This is a truly incredible and groundbreaking book about the nature of consciousness.
Here are a few quotes from it:
“There is no antidepressant that will cure a depression that’s spiritually based, for the malaise doesn’t originate from brain dysfunction, but from an accurate response to the desecration of life. The body is the reflection of the spirit in its physical expression, and its problems are the dramatization of the struggles of the spirit that gives it life.”
“To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.”
“Society is collectively most vulnerable when the capacity to distinguish between attractors and imitators, or to perceive nuances of differing levels on consciousness, is dulled. This is how civil abuses become law and political extremists persuade with righteous slogans. The children of violence become its perpetrators because a confused society that’s lost the capacity for discernment necessary to protect its own consciousness can hardly hope to protect its young.
An individual’s level of consciousness is determined by the principles to which one is committed. To maintain progress in consciousness, there can be no wavering from principle, or the individual will fall back to a lower level. Expediency is never adequate justification. If it’s wrong to kill another human being, that principle can allow no exceptions, regardless of how emotionally appealing a construct may be used to justify the exception. Thus, a society that condones capital punishment will always have a problem with murder - both are products of the same level of perception. After all, to the murderer, the killing of the victim is a justifiable exception.”
