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Stefan Pasti
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Autobiographical Sketch/Four Positive Effects of Sai Education
Apr 15, 2012
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This post introduces two new documents from the Founder and Outreach Coordinator of The Interfaith
Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative:
1) “An Autobiographical Sketch” (11 pages) (with significant updates in March, 2012)
2) “Four Positive Effects from the Teachings of Sri Sathya Sai Baba” (subtitled: “A
Companion Document to ‘An Autobiographical Sketch’”) (13 pages) (April, 2012)
This writer believes it is becoming more and more likely that an exponential increase in compassion
for our fellow human beings will need to become an essential and critical element of a truly
comprehensive response to the challenges of our times.
Here is another way of expressing the above observation:
“We are in uncharted territory, for there is no culture or society that ever existed on planet
Earth who has ever had to resolve the kind of challenges the next few generations will have to
resolve. In some ways, all of us are Stakeholders, and People Needing Assistance, and most of us
are going to need to become Experienced Practitioners of some kind. There can be some consolation in
the fact that if most of us become Experienced Practitioners in compassion for our fellow human
beings, we will all have a better chance of accomplishing what no civilization has accomplished
before.” [from “Calling ‘the better angels of our nature’: A Multi-Angle View of the Debt
Crises” (January, 2012; 398 pages) (by this writer) (see Section VIII. Solutions, subsection
“About the ‘Interfaith’ in Interfaith Peacebuilding”, p. 303)](accessible from The IPCR
Initiative website homepage, at www.ipcri.net )
I believe that readers who do have a look at the documents “An Autobiographical Sketch” and
“Four Positive Effects from the Teachings of Sri Sathya Sai Baba” will discover that there are
experiences related and questions raised which are relevant to facilitating discussion on many of
the most difficult challenges ahead. Readers may have life experiences and world views which are
very different from this writers’ experiences and views; and yet benefit from hearing how people
walking around in different “cultural shoes” believe solution-oriented activity can be
accelerated.
Ultimately, I believe it will be this kind of sharing—sharing about how solution-oriented activity
can be accelerated, from a countless variety of different points of view—which will inspire great
numbers of people to become involved in the best solution-oriented projects, and finally create the
collective belief that our efforts working together are a greater force than the challenges we are
facing.
I hope that many readers do find something in the documents “An Autobiographical Sketch” and
“Four Positive Effects from the Teachings of Sri Sathya Sai Baba” which will be useful to their
efforts at this critical time.
The two documents can be accessed from the above links, from the “Highlights” section of The
IPCR Initiative website (see http://www.ipcri.net/Highlights-from-IPCR-and-other-locations.html ),
and from the “2012” section at my “Collected Writings” website (see
http://writingsofstefanpasti.net/2012-.html ). (Note: This is a shortened version of a longer
post. Full text of post is also in the "2012" section mentioned above.]
For a Peaceful and Sustainable Future,
Stefan Pasti, Founder and Outreach Coordinator
The Interfaith Peacebuilding and Community Revitalization (IPCR) Initiative
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