ‘everyone on Earth’ to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.”

PRINCE CHARLES: A Sense of the Sacred in the Modern World

Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, has a keen eye for the trends and values of Western society, and has written and lectured extensively on these topics as he shapes the cultural debate both in Great Britain and other countries. He has read widely in Islam as well as other religions, and his essay on reawakening the sacred amongst the noise of the Information Age is informed by a profound synthesis of Eastern and Western thought.

FRITJOF CAPRA: Landscapes of Learning

Fritjof Capra, Ph.D., is an influential voice of the New Science, which his best-selling book The Tao of Physics brought to widespread popular awareness. He writes passionately of the urgent need to discover the environment practically and personally, and to discover the inter-relationships that surround us. He provides a blueprint for how to teach ecology meaningfully to children, in an open system with a cyclical exchange of knowledge.

CAROLINE MYSS: Invisible Acts of Power

Building on the ideas in her book of the same name, Caroline Myss, Ph.D., describes how the simplest of acts of compassion can have effects on others out of all proportion to their apparent size. Drawing on hundreds of case histories taken from her recent work, she tells stories about accidents or suicides averted, sometimes by an act as seemingly insignificant as a caring smile. She describes how getting in touch with our intuition leads us inevitably into a life of service, and how applying our gifts to the circumstances at hand is far more important than saving “the world.”

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