A Golden Civilization and The Map of Mindfulness - Softcover

Kinder, George D

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1732792704 ISBN 13: 9781732792708

Publisher: Serenity Point Press, 2019

Synopsis

George Kinder invites readers to imagine a thousand generations have passed and humanity has at last accomplished a Golden Civilization. What does it look like? Who are we there? Of all our systems and structures currently in place which of them got us there? And which of them were irretrievably heading in the wrong direction? He challenges readers to immediately abandon habits, structures, and systems that won’t take us to a Golden Civilization and adopt those that will.

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About the Author

George Kinder, international thought leader, has authored three books on money: The Seven Stages of Money Maturity, Lighting the Torch, and Life Planning for You. He is known as the father of the Life Planning movement. Winner of numerous awards, as founder and CEO of the Kinder Institute of Life Planning he has revolutionized client-centered financial advice with in-depth trainings of thousands of advisers from thirty countries across six continents. A mindfulness teacher, Kinder also leads weekly meditation classes and retreats around the world and wrote Transforming Suffering into Wisdom: Mindfulness and The Art of Inner Listening. Kinder is also a published poet and photographer. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife and daughters, and spends several months each year in London and Maui.

Review

Not since Walt Whitman have I heard as visionary a voice of inclusion and longing, seeking to free the spirit of humankind, and setting us on a path of wise, honorable, authentic, participative life. George Kinder has envisioned a new world, a leap of civilization, He points us toward a global renaissance. This is big! This is true integrity in action. I want to help create and live in the world that Kinder teaches us is possible. --Eido Frances Carney Roshi, Olympia Zen Center, author of Kakurenbo or the Whereabouts of Zen Priest Ryokan

George Kinder has, once again, opened up our eyes to some inescapable, fundamental truths that we should all be mindful of. He reconnects us with what really matters and asks probing questions of introspection that encourage the reader to realign our vision, velocity and even values. Perhaps most importantly, George has the courage and commitment in his book to not only envision for us what is possible; he also sets out a roadmap to get us there. His ideas seem perfectly plausible, because they are - the idea of a Golden Civilization is something that we can collectively work towards. I kept finding myself thinking about John Lennon s masterpiece Imagine because the book is a wonderful enabler for free thinking and creativity; releasing the reader from any sense of learned helplessness, intellectual impotency and constrained expectations of the future; the book is that good. Anybody can profit enormously from letting this book into their lives but I d suggest it s a must for those of us that want the financial services sector to harness the transformational power of transparency, integrity and purposefulness. --Andy Agathangelou, Founding Chair, Transparency Task Force

A brilliant and energizing synthesis brimming with insightful and hopeful directions that could if we only would create a golden civilization wherein, among other things, institutions are our servants, deep presence counts as wealth, and media delivers peace. Thus forms a golden circle of outer and inner freedom. May it be so. --Prof. Anne C. Klein, Lama Rigzin Drolma, Dept of Religion, Rice University; Founding spiritual director, Dawn Mountain

About this edition

• Publisher: Serenity Point Press
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1732792704
• ISBN 13: 9781732792708
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 355