Healing the Hurts of Nations, by Palden Jenkins

<BODY> <H1><A HREF="hhn1.html">Healing the Hurts of Nations</A></H1> <H2>The human side of globalisation</H2> <H3>Palden Jenkins</H3> <P><B>HHN website: <A HREF="http://www.palden.co.uk/hhn/" TITLE="Healing the Hurts of Nations website">www.palden.co.uk/hhn/</A></B></P> <BR> <P><B>In this timely, ground-breaking book, the author looks at our underlying feelings of unease and confusion over today's world events. This is reality-check time.</B></P> <P>With non-stop global coverage of conflict, terrorism and multiple atrocities and injustices, we are witnesses to endless nightmare scenarios, with new crises coming ever thicker and faster. We carry on our lives as normal, knowing on a deeper intuitive level that the post-9-11 world must change its ways.</P> <P><I>Healing the Hurts of Nations</I> addresses humanity's unconscious, bottom-line feelings and their conflict with the 'official line'. Delving into the history and analysing the ghosts and ghouls of nations, this book provides a helpful overview to clarify how we might turn a global quagmire into fertile ground. To give specific examples, the histories of Afghanistan, Iraq, Britain and Yugoslavia are examined.</P> <P>Equal parts historical analysis, psychology of nations and positive suggestions for world change, this book is for:</P> <UL> <LI> the disaffected who feel outside the political process</LI> <LI> those who experience concern and grief over world events</LI> <LI> those who seek a deeper view of history, current affairs and the future</LI> </UL> <P><B>Palden Jenkins</B> is a 1960s veteran living in Glastonbury. He has worked with Tibetans, Arabs and Israelis, and in the fields of childbirth, psychotherapy, web and community projects, founding three educational initiatives. Previous books include <I>Living in Time</I>, <I>The Only Planet of Choice</I> (with Phyllis Schlemmer) and <I>The Kingfisher History Encyclopedia</I>. He is respected for his insights in history, geopolitics and spiritual issues. His website is at <A HREF="http://www.palden.co.uk" TITLE="Visit Palden's website">www.palden.co.uk</A></P> <P><B>Introduction</B> - <I>Welcome to the World </I></P> <H4>Part One: <I>Some Questions</I></H4> <P><B>1. Your Passport Please</B> <BR>- <I>what are nations?</I></P> <P><B>2. Insiders and Outsiders</B> <BR>- <I>boundaries and social inclusion</I></P> <P><B>3. Continents of the Mind</B> <BR>- <I>cultural exchange and conflict </I></P> <P><B>4. The Rationality of Nationality</B> <BR>- <I>identity, tribalism and nationalism </I></P> <P><B>5. Same Planet, Different Worlds</B> <BR>- <I>the early lives of human tribes</I></P> <H4>Part Two: <I>What's Underneath</I></H4> <P><B>6. Silk Roads and Ocean Winds</B> <BR>- <I>globalisation's troublesome birth </I></P> <P><B>7. Staterooms and Border Patrols</B> <BR>- <I>civilisation and its discontents</I></P> <P><B>8. The Wounds and Scars of Nations</B> <BR>- <I>how we got hurt, way back when</I></P> <P><B>9. In the National Interest</B> <BR>- <I>indeed, what are a nation's best interests?</I></P> <P><B>10. Take Me to your Leader</B> <BR>- <I>power and legitimacy</I></P> <P><B>11. Ghosts and Ghouls of Nations</B> <BR>- <I>issues that nations avoid facing </I></P> <H4>Part Three: <I>Some Examples</I></H4> <P><B>12. When Nations Fall Ill</B> <BR>- <I>the story of Yugoslavia </I></P> <P><B>13. Old Blighty</B> <BR>- <I>Britain, liberator and oppressor</I></P> <P><B>14. The Great Game</B> <BR>- <I>about Afghanistan</I></P> <P><B>15. Seedbed of Civilisation</B> <BR>- <I>Sumer, Babylon, Baghdad and Iraq</I></P> <H4>Part Four: <I>Geopolitical Healing</I></H4> <P><B>16. Conscience and Natural Justice</B> <BR>- <I>whispers from the heart of the world</I></P> <P><B>17. That Vision Thing</B> <BR>- <I>intimations from the superconscious</I></P> <P><B>18. Unprojection</B>  - <I>privatising <BR>and nationalising responsibility</I></P> <P><B>19. Times of Healing</B> <BR>- <I>lifting the pressure on human society</I></P> <P><B>20. Where Lies the Power?</B> <BR>- <I>behind business and government </I></P> <P><B>21. Force Majeure</B> <BR>- <I>crisis and social revelation </I></P> <H4>Part Five:<I> What Next?</I></H4> <P><B>22. Weapons of Mass-Reconstruction</B> <BR>- <I>reducing personal crimes against humanity </I></P> <P><B>23. Complementary Diplomacy</B> <BR>- <I>special operations from deep space</I></P> <P><B>24. The Miracle Century</B> <BR>- <I>overcoming the bounds of possibility </I></P> <P><B>25. The Twenty-First Century</B> <BR>- <I>what we might yet go through</I> </P> <P><B>26. Getting from Here to There</B> <BR>- <I>some priorities for our century</I></P> <P><B>Bibliography and Index</B></P> </BODY>