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Fall 2008: Social Health - Issue #53, Vol. 13
The Self-Aware Society
The times we live in are especially dark. Many of the social structures, ideas, and traditions we’ve relied on have collapsed; those that haven’t are teetering wildly. The problem has both inner and outer dimensions. On the one hand, we can’t simply annihilate a great enemy “out there,” for we know what lives within our own breast. But the disease is systemic and structural as well. The fact that our social forms are failing us, that they’ve distanced us from each other and left us depressed, indifferent, and cruel, has become obvious to millions of people.
In the face of this cold evil, countless individuals have created in themselves new hope and courage. Literally millions of inspiring social initiatives have sprung up in response. Their stories, the stories of individuals and communities who are consciously taking up their own development in a healthy way, fill the pages of the alternative media. But the solutions have not yet reached their full and necessary proportions. The story of a conscious, healthy, self-aware society has not yet been told. “Society, know thyself” is today’s global imperative. But this will be impossible unless a critical mass of citizens strives to know its greater nature. Much depends on this. If we’re to survive, societal development can no longer take an unconscious course. Society too must become self-aware. Full Article
De-Clutter Your Holidays
Finding the Meaning of Your Traditions
By Lynn Jericho
The Fall is rich with favorite holidays. We have Halloween with costumes and trick or treating, Thanksgiving with food and gratitude and the Christmas and Chanukah Season with more traditions and activities than we can imagine. Each holiday requires its own activities, decorations and foods.
Holiday clutter develops when we follow traditions out of boring habit, shallow sentimentality or retail seduction. Our holidays often end up cluttered with meaningless stuff. Magazines and shops seduce us into feeling we must add to our holiday experience. Obviously many people spend money, and make money, expanding and inflating holiday traditions. We head to the store and not to our hearts to bring new richness to our celebrations.
How do we get rid of holiday clutter? How do we create elegant holidays? Elegant means graceful and simple. Can we balance the materialism of our holidays with some self-awareness and spiritual attention to our sense of the meaning living in our traditions? Full Article
Special Issue
Living with Cancer: Perspectives in the Pursuit of Health
CANCER: A POSSIBLE PATH THROUGH FOUR DOMAINS OF FREEDOM
By Gerald Karnow, M.D.
How dare you talk about something you have not experienced as a reality in your life?
I can well imagine being asked such a question, so will begin by saying that, as a physician, I encounter varied forms of cancer and varied approaches to the disease through my contact with many in whom cancer is a physical reality. I stress the word “physical” because cancer is generally considered a bodily, physical affliction. However, a little deeper look reveals that any physical manifestation of cancer is preceded and accompanied by pre-conditions, pre-cancerous states, which occur not just on a tissue level, but on a physiological level, a psychological level, and even on a spiritual level. Thoughtful physicians come to know cancer not merely as identical with the tumor, but as an illness of the entire human being. With this understanding we can explore how each dimension of the human being – body, life, psyche and spirit – is integral to the arising, the development, and the healing (or non-healing) of the illness. If we address only one dimension of the whole, we will not be facing reality.
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