The Razor’s Edge and the Lessons Learned

Honestly engaging the difficult truths about war is essential to post-traumatic growth, and offers possibilities for a different future.  Our conversation continues. How can we break cycles of dehumanization and death-dealing unless we are honest about how those cycles work and how they take life?  Once you have been to what Glen calls “the razor’s edge” of war, what can be learned from what has happened?  From the difficult and wrenching decisions made, and their aftermath?  What wisdom do you carry?  What wisdom does the culture desperately need?

Our colleague Roger Brooke talks about this particular kind of learning: “You’ve learned lessons about the nature of evil; about politics; about duplicity; about life; about the human condition.  There are all sorts of lessons and they vary individually.  But there are lessons learned and it is difficult to find peace ultimately . . . until you’ve taken up the lessons learned and somehow carried them back into the culture that surely could do with those lessons.” 

Join us as we go deep.