Andrew Bard Schmookler's website www.nonesoblind.org is devoted to understanding the roots of America's present moral crisis and the means by which the urgent challenge of this dangerous moment can be met. Dr. Schmookler is also the author of such books as The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution (SUNY Press) and Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide (M.I.T. Press). He also conducts regular talk-radio conversations in both red and blue states.
" ... some 'natural' disasters are really the indirect result of man's greed, carelessness, iniquity, and even negative emotions, because this world and all life on this planet are one interdependent ecosystem. When significant parts of it are badly damaged or in disharmony or out of balance, or there is widespread human pain or suffering, it causes many different kinds of harmful effects on, around and within this planet. It is as if our whole world is like us, and when our body, mind and spirit-soul are not in harmony and well, we are troubled and suffer in certain ways."
In other words, we are One. And that is a quote from the home page of this site:
You have certainly pointed out one of the primary dimensions of the Wholeness-- that of the living systems of the biosphere whose balance and harmony we have been carelessly undermining.
And you point out, too, that the consequence of our disregard of such Wholeness --of wholeness in general, I believe-- is suffering and destruction.
THank you for this contribution.
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Andrew Bard Schmookler (314 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 146 comments)
on Monday, January 7, 2008 at 9:15:03 PM