Scilla Elworthy Book order

Three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Dr. Scilla Elworthy, with 40 years of experience in politics and conflict, presents a bold vision for the future in Pioneering the Possible. Many people are anxious about their children's futures and dissatisfied with their lives, while global ecosystems and supply chains face significant threats. This work addresses these concerns by envisioning a future that benefits everyone, rich and poor, showcasing real-life examples of its emergence. It confronts outdated 20th-century values that hinder progress on global issues and illustrates how these can be reversed. The current crisis, marked by environmental degradation, presents an opportunity for a secure and fulfilling future if we make the right choices. Achieving this requires a shift in consciousness, as highlighted by Einstein's assertion that problems cannot be solved from the mindset that created them. The book explores this new consciousness and introduces transformative leaders like Dr. Desmond Tutu and Aung San Suu Kyi, demonstrating that anyone can harness their inner power to contribute positively to the future. It contrasts current decision-making values with those that could lead to better choices. By engaging specialists and pragmatists, Elworthy helps readers discover their unique missions, emphasizing that taking action rather than worrying leads to peace of mind and fulfillment.

Exploring themes as diverse as ancient Goddess religions, nuclear weapons decision-making and female circumcision, this book examines traditional ways in which power has been abused as a tool to dominate others - physically, sexually, politically and spiritually. Against this background the book outlines an alternative path which the author calls hara power. Hara power refers to the synthesis of physical and spiritual energy, and is also the synthesis of the masculine and feminine within each of us.

This work examines the traditional ways in which power has been abused as a tool to dominate others physically, sexually, politically and spiritually. It proposes an alternative path, the hara power, after the ancient Eastern teaching that the hara centre in the stomach is where the soul resides. The hara is also the perfect point of balance between the physical and spiritual worlds. The book demonstrates how, in both personal and political life, the inner fusion of the archetypal masculine and feminine engeries holds the key to the kind of power the world needs now.