The Great Turning

by David C Korten

  32. Ibid., 51.

  33. These and other references by administration officials and others to the “opportunity” created by September 11 are documented by David Ray Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Northampton, MA: Olive Branch, 2004), 129–131.

  34. Dave Zweifel, “Republican Stingingly Rebukes Bush,” Progressive Populist, April 1, 2004, 9.

  Chapter 14: Prisons of the Mind

  1. Willis W. Harman, Global Mind Change: The Promise of the 21st Century, 2nd ed. (Sausalito, CA: Institute of Noetic Sciences, and San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1998), viii.

  2. Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002), 120.

  3. Ibid., 115–17.

  4. George Gilder, Wealth and Poverty, new ed. (San Francisco: ICS Press, 1993), 40.

  PART IV: The Great Turning

  Introduction

  1. Matthew Fox, Wrestling with the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life (New York: Penguin Group), 76.

  Chapter 15: Beyond Strict Father versus Aging Clock

  1. Thomas Berry, Dream of the Earth (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988), xi.

  2. Ralph et al., Western Civilizations, 390 (see chap. 5, n. 6).

  3. Claudia Wallis, “The Evolution Wars,” Time, August 15, 2005, 27–35.

  4. Ibid.

  5. See Marcus J. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994) and The God We Never Knew: Beyond Dogmatic Religion to a More Authentic Contemporary Faith (San Francisco: HarperSan-Francisco, 1998), especially chapter 3, “Imaging God: Why and How It Matters.”

  6. See Borg, Meeting Jesus Again, 38.

  7. Matthew Fox, One River, Many Wells: Wisdom Springing from Global Faiths (New York: Penguin Group, 2000), 101–188.

  8. Matthew Fox, The Coming of the Cosmic Christ (New York: HarperCollins, 1988); and Borg, Meeting Jesus Again.

  9. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again, 29.

  10. Ibid.

  11. Biblical Discernment Ministries, Book Review: The “Left Series, January 2005, http://www.rapidnet.com/~jbeard/bdm/BookReviews/left.htm.

  12. As quoted in Nicholas D. Kristof, “Jesus and Jihad,” New York Times, July 17, 2004, 25.

  13. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again, 30.

  14. Fox, Wrestling with Prophets; Sheer Joy: Conversations with Thomas Aquinas on Creation Spirituality (New York: Penguin Group, 1992); and Passion for Creation: The Earth-Honoring Spirituality of Meister Eckhart (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2000).

  15. Two classic works of the 1970s explored the convergence of the ancient wisdom of the Spirit people and the findings of contemporary science: Fritjof Capra, The Tao of Physics (New York: Bantam, 1977); and Gary Zukav, The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics (New York: Bantam, 1979).

  16. Borg, Meeting Jesus Again, 33–34.

  17. Candace Pert,”Molecules and Choice,” Shift: At the Frontiers of Consciousness, September– November 2004, 21–24.

  Chapter 16: Creation’s Epic Journey

  1. Willis W. Harman and Elisabet Sahtouris, Biology Revisioned (Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books, 1998), 166.

  2. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, What Is Life? (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 49.

  3. Ibid.

  4. Ibid.

  5. Ibid.

  6. Mae-Wan Ho, “Towards a Thermodynamics of Organized Complexity,” chapter 6 in Rainbow and Worm, 79–94 (see prologue, n. 5).

  7. Margulis and Sagan, What Is Life? 41.

  8. Steven Rose, Lifelines: Biology beyond Determinism (New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 158.

  9. Jon R. Luoma, The Hidden Forest: The Biography of an Ecosystem (New York: Henry Holt, 1999), 73.

  10. Ibid., 51–57.

  11. Ibid., 57–62.

  12. Ibid., 58–60.

  13. Ibid., 92–101.

  14. Margulis and Sagan, What Is Life?, 23.

  15. The functions and interactions of the components of the human brain are described in accessible language by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, A General Theory of Love (New York: Vintage Books, 2001), 19–34.

  Chapter 17: Joys of Earth Community

  1. Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom (New York: Rinehart, 1941), 183–84.

  2. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 131 (see chap. 1, n. 10).

