World perspectives - what this series means / Ruth Nanda Anshen -- Forward -- Introduction: the great promise, its failure, and the new alternatives -- Part one: understanding the difference between having and being -- A first glance -- Having and being in daily experience -- Having and being in the Old and New Testaments and in the writings of Master Eckhart -- Part two: analyzing the fundamental differences between the two modes of existence -- What is the having mode? -- What is the being mode? -- Further aspects of having and being -- Part three: the new man and the new society -- Religion, character, and society -- Conditions for human change and the features of the new man -- Features of the new society.