Publications

Publications Produced by or with the Support of the Metta Center (to obtain a book in exchange for a donation to Metta, please contact us.):

The Search for a Nonviolent Future by Michael N. Nagler

How can we develop peace in our families and our world? Can we stop a brutal dictator without using violence? When is violence justified? Through a historical and spiritual approach that draws on the stories of activists,  visionaries, and spiritual leaders, Metta Center founder  Michael Nagler demonstrates that nonviolence is an effective solution to the  political, social, and moral turmoil around today’s world. Winner of the 2002 American Book Award; translated into Italian, Croatian, Korean, and Arabic.

A comprehensive study guide that can be used as a tool in Nonviolence Study Circles is available for download here. A new version for educators (2011) is available here.

Note: The Arabic translation of Search for a Nonviolent Future is available for download here as a pdf!  (Let us know if you have connections with publishers or distributors in the Arab world)

 

“Michael Nagler is one of America’s contemporary pioneers in the field of nonviolence. For anyone seeking to strategize a peaceful future, The Search for a Nonviolent Future is a must-read. It’s wonderful material.” —Marianne Williamson

 

 

  Our Spiritual Crisis: Recovering Human Wisdom in a Time of Violence  by Michael Nagler

The crisis through which we are passing is a spiritual crisis, a paradigm shift, a painful stage of growth like a snake shedding its skin. Michael Nagler proclaims that the violence and dehumanization of our culture spring from spiritual impoverishment.” “Between the arrogance of scientism and the irresponsibility of commercial advertising, we are conditioned to believe that the fundamental reality is matter. Yet according to many leading scientists, the basic stuff of the cosmos is consciousness: quantum jumps are the events that ultimately constitute reality. Humans are not deterministically controlled cogs in a giant machine.”.

Much traditional religion, religion-without-spirituality, turns out to be ineffective in combating the forces of manipulation and control which lead us into mindless hatred and pointless wars. Nagler contends that the great spiritual mission of our time is the transition from a religion based on sacrifice to one based on meditation or “concentrated prayer,” interior practice directed toward the more-than-human reality within us. And as we cultivate this meditative practice, we also need to become literate in nonviolence, learning the lessons taught by Gandhi before it is too late.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hope or Terror: Gandhi and the Other 9/11 by Michael N. Nagler

While many marked September 11, 2006, as the fifth anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, peacebuilders and organizations around the world honored this day as the birth of Mahatma Gandhi’s Satyagraha–or ‘Soul Force’–in Johannesburg, South Africa, 100 years earlier. In commemoration of this anniversary, Metta Center’s Michael Nagler produced a booklet explaining Gandhi’s vision and exploring the potential of nonviolence today.

Now available as a free pdf download!

The printed booklet is also available. To order, send an email request to info@mettacenter.org.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gandhi the Man: The Story of His Transformationby Eknath Easwaran

The world remembers Gandhi as a political leader who led his people to freedom without violence. Here Easwaran examines Gandhi’s personal significance: how he transformed himself, and how we can apply his discoveries to resolve conflicts in our own lives.

A list of study questions is also available on the publisher’s site (and in pdf format here). An in-depth study series for Gandhi the Man highlighting Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual practice to make nonviolence a force in everyday life is also available to download; if you use it in a study or reading group, it would fall naturally into a seven-week format.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Love In Action Newsletter

Each quarter, we publish a newsletter through our list-serv with articles, resources for nonviolence education and updates on our activities at Metta. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metta Center Monthly Web Publication

Each month, we publish a monthly newsletter through our list-serv with resources for nonviolence education and updates on our activities at Metta. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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