Tikkun’s core vision of social and political change is so unfamiliar to most Americans it can take some study to grasp it – even though it would seem quite familiar to Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, or the Prophet Isaiah were they here to comment. It is so old we have forgotten it and so new we haven’t grasped it yet. Please explore the ideas in the fixed links below, and the recent articles by Michael Lerner and authors chosen by him that shine a light on different aspects of the vision we need.
- Tikkun/NSP Core Vision for Political and Social Change
- The Spiritual Covenant With America
- The Politics of Meaning
- A Foreign Policy Based on Generosity Not Domination: The Global Marshall Plan
- Remove corporate money from elections and ensure corporate responsibility: Pass the ESRA, the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the U.S. Constitution!
- Healing Israel-Palestine
- Abiding Perspectives by Tikkun authors and others
Editorial
The State of the Spirit, 2011
Human beings share a deep yearning to live in communities that provide a sense of purpose to their lives. And we have an irrepressible instinct to seek freedom; creativity; artistic expression; higher and higher levels of understanding and consciousness; love and caring for others; the creation and enjoyment of beauty and pleasure; and both joyous celebration of and awe-filled responses to all the wonders of life in this universe.
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Eco-Spirituality
The Presence of Living Organisms
by Peter Gabel
It is possible that the plant as a living and vital presence responds to the warmth and radiance of the sunlight and turns toward it responsively. This interpretation, which I favor, understands the plant as a spiritual-material unity rather than reducing the plant to the materialist dimension that is visible to the detached, scientific eye.
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Spirituality
Forgiveness
by Michael Lerner
Every night since the attack on my home by right-wing Zionists, I’ve been saying a prayer of forgiveness for them. While the political meaning of that act, and of the demeaning of critics of Israel, will be explored more fully …
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Economy/Poverty/Wealth
Spiritual Awakening, a New Economy, and the End of Empire
by David Korten
Abolish Wall Street. Build Real Wealth.
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