Journal of the Fourth World

Volume 7 No 2 (issue 56) contents May—June 1976.

Eastbourne House, Bullards Place, E.2. Gurus Galore 2 Geoffrey Ashe The Planning Dilemma 5 John Adams Editor Plan It Yourself 10 Colin Ward t r A/] Satish Kumar The Garden of East End 12 Fiona Cantell 14 John Seymour Editorial Group Drop Outs and Drop Ins 15 Denise Arnold, William Bloom, Mustard Seed Twentieth Century Myths 16 Ivor Browne Tony Colbert, Geoffrey Cooper, Politics of Eternity 19 Brian Kennedy Stephen Horne, Steve Lambert, Celtic Roots 21 Simon O'Donohoe Fiona Cantell, Herbert Girardet, The Turn of the Tree 23 E.F. Schumacher June Mitchell. Alternative 1984 24 Guy Dauncey Associate Editors Ernest Bader, Danilo Dolci, FOCUS David Kingsley, , New Zealand: What is OHU? 28 Jaya Prakash Narayan, John Crabapple Community 28 Alison Brown Papworth, E.F. Schumacher. The Krishna Community 28 Layout BOOKS Mike Phillips, Peter Bonnici Doctors may be Hazardous to Health 30 Leopold Kohr Cover Back to the T rees 31 Herbert Girardet Carol Burns How Do We Get There? 32 Colin Blythe Printer Get O ff Their Backs 32 Satish Kumar Graham Andrews, Webb Offset Grass Roots Poetry 33 Norman Hidden Advertising An Idealist As Poet 33 Carol Burns Stephanie Leland A Vegetable Diet 34 Kate Skinner Light, Love And Power 34 Kathy Jones

Special thanks to Michael Walsh for his POETRY help in editing the Mustard Seed Two Magics 19 A.E. 33 B.C. Leale Supplement. Turner at Petworth A Annual Subscription £3.50 (Overseas 310, Air S15)

Resurgence has completed ten years. In this period our has argued that these are only external expressions of a deep- sole concern has been to understand, examine and discover rooted crisis of values, the crisis of relationship. the true meaning of human relationships, personal, social and In the search for solutions we have argued against the spiritual. Relationship is the mirror in which the inner and dominant role of science and technology and have opposed true condition of a person and of a society is reflected. Our the popular belief in growth, centralisation and the quest has been to realise the reality and importance of economics of large scale. In the pages of Resurgence relationships in spite of increasingly destructive forces in the E.F. Schumacher developed the thesis of , form of urbanised, crowded and centralised environments. Buddhist Economics, and the Economics of Permanence. We have been deeply concerned with the pressures on Leopold Kohr and have argued for smaller relationships and the increasing alienation of the individual. political units and the recognition of ethnic cultures. The antagonisms between parent and child, husband and wife, Resurgence has encouraged the development of community teacher and student, employer and employee, the work and socialism, village government, power to the parish and living the worker, have resulted in broken communities, broken collectively. Resurgence has supported the back to the land families and broken individuals. Our modern society may movement, self-sufficiency and self-reliance, labour-intensive have televisions in millions, supersonic transport and journeys methods of food production and crafts. All this has been to the moon but there is no peace in schools, hospitals, done with one sole purpose in mind, to develop an under­ factories and farms. We are living in a perpetual crisis. Some standing of the social, political and economic organisations people may think that when the pound is strengthened the best suited to the achievement of satisfactory and fulfilling crisis will be over, or if the Third World countries stop relationships between people and between nations. twisting our arm for more money for their copper, coffee, tobacco, oil etc. our problems will be solved. But Resurgence Satish Kumar

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