{"id":893,"date":"2012-01-26T17:59:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T17:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenspirit.org.uk\/bookreviews\/?p=893"},"modified":"2018-06-03T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T09:59:46","slug":"out-of-the-labyrinth-who-we-are-how-we-go-wrong-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-by-carl-frankel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenspirit.org.uk\/bookreviews2\/2012\/01\/26\/out-of-the-labyrinth-who-we-are-how-we-go-wrong-and-what-we-can-do-about-it-by-carl-frankel\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Out of the Labyrinth: Who We Are, How We Go Wrong and What We Can Do about It\u2019 by Carl Frankel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Monkfish Publishing Company, 2004<\/p>\n

ISBN: 978-0972635769<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Karen Eberhardt-Shelton\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> (abridged from the original)<\/p>\n

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In one sense, reading Out Of the Labyrinth<\/em> has been an enlightening kind of torture; a bit like having to watch bears in cages being milked for bile 24 hours a day or the levelling of an entire rainforest, or the torpedoing of whales—without being able to intervene. My heart grieves for the fractured world at an even deeper level than before because my journey through this Labyrinth has guided me to a fuller understanding of why it\u2019s all happening.<\/p>\n

This book addresses the elements in human nature that either propel one in the direction of living in harmony with the earth or, as is the usual case, carry on as though a connection didn\u2019t exist. It confronts the basement level we need to start at in order to be able to make sense of all the rest. You can legislate and create improvements in external set ups, but to change attitudes on a deeper plane where the force for good becomes self-motivating is an complex exercise in alchemy.<\/p>\n

Labyrinth is about coming to understand and absorb what\u2019s beneath what one already knows in general terms; beneath the standard mix of education, law, commerce, politics and even religion; beneath the rules, strivings and mandates; the organisations, movements and rules.<\/p>\n

It goes to the heart of the ignorance, distortions, assumptions and posturing that alienate us from the fundamentals of living and lead us dangerously deeper into the labyrinth. It\u2019s about a deeper kind of knowledge and insight that for the most part is both misinterpreted and overlooked in society. It explores the mysteries of consciousness and brings the reader to a point that enables them to realise how we can make the most of our differences and also share and balance our understandings about life, culture, society, the establishment, the arts, the work place, and defines with infinite patience how through the process of integrating the triad of strategist, citizen & seeker, essential connections with each other and the earth become possible.<\/p>\n

It explores our specific roles and explains how they relate primarily to one of those three spheres: the objective dimension (the strategist), the social dimension (the citizen), and the depth dimension (the seeker), and emphasises that each is as important as the other and together they bring about an integral way, an inclusivity principle capable of fostering what Frankel terms \u2018right balance\u2019. If you don\u2019t know how things are interconnected, then often the cause of problems is what were thought to be \u2018solutions\u2019. On the other hand, if you understand the hidden connections between energy, climate, water, agriculture, transportation, security, commerce, and economic and social development, then you can often devise a solution to one problem that will also create solutions to many other problems at no extra cost.<\/p>\n

How can we best transform deep responsibility and deep awareness into effective action? His answer is by practicing \u2018deep strategy\u2019. Frankel claims that \u2018shallow strategies address symptoms, deep strategy attempts to get at the causes underlying t<\/em>hem,\u2019 but \u2018Reflection without action can be as damaging as action without reflection, so for transformative results to be achieved, reflection must be married to action<\/em>.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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