Our Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence - Nagler, Michael N.
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Bringing years of scholarship to his thoughtful argument, Michael Nagler contends that many of the social, cultural, and even economic problems now faced by American society today are direct results of an overemphasis on material consumption, which in turn reflects spiritual poverty. These ills, he posits, spring from a false way of looking at the world -- namely, from considering material things to be fundamental, and consciousness merely derivative. He advocates a return to the ancient Eastern spiritual view that consciousness is fundamental -- that it is the basic stuff of the universe, and…mehr

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Bringing years of scholarship to his thoughtful argument, Michael Nagler contends that many of the social, cultural, and even economic problems now faced by American society today are direct results of an overemphasis on material consumption, which in turn reflects spiritual poverty. These ills, he posits, spring from a false way of looking at the world -- namely, from considering material things to be fundamental, and consciousness merely derivative. He advocates a return to the ancient Eastern spiritual view that consciousness is fundamental -- that it is the basic stuff of the universe, and matter and energy merely ephemeral forms or appearances. In developing this conception and applying it to the nation's social problems, Nagler explains how readers can best oppose war, consumerism, commercialism, and scientism, and heal the spiritual deficit many feel today.
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Michael N. Nagler recently retired as Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, where he founded the Peace and Conflict Studies Program. He is a longtime resident and workshop presenter at the Blue Mountain Center of Meditation. His latest book is Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future, which received an American Book Award in 2002. He wrote the introduction for Vows and Observations by M.K. Gandhi, and with William Swanson he co-edited Stolen Moments and Wives and Husbands.

Lewis S. Mudge is the Robert Leighton Stuart Professor of Theology Emeritus at San Francisco Theological Seminary and the Graduate Theological Union. He wrote The Church as Moral Community (1998) and The Sense of a People (1992).