ABSTRACT
One smiles and breathes the breath of satisfaction after turning the last pages of this volume. It was intended to offer—and succeeded in offering—a particular kind of blueprint for improving the world, for a world that is in continual need of ideas for its improvement. That blueprint begins by drawing from and reflecting upon a range of disciplines—art and aesthetics; ethics and socio-economics; psychology, spirituality, and politics—and a range of sources, from East and West and in-between, from early and late in the history and across the geography of human questioning. Moreover, the sources for reflection are both broad and focused: they are universal but with elements that are very specific—focused on the one hand on individuals like Gandhi or, differently, W. Julian Korab-Karpowicz, and on the other on particular terms derived most often from a tradition thatcarries back to early Vedic literature.
