Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions

Reflections and Thoughts Related to the Struggle for Peace, Sustainability, Equality, and the Search for Humanity

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Expanding Horizons Through Creative Expressions

Reflections and Thoughts Related to the Struggle for Peace, Sustainability, Equality, and the Search for Humanity

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Obiora Embry
Language
English
Pages
128

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Table of Contents

Prologue. vi
Introduction. ix
Chapter 1 ­. The Problem Page 12
Chapter 2 ­. The Problem...Continued Page 28
Chapter 3 ­. Interlude Page 41
Chapter 4 ­. Questions on Peace Page 42
Chapter 5 ­. War and Peace Page 47
Chapter 6 ­. The Police and Peace Page 62
Chapter 7 ­. Parents Page 69
Chapter 8 ­. Finding Peace Through Knowledge Page 77
Chapter 9 ­. Spiritual Search Page 86
Chapter 10 ­. The Present, Future...and Change Page 103
Action Items. 122
Epilogue. 126

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Lexington, United States

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
128
Dimensions
9.68 x 7.44 x inches
Weight
0.63 pounds

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OL25441348M
ISBN 13
9780989750707

Excerpts

This body of work is a compilation of my thoughts and ideas that began 10+ years ago...these musings are part of a larger and greater continuum that began before I was reborn and regained the humanity that I had lost. I have been restoring my humanity through the fostering of peace, love, understanding, a desire to restore the balance of Mother Earth, and a search for the spiritual.

The search for the spiritual was resurrected because it was put on the back burner when my focus shifted to material goods and
wealth rather than my connection with the Earth—without her, we humans will perish as there is no other place in the Milky Way Galaxy we can inhabit. And even if we found another home, how long would it take for us to make that planet uninhabitable? 10 years? 30 years? 100 years?

I believe that we need to develop the capacity to understand and heed the thoughts posed in the 1970s by the late James (Jimmy) Boggs when he co-authored Revolution and Evolution in the Twentieth Century. In the book, he stated the following:

Human beings have been compelled to manifest their humanity in their technological capacity, to grow food, to make fires, to build dams, to invent lathes and computers. Simply to survive, we have concentrated our powers on producing things, evading critical questions of our relationships with one another and to Nature. As a result, we have become technologically overdeveloped and politically and socially underdeveloped. We will not regain our membership in the human race, until we recognize that our greatest need is not to develop the productive forces (which was a dominant concern of Karl Marx because he was creating his ideas in a period of material scarcity) but to struggle with one another and with ourselves to get rid of outmoded ideas and fears which keep us from grappling with the complex issues of our relationships with one another and with our natural environment.
Page 6-7, added by Obiora Embry.

This is from the Prologue that I wrote in 2007 and it describes the reasons and thoughts brought me to create this book.

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