... to contribute to change. After all, they are the ones who are keeping the accumulation machine running by satisfying their desires for transcendence through the surrogates of capitalism. This leads back to the necessity of simultaneous personal and collective transformation. So what is the role of religion...

..., is about always looking for a solution that works for as many stakeholders as possible in any given dilemma. We are not used to using everyone’s needs as a lens through which we approach decision-making. After reading Bollier’s book, I am ever more committed to transcending coercion, incentives...

..., but there is a more subtle channel that well-intentioned spiritual folks are more likely to get caught on: the transcendent present. This transcendent present is real. It is a place beyond word, thought, and distinction where everything is exactly as it should be. Here, even the darkest of emotions are merely...

... as mythos rather than logos , religion offers paths to self-transcendence rooted in compassion. When lived as logos rather than mythos, self-transcendence is blocked, and religion breeds fanaticism, self—obsession, xenophobia, arrogance, and violence. We live in an age of fanatics and fantasies where...

..., inclusion, benevolence, self-control, and justice. We have yet to find a satisfactory articulation of a global ethic, which everyone from Christian theologians to Vaclav Havel, George Soros, and even terrorists such as Osama bin Laden call for. Havel has said a common ground for transcendence in our age...

... reflected in an emerging Judaism, Christianity, or Islam (among others) for a post-Axial Age. Adherents of these religions, through the message of transcendence embedded in their respective traditions, are able to place their hearts’ allegiance in something beyond what this-worldly pursuits can offer...

... and brings me the world, Just as it is. administered and preserved by religion. They can do this by transforming the Morning Blessings religious “drive upward” into a “drive forward,” by transforming religious For Rabbi Burt Jacobson transcendence...

... human interaction and at every moment transcending the fearful impulse, is an unconditioned, wholly original, spontaneous movement toward a new and sudden recognition of one another in which we would become fully present to each other, and in which we would more fully realize ourselves as the source...

... transcendence of theistic monotheism. As Orthodox theologian Michael Wyschogrod once noted, there is a very thin line separating Maimonides’s radical transcendence and atheism. Schachter-Shalomi advocates for a Gaia rendering of the universe, arguing that the sephirotic realm (the realm pertaining to God’s...

... transfor­ believe, we are basically good—that is, far more often than we mation theory. are aware of, we are driven by moral sensitivity. • Though selfish, we are also driven by love to transcend Time to Live by a New Story selfishness. How DO W E STO...

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... Rabbi M iriam Maron seeks pueblo sitting in th e w aitin g room o f his clinic, w atch in g him exam ine healingand transcendence through...

..., Alan Mittleman insists on the centrality of moral personhood not constrained by any set of conditions external to the process of ethical reflection and intuition. Not only are reductionist programs incoherent, he argues, they are also absurd. He argues for real freedom and transcendence...

...-knowledge and sense. self-restraint was barely adequate for handcarts and swords. It The latter kinds of knowledge—that we are interdependent, was like letting children play with loaded guns—but worse: the cosmos awesome, the effort to transcend (continued on page 74) 52 TIKKUN...

... of right and purpose sense white” and • “black a transcendent group's the for self • sacrifice writing; law; centralized...