List of articles for ‘PROUT JOURNAL Summer 2002 Issue’ 
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Sophia in Nature – Interview with poet Robert Bly by Roar Bjonnes
An interview with poet Robert Bly on ecology, spirituality, and the capitalist market-place.. Bjonnes: You have written extensively about the descending path of spirituality–our love for nature–whereas the ascending path focuses on our love for God. Wouldn’t it be good to find a balance between the two? Bly: Well, that ís obvious. But the ascending [...]
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Will Organized Religions Survive in the New Millennium?
As a yoga monk and spiritualist, I strongly believe that we must think deeply about our vision for world peace. For the sake of our children and all living beings, we have a duty to encourage every movement that contributes to it and struggle against all divisive and exploitative trends. So what should be our [...]
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CASHING IN ON COOL:How Corporations Exploit Kids And How We Can Stop It
To be cool is often crucial to the teenage image of self. To avoid being branded “a looser”, you must know which trends and fads are in. Trends like baggy pants and Sprite soft-drinks. But what most teenagers don’t know is where these trends come from. Yes, how did these trends become so linked to [...]
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Participatory Action Research: Some Personal Reflections
The highlight of the long awaited return of the PROUT UTC was the activist workshop on Participatory Action Research. This system helps us learn about ourselves and our environment through teams that explore the needs and solutions to problems in our communities. First, all participants gathered to hear brief, yet inspiring introductions to the history [...]
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Participatory Action Research in the Missouri Ozarks
“The aim of participatory action research is to change practices, social structures, and social media which maintain irrationality, injustice, and unsatisfying forms of existence. … [It] is emancipatory, it leads not just to new practical research, but to new abilities to create knowledge. In action research knowledge is a living, evolving process of coming to [...]
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The Divine Right of Stockholders
Stockholders fund major public corporations–true or false? False. Or, actually, a tiny bit true–but for the most part, massively false. What’s intriguing is that we speak as though it were entirely true: “I have invested in AT&T,” we say, imagining AT&T as a steward of our money, with a fiduciary responsibility to take care of [...]
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Maleny Cooperatives:Examples of small-scale cooperative enterprise.
Maleny is situated 100 kilometrers north of Brisbane on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. It is surrounded by lush tropical vegitation, has stunning views of the Glass House Mountains, and overlooks the Pacific Ocean. It has a population of over 7,000 people. Maleny has a long history of cooperative enterprise. On the 3rd May 1903, settlers [...]
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Creating A Poverty-free Future
Approximately 10 years ago, I was standing with my mother at a food store in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia. We wanted to buy yogurt required by a recipe to finish a dish. It didn’t cross our minds that between her, who worked as a senior manager, and myself, employed as an associate lecturer at the university, [...]
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Neohumanist Perspectives on World Peace
The attainment of world peace challenges human talent and ingenuity but is not an impossible or utopian dream. World peace is attainable; it may even be imminent. Consider two events that caught humanity by surprise: the fall of the Berlin wall on November 9, 1989 and the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001. [...]
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Toward a Wisdom Based Society
Contrary to popular opinion, the urgent need of the hour is not another deluge of information technology. What the world needs now is a comprehensive East-West integration—an internet of meaning, a global highway of wisdom. People crave not only more computers, but also inner rapture, peace and justice. We yearn for a fusion between the [...]