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Local Author Unites With Visionary Voices of Global & Personal Wellbeing

North Bay activist and Alternative-culture archivist Neriah Lothamer is now published in the new anthology Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves: The Power of Change Within to Change the World (Elite Books, 2005). Addressing the real problems of healing in a world of terrorism and uncertainty is the focus of this cooperative effort of 38 authors including the Dalai Lama, Helen Caldicott, Deepak Chopra, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, Mary Catherine Bateson, Daryl Hannah, Saniel Bonder, Neale Donald Walsch, Debbie Ford, Barbara Max Hubbard, and Alberto Villoldo. Neriah Lothamer, a local resident for the past several years, joins with these famous new age writers in recognizing that in order to heal ourselves we must at the same time focus on healing our planetary environment. Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves reveals the real heart of the problem as well as its solution, and the attitude changes necessary to save our world.

Practical applications are illustrated as well as simple answers, workable alternatives, diagnoses of the symptoms, and healing advice—confronting and addressing the most vital aspects of our personal and collective lives. These authors speak of how important humanity’s choices are at this historic moment and they offer their visions of hope and healing, collectively pointing out the inherent and inalienable connection between the individual and the rest of life on Earth.

Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves offers authentic and powerful solutions that are proposed by each of the writers in clear terms easily applied in our daily lives; examples are given, stories and anecdotes are used, and specific approaches to healing the most common problems now facing humanity are explained. The confusion of the political, economic, social, and ecological malaise on the planet is addressed by these authors; they explain how the perception of “wholeness”—“the unity that is the fabric of Life”—is the sense we need to use to perceive our lives now on Earth. They point out the importance of both diversity and wholeness being accepted in our life and in our world.

Neriah says of the book, “Whether it is the Dalai Lama talking about “Compassion in action” or any of the other co-authors explaining from the perspectives of their diverse fields—it is one voice being spoken in this excitingly fresh anthology, a voice of compassion that embraces each and every one of us, a voice that speaks with profound unity of purpose, a voice filled with sobering reflections on humanity’s choices, and a voice of hope encouraging us to heal ourselves and our world.”

Neriah Lothamer’s submission to the anthology is a chapter from his forthcoming book Dancing in the Shadow of Tyranny: An Avtivist’s Guide to Inner Disarmament, due out in print April of 2005 (Elite Books). For more information see http://www.NeriahLothamer.com/

Dawson Church is the best-selling, award-winning editor who spearheaded the project. He has helped many new age authors get published and has himself published several anthologies, edited over 300 books, and written several of his own. Geralyn Gendreau is the coeditor and also a co-author.

Healing Our Planet, Healing Our Selves, The Power of Change Within to Change Our World
(Elite Books, April 2005) $25,
Available through the publisher, or through co-author Neriah Lothamer at: 541-345-1778 or: http://www.NeriahLothamer.com/healing