Rambo and Dalai Lama" Subject of February 23 Lecture

SALISBURY, MD---Gordon Fellman, author of Rambo and the Dalai Lama: The Compulsion to Win and Its Threat to Human Survival, speaks about spiritual life in the 21st century on Wednesday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Salisbury State University.

Free and open to the public, his lecture in Caruthers Hall Auditorium is part of SSU's spring lecture series, "Broadening the Conversation: Listening to Spiritual Perspectives."

Fellman, chair of the Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Brandeis University, said, "Rambo and the Dalai Lama suggests that the assumption that human life is based on conflicts of interest, wars and opposition of people to each other and to nature exists as a paradigm that supplies meaning and orientation to the world.

"An alternative paradigm," said Fellman, "sees cooperation, caring, nurturing and loving as equally viable ways of organizing relationships of humans to each other and to nature."

Fellman sees this shifting emphasis from adversarialism to mutuality as essential to the survival of our species and nature itself.

His lecture is sponsored by the Ad Hoc Committee on Spiritual Life and the Cultural Affairs Council.

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