  3. Hardwired to Connect is available from the Institute for American Values, http://www.americanvalues.org/.

  4. Commission on Children at Risk, Hardwired to Connect: The New Scientific Case for Authoritative Communities, a commission report prepared jointly by the Institute for American Values, Dartmouth Medical School, and the YMCA of the USA (New York: Institute for American Values, 2003), 14, 33.

  5. Natalie Angier, “Why We’re So Nice: We’re Wired to Cooperate,” New York Times, July 23, 2002, D1, D8.

  6. See, for example, the work of Robert Putnam on social capital.

  7. Lewis, Amini, and Lannon, General Theory of Love, 20–31.

  8. Ibid., 22–24.

  9. Commission on Children at Risk, Hardwired to Connect, 16–17.

  10. This section is based on Justin A. Frank, Bush on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President (New York: Regan Books, 2004).

  11. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 120–30.

  12. Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 19–20.

  13. The learned-helplessness syndrome was described to me by Charlie Kouns, a professor of marketing and advertising at Virginia Commonwealth University.

  14. Friel and Friel, Soul of Adulthood, 32 (see chap. 2, n. 5).

  15. Fromm, Escape from Freedom, 226.

  16. William H. Thomas, “What Is Old Age For?” YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, Fall 2005, 12–16.

  17. The definition of these principles draws from presentations by Janine Benyus and Elisabet Sahtouris, among other sources. See also chapter 7, “How Will We Conduct Business,” in Janine M. Benyus, Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature (New York: William Morrow, 1997).

  18. Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan, Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors (New York: Summit Books, 1986), 248.

  19. Elisabet Sahtouris, “The Biology of Globalization” (1998), available on the LifeWeb site, http://www.ratical.org/LifeWeb/Articles/globalize.html; adapted from first publication in Perspectives in Business and Social Change, September 1997.

  20. Kegan, Evolving Self (see chap. 2, n. 3), 19.

  21. Ed Diener and Martin E. P. Seligman, “Beyond Money: Toward an Economy of Well-Being,” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 5, no. 1 (July 2004), 10, http://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/pspi/pspi5_1.pdf.

  22. Ibid., 3.

  23. Ibid.

  24. Ibid., 10.

  25. Ibid.

  26. Alan Durning, head of Northwest Environment Watch, tracks the research on what he calls the “Economics of Happiness” on his weblog, http://www.northwestwatch.org/scorecard/

  Chapter 18: Stories for a New Era

  1. Michael Lerner, “Closed Hearts, Closed Minds, “Tikkun 18, no. 5 (September/October 2003), 10.

  2. Schell, Unconquerable World, 106 (see chap. 1, n. 8).

  3. The most comprehensive and definitive presentation of the new prosperity story is provided by the report of the International Forum on Globalization edited by John Cavanagh and Jerry Mander, Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World Is Possible (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2004).

  4. For further elaboration of the underlying principles as applied to economic relations among nations, see International Forum on Globalization, Alternatives to Economic Globalization; and David C. Korten, Post-Corporate World.

  PART V: Birthing Earth Community

  Chapter 19: Leading from Below

  1. Margaret J. Wheatley, “Restoring Hope to the Future through Critical Education of Leaders,” Vimukt Shiksha (a bulletin of Shikshantar, the People’s Institute
for Rethinking Education and Development, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India), March 2001, available at http://www.margaretwheatley.com/articles/restoringhope.html.

  2. Adapted from Korten, Perlas, and Shiva, “Global Civil Society” (see prologue, n. 8).

  3. For information on the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, see http://www.livinge-conomies.org/. See also the special Living Economies issue of YES! A Journal of Positive Futures, Fall 2002, http://www.yesmagazine.org/default.asp?ID=48. For further discussion of economic alternatives for the United States, see Gar Alperovitz, America beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Weatlh, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2004); Greider, Soul of Capitalism (see chap. 7, n. 1); and Michael Shuman, Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age (New York: Free Press, 1998).

  4. For information, see the Bain-bridge Graduate Institute, http://www.bgiedu.org/; Co-op America, http://www.coopamerica.org/; American Independent Business Alliance, http://www.amiba.net/; and New Rules Project, http://www.newrules.org/.

  5. Jaime S. Walters, Big Vision, Small Business: Four Keys to Success without Growing Big (San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 2002).

  6. Amanda Griscom Little,”Mayor Leads Crusade against Global Warming,” Grist Magazine/ MSNBC News, June 20, 2005, http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8291649.

