| Awaken Bharata |
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| Books By David Frawley |
| HINDU DHARMA AND THE CLASH OF CULTURES | |
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age of mechanical medicine is gradually giving way to natural
healing, with the new movement in alternative and complimentary
forms of medicine. The information revolution is bringing people
together in many ways, with companies having branches or members
from all over the world from different cultural and religious
backgrounds. No one knows exactly where these trends will eventually
take us but that much that has been prominent will fade into
insignificance, and the duality of the modern West versus the rest
of the world is losing its validity.
However many of the old negative trends continue as well. We are in an age of growing pollution with the devastation of the ecosystem happening on every continent. New genetic engineering is threatening to permanently alter the nature of species all over the world in ways that cannot be predicted. Our cities are becoming unfit to live, our water unfit to drink, and our air unfit to breathe. The world population, though slowing in growth, is still increasing beyond not only what is useful but what may be sustainable. The proliferation of the poor and uneducated masses makes it hard to improve the conditions of life in many developing countries. Above all the high tech age has bred a media monster, an ever invasive, violent and vulgar media that is intruding everywhere. Sensate materialism is becoming the main motive force in the lives of people all over the world, even as our cultural and intellectual elite strives to look beyond it. In spite of globalism a powerful religious fundamentalism is growing and missionary aggression continues over much of the world fueled by high tech or oil money. What few native cultures are left, like their natural habitats, are being eliminated or preserved in a few places for their novelty and recreation value only. |
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