Description
A Global Vision with Local Strategies for Planetary Flourishing
Imagine a world where every person feels seen, valued, and connected, a world not driven by fear and division, but by compassion, cooperation, and unity… This vision is not just a dream; it’s a path we can choose. The Way of Unity is an invitation to discover something greater than ourselves—a growing, expanding, organic renewal process aligned with evolutionary forces.
Upon a framework of hidden wholeness, this book explores an emergent process, the closest thing we may have to a systematic, globally scalable, evidence-based model of social action that works for everyone. For over a century, thousands of communities worldwide have been building the elements of a more just and peaceful society by nurturing the patterns of coherence within us. Humanity is its own mycelium network, weaving its inherent wholeness, expanding its circles of unity. This is our hope for the future.
Author Bio
ROBERT ATKINSON, PhD, author, educator, and developmental psychologist, is co-editor of Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future, and author of A New Story of Wholeness, The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness.
He is also the author or co-editor of eight other books including Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969, and Mystic Journey: Getting to the Heart of Your Soul’s Story, and The Gift of Stories.Â
With a PhD in cross-cultural human development from the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago, he is professor emeritus at the University of Southern Maine, an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, a pioneer in the techniques of personal myth-making and soul-making, director of StoryCommons, founder of One Planet Peace Forum, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders. www.robertatkinson.net.
Excerpt
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Reviews
The vision projected by this book could be the spark that ignites the ever-present, even if widely neglected, flame of peace in the heart of humanity.
~ Ervin Laszlo, leading systems theorist, Nobel Peace Prize nominee
The Way of Unity is a brave, rich, profound book written with elegance… It will help establish a world of peace, harmony and justice.
~Â Andrew Harvey, mystic, sacred activist, and co-author of Radical Regeneration
The Way of Unity lays out a practical vision that inspires and informs us… Highly recommended for all peacebuilders and spiritual seekers!
~ Dot Maver, co-founder, National Peace Academy
This book has come at the perfect time, offering a prescription for all our ills. Read it, take it to heart, and put its principles into action.
~ Jack Canfield, co-author of the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series