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"We are coming into dire catastrophe through our turning aside from inter-relatedness. Reality is relational, but our present way of being in the world is an adversarial going against others (our politics) and a displacement of our innate desire for relatedness into a grasping for ever more things (our economics). We now know, if most continue on our present way, we humans will become extinct within a few decades, Our main problem is our self-contradictory identity; we are each simultaneously material-relational, but, for the most part, we humans choose to act as if we are each merely a separate object self. It is only when a crtical mass of individuals, each forgetting the self, lives her own true nature as a unique expression of Relatedness, that each and all will be saved. As Vergil tells Dante, there is ""another road"", love, the ""direct way that is lost"". The first step on the ""direct way' is to forget the idea of a separate self, which allows room for a participation in inter-cultural difference with the ""other"", so that we see what is ours as alien and what was alien as ours. Then we can engage in an economics based on mutually beneficial relating and a truly democratic politics arising from the practice of listening-dialogue."

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This is a majestic work. The book challenges us to be better in the most wonderful way. Professor Phil Riley, Education Leadership. A Climate of the Heart is beautifully written and needs savouring slowly.It is a richly weaved contemplation of mankind's existence, both a scholarly study and a medtation on the importance of relatedness. Dr. Attracta Lagan, Business Ethicist. Here is a book we can read for wisdom. Ian Mills has given us a way to think and grounds to be hopeful. Professor Bernie Neville, Education. A Climate of the Heart is an exploration of the depth and breadth of a profound human awareness that is related wiith all of creation. Mills reveals our intimate relationship with the wholeness of our environment and the possibility of a climate of the heart in our daily lives. Professor Michael Purdy, Communication Theory.

This is a majestic work. The book challenges us to be better in the most wonderful way. Professor Phil Riley, Education Leadership. A Climate of the Heart is beautifully written and needs savouring slowly.It is a richly weaved contemplation of mankind's existence, both a scholarly study and a medtation on the importance of relatedness. Dr. Attracta Lagan, Business Ethicist. Here is a book we can read for wisdom. Ian Mills has given us a way to think and grounds to be hopeful. Professor Bernie Neville, Education. A Climate of the Heart is an exploration of the depth and breadth of a profound human awareness that is related wiith all of creation. Mills reveals our intimate relationship with the wholeness of our environment and the possibility of a climate of the heart in our daily lives. Professor Michael Purdy, Communication Theory.

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