FOUNDATIONS OF A GLOBAL SPIRITUAL AWAKENING - Tapa dura

Weare engaged in perhaps our histories most important event...a spiritual awakeningof global proportions transforming every dimension of our lives. This work examines the fundamental ideasemerging in the latter half of the 20th Century which shape thisworld-wide spiritual evolution. Theseseminal ideas concern the nature of evolution itself, God, human beings, therelationship between God and us, our destiny, and the means by which we come toknow God, our Selves, and attain that destiny. Theseideas, and others, are considered in the light of both certain recent workspurported to be revelations including the WithGod books of Neale Walsch, A CourseIn Miracles, and The Urantia Book,and through several older spiritual traditions. Emphasis is given to the teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi withtheir impact on the scientific basis of spirituality. Also explored are the ramifications of these ideas on ourunderstanding of reality, knowledge, health, social progress, and worldpeace. The evolution and nature ofscientific knowledge is reviewed demonstrating the growing convergence betweenscientific and spiritual truth. Thebook closes with a vision of the new world evolving as this awakening growsamong us.

Mr. Burns is a member of the Washington Academy ofSciences, elected for his work in applying cybernetics to managementsystems. He is a teacher ofTranscendental Meditation and practices advanced TM techniques. He has been a member of The Urantia Book Fellowship, a student of Buddhism, and a reader ofA Course In Miracles. He was treasurer of the New Jersey NaturalLaw Party, a contributor to the General Systems Research Society, author o f aplay produced by the Boston Theater Company, has published numerous poems, andcontributed to other professional journals including the IEEE. He is currently consulting to a nationalcharity organization, and is engaged in an international movement for permanentworld peace.