A Future To Believe In - Clements, Alan E
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"This book should be made mandatory world-wide for all heads of state." ~ Lissa Wolsak, Author of In Defense of Being. "A Future to Believe In is a message the world needs to hear now!" ~ Bill McKibben, Author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. After four years in creation, Alan Clements brings us a visionary new book, A Future to Believe In: 108 Reflections On the Art and Activism of Freedom. In it he weaves the wisdom of hundreds of the world's most creative and courageous thinkers - artists, activists, scientists, and risk-takers - in with his own most compelling life-lessons,…mehr

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"This book should be made mandatory world-wide for all heads of state." ~ Lissa Wolsak, Author of In Defense of Being. "A Future to Believe In is a message the world needs to hear now!" ~ Bill McKibben, Author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet. After four years in creation, Alan Clements brings us a visionary new book, A Future to Believe In: 108 Reflections On the Art and Activism of Freedom. In it he weaves the wisdom of hundreds of the world's most creative and courageous thinkers - artists, activists, scientists, and risk-takers - in with his own most compelling life-lessons, questions, and discoveries, from his forty-year long pursuit of truth and freedom - an epic journey of world travel, spiritual exploration, scholarly study and political activism, that has taken him from the sacredness of monastic silence deep into the dark heart of war zones. An iconoclastic blend of radical cultural commentary, edgy political punditry and provocative life-inquiry, this field guide for revolutionaries, and a model for a new society, is designed to liberate the human spirit - igniting gutsy transformation in one's daily life and nonviolent political change around the world. Burma's Nobel Peace laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi, with whom Clements co-authored the acclaimed book of conversations, The Voice of Hope, calls this global movement a revolution of the spirit or the awakening of a new language of freedom. By fearlessly fusing timeless spiritual values with nonviolent political actions, we can unite and co-create a future to believe in. "Alan Clements' magnificent book provides a courageous and intelligent compass personifying our aspirations for freedom and wisdom, and in so doing, offers insights on how to shape a future that gives life hope; make this book your guide, mentor and friend." ~ Dr Helen Caldicott, Author of Nuclear Power is Not the Answer and If you Love this Planet, Founding President Physicians for Social Responsibility. "In this radiant book is a new consciousness." Lowry Burgess, artist, professor, creator of the first official Non-Scientific Art Payload taken into outer space by NASA in 1989. "This book provides the essential wisdom - the spiritual intelligence - to learn to listen to the planet, to life - the core intelligence of nature and the human heart." ~ Derrick Jensen, Author of Culture of Make Believe. "A Future to Believe In is a treasure, not a mere book."~ Paul Hawken, Author of Blessed Unrest. "At a time when the contemporary spiritual landscape has become dangerously gentrified and domesticated, Alan Clements restores us to our senses - wild and elemental. He summons the voices of those who, along side him, have not traded their souls for the market-driven need to be tame or acceptable, and points us to the wilderness of true, engaged, fiercely authentic awakening. This is why we are alive-to set freedom free, in ourselves and for others, in every aspect of our lives from the most mundane daily task, to the most profound political act." ~ Kelly Wendorf, author and editor Stories of Belonging "This book is the music of wisdom, a dance with the finest places of the human heart. You will want to keep this timeless treasure within reach, so you can open it to any page, and let a paragraph or a line ignite you again to the truth of your own being." ~ Joanna Macy, Buddhist teacher, activist and author of World as Lover, World As Self.
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Boston born Alan Clements, after dropping out of the University of Virginia in his second year, went to the East and become one of the first Westerners to ordain as a Buddhist monk in Myanmar. He lived in Yangon at the Mahasi Sasana Yeiktha Mindfulness Meditation Centre for nearly four years, training in both the practice and teaching of Satipatthana Vipassana meditation and Buddhist psychology, under the guidance of his preceptor the Venerable Mahasi Sayadaw, and his successor Sayadaw U Pandita. In 1984, forced to leave the country by Burma's dictator Ne Win, with no reason given, Clements returned to the West and through invitation, lectured widely on the "wisdom of mindfulness," in addition to leading numerous mindfulness-based meditation retreats and trainings throughout the US, Australia, and Canada, including assisting a three month mindfulness teacher training with Sayadaw U Pandita, at the Insight Meditation Society (IMS), in Massachusetts. In 1988, Alan integrated into his classical Buddhist training an awareness that included universal human rights, social injustices, environmental sanity, political activism, the study of propaganda and mind control in both democratic and totalitarian societies, and the preciousness of everyday freedom. His efforts working on behalf of oppressed peoples led a former director of Amnesty International to call Alan "one of the most important and compelling voices of our times." As an investigative journalist Alan has lived in some of the most highly volatile areas of the world. In the jungles of Burma, in 1990, he was one of the first eye-witnesses to document the mass oppression of ethnic minorities by Burma's military, which resulted in his first book, "Burma: The Next Killing Fields?" (with a foreword by the Dalai Lama). Shortly thereafter, Alan was invited to the former-Yugoslavia by a senior officer for the United Nations, where, based in Zagreb during the final year of the war, he wrote the film "Burning" while consulting with NGO's and the United Nation's on the "vital role of consciousness in understanding human rights, freedom, and peace." In 1995, a French publisher asked Alan to attempt reentering Burma for the purpose of meeting Aung San Suu Kyi. Just released after six years of incarceration, Alan invited Aung San Suu Kyi to tell her courageous story to the world, thus illuminating the philosophical and spiritual underpinnings of Burma's nonviolent struggle for freedom. The transcripts of their five months of conversations were smuggled out of the country and became the book "The Voice of Hope." Translated into numerous languages, The Voice of Hope offers insight into the nature of totalitarianism, freedom, and nonviolent revolution. Said the London Observer: "Clements is the perfect interlocutor ... whatever the future of Burma, a possible future for politics itself is illuminated by these conversations." In 2002 Alan wrote "Instinct for Freedom - Finding Liberation Through Living" (New World Library & World Dharma Publications, nominated for the best spiritual teaching/memoir by the National Spiritual Booksellers Association in 2003), a memoir about his years in Burma that chronicles his mindfulness meditation training and dharma-informed activism. In 2003 he co-founded with his colleague, Dr. Jeannine Davies, the World Dharma Online Institute (WDOI) that offers an evolving video master course based on his life's work.