Home: We Can Choose Humanity's Future

by Ruth L. Miller

Even as the world we're living in is falling apart, the world we could be living in is almost being born. Global industrial culture is not working, but there are other ways to live. The old myths no longer hold, but new explanations of reality are replacing them. The old technologies are destroying our biosphere, but new technologies are being developed, and new systems and boundaries, based on ecology, are being encouraged to help us honor the planet's natural processes instead of trying to control them.
The seeds are planted, the resources are at hand. In HOME Dr. Ruth Miller integrates her years of study in environmental studies, cybernetics, anthropology, and applied metaphysics to offer a manual for building the kind of life that can be sustained on this planet for generations to come.
With simple clarity Miller walks us through the process of releasing the ideas that no longer work and replacing them with ones that do - giving us brief glimpses of how life could be lived if we were willing to take the necessary actions. Illustrations and detailed appendices make this a beginners' guide for building a new kind of culture, making it possible for all of us to thrive.

254 pages, Paperback

Published October 12, 2018

About the author

Dr. Miller served as Associate Professor and Director of the Cybernetic Systems Program at San Jose State University and as Director of Curriculum & Evaluation for Rogue Community College. She has led countless workshops on new paradigms, systems thinking and futures research, and has served as adjunct faculty at Antioch University-Seattle, Marylhurst University, Portland State University, as well as the Living Enrichment Institute, and New West Seminary.

After years of research into the nature of consciousness, Dr. Miller found she could no longer ignore the spirit. She became coordinator for Adult Religious Education in a small-town Methodist church while helping to found a Unitarian-Universalist fellowship there. In the process, she began a series of courses that would lead to ordination. She was ordained in the New Thought tradition and became the pastor of the Lifeways Center in Portland, Oregon, then interim Assistant at Unity of Beaverton. She is currently a “circuit riding preacher,” serving New Thought and Unitarian-Universalist churches in Oregon, Washington, and California.