Product Description

It is no accident that the 20th and 21st centuries have witnessed an explosion in new human capacities. Daily we hear and read about supernormal athletic feats, lives transformed by meditative practices, healing through prayer - and we experience these things ourselves. Many people sense a growing reconciliation of science and spirituality, the rise of a new worldview, and the mysterious possibilities of synchronicity and transcendence. The authors contend that thousands of years of human progress have delivered us to this very moment, in which each act of self-development is creating a new stage in planetary evolution - and the emergence of a human species possessed of vastly expanded personal abilities. This book aims to deepen our knowledge of personal growth, and shows how each of us can begin to integrate our extraordinary experiences into a heightened synchronistic flow - allowing us to participate consciously in an unfolding evolutionary adventure. With exercises that readers can use to develop the abilities they are reading about, "God and the Evolving Universe" heightens readers' awareness of their place in personal/planetary evolution and sets the stage for actualizing the next level of human potential.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #772319 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 332 pages

From the Back Cover
From James Redfield, the New York Times bestselling author of The Celestine Prophecy, and Michael Murphy, the author of the perennial bestseller Golf in the Kingdom, with documentary filmmaker Sylvia Timbers, comes the story of the past, present and future of human potential - and a journey that can take contemporary seekers to their next level of spiritual evolution.

It is no accident, argue James Redfield and Michael Murphy - major co-creators of today's spiritual boom - that the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an explosion in new human capacities. Daily we hear and read about supernormal athletic feats, lives transformed by meditative practices, healing through prayer - and we experience these things ourselves. Many people sense a growing reconciliation of science and spirituality, the rise of a new worldview, and the mysterious possibilities of synchronicity and transcendence.

The authors contend that thousands of years of human progress have delivered us to this very moment, in which each act of self-development is creating a new stage in planetary evolution - and the emergence of a human species possessed of vastly expanded personal abilities.

Written with the insight of The Celestine Prophecy and representing a unique pairing of global visionaries, God and the Evolving Universe is a book that deepens our knowledge of personal growth, and shows how each of us can begin to integrate our extraordinary experiences into a heightened synchronistic flow - allowing us to participate consciously in an unfolding evolutionary adventure.

With exercises that readers can use to develop the abilities they are reading about, God and the Evolving Universe heightens readers' awareness of their place in personal/planetary evolution and sets the stage for actualizing the next level of human potential.

About the Author
James Redfield
James Redfield is the author of several books, including the international bestsellers The Celestine Prophecy, The Tenth Insight, The Celestine Vision and The Secret of Shambala. He writes widely on the topic of human spiritual awareness and is active in the worldwide effort to save our last remaining wilderness areas. James lives with his wife, Salle, in Florida and Arizona.

Michael Murphy
Michael Murphy co-founded the Esalen Institute, in Big Sur, California. In 1980 he helped create the Esalen Institute's Soviet-American Exchange programme which promoted and foreshadowed greater communication between Soviet and American writers, social activists and political leaders. Murphy is the author of such books as Golf in the Kingdom, The Future of the Body and The Life We Are Given (with George Leonard). He lives in Sausalito, California.

Sylvia Timbers
Sylvia Timbers has been involved in consciousness studies and training for over twenty-five years, developing multi-media projects and practices focused on psychological and spiritual development. She has worked as a counsellor to the terminally ill and is currently writing and co-producing a feature-length documentary about Tibet.

Customer Reviews

Very disappointing...
I bought this album on the strength of the back cover and synopsis - and was hugely disappointed by the weakness of the writing and argument.
The writers seem to have no concept of structure and they seem to lack the ability to make a coherent argument.
If you want a truly enlightening read that doesn't use baby-talk I would highly recommend the Passion of the Western Mind by Richard Tarnas.