Finding Our Way Forward: New Perspectives on Our Evolving Human Potential

by Alice Gardner

We stand at a significant evolutionary transition-point!Can you imagine that the current world situation could be inspiring a significant transformation – a promising leap forward towards a new earth and a new awakening in human nature? Do you feel that you would like to change the world for the better, help establish world peace, etc., but you don’t know how?In this book, learn immediate and powerful ways to make a difference during this transitional time. Ways to change the world and bring a new awareness and peace to all that you are involved in. Learn to broaden your perspectives, revealing expanded possibilities for addressing the monumental world issues. This breakthrough information allows you to immediately become a part of the solution! Awaken to find yourself taking a creative part in this unparalleled breakthrough in human development.In Finding Our Way Forward, Alice Gardner proposes an inspiring view of transformation coming directly from our troublesome world situation. She then engages the reader in an introspective journey to the core of who we are and back again to all of the world’s intractable issues. We are then led to find the unique part each of us has to play in humanity’s grand maturation process.This is as significant an evolutionary transition-point as was the beginnings of our logical/analytical thinking. Now, again, our old ways of thinking are becoming obsolete, and we need to move forward. We can and do make a difference, no matter how small a part we play!This is how we can be a part of leaving behind a world which we are proud to let the children of the future inherit. This is how we can know what peace is; know how our consciousness affects everything, and how love can today begin to direct all the actions we take.Let yourself be inspired Poetry – inspirational poetry throughout the book, interspersed with the proseNovelty – cohesive and articulate ideas presented simply, in everyday language Significance – Timely, transformational, meaningful and important for leaving a valuable legacy for future generationsMotivation/Stimulation – hit the ground running with the immediacy of the materialInspiration – Find ongoing non-dogmatic support for spiritual awakening in the midst of everyday life and for living from a positive vision about what is happening in the world.Ongoing support -- after you have finished the book thanks to an extensive recommended reading list. A Personal Note from the AuthorThis book has come out of the fact that when I was a teenager I had some big questions about how to fit into this crazy world of ours. In an environment of doom and gloom, what does a young person do? How does one participate in a way that does not make one a part of the problem? I didn't have any good answers - I didn't know. I ended up more or less dropping out, separating myself from the problems of the world. I didn't want to hear all the bad news from the media. I just wanted to grow my own food and live close to nature. Now, as this book is finished I am 59. It has taken all this time to come up with the answers to my own teenage questions. I introduce an unbelievably broad group of topics in order to address those questions, topics such as human development, brain science, evolutionary theory, perception and so on. I am not trying to present myself as an expert in all of these fields, but instead to function as integrator, tying it all together for the reader in the way that I have tied it all together for myself.

238 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 14, 2012

About the author

ALICE GARDNER found herself radically transformed after a retreat with spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle in October of 2002. This completed her 30 year spiritual search and was the beginning of a new and vital exploration about fully living the realization while in the very human moments of everyday life. Alice has also been influenced strongly by the teachings of Adyashanti and by having lived at the Findhorn Foundation for seven years.

Alice lives very much in the mainstream of modern life. She holds a Master of Management degree from Cambridge College, Massachusetts, and has worked as an academic administrator at educational institutions in Brattleboro, Vermont and Palo Alto, California. She volunteers with Open Gate Sangha and mentors an international group of people online and by telephone.

Alices journey began early in her adult life when she lived seven years at the Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. In the late 80s, she was particularly influenced by the teachings of Richard Moss, and more recently by both Eckhart Tolle and Adyashanti.

After growing up in Connecticut, Alice raised a family in rural Vermont and is now the proud mother of grown children. She especially enjoys country living, nature photography, reading, writing and the great outdoors. She now lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area of California.

You are invited to visit Alices website,
www.wideawakeliving.com, and subscribe to the monthly Wide Awake Living Newsletter.

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