A FUTURE TO BELIEVE IN IBD

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&ldquo,This book should be made mandatory world-wide for all heads of state.&rdquo,~ Lissa Wolsak, Author of In Defense of Being.&ldquo,A Future to Believe In is a message the world needs to hear now!&rdquo,~ 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&rsquo,s most creative and courageous thinkers &ndash, artists, activists, scientists, and risk-takers &ndash, in with his own most compelling life-lessons, questions, and discoveries, from his forty-year long pursuit of truth and freedom &ndash, 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 &ndash, igniting gutsy transformation in one&rsquo,s daily life and nonviolent political change around the world. Burma&rsquo,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.&ldquo,In this radiant book is a new consciousness.&rdquo, Lowry Burgess, artist, professor, creator of the first official Non-Scientific Art Payload taken into outer space by NASA in 1989.&ldquo,This book provides the essential wisdom &ndash, the spiritual intelligence &ndash, to learn to listen to the planet, to life &ndash, the core intelligence of nature and the human heart.&rdquo,~ 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.áAt a time when the contemporary spiritual landscape has become dangerously gentrified and domesticated, Alan Clements restores us to our senses &ndash, 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&mdash,to set f