Promise Ahead

When Duane Elgin's classic bestseller, Voluntary Simplicity, was published in 1981, it transformed the lives of thousands and was hailed as the "bible" of the simplicity movement by the Wall Street Journal. Now, for anyone seeking to navigate today's profoundly changing world, Promise Ahead is the powerful sequel to a road map for securing a promising future.

Duane Elgin is He holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton Business School and an M.A. in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania

Introduction

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Vicki Robin

Is Humanity Growing Up?

1

(14)

Adversity Trends: Hitting an Evolutionary Wall

15

(28)

A New Perceptual Paradigm: We Live in a Living Universe

43

(28)

Choosing a New Lifeway: Voluntary Simplicity

71

(24)

Communicating Our Way into a Promising Future

95

(18)

Reconciliation and the Transformation of Human Relations

113

(16)

Evolutionary Crash or Evolutionary Bounce: Adversity Meets Opportunity

129

(25)

Humanity's Central Project: Becoming Doubly Wise Humans

154

(25)

Engaged Reflection in the Turning Zone

179

(22)

Acknowledgments

201

(2)

References

203

(16)

Index

219

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