Jordi Pigem

GPS (global personal social)

Original title:

GPS (global personal social). Valores para un mundo en transformación

About the book:

GPS
(global personal social)
Values for a world in transformation

- An author who is an accomplished writer on science in a readable way for the general public, and adept in bringing together and integrating different wisdom traditions

- Dealing with the cultural dimension of sustainability, this book is a ground-breaking first.

- Jordi Pigem was for years Raimon Panikkar's assistant and coordinated the Opera Omnia Raimon Panikkar – the complete works of Raimon Panikkar.

- He is a lecturer and invited speaker in Spanish and in English.

As Gandhi stated, the well-being of the individual is inseparable from the common good. Today we know that the values that contribute to social and ecological responsibility are also those that can make sense of human life and foment personal realisation.

In this book Jordi Pigem shows the need for a change in mentality and values, and sees consumerism and materialism as crucial to non-sustainability; at the same time he identifies the key values necessary to advancing toward a new horizon of personal plenitude and  planetary balance. G(lobal)P(ersonal)S(ocial), as a GPS  instrument, can help us to steer our course in the midst of this rapidly transforming world.

About the author:

Jordi Pigem (Barcelona, 1964), with a doctorate in Philosophy, has taught Masters degree courses in Holistic Science at Schumacher College and Plymouth University (United Kingdom). He was Raimon Panikkar’s assistant for the publication of his Works in Spanish, Catalan and English (1995-1996). Kairós has published La odisea de Occidente (The Odyssey of the West)  and Buena crisis (Good Crisis), gained the Philosophy Award of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (1998), the Resurgence Essay Award and the Scientific and Medical Network prize (2006).