Ray wrote: Perhaps you didn't bother to read the Donahue URL that I posted earlier or perhaps you thought it was too low class for such a high class group? Until you start dealing with the arguments seriously, things will just get worse. How long? What of the jewels of Western Civilization will be destroyed next by this economic, small government idiocy before you finally pay attention? Perhaps we could start with jobs again. Jobs for worthwhile accomplishments rather than how you can get the best deal and save the most money.
Hi Ray, I read the whole sordid mess. Talk about people who have lost the WAY!(TAO)Their need for an ugly kind of CERTAINTY shows the consequences of western concepts of justice and education. Rupert Ross' title "Return to the Teachings" reminds us of this. Jesus' teaching was simple: love the creator and love neighbour as self. I don't experience this as theory (but look what theory has done to it!) rather I experience it as a WAY of being in the world. Several months ago, I posted Chief Dan George's lament about what he sees in our world now versus the community he grew up in. You suggest that we should revisit jobs; I agree and will do just that by offering the following book: Matthew Fox's The Reinvention of Work: Synopsis: How many of us can really say that our work life is in balance with our personal life - that our values and desires are reflected in our daily vocation, that our personal life and professional life are integrated, or that we find satisfaction, not a crushing defeat of the spirit, in our workday existence? According to most polls and reports, very few of us do. Controversial author and radical priest Matthew Fox shares his thoughts on one of the focal points of our lives - work. He urges us to overcome our feelings of isolation, insecurity, and alienation in our work lives and to embrace a vision of the world where the self is not sacrificed for a job, but is sanctified by authentic "soul work." He envisions a world where intellect, heart, and health come together in a harmony of essential life experiences that celebrates the whole person. Fox shatters industrial-age models of work by applying the principles of the new cosmology, calling on the prophetic voices from an array of professions - people who are asking critical questions about the way they work. Drawing on the rich legacy of great mystical teachings - from Hildegard of Bingen to Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhart, and the Bhagavad Gita - Fox proposes as a foundation for true work a spirituality rooted in the interconnectedness of all things. Like Thomas Aquinas before him, Matthew Fox believes that "to live well is to work well" and sets out to reconnect the postindustrial world to the Great Work of the universe. He addresses our unemployment crisis and our work crisis with a whole new model of livelihood for our time. Table of Contents: Introduction: Job Crisis or Work Crisis? 1. The Great Work and the Inner Work: Revisioning Work 1. The Pain of Work: Work As Nothingness and Lamentation 2. From Machine to Green: How a New Cosmology Helps Us Revision Work 3. Exploring Our Inner Work: Work As Enchantment 4. Creativity: Where Inner and Outer Work Merge II. The Great Work and the Outer Work: Reinventing Work 5. The Environmental Revolution and the Reinvention of Work, Including Farming and Politics 6. Reinventing Work: Education, the Young, and Sexuality 7. Reinventing Work: Health Care, Psychology, and Art 8. Reinventing Work: Economics, Business, and Science III. Ritual: Where the Great Work of the Universe and the Work of the People Come Together 9. The Reenchantment of Ritual: Reinventing Work by Rediscovering the Festive Conclusion: Work As Sacrament, Sacrament As Work Epilogue: A Spirituality of Work Questionnaire Appendix: A Preface of Creation Take care, Brian ps Wittgenstein's life exemplifies this way of being in the world. _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
