Our Global Wisdom of the ages, across cultures and worldviews, has taught us that we humans co–create our living realities through the conduct of our minds, that our Language, Words and Stories embody our worlds and carry living energy that can heal us or make us sick. But this perennial wisdom still remains largely eclipsed, and now Dr. Mehl–Madrona in Coyote Wisdom brings this global truth to life in helping us to remember the healing power of Words, the therapeutic and transformative power of Story Telling, and the potential of Narrative Medicine to lift us into Integral Healing as whole beings. He taps his own rich intercultural heritage as a medical scientist together with his own indigenous roots to bring diverse healing worlds and words co–creatively together. The reader will be reminded of her own narrative empowerment and our creative power to re–author our personal and collective stories for personal healing and for our common good. Through his moving stories and accessible words all readers will rise into the healing energy of Coyote Wisdom.

The consensus of global wisdom through the ages recognizes that we humans co–create our living realities through the conduct of our consciousness – we are as we mind. And this global perspective reveals that when we are lodged in the chronic patterns of ego–minding all sorts of individual and cultural pathologies – fragmentation, polarization,violence – cultures of war...ensue. And this global wisdom presents the prescription for our evolutionary shift to the awakened global consciousness where we live and experience our deep connectivity. Deepak Chopra's latest book, Peace is the Way, speaks to us in a powerful global voice that brings this global truth to life for our time. Here he brings out brilliantly how chronic patterns of the violent mentality are etched deeply in the groove of war, and he lays out a pathway to awakening and cultivating more powerful patterns of peace for people of the planet. Peace is the Way is not just another book, but a global manifesto for our time, a script that urgently need to be heeded and performed by a growing critical mass of earth citizens in our historic passage together from the old descructive ways of ego consciousness to the emerging global consciousness now essential for sustainable and flourishing cultures of peace.

From the dawn of philosophy and science the greatest minds have sought to articulate an integral and comprehensive story of the universe. Such a vision is obviously not a mere curiosity or expendable option, but a vital priority for humans seeking to know who we are and our place in the universe. This perennial project of seeking a credible and well grounded integral vision in fact is now essential for our human flourishing and sustainability in an increasingly fragmented and fragmenting worldview.

In this remarkable book Dr. Laszlo accomplishes a decisive advance and breaks new ground towards such an integral vision of our cosmos, well grounded in the resources of the sciences and our classical philosophical traditions. He offers a creative synthesis of the highest order in tapping the integrative power of the global concept of the ultimate energy of the universe being informational. His informational paradigm provides a long awaited bridge that can truly link the structures of matter with the highest realities of consciousness, meaning, value and spiritual life.

In this impressive and transformative work Dr. Laszlo builds further on his earlier seminal books and brings the reader through very accessible language into an integral worldview for our time. The reader who encounters this book will be irrevocably transformed for the good and will henceforth experience the world through a global lens.

We are in the midst of a great planetary awakening that has been emerging through the ages, a Third Enlightenment, global in scope, that crosses all boundaries of east and west, of cultures and religious worlds, of science and spirituality. Yasuhiko Kimura is one of the few visionaries uniquely qualified to articulate this unprecedented shift in consciousness that brings our human form to rational clarity and spiritual maturation. His years of training in the Zen traditions, his mastery of great texts in the meditative and perennial wisdom traditions, his leadership in the frontiers of science and spirituality, and his moral passion and compassion for the urgent crises facing humanity today makes Towards the Third Enlightenment essential reading for all global citizens.

In the light of recent events it has become more urgent than ever for all of us to probe more deeply into the roots of violence in its many forms. We need to arrive at a deeper diagnosis of the destructive patterns in human relations on all levels, from personal to cultural, and also to advance to more creative and effective ways of living together and sharing our planet. Riane Eisler's brilliant work The Power of Partnership goes right to the core of the dynamics of violence and presents a powerful and practical paradigm for humans to self transform into more mature forms of life that bring personal and corporate flourishing. Her presentation of the "partnership way" expresses the deepest forms of dialogue between people and is well grounded in the collective wisdom of the planet's great spiritual traditions. This important book should be read carefully by leaders in all fields across our cultures and by all people who wish to participate in the creative transformation of the human condition at this critical turning point in cultural evolution.

What humanity needs most at this moment in our evolution is a mass awakening to a higher global consciousness. And Laszlo's brilliant book opens higher space in which a truly global perspective emerges. Here we can see clearly the deeper patterns – megatrends and macroshifts – that will surely determine the planet's destiny. Most important, Laszlo provides the wisdom and vision that makes clear that we humans have a decisive creative role in bringing forth a sustainable future in which we can all flourish together, if we choose it. He speaks with resounding clarity and sanity and rightly sees that the single most vital factor in this drama is a mass awakening of global consciousness.

Time runs deep in human existence and how we stand in time shapes our human realities. This is why our patterns of measuring and keeping time in our daily lives directly reflect our time consciousness and shapes the quality of our lives. Yet the collective wisdom of the ages, east and west, north and south, classical and indigenous – has noticed that egocentric patterns of life and ways of objectifying time are right at the source of our deepest personal and cultural pathologies. In contrast, this perennial wisdom has seen that our maturation into more integral, holistic and natural patterns of time consciousness is a key to human flourishing and leaving the destructive patterns behind. This is where Jose Arguelles' timely work Time and the Technosphere makes a vital contribution to the great paradigm shift in human cultures that is now accelerating. He has focused his lifework on helping us to understand that there is a higher dimension of natural time inscribed in the cosmos and a higher order natural calendar that would help humanity mature into the awakening global consciousness that is now essential for future sustainability and well being. This book is an important contribution to the awakening event that is now emerging on a planetary scale.

So much of contemporary Western thought is in a deep struggle to reinvent a more profound sense of 'self.' And Stambaugh's narrative strikes right at the core of this effort, bringing the most advanced thinking in East and West into a creative synthesis. She brings out how the nondual discourse of the Self is profoundly different from any tradition that situates its hermeneutic within the dualistic patterns of Subject/Object thinking. At this point in our evolution it is particularly important for thinkers in the Western traditions who struggle to reach a 'postmodern' vision of the Subject or Self to have a direct encounter with the classical powers nondual thinking about the Self—the Formless Self.

The Delay of the Heart continues and advances the narrative begun in the two earlier volumes and fulfills their promise. Readers of those books would be wise to bring the unfolding exploration to fruition with this culminating movement. The works are integral. I see this work as opening and shaping the space of discourse for the next stage of philosophy.