Radical Middle Newsletter,
Center for Visionary
Law, Business, and Public Policy, Inc.
P.O. Box 70188
Oakland CA 94612
www.radicalmiddle.com
Highly recommended: An excellent, broad-ranging article
that is well worth
reading and considering...
"We
Can Respond Effectively to Terrorism
-- But Only if All Our Insights Are Made to Count." |
I've known Mark Satin since the late seventies. He was
writing a different newsletter then, commentaries on politics, economic
policy, fringe groups, and visionary leadership. The edition that I read
sold me on this man's uniquely clear way of zeroing right in on what
needed to be said and I become a subscriber. Soon afterward I purchased
his first book, New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society (Delta Book,
New York City, 1978). Whether he was attending a conference on Green
politics, walking the halls of Congress, or keeping track of the feminist
and human-potential movements, Mark seemed to possess the ability to
see "through" what was being presented and uncover true value
or lack of it. Rhetoric never fooled him. And I watched Mark face heavy
issues, personal and public, with a type of sensitivity that tore at
your heart and made you really think - sometimes take action.
Mark's skill as a political observer and commentator has not only matured
over the years, but has sharpened - radically - keeping him ever on
the cutting edge
of new thought and new movements and an ever-growing demand for another brand
of politics. He marked that growing demand correctly.....as coming from the "radical
middle." If you haven't read the book, The Cultural Creatives: How Fifty
Million People are Changing the World, you need to. It is by Paul H. Ray and
Sherry Ruth Anderson (Harmony Books, New York City, 2000). Ray is a statistician/poll
taker, and he discovered that another political segment to society is now alive
and well and confounding experts with how fast it is growing. Paul called this
new political force "Cultural Creatives" (I discussed this new "voice" in
America in both my books on child experiencers of near-death states: Children
of the New Millennium and The New Children and Near-Death Experiences.)
Stepping out, as he always has, Mark is now producing and writing a
newsletter about this new force in politics and he calls it the Radical
Middle. It is bi-monthly,
usually about 8 pages, and is the most dynamic assessment of where we are going
as a people, and where we can go, that I have yet seen. And what he focuses
on is exactly what most near-death experiencers and others so transformed
are the
most interested in - rebuilding and reforming the political scene. He is specific,
timely, and radically honest. I have many favorite political commentators,
among them: George Will, Ellen Goodman, Robert J. Samuelson, Fareed
Zakaria, and William
Rasberry. But I know of no one like Mark Satin. He stands alone, and I am proud
to recommend his newsletter, Radical Middle, and alert you to a new book of
his that will be out next year. Contact his office for subscription
rates. (Yes,
my husband and I are subscribers.)
--PMH |
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Book Review--
"Radical
Middle: The Politics We Need Now" by Mark Satin. Due out March,
2004 through Westview, Boulder, CO.
Don't vote in the November 2004 election until after you have read this book!!
There has never been a time any of us can remember when politics was so important,
our nation so divided. Neither the left nor the right, Democrats nor Republicans,
offer what the majority of us want. And the majority of us have been singled
out by pollsters as the "cultural creatives" - those who hunger
for real solutions to our biggest problems without losing touch with reality's
harsh facts. We model more after Benjamin Franklin, than New Age illusionists
or antiglobalists. The agenda we aspire to, the nuts and bolts of what defines
the radical middle, are distilled and explained in Mark Satin's book.
I am putting my voice behind this book today, even though it is not due out
until May 2004, for this reason: advance orders signal publishers to print
larger runs and do more with publicity. Please, go to your favorite bookstore
and put in an advance order for "Radical Middle: The Politics We Need
Now." You will not be sorry. This book, not the tirades of movie stars
and radio talk show hosts, has the information we have all been waiting for.
Politicians beware. The majority in the United States of America are moving,
millions strong, toward the radical middle. - beyond the din of the empty
and false promises of demo-publicans. Our numbers will ensure we are heard!
...PMH |
