Spirit Matters: Global Healing and the Wisdom of the Soul

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by Michael Lerner.

Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 1998.

Rabbi Lerner identifies the central problem of our time as the globalization of selfishness, and maintains that the only serious alternative to that unhappy state is the globalization of spiritual consciousness and the development of an “Emancipatory Spirituality.” hrough a variety of spiritual practices he would have us develop a deeper understanding of the role of Spirit in the universe and a resonance with Spirit’s agenda in our personal lives.  “The world and other people are not here to be used and manipulated by us for our own narrow purposes,” says Lerner, “but to be responded to with awe and wonder and radical amazement.