Apocalyptic Grace

Here is a unique exploration of the five eras or Worlds of cultural (socioeconomic psychological spiritual) evolution. Stephen Powell a seasoned anthropologist and psychotherapist illuminates the hunter/gatherer horticultural agrarian and industrial/technological epochs in unexpectedly fresh and timely ways. Foremost the diversity of these Worlds is still within us all. World One reaching back to 50000 BCE was a time of widely accepted shamanic assumptions. World Two (10000 to 3500 BCE) developed small-scale horticulture and tribal cohesion but also unprecedented social conformity. World Three (from about 3500 BCE) experienced the global rise of caste-structured hierarchies with the World Religions as cultural compensation. Beginning in the 1600s World Four developed a mechanistic secularized worldview accentuated by individualism popular culture and a capitalist agenda. Finally Powell describes the beginnings of a new fifth set of world assumptions -- a world without borders. Here we may start to integrate humanitarian aspects of the preceding Worlds embracing multiculturalism without losing cultural integrity. Moreover the wisdom traditions from each time appear to hold seed truths of the profound changes that mark the end-time and the beginning of each World. Apocalyptic Grace leads the reader on a stunning survey of this remarkable journey.