We understand the ways that a vacuous secular society under the Shaw accelerated class differences and gave many Iranians a motive to find a religious or spiritual route to find meaning that would be an alternative to the vacuity and hurtfulness of the US-supported regime, but as I've argued in my new book Spirit Matters, there is a huge distinction between reactionary spirituality as a response to the worst aspects of the globalization of capital, and the kind of Emancipatory Spirituality that we need to support. Indeed, one of the reasons why it is so important for us to develop an Emancipatory Spirituality that can provide a counter to the globalization of capital is precisely that unless we do so we are likely to see further advances in the kind of reacitonary spirituality that rules in Iran and remains a live option in many other countries. The anti-Semitic and repressive decision of the Iranian court underscores how dangerous it is when we let reactionary forces define the spiritual option, and the importance for us of accelerating the task of building the kind of globalization of spirit that I describe in Spirit Matters. An invitation to participate in the International Peace Poem Project. We will be presenting the poem to the United Nations in October of 2000.
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