The enlightenment quest and the art of happiness : mastering life through higher power

Living from the miraculous -- Get out of your head and into your life -- Findhorn and miraculous manifestation principles -- Life after findhorn: manifestation in action in the usa -- Con-spirituality: a gathering storm of consciousness ? or the aquarian -- Conspiracy gone wrong? -- Secrets of sociological aikido: how to deal with difficult people and egotists -- Cycles of time and the earth?s destiny -- Up your ego -- The harmonious universe: creating order out of chaos within and without -- Powerful self mastery techniques -- The secret art of being and doing and loving -- The spiritualized psyche: reclaiming the inner world through the power of truth.;"The author uses his forty years experience in spiritual self transformation to show readers how to master life by learning to master oneself and to harness the energy of higher power to surmount the chaos of the modern world"-- Award-winning actor and playwright John Maxwell Taylor builds on the success of his previous book, The Power of I Am, in this eloquent call to awaken from our collective trance and to claim the transformative power and happiness that is our birthright. Drawing on his forty years’ experience in spiritual self-transformation, Taylor offers a potent array of practical tools, stories, and life lessons that help us reorder the events in our lives, the way people respond to us, and the impact we have on the world. The Enlightenment Quest and the Art of Happiness shows us how to master ourselves so that we can harness the energy of higher power to surmount the chaos of the modern world and provides strategies for “sociological aikido” that allow us to deal effectively with negative people, narcissists, and egotists. Informed by Taylor’s incredibly varied background—from European pop star, to student of Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and Mantak Chia, to resident at the pioneering Findhorn Community, to playing Carl Jung on stage for many years—this book demonstrates how, by understanding the powers active in creation, we can become instruments through which higher power continually flows to advance our evolution toward consciousness. In doing so, we not only transform ourselves, we become powerful agents for changing the world. Readers learn how to: • Deal with negative people and egotists • Use higher power to redirect the world around one to one's own advantage • Stay sane in an insane world by understanding true spiritual psychology • See the world as it is instead of spiritually daydreaming that "things are going to get better" • Move beyond conspiracy theories and conspire instead to create a united world of consciousness • Gain fresh insights into the work of Campbell, Jung, Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and others • Apply the Findhorn principles of miraculous manifestation as practiced by the author since 1973 Award-winning actor and playwright John Maxwell Taylor uses his forty years' experience in spiritual self transformation to show readers how to master life by learning to master oneself and to harness the energy of higher power to surmount the chaos of the modern world. He draws on his incredibly varied background--from European pop star, to student of Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, Mantak Chia, to resident at the pioneering Findhorn Community, to playing Carl Jung on stage for many years--to invite readers to awaken from their collective trance and to claim the transformative power that is their birthright. Taylor builds on the success of his previous book, The Power of I Am, to offer a potent array of practical tools, stories, and life lessons that help us reconceptualize the events in our lives, the way people respond to us, and the impact we have on the world. He discusses his method of "sociological aikido," which provides methods for dealing effectively with negative people, narcissists, and egotists. He demonstrates how, by understanding the powers active in creation, we can become instruments through which higher power continually flows to advance our evolution toward consciousness. In doing so, we not only transform ourselves, we become powerful agents for changing the world. Readers learn how to: Deal with negative people and egotists Use higher power to redirect the world around one to one's own advantage Stay sane in an insane world by understanding true spiritual psychology See the world as it is instead of spiritually daydreaming that "things are going to get better" Move beyond conspiracy theories and conspire instead to create a united world of consciousness Gain fresh insights into the work of Campbell, Jung, Paramahansa Yogananda, Gurdjieff, and others Apply the Findhorn principles of miraculous manifestation as practiced by the author since 1973 "The author uses his forty years experience in spiritual self transformation to show readers how to master life by learning to master oneself and to harness the energy of higher power to surmount the chaos of the modern world"-- Provided by publisher