Book Title:
Awakening Humanity’s Collective Spirit
Author
Name: Josiah Samuel Harry
Genre:
Consciousness & Thought / Philosophy
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This
book is about the moral consequences of social tolerance. It examines why
intolerance is not only self-defeating, but also detrimental to the ideals of
liberal democracies. This book contends that if intolerance is left to run its
course, it can poison a nation’s moral climate and threaten its collective
identity. Without the compass of tolerance
guiding humanity’s spiritual evolution, we will find ourselves floundering in a
world of perpetual insecurity and chaos.
Ensuring peace and security for future
generations hinge on the choices we make today. We
can create a world where intolerance plays out its destiny of conquest and
destruction. Conversely, we can create a world where the highest valued
currencies are inclusion, relational intimacy, and adventure. This book gives us hope that we have the capacity to
create a more peaceful world based on an economy of love,
but it requires that you and I choose diversity over division, hope over
despair, and love over indifference.
Author Bio:
JOSIAH
SAMUEL HARRY is a spiritual philosopher, educator, and author of several books,
including This Book Is About Winning, and Winning: Essentials for
Achieving Relational Intimacy. Josiah
was born and raised in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. He was educated at
Loyola University New Orleans. An original thinker and truth-seeker, Josiah
invites each individual inward toward a deeper reality that unveils the
fundamental purpose of life, which is to ultimately find
truth in our own lives.
“Humanity
seems to have fallen out of belonging and community. The light that once
lighted our path of progress, hope, and promise has faded into the blackest of
midnights. We live in a world where cynicism, apathy, and cowardice seek to
take permanent residence in humanity’s collective consciousness.
The
spirit of intolerance, like a bloodthirsty mercenary, endeavors to stamp out
our freedoms. Those who hold firmly to bigotry disguised as truth brazenly
parade their distorted ideologies as the equalizing elixir for the masses. By
virtue of self-declaration, sentries of anti-freedom movements have
predetermined the standards of decency and morality for all to follow.
For
too many, incredulity takes precedence over reason and faith. Our differences
overshadow our similarities. Our individual limitations are scrutinized and our
collective strengths are overlooked. Our present struggles are rehearsed and
relived while our future promises are reduced to a whispering fantasy.
We
compete over replenishable resources while our souls wither away. Rather than
bearing the emotional, physical, and spiritual infirmities of the weak, we find
inventive ways to exploit those weaknesses.
Our
hands are stained with the figurative blood of those we trampled over to fill
our coffers with plenty. We live lavishly and flaunt the fruits of our labor
even as our character lies destitute and barren. The spirit of haughtiness and
high-mindedness has supplanted the virtues of humility and relationship.
We
celebrate an idealistic view of rugged individualism over a commonsense
approach of community. We tout the autonomous actions of individuals as the
ideal way of life of democracies when we are really co-opting enlightened
narcissism as the standard.
We
have taken a punitive stance against those whose values and lifestyles differ
from ours and have pompously declared ourselves to be the measure of all
things. We censure every practice and condemn every behavior we determine to be
unfavorable to our strongly held ideologies.
Flawed
models of leadership and followership have become the pattern from which we
frame our interpersonal relationships. Smear tactics of condemnation and
accusation have become our modus operandi. The dictatorial spirit of
selfishness, apathy, and indifference for human potential, human values, and
human life has marred every aspect of social decorum, social interaction, and
social structure.
So
what do we need, and what are the solutions to our problems? On the one hand, libertarians
argue that what is needed is social re-evolution...”
