Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here)
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This is a must read book for anyone who is interested in the future of our planet. It provides a comprehensive and very clear explanation at how we have gotten to where we are today and what needs to be done to ensure our continued viability as a species. I highly recommend this book! It is the best book that I have read on this subject.

I didn't find this the most readable of books initially, as I couldn't tell where it was going. But when I really got into it, I began to appreciate it. The subject-matter of the book affects all our personal lives - the very existence of the planet, and in fact has broad metaphysical ramifications. I haven't previously read any book quite like it.

The authors examine various myths entrenched in the basic beliefs of our civilization and challenge 1) the main tenets of Newtonian philosophy, basically that the only reality is physical matter 2) Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and the necessity for us to fight for our survival - survival of the fittest 3) the theory that we have all blindly accepted for years that we are controlled and limited by our genes and 4) that evolution and everything else that happens to us is random. Actually all these four premises have been proved by modern science to be fallacious, but our society is still acting on them as though they were true.

It is explained that evolution did not occur gradually but in great leaps. Single cells developed into single cell communities. These developed into multicellular organisms, which in turn developed into societal organizations.

That is, we did not evolve through competition and fighting but through cooperation and banding (bonding) together.

The crazy self-destructive way our human society is run is compared to the way the cells in our body run the show. Our cells don't fight and kill each other but pool their resources and work together for the health of the greater whole.

It's all explained at a very high level, and I would need to have read the book a couple of times more to even begin to give an adequate representation of the details or even all the main precepts of the book.

But what I got out of it was that at this critical juncture when both our living planet and ourselves are on the brink of a new evolutionary leap, we need to change our basic thinking, cooperate instead of fight, love instead of hate. In other words we need to follow the example of our own cells, and realize that we humans are also all part of one body, Gaia - and if we are to survive we must accept all other beings as necessary parts of ourselves, or our greater Self.

The key factor to the success of this evolutionary leap is LOVE.

And when I read this book I felt the love and the high consciousness energy of the authors flowing from the pages, and I myself was helped in achieving a higher vibration. It is a book that contributes to harmonizing the head with the heart, which will be a necessary pre-condition for the survival of our civilization.

I strongly recommend this book to every thinking and loving person, and to all those who aspire to be such.

I am only 2/3 of the way thru this amazing book, but it is one of the most brilliant and mind-shaking, paradigm-shifting books I have ever read. Bruce takes all the insights from people like Eckhardt Tolle, Gregg Braden; Wayne Dyer; Carolyn Myss... and so many others, and synthesizes those insights into a ground-breaking & revolutionary new way of looking at the human condition - where we have come from; where we are going, and that there is still hope for this embattled world of ours. But we urgently need to make new choices based on the latest concepts science has to offer, rather than continue living our lives from the old and limited Newtonian paradigm, which should already long have been superceded. This is a pivotal book for the very survival of the human species; an absolute must-read for every human on this planet!

Inspiring new discoveries. Merging science with consciousness. Good news for those who think we are mere victims of genetics.

Demanding reading but an essential book to better understand the human paradox and where 2012 will lead us.