Creating Peace by Being Peace The Essene Sevenfold Path

Name: Creating Peace by Being Peace The Essene Sevenfold Path
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ISBN: 9781556437229

ISBN-10: 1556437226

ISBN-13: 9781556437229

Edition: 2008

Authors: Gabriel Cousens

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Representing a synthesis of the author’s decades of multidisciplinary work in meditation, psychiatry, psychotherapy, and spirituality,Creating Peace by Being Peaceguides readers in creating peace on seven levels of engagement, from the body to the ecology to God. Author Gabriel Cousens addresses the increasingly urgent need to transform humankind with the ancient peace wisdom of the Essenes, a Judaic mystical group that flourished two millennia ago. He begins by explaining the Essenes and the lessons they can teach us as creators of peace. Individual chapters cover a wide range of possibility, from the personal (“Peace with the Mind”) to the political (“Peace with the Community”). The final…

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List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Publication date: 8/19/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Foreword



Introductions to the Author



Author's Introduction



The Essenes and Key Understandings of Peace


Four Main Principles of the Essene Path


The Essene Way of Life as a Peace Teaching


Peace in the Modern World


The Modern Living Essene Way


A Lecture: The Essenes and Key Understandings of Peace



Peace with the Body


Peace with the Physical Body


Peace with the Global Body


Peace with the Cosmic Body



Peace with the Mind


Peace with the Individual Mind


Peace with the Planetary Mind


Peace with the Cosmic Mind



Peace with the Family


The Planetary Family



Peace with Community


A Peaceful Economy


Respect for International Law



Peace with Culture


Music as an Expression of Peace with Culture


Music in the Culture of Life and Culture of Death


Acknowledging the Right of the Other Culture to Exist


Conclusion



Peace with the Living Ecology


The Gaia Hypothesis



Peace with the Radiant One



Integrating Peace on Every Level


Resistance to Peace


Ways to Overcome Inertia and Make Peace


The Full Peace of Wholeness


Practicing the Sevenfold Path of Peace


Conclusion



The Peace Every Day Initiative: Meditating Daily to Create Peace by Being Peace


Transforming Gatherings into Being Peace


Scientific Support for Collective Meditation-Prayer


Registering Your Commitment


Co-Sponsors of the Peace Every Day Initiative



The Culture of Life Community: Gabriel Cousens.com


Suggested Reading


Resources


Ecology


Health


Thought Forms for Peace


Peace with the Body


Peace with the Mind


Peace with the Family


Peace with Community


Peace with Culture


Peace with God


Economics


About the Author