If we are honest with ourselves, we all have Ground Zeros in our lives. How do you respond to those Ground Zeros of your life ... and of your communities? What does the future, for yourself and for the world, require from you? What you are feeling is real. Who am I? What do I want now? What does it mean to be human? Has your soul changed and how do you find that out? What future do I want? How do I create it?

These profoundly intimate questions are ones we rarely ask ourselves. They now resonate loudly and carry a personal moral imperative. Our institutions ... national, religious, academic ... cannot dictate our personal response. We must seek our own answers in our own private inner life ... searching for our personal harmony, our personal truth, our personal goodness, our confrontation with evil and our own New Ordinary Life and then shape the world.

After a chance meeting, post September 11, Lynn Jericho and Bethene Le Mahieu, Ed.D., began a nine-month two-person dialogue that provided a foundation for a six-topic series of conversations that serves now as a perceptive way for listeners to understand freedom and universal love in the context of our new uncertain global realities. These insights, inspirations and accompanying practical exercises are presented in an audio cassette series available from Foursquare Conversations, LLC titled Ground Zero & The Human Soul: The Search for the New Ordinary Life.

Gentle yet powerful messages come through these wise conversations as Lynn Jericho and Bethene LeMahieu talk candidly with clarity and courage. They empower you to make new decisions about the way you want to live your life. Ground Zero and the Human Soul: The Search for the New Ordinary Life suggests the questions to ask yourself and guides you into your soul to seek the answers that shape your future.

The Six Conversations: Providing encouragement for a New Ordinary Life

1. The Creative Challenge Of Ground Zero and A New Picture Of Being Human. What does ground zero mean in a larger context and how can we learn from it? How does the human soul experience itself?
2. Feeling And The Search For Personal Harmony. Finding our own harmonious relationships to our selves, to others and the world. Learning how our emotions can either enslave or serve the soul.
3. Thinking And The Search For Personal Truth. Learning the secrets of the listening conversation. Why do we need multiple points of view to find personal truth?
4. Willing And The Search For Personal Goodness. How is goodness manifested in our daily lives? Developing the capacities for self-determined intentions. How do we transform ill will to good will.
5. Meeting Evil. We need to first meet our own evil before we can meet evil in the world. What are the four relationships to evil.
6. The Search for the New Ordinary Life. Using thinking, feeling and willing to build a daily life that expresses the free and morally responsible individual as citizen of the world and shaper of the future. Practical application of personal harmony, truth and goodness.

Other issues confronted:
What did the heroics of the passengers of Flight 93 teach us?
Do we shape the future with our instincts or with our ideals?
Must I change before the world changes?
Is my soul the same as my spirit?

Ground Zero and the Human Soul: The Search for the New Ordinary Life is not only appropriate now but essential. These conversations are presented in a very warm, personal and private way so that the listener finds time spent listening to be time spent growing. That will mean many things to many people, but it does mean something that ultimately can make the difference between history repeating itself and the future unfolding without fear, and with consciousness, purpose and freedom. It's clear that the individual struggle is what shapes the future for the planet. The conversations should be a pathway to a healing, empowering, freeing and tolerant existence. Be prepared to want to listen to these six conversations many times.

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"Ground Zero and The Human Soul ... provides a much-needed foundation for building a realistic post-September 11 world. Emphasizing psychology over history, this provocative and challenging work belongs in every public library."

Review by Joseph L. Carlson,
Library Journal,
April 1, 2003