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... articles by dozens of Jewish and Muslim experts is the definitive source for understanding a complex relationship between Muslims and Jews from the seventh century to the present day. Its 1,146 pages cover pressing political issues like whether Jews are demeaned in Islam and whether Jews faced real...

... Diana L. Eck on Becoming a More Complex “We” Complex a More Becoming Eck L.on Diana...

..., and larger emerges from something older, lesser, and smaller that in and of itself gave no hint of the something new to which it gave birth. For example, a billion and a half years ago, simple microorganisms unintentionally joined together to create systems complex enough to birth eukaryotic cells...

... that commences from the inception of life itself and evolves in complexity and ever-growing sophistication over its 3.2 billion years. His piece introduces this growing force within consciousness studies and provides a critique of the field from that perspective. W hile more and more of the general...

... of the individual and recognize it as a successful evolutionary survival strategy—the group versus the individual. The truth is more complex: the stream is the necessity of balance, cooperation and sharing as inherent principles, behind which are the complex deep pleasures of love, validation, respect, and nurture...

... was the institutional protection, or status, that comes in this country from being classified as “white.” . . . Given this complex historical and cultural reality, most Black Americans, no matter how wealthy, refined, or “integrated,” have never been able to achieve the mobility and security available to whites. Jewish...

... of and nurtured by a living Earth itself born of a living universe evolving toward ever-greater complexity, beauty, awareness, and possibility . Life exists only in community. We humans survive and prosper only as contributing members of a living Earth community. It is our human nature to care and to share...

... species: any perception of progress is a delusion based on human arrogance. From a Buddhist perspective, however, our situation is more complex. The earliest texts emphasize how precious human life is. According to an analogy repeated three times in the Pāli Canon, to be born as a human is more rare...

... hear seem relentlessly hopeless and complex. Economic uncer­ tainty, ecological collapse, ethnic conflicts, religious extrem­ ism —the list goes on, an endless tickertape of frustration and despair.F They depict a world filled with conflict, fear, and pain while re­...

...Kenneth M. Heilman; Russell S. Donda Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2007 The evolving and growing and complexity o f the human Neuroscience brain allowed our ances­ tors the ability to question, wonder...

... originated and self-organized, evolving into species increasingly biologically complex and conscious. At least one of the earth’s species has become self-conscious, and we would be unwise to assume that development is the end of the evolutionary process. Do we really know what’s going on here, what...

... insight. Our compass and guide is to know means all of us—live within the complex, vast, intricate, and that the most important thing for us to know is what we cannot frilly know, but try to know. Those of us who are Christians evoke...

... In this luminous passage, we see Zom- midrashic tradition itself—midrash is akey PSYCHOLOGICAL berg setting the table for her book. Her rhetorical component in the rabbinic dis­ DEPTHS OF HUMANITY Bible readings maintain a deft and complex course-some “enlightened...

.... Spare and musical, intimate while open to history, intelligent and emotionally rich in the details of divisions and connections, Bloch’s poetry negotiates the complexities of her identity as a first-generation Jew, a woman, a child, a parent, a wife, a lover, and a citizen. A self-proclaimed “Jewish...

... jeopardizing the critic’s career; position amid the intellectual and political and recalibration, we are agreeing to • discount the numbers of dead or in­ tensions. We consider Tikkun and the com­ balance in all the complexity, on all registers jured or the innocence of the dead or injured munities...

... always sciousness “happens.” Rather, consciousness is an “emergent” seemed to me to hold the secrets to existence, that’s where I fo­ phenomenon. When a very large number of simple things inter­ cused my search. The result was my book Judaism , Physics act in a highly complex way, a new “thing” comes...

... challenged the Roman occupation and lost. Naomi Alderman’s novel reimagines Jesus from the standpoint of his mother Miriam (Mary), his disciple Yehudah (Judas), Caiaphas the high priest of the Temple, and Bar-Avo (a Jewish terrorist against Rome). The reader comes away with a picture of the complexity...

... their inquiry: they neglect manifestations of awareness and intention in other living systems; overlook the cognitive capabilities relevant to participation in the complex social structures of other species; disregard the inter-accommodative exchanges between species; and, even closer to home, ignore...

... the prison-industrial complex and the politicians in its pockets. How it is presented by the media will be critical, but perhaps not decisive: it is how well it works in practice, in those places innovative enough to fund it, that will likely be decisive. M ost articles in this issue come from...