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ALAN CLEMENTS was the first American to
become a Buddhist monk in Burma, where he lived for
ten years under one of the worldıs most repressive regimes.
Since leaving Burma, he has become a leading voice for
spiritual activism, working for universal human rights
and teaching his contemporary understanding of spirituality
to audiences around the world.
Alan has lived in some of the most highly
volatile areas of the world.
In the jungles of Burma, in 1991, he
was the first activist to witness and document the genocide
of the ethnic minorities by the military dictatorship.
He wrote about his observations in his first book, Burma:
The Next Killing Fields? with a foreword by His Holiness
the Dalai Lama.
He then lived in the former Yugoslavia
for nearly a year during the war, where he consulted
with staff members of non-governmental organisations
and the United Nations on the "role of consciousness
in regard to human rights, service, and activism."
In 1995, Alan made a risky journey back
to Burma, where he co-authored The Voice of Hope (published
in the UK, and U.S., and translated into 13 languages),
and the internationally acclaimed book of conversations
with Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991 Nobel Peace laureate and
leader of her countryıs nonviolent struggle for freedom.
He was also the script revisionist and
advisor for Beyond Rangoon (Castle Rock Entertainment,
1995) a feature film depicting Burma's struggle for
democracy, directed by John Boorman. Alan has been interviewed
on ABC's Nightline, the CBS Evening News, Voice of America,
BBC, and by The New York Times, The London Times, Time
and Newsweek.
Now, after 20 years of teaching, Alan
Clements offers Instinct for Freedom, his first book
of spiritual material. In it he presents an approach
to spiritual development he calls "liberation through
living" - an approach that mirrors the narrative of
his extraordinary life.
Alan Clements gives voice to an essential
spirituality that can be common to all people, regardless
of their religion or nationality - a spirituality based
on one precious human value: freedom - the liberation
from fear, apathy, and ignorance and the elevation of
dignity, beauty, and goodness.
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