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Awakening to Awe Personal Stories of Profound Transformation
What if I told you that YOU are about to embark on a "great adventure" -- that you are about to be given all the proper equipment for this adventure--food, shelter, clothing?
And what if I told you further that you are about to experience the terrors and wonders of the cosmos on this journey, that you will meet a wide array of beings-both human and nonhuman-along the way, and that every day you will have a chance to marvel at, be moved by, and imagine, an entirely new way to live?
Would you want to go?
Would you cherish every moment of the opportunity, and gather up
all your strength to participate?
And given these remarkable anticipations, would you have any inclinations to devalue, exploit, or even kill yourself or others along the way? Or to trim, skim, or prettify the experience?
...Maybe, but it is unlikely.
And yet here we are, a couple of hundred thousand years of humanity, and still, as a whole, negligent of our great adventure -- bathed in denial, snared by greed, and numbed by indifference...Why? What can we do about it? What ARE people doing about it? "Awakening to Awe" can show us; and in the process help us find our way back...
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See Kirk Schneider's July, 2011 presentation on "Awakening to Awe" to the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture here.
Latest News
"The Psychology of Existence", now available in "publish on demand" through McGraw-Hill Create.
See the feature article in the November, 2011 issue of the American Psychological Association "Monitor" on the "new" Existential-Humanistic Psychology.
See the latest review of Awakening to Awe from Bob Edelstein's article in Psychology Today.
First East-West Existential Psychology Conference and Workshops, Beijing and Nanjing China, March 28-April 5, 2010
Listen to my interview on KQED Forum with Michael Krasny, February 4, 2010 or hear more interviews available
The following link is to a review of Awakening to Awe by Edward Hoffman for The National Jewish Post and Opinion (see p. 16), February 10, 2010 - Download now.
“Awakening to Awe” is an intelligent and inspiring call to revive a
sense of mystery. Kirk Schneider draws on the very best of psychological
and spiritual thinkers and in plain language shows ways to re-invent
this society spiritually. His ideas and style are perfectly suited to
this all-important theme.”
Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and Writing in the Sand
