This book is all about stories. The stories that shape our
identities and how those identities shape our destinies for better
or worse, for good or evil, in humanizing or dehumanizing ways.
Working from the Shakespearian metaphor, All the world s a stage
and all the men and women merely players, Pellegrini argues that
only by understanding how our storied selves develop can we acquire
the tools to modify the roles they dictate for us to play on the
stage in the theater of real life. The author deconstructs a wide
variety of what he calls toxic, dehumanizing, death-oriented
self-scripts as well as creative, humanizing, life-oriented
narratives of groups as well as individuals.
Following the Native American parable of two wolves engaged in
mortal combat within us, one good the other evil, the fundamental
premise here is that our identity determines which of our inner
wolves we feed and thus, which of them will prevail. Pellegrini
maintains that what s at stake in this battle between humanity s
collective inner wolves, is not just the quality but the very
survival of life on earth. From this perspective, as individual and
group selves are humanizingly or dehumanizingly narratizedby the
way we exercise our God-given free will in the choices we make, so
shall life be impacted throughout the world. To advance the cause
of detoxifying identities in our global society, the author
presents a rationale and program for an international grass roots
social movement aimed at achieving a universal sense of
belongingness to a global life system.
You can watch and listen to a video in which Dr. Bob Pellegrini
talks about this book, and why he wrote it, by entering Identities
for Life and Death in the search bar at youtube.com.]
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