Thriving in the Crosscurrent:

Clarity and Hope in a Time of Cultural Sea Change

Here's hoping we're in for a sea change of the kind Jim Kenney describes – it will take real shifts if we're to deal with the problems bearing down on us, climate change most of all. And those shifts will, as he says, have their roots in our _understanding of who we are.

– Bill McKibben, educator, environmentalist, founder of the international climate campaign 350.org; author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

Out of Jim Kenney's own lifetime work with grassroots communities and interfaith / intercultural movements has come this inspirational book, which will excite and energize its readers. His articulation and affirmation of humanity's growing new consciousness of our interdependence, and our cultural evolution from old ways into new values – based on justice, nonkilling, nonviolence, and peace – will give hope to the human family.

– Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate; author of The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland

Jim Kenney believes that we are living in an exciting time of cultural evolutionary sea change. He draws on his broad experience at the cutting-edge of work for peace and justice and offers a compelling vision of human possibility.

–Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade and The Real Wealth of Nations

It is a welcome surprise to read a book that proclaims 'things are getting better.' Most people only see and bewail the decay of traditional values. It takes a person with Jim Kenney's wide historical perspective, awareness of contemporary innovative thinking, and prophetic vision, to discern the emerging new values, which are global rather than parochial, and which will, I pray, provide the moral and spiritual basis for a more peaceful and caring civilization, which treasures the sacredness of all life.

–– Marcus Braybrooke, President, World Congress of Faiths; author of A Heart for the World and Beacons of Light

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Eddies

Eddy Type #1:

Cultural Confusion
What’s happening in my world? I don’t understand it anymore!

Eddy Type #2:

Identity Crisis
Who am I? What does it mean to be me in this crazily spinning world?

Eddy Type #3

Threats to Wealth and Power
It’s all ours. We won’t give up our riches or our control!

Four Deadly Spins:

The Worst of the Worst

Exploring the Eddies:
How to make sense of the Turmoil
That's Rocking Our World

I have bad news and good news. First the bad: Yes, there are many deeply disturbing cultural problems—rampant incivility, race-based hate groups, unchecked corporate greed, violent acts of terrorism—swirling all around us. Now for the good: These phenomena are temporary eddies, whirlpools of resistance to the massive wave of cultural change we’re currently experiencing.

We’re living at a time of crossing. The old wave is declining, and the new wave is ascending, and as they come together, they create turbulence, which in turn gives birth to eddies—reactive counterflows that can slow but not stem the new tide.

Figure 1.1 . Two Waves

Once you realize the world really isn’t going to hell in the proverbial hand basket—that this difficult time will pass and things will improve—it’s much easier to live with a sense of serenity and acceptance in a time of cultural sea change.

Thriving in the Crosscurrent describes three basic types of eddies. And each has various manifestations—forms of resistance to one of the major values of the newer wave.

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