The Spiritual Imperative

Issue 229 • March/April 2005

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Welcome

SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS

Feature Articles

SPIRITUAL IMPERATIVE

Elegant simplicity is the way to discover spirituality.

UNEARTHLY SECULARISM

Consumerism challenges the values of temperance and discipline, preached by all religions.

WHAT IS GOVERNMENT FOR?

The responsibility of a state is to serve as the Trustee of the Commons.

THE SWISS MODEL

Where government functions on the principle of human-scale.

MEANS THAT MATCH ENDS

It is important to do what is right without thinking about results, outcomes and achievements.

ENOUGHNESS

Nature is designed to help us stay sane.

THE FALLEN

Politicians are only as good as we let them be.

UNARMED HEROES

Three women working nonviolently in the face of oppression and conflict.

SOLITUDE'S SECRET HARVEST

A look at the lives and work of creative recluses.

MYSTERIOUS FLOWERING

The art and textile collections of Henri Matisse.

NATURAL GEOMETRY

An interview with Peter Randall-Page

SUN, SEEDS AND SOIL

We are like gardens, being born, growing up, giving birth to new life, getting old and finally disappearing.

FOOTBRIDGE OF A GLANCE -

Alice Oswald's elemental poetry is infused with a human touch.

ONE TRUTH, MANY PATHS

The flourishing Interfaith Ministry.

Regulars

Deep Spirit - THE GARDEN OF THE PLANETS

Visionaries - MARY MIDGLEY

Poetry &

Voice From The South - CELEBRATING FOOD ECONOMIES

Small Steps - CARBON CALCULATIONS

Perspectives

Crafts - LIVING FORMS

Recipes - GOOD EGGS

Letters to the Editors

A Sense of Place - SHANTINIKETAN

Frontline

HOMES WITH HEART

Sustainable living.

THE GREENING OF RELIGIONS

A reverence for life.

Reviews

DOWNSHIFTING

THE BIG PICTURE

Review of The Call of the Desert

EUROPEAN ASCENDANCY

Review of The European Dream

DECLINE AND FALL

Review of Colossus

THE ESSENCE OF THINGS

Review of Bill Brandt: A Life

THE UTOPIAN DIMENSION

Review of Globalizing Resistance

THE POETRY OF EARTH

Review of Wild Reckoning

SPIRITUAL EMERGENCE

Review of In the Belly of the Beast

Web Exclusives

Review - A GRASS THAT CHANGED THE WORLD

Review of Sugar by Sanjida O'Connell

Review - A PAEAN TO PLEASURE

Review of A Human Response to Globalisation by Marc Desaules

Review - ADVENTURES OF AN INNOCENT ABROAD

Review of Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar

Review - FOUR YOUNG ARTISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

Review of OffScreen by Henry Hemming

Review - HEALING STRATEGIES

Review of Nature's Operating Instructions by Kenny Ausubel with J.P. Harpignies

Review - HEALING THE SPLIT

Review of Vital Practice by Sheila Ryan

Review - HUMAN METAMORPHOSIS

Review of The Metamorphosis of Capitalism by Christopher Houghton Budd

Review - JUNIOR CITIZENS

Review of Positive Childhood by Mildred Masheder

Review - PLANNING THAT WORKS

Review of Small Change by Nabeel Hamdi

Review - RETURNING TO OUR ECOLOGICAL SELVES

Review of Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Review - STARTLING THE HERONS

Review of The Lilypad List by Marian Van Eyk McCain

Review - THE ETERNAL NOW

Review of Forever Today by Deborah Wearing

Review - THE HORSE IS MY DRUM

Review of An Alberta Bestiary by Zahava Hanen

Review - TIMELESS WISDOM

Review of The Betrayal of Tradition by Harry Oldmeadow

Review - UNEARTHING THE ARTS

Review of Art Nature Dialogues by John K. Grande

Review - WE ARE ONE

Review of The Lastling by Philip Gross

Review - WEALTH WE CAN LIVE BY

Review of Spiritual Capital by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall

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