... by seekers wanting drugs, wanting sex, wanting — they don’t know what they want, they only know the wanting, and it is a powerful force, all that unchanneled desire, all those people confusing it with sex, scratching at it as at an unhealed wound, all that choosing of the apple over paradise...

...Peter Gabel We publish here the first chapter of Tikkun editor-at-large Peter Gabel’s brilliant new book, The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self (Routledge Press 2018). Peter’s book proposes a visionary new social theory that places the conflict...

... life-form as both ourselves to see the plant as a presence like ourselves, desiring presence (or existence) and desire.” To illustrate this idea, Gabel the nourishment of the sun’s warmth and light and undergo­ cites the tendency of a plant to arch toward the sun: ing vibrant physical...

...Caitlin Ng ( caitlinng.com ) We don’t need to deny our aggression, passion, and desire in order to lead a spiritual life, the author argues. Rather, we can “deploy them . . . to change the world for the better.” Commit Yourself to Nonviolence by Caitlin Ng. ...

... (and we all need to struggle with these concerns), the anti-abortion movement exhibits distinctly pathological features. We also understand the legitimate desires of Americans to build cultural symbols of their shared values, but when they are whipped into such a frenzy that they would amend...

...Mel Kadel ( melkadel.com ) Freudian narratives, Marxist theory, and the worldview of liberalism are often blind to the spiritual dimension of social life—they fail to perceive the power of humanity’s desire for love and connection with others. Finding a Point by Mel Kadel. ...

... of the desire for growth and development, both inward and outward. We know that all of us are always tapping the ground in front of us to learn whether it is safe to take the next step. We must not lose sight of the fact that inner self-government (the highest expression of personal freedom) and political self...

... that dominate us, those that are genetic and those that are geographic, above and beyond all of these, man and the collective not only have the ability to change, but have the desire for true tikkun . Herein lies the basic leftist orientation: the desire to change and the ability to transform oneself. While...

... clear, the cultural climate of the fifties was actually a massive denial of the desire for true connection and meaning. But at the time the cultural image-world of the fifties was sternly held in place by a punitive and threatening system of authoritarian male hierarchies, symbolized most graphically...

... this God. Even Maimonides, who posited an unknowable God, insisted that this God revealed his truth in a very knowable Torah, an idea that salvaged the chosenness of the Jews and thus ensured their loyalty to Maimonides’s God. We want a God who echoes our desires. We desire certainty, so our gods...

... W anything in particular, but desire in general. Remember Midas...

... in the Middle East and Afghanistan in the name of Western ideals of progress and democracy. Freud himself had no doubt that within this drive or energy, which builds and destroys civilizations, lurked the death drive itself. This is profoundly ironic, since it means that concealed within our desire to create...

... AS the November election approaches. What I hope you do is recognize that our commitments as Evangelicals go beyond the two hot-button issues of gay marriage and abortion. A growing number of us have broadened our agenda to include concerns about the environment, a desire...

...-color version of this cover photo by Robert Bergman. Please visit tikkun.org/bergman to see a full-color version of this cover photo by Robert Bergman. That movement toward contact between two beings transcends all conditioning; the desire to see and be seen and to become fully present to each...

.... When the term ‘spirituality’ is mingled with religion and the coercive binding it too often entails, the relationship between the subjective and the external form become conflated. Spirituality is then commodified and sold as belonging to particular ‘pews’—form-ridden and desirable to ‘get...