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Welcome to Finding Hope: The End to Suffering, with your hosts Dr. Barry Weinhold & Patricia Raskin! From time to time, Ordinary Life presents all of us with ample opportunities to experience pain and suffering, and it may seem that suffering is the norm in your life. But it need not be so. The Buddhists say that pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional. So then why do you suffer so much? Whereas much of the work of psychology and psychotherapy focuses on addressing the symptoms of human suffering, true healing comes from identifying and addressing the original causes of that suffering: ...

In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem paralyzed.

The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nation-state. Is the nation-state, once democracy's best hope, today democratically dysfunctional? Obsolete? The answer, says Benjamin Barber in this highly provocative and original book, is yes.