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Index
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
PRAISE FOR THE GREAT TURNING
DEDICATED TO
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
THE GREAT TURNING
PROLOGUE: IN SEARCH OF THE POSSIBLE
GROWING UP ON A SHRINKING PLANET
THE TRAGEDY OF UNREALIZED POTENTIAL
RESISTING CORPORATE-LED ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION
FOR EVERY NO THERE MUST BE A YES
GETTING TO THE GREAT TURNING
SYNOPSIS OF THE ARGUMENT
THE BOOK
PART I: CHOOSING OUR FUTURE
CHAPTER 1: THE CHOICE
HACIENDA SANTA TERESA
DEMONSTRATING POSSIBILITIES
THE DEFINING CHOICE
THE LAST FREEDOM
CHAPTER 2: THE POSSIBILITY
AWAKENING CONSCIOUSNESS
PSYCHOLOGY OF EMPIRE
PSYCHOLOGY OF EARTH COMMUNITY
CULTURAL POLITICS
CHAPTER 3: THE IMPERATIVE
A PLANET UNDER CRIPPLING STRESS
REALITY ATTACK
WARS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION
GOING TO A HIGHER ORBIT
THE GREAT WORK
CHAPTER 4: THE OPPORTUNITY
CULTURAL CONSCIOUSNESS
SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS
A GLOBAL PHENOMENON
INSTITUTIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL MEANS
FROM CONSCIOUSNESS TO ACTION
PART II: SORROWS OF EMPIRE
CHAPTER 5: WHEN GOD WAS A WOMAN
A WELL-KEPT SECRET
IN THE BEGINNING
GODDESS CIVILIZATIONS
TURNING TO EMPIRE: A GENDER PERSPECTIVE
TURNING TO EMPIRE: A SCALE PERSPECTIVE
SMALL AND BALANCED
HIS-STORY
CHAPTER 6: ANCIENT EMPIRE
MESOPOTAMIA
EGYPT
ROME
FEUDAL FIEFDOMS
CHAPTER 7: MODERN EMPIRE
CRIME LORDS AND SYNDICATES
DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGE
IMPERIAL COUNTERATTACK
MONEY RULES
CHAPTER 8: ATHENIAN EXPERIMENT
ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
RESOLVING THE LEADERSHIP DILEMMA
THE ENLIGHTENMENT
PART III: AMERICA, THE UNFINISHED PROJECT
CHAPTER 9: INAUSPICIOUS BEGINNING
PLUTOCRACY
THEOCRACY
GENOCIDE
SLAVERY
CHAPTER 10: PEOPLE POWER REBELLION
FORCES OF PLURALISM
A REBELLIOUS AND ITINERANT SPIRIT
WALKING AWAY FROM THE KING
ELITE TAKEOVER
CHAPTER 11: EMPIRE’S VICTORY
WHO WILL RULE? A NATION BY, FOR, AND OF WHITE MEN OF PROPERTY
CONSTITUTIONAL PLUTOCRACY
THE FEDERALIST PROGRAM
THE JEFFERSONIAN PROGRAM
WESTWARD EXPANSION
IMPERIAL CORPORATIONS
GOING GLOBAL
DRIVE TO IMPERIAL HEGEMONY
CHAPTER 12: STRUGGLE FOR JUSTICE
WORDS THAT REFUSE TO DIE
STRUGGLES OF THE MIDDLE AND WORKING CLASSES
A NEW DEAL
CHAPTER 13: WAKE-UP CALL
CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC CHALLENGES TO EMPIRE
STEALTH POLITICS
PLUTOCRACY AS A BIPARTISAN CAUSE
WAKE-UP CALL
VISION OF PAX AMERICANA
CHAPTER 14: PRISONS OF THE MIND
IMPERIAL PROSPERITY STORY
IMPERIAL SECURITY STORY
IMPERIAL MEANING STORIES
NARROWING THE DEBATE
PART IV: THE GREAT TURNING
CHAPTER 15: BEYOND STRICT FATHER VERSUS AGING CLOCK
GRAND CONFRONTATION
TELL ME YOUR IMAGE OF GOD
SCIENCE OF A LIVING COSMOS
STEP TO MATURITY
CHAPTER 16: CREATION’S EPIC JOURNEY
A CONTEMPORARY CREATION STORY
LIFE IS THE POWER TO CHOOSE
LIFE IS STRUGGLE
LIFE IS MUTUAL EMPOWERMENT
LESSONS FROM A FOREST ECOSYSTEM
LESSONS FROM THE HUMAN BODY
CHAPTER 17: JOYS OF EARTH COMMUNITY
HARDWIRED TO CONNECT
THE INVISIBLE CURRICULUM
NATURE AS TEACHER
EARTH COMMUNITY
HAPPINESS IS A CARING COMMUNITY
CHAPTER 18: STORIES FOR A NEW ERA
EARTH COMMUNITY PROSPERITY STORY
EARTH COMMUNITY SECURITY STORY
EARTH COMMUNITY MEANING STORY
DISCOVERING AND SHARING STORIES OF THE POSSIBLE
PART V: BIRTHING EARTH COMMUNITY
CHAPTER 19: LEADING FROM BELOW
THE STRATEGY
ECONOMIC TURNING
POLITICAL TURNING
CULTURAL TURNING
CHAPTER 20: BUILDING A POLITICAL MAJORITY
CULTURAL POLITICS
FOUNDATIONS OF A POLITICAL CONSENSUS
FOR THE CHILDREN
A CONSERVATIVE-LIBERAL ALLIANCE
CHAPTER 21: LIBERATING CREATIVE POTENTIAL
LIVING ECONOMIES
LIVING POLITICS
LIVING CULTURES
CHAPTER 22: CHANGE THE STORY, CHANGE THE FUTURE
TO CHANGE THE FUTURE
FINDING OUR PLACE
RESPONDING TO THE CALL
NOTES
THE GREAT TURNING
Prologue: In Search of the Possible
PART I: CHOOSING OUR FUTURE
PART II: SORROWS OF EMPIRE
PART III: AMERICA, THE UNFINISHED PROJECT
PART IV: THE GREAT TURNING
PART V: BIRTHING EARTH COMMUNITY
INDEX
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