For everybody who wants to know more about, how far one can go with the realisation for the world and its development, I suggest the following book.

"Living Enlightenment"
by Andrew Cohen

Publisher: Moksha Press
ISBN 1-883929-30-5

"... If you want enlightenment, if you want to wake up, if you are capable of standing in the very middle of a raging fire that will melt your heart and open it to eternity, then you have come to the right place..."

from the Foreword
by Ken Wilber

Living Enlightenment illuminates the simple yet profound understanding that the spiritual evolution of each one of us is not separate from the evolution of humanity as a whole. Infused with the wisdom of the ages yet expressing a wholly contemporary vision, this groundbreaking book redefines the very purpose of spiritual life for the modern Western seeker.

" Andrew Cohen has arrived at an insight that is crucial for our historical situation. Enlightenment is not a movement out of the everyday world but is instead a profound entrance into deep participation with the evolution of the universe. Rarely have I encountered such simple, searing wisdom connecting religious ideas about enlightenment with the scientific understanding of an evolutionary cosmos."

Brian Swimme

for more info: www.andrewcohen.org

"Shaping Globalisation"
Civil Society Cultural Power and Threefolding
by Nicanor Perlas

Description:
This book explains in all details the different kinds of societies, in history, now and in the future, with many examples. It is a very realistic book, for people who want to find a solution for the globalisation issue. It is not sentimental and not negative, it is rather scientific. It struck me immediately, how clear that vision can be, and it hit my experiences as an activist very well.

This book is the result of a long term struggle in the Phillippines. The book sais: because we live in a society which is dominated mainly by business corporations, and secondly by government, there is one part missing, which is civil society (or culture). This third part is striving to have more influence through many NGO's and other groups of people. Even the anti globalisation movement is part of it, but it also concludes, that each of the three parts should be equally strong, and then we can realise a positive
globalisation, which is nessassary in our time. The important thing is only, that each of these parts should act in its area, and be concious about the effects they have on the other two areas. Then a corporation would not dictate anymore, for example through advertising, which culture people should have or follow, but the coulture would come out of the society itself.

I think it is a very important topic for our time, because this whole
process needs to become concious in civil society, in busines corporations and in governments.

You can orer it at:
CADI
Center for Alternative Development Initiatives
110 Scout Rallos Street
Timog
Quezon City
1103 Phillippines

for more info: www.cadi.ph
tel. +63-2-9283986