;order to address our toughest challens, e t deed nnect, but this is not enough: e t al gro other ords, e t exercise both love the drive to unity and poer the drive to self-realization if e choose either love or poer, e ill t stuck re-creatg existg realities, or orse if e ant to create ne and better realities-at hoe, at ork, our unities, the orld-e need to learn ho to tegrate our love and our poer

poer and love is both practical and pernal any researchers-across political science, peace studies, anaent, neuro-biology, ciology, ychology, philophy, theology-have ed a variety of frags and vocaburies to pot out the iportance of poer or love or both the purpose of this book is not to reiterate or revie these specialized theories, but to explore ho neral and practice e can ork ith poer and love to address our toughest challens furtherore, i have not nstructed y understandg of these phenoena out of these theories, but stead out of siftg through and tryg to ake sense of y on ost nfg and challengg experiences of cial chan

years ago i as aazed hen i read the first pas of the send voe of rence durrell's novel the alexandria artet balthazar hands darley, the narrator, the arked-up ancript of darley's first voe: "a paper no seared and starred by a assive terlear of sentences, paragraphs and estion-arks" the send voe then goes on to rete a radically different terpretation of the sae events that darley had described the first one, and the third and fourth voes do the sae aga fro o additional perspectives

any ties durg the past enty years, i have been handed alternative terpretations of y on stories i a ovg along nfidently, and then ebody says ethg that shos e thgs are not at all the ay i thk they are through such discipled re-vieg of y on experiences, i have gradually built up y understandg of the dynaics of cial chan

the book begs ith "troduction: beyond ar and peace," hich suarizes hat i have learned chapter 1, "the o sides of poer," and chapter 2, "the o sides of love," describe these o fundaental drives that nerate cial chan chapter 3, "the dilea of poer and love," exps hy e cannot choose beeen these drives but t fd a ay to rencile the chapter 4, "fallg," chapter 5, "stublg," and chapter 6, "alkg," y out a progression of three odes of eployg poer and love-fro the ost porized and stuck to the ost tegrated and fid- orkg llectively to effect cial chan "ncsion: to lead eans to step forard," i sugst a ay to ork dividually through this sae progression, fro fallg to stublg to alkg, and bee ore capable of addressg our toughest challens
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