![]() Sometimes silly, sometimes profound and earnest, I will attempt to explore some very old ground with some very new perspectives. I hope this book will ignite discussion and inspire you, gentle reader, to view some universal spiritual ideas through some different-colored lenses. Basically, I’ll be throwing a lot of spiritual spaghetti against the wall, and hopefully some of it will stick. We’ll converse with aliens and break down everything that’s currently breaking down in society, and we’ll even create our own new, awesome religion. We’ll tackle small topics like death and God and consciousness and the soul. We’ll go on sacred pilgrimages to Jerusalem and the Baha’i holy land as well as into the distant future of humanity. RELATED: Why Do We Exist, and What Brought Us into Being? So, gentle reader, what topics are we going to tackle … ? Some really light material: pandemics, death, God, religion, holiness, consciousness, suffering, social transformation, and the meaning of life. Perhaps a spiritual metamorphosis is required for us to not only thrive but to even survive as we sit at the precipice of annihilation. Perhaps there are spiritual tools and religious concepts out there that can help us on a societal level, as well as in our own personal transformation. Perhaps the key to healing the world’s chaos and pain lies on a spiritual path. I hope you’ll consider this “big idea” to address the world’s problems. This is the “reshaping” necessary for “human salvation” that the great Baha’i leader and writer Shoghi Effendi references in the above quote. Yet I sincerely believe that humanity, in order to evolve on both the individual and the societal level, needs a total shift in perspective and a seismic change in how it undertakes pretty much everything. All that gooey, profound stuff that is so easy to sneer at and dismiss in our cynical, fast-paced, modern world. The inward life of man as well as his outward environment have to be reshaped if human salvation is to be secured.Īs all the existing organizational systems around us break down, we need answers. ![]() We need a change of heart, a reframing of all our conceptions and a new orientation of our activities. ![]() My principal and overriding motivation for writing Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution is … found in these words : Beyond my personal interest and journey, there’s a bigger “why” behind this endeavor. Besides, none of the other people who are way smarter and wiser and more spiritually evolved than me seem to be writing a book about this stuff, so why the hell not some weird, spiritually curious actor? … ![]()
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