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Introduction:
A "Topian" Worldview
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This exerpt
introduces the idea of "topia"--those ideas, dreams, visions
and people that are helping to realize a more ideal world.
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Topia:
An Allegory
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This excerpt
tells the allegorical story of a meeting between all the founders
of the world's religions, brought together to help humanity face
the threat brought by the spread of weapons of mass destruction
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Envisioning:
A Tool for Conceiving Universal Compassion
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How do we understand
the world in a way that allows us to pursue a truly universal compassion,
advancing the human rights of all people?
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Raising
Realistic Expectations
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This set of
exerpts challenges several commonly held assumptions about what
is realistic to expect in the area of global social change, including
the belief in scarcity (that there are insufficient resources available
to satisfy everyone's basic needs), and the belief in the inevitability
of violence.
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Compassion
and the Search for Common Understanding
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This excerpt
provides some background on already-existing attempts at creating
universal understanding and inter-religious dialogue, as well as
some of the commonalities among some of the major world religions.
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