The Message of Rainsnow
The Message of Rainsnow, the second of the Rainsnow books, is the natural sequel to The Journey of Rainsnow, but it may also be read alone, without first reading The Journey. While the first book was mystical, in large part chronicling my visionary experiences, this book deals, in a more conventional way, with some of the great problems of our times: the threat of war and terrorism, uncontrolled technology, expanding worldwide poverty, environmental degradation, and fatal and widespread misconceptions of our human purpose.
Of course, when I say "conventional", I do not mean conventional by anyone else’s standards! I only mean to say that this book deals mainly with the world we live in today; with the reasons it needs to be transformed; and with the ways in which we might go beyond dreaming of transforming it, to actually transforming it. - I like to think of this book as something of a blueprint for saving the world!
Beginning with an exploration of the dangers threatening our contemporary world - in this way justifying the need to take action - I go on to seek the psychological/inner roots of these problems, weaving together strands of social theory, observations of life, and anecdotes drawn from history, and my own personal experience, to create what I hope is an intriguing and highly readable analysis.
From here, I go on to develop a program for individual self-development, linked to a process of social and cultural change.
My approach, quite clearly, represents a break with much New Age writing, which tends to underestimate the importance of consciously and structurally linking the process of individual growth to wider movements; just as it represents a clear break with the majority of social, political, and economic programs for change, which tend to underestimate the pivotal role which the individual’s spiritual and psychological "work" must play, in order to prevent these programs from becoming corrupted and misused.
As many utopian authors, I emphasize the healing power of spirituality, community, and nature. But beyond this, I seek to develop concrete ways for injecting these healing forces into the heart of our egotistic, materialistic civilization, before it is too late.
The Message of Rainsnow - the launching pad of The Rainsnow Project - is meant to give birth to a major new movement dedicated to restoring meaning to our lives, and hope to our world. It is a book that ends by inviting you to enter the driver’s seat of history!
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