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Howard's latest book, The Tao of Holism, was published earlier this year. For more information, click here.
Look out for Howard's most recent articles in:
Kindred Spirit, Spring 2008 - A World Without Music.
Healing Today (NFSH magazine), Issue 112, May-July 2008 - Why Healing Isn't Superstition.
Network Review (Scientific & Medical Network journal), Issue 96, Spring 2008 - The God Confusion. (The publication of this article coincided with a lecture Howard gave at The University of Wales in Lampeter on 28 May 2008).
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Written by Howard Jones
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Monday, 31 March 2008 16:07 |
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The Tao of Holism is about wholeness of living. While it is directed at individuals, it aims to inform and empower people to influence society and governments to live coherently and prudently within our environmental resources.
There are facts and recommendations for personal physical health and suggestions for achieving spiritual wellbeing of mind and soul. It describes the importance of myth and tradition in our lives, and discusses some of the challenges in resolving our current societal and economic problems, and the shortcomings of our current educational philosophy in the West.
It represents a quest for individual fulfilment that is compatible with social cohesion, economic stability and environmental preservation.
Abandoning the quality of life that four centuries of science and technology have given us to return to some primitive life-style is not a realistic option. But there are serious and urgent problems that we must solve if we want our children and grandchildren to be able to live happily in peace and harmony, and awareness of the universal spiritual dimension of human existence is surely our best hope.
Published by O Books in February 2008
ISBN 978 1846 940804.To buy a copy, visit your local bookshop or www.o-books.net or www.amazon.co.uk
Reviews of The Tao of Holism
This book is truly a polymath's work, written for a public that has much information but not necessarily the ability to connect the pieces. Under simple headings such as 'The body' or 'Environment' he collects the most diverse topics and seamlessly relates them in a no-nonsense style of writing. He can range from the abuse of power to C.diff., GDP and the politics in Ladakh and put them together to make it clear that they do relate in the Holism that is the great concern of someone who has seen a vision of a society as perhaps once understood 'naturally' but now needs to realise that the 'global village' is not just a nifty expression, but a reality that we can no longer ignore.
Read this book and find yourself constantly saying, 'of course, that makes sense'.
Dr. Verena Tschudin, co-author of Seeing the Invisible (Penguin), Reader, University of Surrey, England, and Director of the International Centre for Nursing Ethics, England. Also, former editor of De Numine, the magazine of the Alister Hardy Society.
What Howard Jones is offering is a total design for living harmoniously with everything and in all ways, the way of harmony with the spirit that dwells in all things, and consequently the way of harmony with all people and all beings - a highly ambitious project after my own heart! Howard Jones brings a lifetime of study and an extraordinary breadth of scholarship to his task. He deals with most of the key issues facing humanity, and erects clear signposts to the holistic way.
Malcolm Hollick, formerly foundation Principal of Findhorn Foundation College; now member of the Steering Group for the University for Spirit Forum in the UK.
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