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N THESE TRYING TIMES of rapid climate change when autocracy threatens democracy, Making Global Sense revives ideas and ideals from Thomas Paine and the Enlightenment to champion 21st century enlightenment. Seasoned journalist Judah Freed weaves essay and memoir to update Common Sense by Thomas Paine. Where Paine in 1776 challenged monarchy and hereditary succession, instead proposing a democratic republic, Freed challenges ancient alpha male rule and authority addiction (hidden by split perceptions), instead proposing mindful self rule, personal democracy and direct republics. Where Paine inspired independence and revolution, Freed inspires interdependence and evolution. Making Global Sense reports that more than a billion of us on earth are aware of our global oneness. We form a global sense movement that's now generating critical mass for a global shift into enlightened societies. Judah Freed frames his essays within the memoir survival story behind the insights voiced in Making Global Sense, which he began writing in 2001. He vulnerably narrates childhood abuse, school bullying; joining a cult at age 20, fleeing at age 24, then recovery by facing his authority addiction and committing to self rule. He recalls ego follies in decades of local to international journalism, making vivid his world travel adventures, like landing in Fiji amid a coup and the impact of visiting Gandhi's home in Mumbai. He shares his soul choice as an elder to survive cancer, so he can finish this book. Updated in January 2025 for the Trump era and evolving world news. AwardsVisionary Book Awards (COVR) -Rising to the Challenge, 2024 -Earth Changes, 2024 -Social Justice, 2024 Colorado Evvy Book Award -Culture Studies / Social Issues, 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Culture, 2023 Nautilus Book Award Memoir, 2023 Dayton Literary Peace Prize Nominee, 2023 THE AUTHORJudah Freed is a seasoned journalist and author who's written or edited 15 books that won a dozen awards. His 50 years in journalism feature a decade covering Colorado, two decades pioneering coverage of new media for U.S. and European trade magazines, a decade covering Kauai, and today covering Colorado for a national news service. Judah earned a 1988 double BA in journalism and communication from the University Without Walls at Loretto Heights College (Regis). He researched rhetoric, organizational cultures and public communication through the Individualized MA program of Antioch University.

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""Thomas Paine rallied Americans to a new sense of themselves and their possibilities. Judah Freed does likewise for citizens of the planet."" Bill McKibben, The Flag, the Cross, and the Station Wagon; The End of Nature, Falter; ThirdAct.org; 350.org; People's Climate March ""Judah Freed has taken the gauntlet from Thomas Paine and other great innovators of democracy to guide us toward the evolution of democracy itself. Making Global Sense is a vital and wonderful book, well written and inspired."" Barbara Marx Hubbard, Conscious Evolution (re. first edition) ""Making Global Sense is at once vast and tangible, disturbing and inspiring."" Ocean Robbins, Transform Your World; Food Revolution Network, ""Making Global Sense by Judah Freed is truly a masterpiece."" Don E. Beck, PhD, Spiral Dynamics ""Making Global Sense is compelling in its ideas and wonderful in its personal elements!"" Herb Goldberg, PhD, The Hazards of Being Male; The New Male; What Men Still Don't Know ""Making Global Sense is a breakthrough book for people who care about their social and environmental impact in the world."" John Mackey, Conscious Capitalism with Rajendra Sisodia, ""Making Global Sense is clear-eyed and novel."" Jules Pretty, OBE, The Edge of Extinction; Professor of Environment and Society, University of Essex

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JUDAH FREED is a seasoned journalist and award-winning author.with a story to tell about survival and self discovery in these times that try our souls. A student of Thomas Paine and the Enlightenment, Judah distills 18th century ideas and ideals for 21st century minds. He frames his essay in Making Global Sense with a memoir of the life behind his insights. He narrates childhood abuse, school bullying; joining a cult at 20, fleeing at 24, facing his authority addiction to choose self rule. He recalls ego follies as a media and politics journalist for five decades, recalling having world travel adventures, like landing in Fiji amid a coup. Judah shares his soul choice as an elder to survive cancer, so he can finish and publish this book. Thomas Paine (1737-1809), an English-born writer and activist, is renown for his 1776 essay, Common Sense, the world-changing call for independence and democracy that inspired the American Revolution. During the French Revolution, Paine voiced the ideals of the Enlightenment in Rights of Man, the #1 bestseller in Europe and the new United States.

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