The Spiritual Imperative

Contents

Welcome

SPIRITUALITY AND POLITICS • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

SPIRITUAL IMPERATIVE • Satish Kumar

Elegant simplicity is the way to discover spirituality.

UNEARTHLY SECULARISM • Jeremy Seabrook

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

WHAT IS GOVERNMENT FOR? • Carolyn Raffensperger

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

THE SWISS MODEL • Thomas Naylor

Where government functions on the principle of human-scale.

MEANS THAT MATCH ENDS • Ira Chernus

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

ENOUGHNESS • Bill McKibben

Nature is designed to help us stay sane.

THE FALLEN • Alan Simpson MP

Politicians are only as good as we let them be.

UNARMED HEROES • William Cretney

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

SOLITUDE'S SECRET HARVEST • John Lane

A look at the lives and work of creative recluses.

MYSTERIOUS FLOWERING • Philip Vann

The art and textile collections of Henri Matisse.

NATURAL GEOMETRY • Ivo Mosley

An interview with Peter Randall-Page

SUN, SEEDS AND SOIL • Mayumi Oda

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

FOOTBRIDGE OF A GLANCE - • Alwyn Marriage

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

ONE TRUTH, MANY PATHS • Eka Morgan

The flourishing Interfaith Ministry.

Regulars

Deep Spirit - THE GARDEN OF THE PLANETS • Thomas Moore

Visionaries - MARY MIDGLEY • Kate Rawles

Poetry • Mary Oliver & Anne-Marie Fife

Voice From The South - CELEBRATING FOOD ECONOMIES • Vandana Shiva

Small Steps - CARBON CALCULATIONS • Lorna Howarth

Perspectives • Lorna Howarth

Crafts - LIVING FORMS • Sandy Brown

Recipes - GOOD EGGS • Daphne Lambert

Letters to the Editors

A Sense of Place - SHANTINIKETAN • Kamla Chowdhry

Frontline

HOMES WITH HEART • Nic Lance

Sustainable living.

THE GREENING OF RELIGIONS • Jordi Pigem

A reverence for life.

Reviews

DOWNSHIFTING • Polly Ghazi

THE BIG PICTURE

Review of The Call of the Desert

EUROPEAN ASCENDANCY • Andrew Moravcsik

Review of The European Dream

DECLINE AND FALL • James Sainsbury

Review of Colossus

THE ESSENCE OF THINGS • Gay Watson Cranmer

Review of Bill Brandt: A Life

THE UTOPIAN DIMENSION • Victoria Bawtree

Review of Globalizing Resistance

THE POETRY OF EARTH • Keith Sagar

Review of Wild Reckoning

SPIRITUAL EMERGENCE • David Boyle

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 • Arthur Edwards

Review of A Human Response to Globalisation by Marc Desaules

Review - ADVENTURES OF AN INNOCENT ABROAD • Jerry Ravetz

Review of Desperately Seeking Paradise by Ziauddin Sardar

Review - FOUR YOUNG ARTISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST • Henry Hemming

Review of OffScreen by Henry Hemming

Review - HEALING STRATEGIES • Nancy Jack Todd

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

Review - HEALING THE SPLIT • Misha Norland

Review of Vital Practice by Sheila Ryan

Review - HUMAN METAMORPHOSIS • Arthur Edwards

Review of The Metamorphosis of Capitalism by Christopher Houghton Budd

Review - JUNIOR CITIZENS • Mary Tasker

Review of Positive Childhood by Mildred Masheder

Review - PLANNING THAT WORKS • Nicholas Falk

Review of Small Change by Nabeel Hamdi

Review - RETURNING TO OUR ECOLOGICAL SELVES • Emily Hunter

Review of Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

Review - STARTLING THE HERONS • Pauline Smith

Review of The Lilypad List by Marian Van Eyk McCain

Review - THE ETERNAL NOW • Rosie Jackson

Review of Forever Today by Deborah Wearing

Review - THE HORSE IS MY DRUM • David Cadman

Review of An Alberta Bestiary by Zahava Hanen

Review - TIMELESS WISDOM • Angela Malyon-Bein

Review of The Betrayal of Tradition by Harry Oldmeadow

Review - UNEARTHING THE ARTS • Oliver Lowenstein

Review of Art Nature Dialogues by John K. Grande

Review - WE ARE ONE • Keith Sagar

Review of The Lastling by Philip Gross

Review - WEALTH WE CAN LIVE BY • David Lorimer

Review of Spiritual Capital by Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall