Journeys and Awakenings

<p>Journeys and Awakenings presents a surprisingly diverse array of writers with penetrating insights into how we can help awaken a better world.</p><p>Spanning a wide swath of disciplines and cultures what ties them together is their deep appreciation for the universal kinship at the heart of all spiritual and religious traditions. Each essay lights a path to a different place of wonder within us. Whether it is an astrophysicist asking if the universe has an inner life or a spiritual activist working with runaway teens at a New York City bus station this is a book which feeds our highest aims. In turn these perspectives stories and accounts of an artist a philosopher a teacher an entrepreneur a paleontologist a choreographer an ecologist an atheist a spiritual guide a social worker and others – make this book a vital companion as we engage the world before us.</p><p>Writers and interviewees include: William Irwin Thompson Pir Zia Inayat Khan Christopher Bamford Jane Goodall David Spangler Lee Irwin William C. Chittick Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee Winona La Duke Chief Arvol Looking Horse Nambaryn Enkhbayar Diana Beresford-Kroeger Adam Bucko Satish Kumar Sister Joan Kirby Yuval Ron Charles Eisenstein and others each a luminary in their field. </p>