NotTwo Is Peace: The Ordinary People's Way of Global Cooperative Order,Used

Product DescriptionThe WorldFriend Adi Da speaks from his islandsanctuary, breaking his silence out of his concern for the current plight of humanity. Adi Da invites you to consider his urgent calling for the founding of a Global Cooperative Forum to address the profound ills of today's world, and to reestablish human civilization based on principles of mutual trust, cooperation, tolerance, prior unity, and the limitless participation of all of humankind in transforming its own destiny.Adi Da's term "prior unity" points to the unity that exists prior to all the apparent differences and conflicts in the world. That unity, in other words, is senior to all apparent signs of disunity. Adi Da also calls this the "unifying lifeprinciple" and the "cosmically extended pattern of Oneness". In this gem of instruction we find Adi Da asking all of mankind to do something completely different, as a whole. He writes in this book: "It is a matter of the greatest presenttime urgency that the prevailing global mood of political separatism, endgame competitiveness, and endlessly multiplied divisiveness be immediately and thoroughly and universally and permanently relinquished such that the entire worldpopulation of humankind becomes universally intelligent with the heartpositive mind of cooperation and tolerance."In this book you will find 15 essays, with titles such as: The Truth of Prior Unity Is The Intrinsic SelfRevelation of Reality Itself, RealityPolitics for Ordinary Men and Women, Only Rightness Makes Justice True , EverybodyAllAtOnce, Humankind Is Literally One Family, Cooperation + Tolerance = Peace: Formula for World Peace and The Three Great Principles Of All Truth.Ervin Laszlo, scientist, philosopher and President of the Club of Budapest, has written the introduction to this book. In addition, there are endorsements from Professor Ashok Gangadean of Haverford College and the Global Dialogue Institute, Patricia Gagic of the Colours of Freedom Foundation, Hilde Rapp of the Centre for International Peacebuilding in London, Rolf C. Carriere, former U.N. official and Senior Adviser to the Nonviolent Peaceforce and Professor Jonathan Lynch of Penn State University and many others.ReviewAt this critical moment in the history of the human family, when the very foundations of civilization are being challenged, there is a message of compassion being spoken by one grounded in enduring wisdom and true discernment. In NotTwo Is Peace, Adi Da writes of the urgent need for a new form of global discourse, based on the recognition of the underlying unity of humankind. Such discourse would renew the ideals that originally underlay the foundation of the United Nations. And it would require humankind as a whole to listen to the ordinary people all over the world who are in dire need of greater human security. BRYAN DESCHAMP, Senior Adviser, United Nations High Commission for RefugeesAbout the AuthorFrom his birth (on Long Island, New York, in 1939), Adi Da has always manifested unique signs of spiritual illumination. Nevertheless, from his birth, and until his spiritual restoration at thirty years of age, Adi Da submitted himself to an ordeal of "selfidentification" with all the limitations and sufferings of the human condition. Adi Da describes his early years as being focused in two fundamental activities: investigating how, in the scale of human "ordinariness", to perfectly realize the Truth of "Reality Itself", and (coincidently) both achieving and demonstrating the humanscale ability to communicate the Truth of "Reality Itself" through both visual and verbal means. Adi Da graduated from Columbia University in 1961, with a BA in philosophy, and from Stanford University in 1966, with an MA in English literature. His master's thesis, a study of core issues in modernism, focused on the literary experiments of Gertrude Stein and on the modernist painters of the same period. In 1964, Adi Da began a period of intensive pra