Beyond Vengeance, Beyond Duality

by Clute, Sylvia

• ISBN13: 9781571746337
• ISBN10: 1571746331
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-01
• Publisher: Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc

Summary

We are in trouble. Our social, financial, social, and religious institutions are crumbling. Our criminal justice system is a prime example of society's dysfunction.- More than 1 in 100 Americans are now in jail- Taxes now finance the incarceration of 1 in 53 of adults in their 20s- There are now 2.3 million people locked up in the U.S. - The U.S. accounts for 5 percent of the world' population and 25 percent of the world's prisoners.What courtroom veteran and law professor Sylvia Clute saw on a daily basis was all too often the miscarriage of justice. Because of her legal background, Clute focuses on legal horror stories to demonstrate her underlying thesis: The crisis in our legal system is merely symptomatic of a rot found in each of our institutions. It is rooted in a philosophy of dualism that pits us against one another. It is rooted in a philosophy that fails to recognize the oneness or unity of all life.Clute unfolds her argument for applying the philosophy of non-duality to not only our criminal justice system, but to all social relationships. She explores the roots of dualist thinking in the religious traditions of the world and offers the hope that if individuals and societies can move beyond dualistic thinking, we will create a society that is truly just and authentically caring.Part social policy, part metaphysics, this is a book for all who are looking for a new model for individual and societal relationships.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Becoming Our Own Jailers	p. 13
What Do We Mean by Justice?	p. 27
Two Forms of Justice	p. 38
The Historical Roots of Justice	p. 48
Root Causes: Oneness and Duality	p. 56
Oneness: The Real Reality	p. 67
Oneness and Religion	p. 75
Science and Reality	p. 87
Oneness and the Nation-State	p. 98
The Language of Oneness and Duality	p. 111
Institutionalized Oneness: The Community Model in Corrections®	p. 124
Institutionalized Duality: The Stanford Prison Experiment	p. 133
Practicing Oneness	p. 142
Conditions are Ripe for Change	p. 158
A Compassionate Revolution	p. 171
Appendix	p. 180
Notes	p. 190
Postscript	p. 199
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