Designed in such a way as to benefit both the leaders of the pagan community as well as the individual reader, The Pagan Book of Living and Dying encourages preparation under the obvious, but often neglected, understanding that death is seldom expected nor convenient but happens to everyone. The Dalai Lama thinks so. His medicine isn't always easy to swallow, however, for it demands of the reader more than memorizing precepts or positing hypothetical dilemmas. The Nobel Peace laureate invites us to recognize certain basic facts of existence, such as the interdependence of all things, and from these to recalibrate our hearts and minds, to approach all of our actions in their light. Nothing short of an inner revolution will do.
Basic work is required in nurturing our innate tendencies to compassion, tolerance, and generosity.
Like a merging of the care and compassion of Jesus, the cool rationality of the Stoics, the moral program of Ben Franklin, and the psychology of William James, Ethics for the New Millennium is a plea for basic goodness, a blueprint for world peace. David Icke names names, organizations and gives detailed descriptions on the structures of control in today's world. There is one desperate argument sometimes advanced against doing good actions. I'm surprised I heard so little of this book, and it seems to me that it really deserves more attention.