  7. John Nichols, “Urban Archipelago,” The Nation, June 20, 2005, http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050620/nichols.

  8. Ibid.

  9. See Web sites of the Apollo Alliance, http://www.apolloalliance.org/; the Peace Alliance, http://www.thepeacealliance.org/; and the Peace Alliance Foundation, http://www.peacealliancefound.org/.

  10. Michelle Conlin, “The New Gender Gap,” Business Week, May 26, 2003, 75–84.

  11. Clayton E. Tucker-Ladd, “Values and Morals: Guidelines for Living,” chapter 3 in Psychological Self-Help, the Web publication of the Mental Health Net, http://www.mentalhelp.net/psyhelp/chap3/.

  12. Paul Nussbaum, “The Surprising Spectrum of Evangelicals,” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 19, 2005, http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/breaking_news/11929261.htm.

  13. “Evangelical Leaders Adopt Landmark Document Urging Greater Civic Engagement,” October 8, 2004, press release of the National Association of Evangelicals; and Laurie Goodstein, “Evangelicals Open Debate on Widening Policy Questions,” New York Times, March 11, 2005.

  14. National Association of Evangelicals, “For the Health of the Nation: An Evangelical Call to Civic Responsibility,” unanimously adopted by the NAE board of directors on October 7, 2004, http://www.nae.net/images/civic_responsibility2.pdf.

  15. Laurie Goodstein, “Evangelical Leaders Swing Influence behind Effort to Combat Global Warming,” New York Times, March 10, 2005, A14.

  Chapter 20: Building a Political Majority

  1. Center for a New American Dream, “Public Opinion Poll,” conducted July 2004 by Widmeyer Research and Polling (Takoma Park, MD: Center for a New American Dream, 2004), available at http://www.newdream.org/about/PollResults.pdf.

  2. Paul H. Ray,”The New Political Compass: The New Political Progressives Are In-Front, Deep Green, against Big Business and Globalization, and beyond Left and Right” (discussion draft, April 2002), 30, http://www.culturalcreatives.org/Library/docs/NewPoliticalCompassV73.pdf.

  3. Center for a New American Dream, “Public Opinion Poll.”

  4. Center for a New American Dream, 1999 poll, cited by Juliet B. Schor, Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (New York: Scribner, 2004), 185.

  5. Betsy Taylor, What Kids Really Want That Money Can’t Buy (New York: Warner Books, 2003). See http://www.newdream.org/publications/bookrelease.php.

  6. Gallup Poll, February Wave 1, February 6–8, 2004. See http://brain.gallup.com/documents/questionnaire.aspx?STUDY=P0402008 for the poll instrument. Results can be found in the database at http://www.pollingreport.com/prioriti.htm.

  7. Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Global Views 2004: American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy (Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, 2004), 15, http://www.ccfr.org/globalviews2004/sub/usa.htm.

  8. ABC News/Washington Post poll, October 9–13, 2003, http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/US/healthcare031020_poll.html.

  9. Ray, “New Political Compass,” 30.

  10. Harris Poll No. 48, August 10–14, 2000, http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=108

  11. Gallup Poll, March 5–7, 2001. Results can be found in the database at PollingReport.com, http://www.pollingreport.com/enviro.htm.

  12 Ray, “New Political Compass,” 30.

  13. New American Dream, “Public Opinion Poll.”

  14. Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, Global Views 2004, 19.

  15. Ibid., 36.

  16. New American Dream, “Public Opinion Poll.”

  17. Aaron Bernstein, “Too Much Corporate Power?” Business Week, September 1, 2000, 145–158.

  18. Ibid.

  19. 2002 Washington Post poll cited by David Sirota, “Debunking ‘Cen-trism,’” The Nation, January 3, 2005, 18.

  20. Bernstein, “Too Much Corporate Power?”

  21. Ibid.

  22. Newsweek poll by Princeton Survey Research Associates, Oct 9–10, 2003. Results can be found in the database at PollingReport.com, http://www.pollingreport.com/politics.htm.

  23. CBS News/New York Times poll, May 10–13, 2000. Results can be found in the database at PollingReport.com, http://www.pollingreport.com/politics.htm.

  24. CBS News/New York Times poll, July 11–15, 2004. Results can be found in the database at PollingReport.com, http://www.pollingreport.com/institut2.htm.

