Endorsements

One of the most important and compelling voices of our times . . . Alan Clements is a riveting communicator - challenging and inspiring. He articulates the essentials of courage and leadership in a way that can stir people from all sectors of society into action; his voice is not only a great contribution during these changeful times, it is a needed one.

Alan Clements is uniquely qualified to widen our perspectives, both of ourselves and of meaningful action in the world. His eloquence and sincerity calls us closer to our fullest potentials.

Blend a former Buddhist monk with Noam Chomsky, Lenny Bruce, and a hyper-spiritual Terrence McKenna and you get a sense of Alan Clements.

How to describe Alan's presentations? A tall order. Love poems/riffs/odes/ chants to the goddesses of compassion, deeply inscribed with the blood of Burmese slaves, soldiers in Iraq, Palestinian children, freedom fighters anywhere. A momentary entry into an internal tete-a-tete, ad infinitum; a glimpse at all that inner discursive dialog which marks us unequivocally as members of the human race. Just in case we get too spiritual, let's not forget that we are required to, by nature, include everything. To paraphrase the Vietnamese monk Thich Nhat Hahn's poem, "Please Call me by my True Names," I am both the 12 year old raped girl and the pirate who raped her. It is difficult to reconcile seeming opposites, and it takes the heart of a poet. Thich Nhat Hahn is a poet; Alan is one as well.