Beyond Forgiveness

Reflections on Atonement

De: Phil Cousineau - editor

Narrado por: Danny Campbell, Arielle DeLisle

As indispensable as forgiveness has been to the healing process throughout history, there is another equally profound action that is needed for ultimate reconciliation, which Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, calls the other side of the coin. Turning over the coin of forgiveness, we discover atonement, the half-hidden, much-overlooked other half of the reconciliation process.

Beyond Forgiveness shows how acts of atonement - making amends, providing restitution, restoring balance - can relieve us of the pain of the past and give us a hopeful future. This rich and powerful book includes 15 thoughtful contributions by high-profile thinkers and activists including Huston Smith, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Azim Khamisa, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Jacob Needleman, Michael Nagler, Diane Hennacy Powell, James O'Dea, Arun Gandhi, Kate Dahlstedt, Ed Tick, Richard J. Meyer, Rev. Heng Sure, Douglas George-Kanentiio, and Katharine Dever.

Atonement is put forward as a process that we must all learn to practice - from individuals to nations - if we are to heal our wounds and move forward.

©2011 Phil Cousineau and Richard J. Meyer (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Nothing will help us survive the present age more than breaking the tragic cycles of violence and revenge. To do so, we must honor our soul's desire for deeper forms of reconciliation, a process that Phil Cousineau reveals here as the ritual act of atonement. His book is a profoundly important contribution to the healing of the world. I give it my blessing." (Robert A. Johnson, author of Transformation, Inner Work, and Owning Your Own Shadow)

Triggering

If you consider yourself conservative, do yourself a favor and skip this book. If not, be advised that there are numerous triggering references such as stories of Obama and other liberal leaders being saintly moral beacons who tired to right America’s wrongs, contrasted by mentions of Bush / Cheney and conservative figures’ “harmful and violent policy choices”. It’s too bad… I hoped the lessons within could help me, but the constant political slant was a real turnoff.