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​​​'Leading Causes of Life' ...

​       flips our way of thinking and acting ...
       about ourselves, others
​       & the world

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What if we focus at least as much on life as we do on death?

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In our daily lives & institutions we pay huge attention
to what hurts, harms, or kills us. 'Death' is a major focus, 
in public health ('mortality & morbidity,' 'leading causes of death'),
the ​social sciences ... and in religious motifs ('guilt,' 'shame,' 'sin,' etc.).
What is LCL?
FIVE CAUSES
Fellows


​The "Leading Causes of Life" is a way of thinking about reality.

With deep moral foundations, it rests on five interacting elements.
Not a mere 'toolbox', it helps us understand the complexity 
of human action and interaction, so that we may act
with generative intention
whatever we are doing
​wherever we are.

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Intro to LCL
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LCLI-related books

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This revelatory Handbook explores the relationship between and  effects of organised religion and spirituality on community, population, and public health, with an emphasis on new pathways for human health in a turbulent world.
[Edward Elgar, 2004]
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Life has a way of rolling, not unlike a 'murmuration,' something starlings do.
A wonderful example of emergent, dynamic complexity unexplained by linear logic, ​only by life.


BREAKING NEWS!


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Wrapped around years of discussions with LCLI Fellows we arrive convinced that
'Deep Accountability' is vital for our fraught time. What that means for thought and practice is what we explore and describe.
FIND IT AT:
​https://anthempress.com/books/taking-responsibility-for-the-life-of-complex-human-ecosystems-hb

Drumbeat

Creating life together
by Gary Gunderson
It can all fall apart, this democracy thing. It’s not like gravity that makes rocks fall, even if you don’t believe in it.
Democracy only lives in the mind and spirit and evaporates when we forget 
it. .....
​LCLI-related books
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