In this book, you can enjoy essays on societal, spiritual, and personal transformation. In three collections, these sixty-five essays written over fifty-six years (1966 - 2021) provide you with helpful insights, inspiration, models, and methods. You will encounter ideas and experiences of the author and also drawn from UNDP, the Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA), Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Jean Houston, Ken Wilber, Thich Nhat Hanh, Joseph Mathews, Norman O. Brown, Angeles Arrien, Landmark Forum, Humberto Maturana, Willis Harman, Paul Tillich, Rudolph Bultmann, and others. You will explore nine themes of whole systems change, sustainable human development, visionary social activism, demythologized Christianity, progressive Buddhism, worldly spirituality, and intimate reflections on the author's vocation, awareness, and presence. Individual topics include 9/11, Venezuela, Order Ecumenical, HIV/AIDS, governance, urbanization, urban development, the movement of movements (MoM), democracy, social artistry, seminar design, personal grief and joy, and pandemic living. In our time of crisis and opportunity, this book can bring a peaceful perspective and help strengthen your compassion for self, others, and the Earth-community. Enjoy being part of the One Dance! "At the still point of the turning world . . . there the dance is . . . Except for the point, the still point, there would be no dance, and there is only the dance." - T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Author Biography:
Moorman Robertson Work, Jr. is a nonfiction author, ecosystems/justice activist, and adviser to the Blue Ridge UN experiential fellowship program, the ICA Nepal educational support program, Planetary Human, and Overview Earth. He has published five books - a manifesto/handbook, autobiography, poetry, speeches, and essays - and contributed to eleven others. He has worked in over fifty countries for over fifty years as United Nations Development Program (UNDP) principal policy adviser for decentralized governance, New York University (NYU) Wagner Graduate School of Public Service adjunct professor of innovative leadership for sustainable development, and Institute of Cultural Affairs (ICA) executive-director of national offices in Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, Jamaica, and Venezuela, and regional offices in Dallas, Texas, and Indiahoma, Oklahoma, conducting community, organizational, and leadership development initiatives. Robertson has also been a group facilitator, Fulbright senior specialist, UN consultant, and conference speaker. His graduate studies were at Indiana University and Chicago Theological Seminary, with undergraduate studies at Oklahoma State University which honored him in 2003 with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. He lives with his wife in Swannanoa, North Carolina, near family and friends, the Blue Ridge Mountains, and the Great Smoky Mountains. Each day, he does what he can to help catalyze an ecological, compassionate community and civilization.
