The Translucent Revolution : How People Just Like You Are Waking Up and Changing the World

For more than a decade, Arjuna Ardagh has studied this worldwide advance in human consciousness marked by what he calls ""translucents"" -- individuals who have undergone a spiritual awakening deeply enough that it has permanently transformed their relationship to themselves and to reality, while allowing them to remain involved in ordinary life. Abstract: For more than a decade, Arjuna Ardagh has studied this worldwide advance in human consciousness marked by what he calls ""translucents"" -- individuals who have undergone a spiritual awakening deeply enough that it has permanently transformed their relationship to themselves and to reality, while allowing them to remain involved in ordinary life There is a gentle but profound revolution in human consciousness happening throughout the world — it has affected millions of people from all walks of life, and the numbers continue to multiply exponentially. The breakthroughs they have experienced are startlingly similar and are marked by a new sense of well-being, increased joy in life, diminished fear, and a natural impulse to serve and contribute to the world in a real way. For more than a decade, Arjuna Ardagh has studied this worldwide advance in human consciousness marked by what he calls “translucents” — individuals who have undergone a spiritual awakening deeply enough that it has permanently transformed their relationship to themselves and to reality, while allowing them to remain involved in ordinary life. The Translucent Revolution draws on the author's dialogues with thousands of writers, teachers, and workshop participants around the world who display characteristics of “translucence.” He blends observation, anecdote, and research, including commentaries from leading pioneers in the field of human consciousness. The growing phenomenon known as translucence is effecting a gentle yet profound revolution in human consciousness. Millions of people from all walks of life are experiencing a deep change in awareness, an experience marked by a new sense of well-being, and increasing joy in life, a diminishing of fear including fear of death and a natural impulse to serve the world in a real way. The Translucent Revolution describes this awakening and offers readers ample opportunities to cultivate and encourage the qualities of translucence in their own lives. Drawing from a highly convincing body of evidence, observations from pioneers in the field of human consciousness, and a vast pool of powerful stories, the book explores the effects of translucence on many aspects of contemporary western life, including personal relationships, sex, parenting, education, psychotherapy, medicine, aging, business, and global politics. Content: Iago and your pure heart -- Radical awakening -- Living it -- My crazy uncle : translucent identity -- Inspired certainty : translucent action -- Dropping the drama : translucent feeling -- Other-realization : translucent relating -- Overflowing fullness : translucent sex -- Breaking the chain : translucent parenting -- Through, not from : translucent art -- The wisdom of not knowing : translucent education -- The war is over : translucent business -- More than life and death : translucent health care -- Straight to the goal : translucent religion -- Perfect imperfection : a vision of a translucent world. For hundreds of years, science has operated on some basic assumptions about the physical universe.