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GROUND ZERO AND THE HUMAN SOUL: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW ORDINARY LIFE should be listened to four times.
The six conversations move the listener from the individual to the global, from the present to the future. The results of
each suggested listening are:
| The first listening:
| | A SALVE FOR THE PAIN OF THE PAST
| GROUND ZERO AND THE HUMAN SOUL: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW ORDINARY LIFE
offers the greatest salve for the residual pain of 9/11 and what has followed - a sense of a new future. It places
9/11 and our new uncertainties in the context of the individual human soul. It provides a very human diagnosis for the
suffering soul and offers remedies that heal and empower.
The intimacy of the conversations and the warmth of the two voices also heal the listener's pain. The voices are alive
and compassionate in a remarkably powerful way.
| The second listening:
| | A MORAL CHALLENGE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL
| The six conversations continually ask the listener to examine her own soul.
She is asked to practice making distinctions within her thoughts, feelings and intentions that lead away from the patterns
of the past to the freedom and responsibilities of a self-created future. Exercises are described that when practiced can
wake up the listener to a new social and self-awareness.
GROUND ZERO AND THE HUMAN SOUL: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW ORDINARY LIFE makes it clear that the future is shaped
by each and every human soul. Profound and provocative questions are asked of each listener, but the tools for finding the
personal answers are generously given.
| The third listening:
| | A NEW PHILOSOPHY FOR A PROFOUNDLY HUMAN FUTURE
| I am a human being. GROUND ZERO AND THE HUMAN SOUL: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW ORDINARY LIFE
leads to a philosophy that arises out of an understanding of that statement. It is only through a deeply personal
exploration of what is known and meant by I am and a human being that a future shaped by love and freedom can find its wisdom.
Each conversation reviews the struggles in the human soul between our instincts and ideals, between our social and anti-social
tendencies, between our past and future. A philosophy emerges that embraces the inner life and the outer life of the individual
that is both spiritual and practical and free from dogma and exclusivity.
The fourth listening:
| | A DIALOGUE FOR MEANING IN THE 21ST CENTURY
| | >With over six billion individuals and one planet, a growing demand for earthly and human resources and a growing divide
between the narrowness of fundamentalism and the breadth of globalism, we need a new dialogue for this young century.
It is a dialogue that begins with a picture of the evolution of consciousness and the development of the individual human being.
The dialogue will explore the force of evil and the way the individual soul relates to evil.
The questions that begin this new dialogue are not about power, politics, ideologies and dogma, resources and weapons,
wealth and profit. The questions are about understanding the nature and needs of being human, being citizens of our times,
and the recognition and establishment freedom, equality and brotherhood. These are questions that move beyond self-interest
without denying the individual. The search for answers will be as spiritual as it is practical. Can we enter into a dialogue
that seeks to do good, not just define good?
GROUND ZERO AND THE HUMAN SOUL: THE SEARCH FOR THE NEW ORDINARY LIFE begins this dialogue with courage and compassion.
Listen and engage.
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