  25. CBS News/New York Times poll, May 10–13, 2000.

  26. Council for Excellence in Government, “America Unplugged: Citizens and Their Government,” results of a poll conducted May 21– June 1, 1999 (published July 12, 1999), http://www.excelgov.org/index.php?keyword=a432c11b19d490.

  27. Harris Poll No. 18, March 10, 2004, http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/index.asp?PID=447.

  28. Information on child honoring and the Covenant for Honouring Children is available at http://www.troubadourfoundation.org/. The song “Where We All Belong, “avail-able through the Troubadour Foundation, was written and recorded by Raffi Cavoukian to promote the Earth Charter.

  29. Bernadette D. Proctor and Joseph Dalaker, Poverty in the United States: 2002 (Washington, DC: U.S. Census Bureau, September 2003), http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p60-222.pdf.

  30. Ronald E. Kleinman et al., “Hunger in Children in the United States: Potential Behavioral and Emotional Correlates,” Pediatrics 101, no. 1 (January 1998): e3, http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/101/1/e3.

  31. J.M. Twenge, “The Age of Anxiety? The Birth Cohort Change in Anxiety and Neuroticism, 1952–1993,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 79 (2000): 1007–1021.

  32. Commission on Children at Risk, Hardwired to Connect, 68 (see chap. 17, n. 4).

  33. Committee for Community-Level Programs for Youth, National Research Council and Institute of Medicine, Jacquelynne Eccles and Jennifer Appleton Gootman, eds., Community Programs to Promote Youth Development (Washington, DC: National Academies, 2002), http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10022.html.

  34. Commission on Children at Risk, Hardwired to Connect, 8.

  35. Ibid., 42–43, 68.

  36. Michelle Conlin, “UnMarried America,” BusinessWeek, October 20, 2003, 106.

  37. Commission on Children at Risk, Hardwired to Connect, 41.

  38. UNICEF, State of the World’s Children 2005 (New York: UNICEF, 2004), inside front cover, http://www.unicef.org/sowc05/english/sowc05.pdf">.

  39. Based on Sharna Olfman, “Introduction,” in Childhood Lost: How American Culture Is Failing Our Kids, ed. Sharna Olfman, xi–xii (New York: Praeger, 2005).

  40. Center for a New American Dream, “Facts about Marketing to Children,” n.d., http://www.newdream.org/kids/facts.php.

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p; 41. Schor, Born to Buy, 21.

  42. Ibid., 48. Schor provides numerous examples of these and other low-road advertising themes on pages 39–68.

  43. Ibid., 69–97.

  44. American Psychological Association, “Report of the APA Task Force on Advertising and Children: Psychological Issues in the Increasing Commercialization of Childhood,” February 20, 2004, http://www.apa.org/releases/childrenads.pdf.

  Chapter 21: Liberating Creative Potential

  1. See the organization’s Web site at http://www.americaspeaks.org/.

  2. See the Web site of the Center for Voting and Democracy, http://fairvote.org/, for information on instant runoff voting, proportional representation, and other electoral reforms.

  3. Sally Goerner, “Creativity, Consciousness, and the Building of an Integral World,” in The Great Adventure: Toward a Fully Human Theory of Evolution, ed. David Loye, 153–80 (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2004). See especially 175–79.

  4. For more information on Campus Compact, see http://www.compact.org/.

  5. For more information on the Democracy Collaborative, see http://www.democracycollaborative.org/.

  Chapter 22: Change the Story, Change the Future

  1. Berry, Great Work (see chap. 4, n. 2), 1, 159.

  2. Puanani Burgess in Jack Canfield et al., Chicken Soup from the Soul of Hawai’i: Stories of Aloha to Create Paradise Wherever You Are (Deer-field Beach, FL: Health Communications, 2003), 215.

  3. It is a primary mission of YES! magazine to share the stories of such groups (see http://www.yesmagazine.org/). For other excellent sources dealing with these and other important international experiences, see David Suzuki and Holly Dressel, Good News for a Change: How Everyday People Are Helping the Planet (Vancouver, BC: Greystone Books, 2003); Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé, Hope’s Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, 2002); and International Forum on Globalization, Alternatives to Economic Globalization, 253–67 (see chap. 18, n. 3).