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The New Creation Story
A trilogy
Book One
Spirit, Eros and Climate Chaos

ISBN-13: 978-0615927961
ISBN-10: 0615927963

by Andrew F. Beath (Author)
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Our New Creation Story is a long journey from the Big Bang to the Present Moment. Our planet is withering. This story tells us why and shows us how to overcome humankind’s monumental challenges by making choices based on our species’ recently advanced consciousness—providing a new context for everything that really matters: Knowledge, Appreciation, Awe, Gratitude, Truth, Beauty, Love, Courage, Joy, Relationship and Intimacy. These pages examine the crisis and opportunity of our current human epoch. We examine “deep time”, including where we came from, who we are as a species, and why we are out of alignment with Earth’s community of all life. Human consciousness has always been in transition and is currently becoming more complex. But is there enough time to save us from ourselves? The answer to this conundrum runs the gamete between cosmology, life origins, archeology, anthropology, early civilizations, psychology and today’s new sciences—all examined through esoteric prisms, such as perennial philosophy, spiritual mysticism and newfound humility. The story is founded on universal Consciousness and focused on human consciousness in particular, including art, music, mythology, metaphysics and Eros. These pages tell the story of the “divine feminine” coming to know the “enlightened masculine” as never before—a walk through deep time unlike any other. As long as we retain our current cultural mindset, climate chaos political conflicts over scarce resources, such as clean water, will also increase. There is no easy political solution. Nothing less than changing how we see the world, our worldview, will solve the current dilemmas. This new story adds perspective that will help to integrate Ecological Epoch consciousness into our political and social landscape, thereby providing a lens with which we are able to see through the myopic political propaganda and corporate greed that are currently creating irreversible ecological damage and leading us into social chaos. Our hope for the future resides in the unexpected, in the irrational, in the intuitive. Mostly, our hope comes from faith in the human capacity to find a way through, to be brilliant when circumstances require brilliance, because we are standing on a precipice that will destroy us unless we act brilliantly—now. For a person to be as alive as it is possible to be, to fully express her humanity and experience her body, mind and spirit in their most profound essence, it is essential to participate in the Ecological Epoch, immersing in its ideas and emotions. The Ecological Epoch expresses a new, evolved worldview, both intellectual and intuitive, and provides guidelines for social behavior that respect and protect all life. “Andrew Beath has written a phenomenal book, and a great read, one that creates within its pages the thought and heart forms which might actually open the door to mass human survival. Beath weaves a tale of a new Creation Story that is so compelling—and so perfectly textured inside our human condition—that he awakens in the reader the actual impulse to become a vessel for the changes of perspective, values and behaviors required if we humans and other species are going to have a longer run on this beautiful and divine orb—making this a great and important book.” Jay Levin, founder and former editor-in-chief of the LA Weekly newspaper

The New Creation Story: Consciousness

ISBN-13: 978-0615961101
ISBN-10: 061596110X

by Andrew F. Beath (Author)
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This is a story about the crisis and opportunity of the current human epoch. It examines our capacity to honor beauty and love, compared to the reasons why we have inadvertently embraced violence and destruction. Which values will prevail? That is the grand question of our epoch. Who are we, how did we get here, and what is our purpose for being here on Earth? This Creation Story helps us to understand how to heal and expand our own psyche, thereby becoming more conscious. It is about finding one’s soul while healing our culture and our planet. All scientific understanding, religion, philosophy, social organization and, therefore, history is created from evolving consciousness. Human culture and history are flowing processes that reveal the changing stages of human consciousness—culture’s conduct is driven by its consciousness. The transformation of consciousness is the primary process that deepens wisdom. Our New Creation Story amalgamates science, philosophy, and metaphysics, thereby encompassing our most profound imaginings and emotions: human origins, the meaning of life, spirituality, love, intimacy, and death—while bringing us into contact with the unexplainable. There are many reasons for celebrating our humanness. This story shows why and how we are capable of creating a sustainable, meaningful, and joyful world. As long as we retain our current cultural mindset, climate chaos political conflicts over scarce resources, such as clean water, will also increase. There is no easy political solution. Nothing less than changing how we see the world, our worldview, will solve the current dilemmas. This new story adds perspective that will help to integrate Ecological Epoch consciousness into our political and social landscape, thereby providing a lens with which we are able to see through the myopic political propaganda and corporate greed that are currently creating irreversible ecological damage and leading us into social chaos. Our hope for the future resides in the unexpected, in the irrational, in the intuitive. Mostly, our hope comes from faith in the human capacity to find a way through, to be brilliant when circumstances require brilliance, because we are standing on a precipice that will destroy us unless we act brilliantly—now. For a person to be as alive as it is possible to be, to fully express her humanity and experience her body, mind and spirit in their most profound essence, it is essential to participate in the Ecological Epoch, immersing in its ideas and emotions. The Ecological Epoch expresses a new, evolved worldview, both intellectual and intuitive, and provides guidelines for social behavior that respect and protect all life. Eye opening! I was simultaneously educated, enlightened and entertained. (Gilbert Levy, musician and Mystic Journey co-founder) Basically, I love it. The writing is superb and the conceptual frame is inspiring and in fact brilliant. You can actually receive the dark data and dire overview into your heart—and crazily, draw inspiration from it. (Jay Levin, Founder and former Editor-in-chief of the LA Weekly magazine).

The New Creation Story: The Ecological Epoch

ISBN-10: 0692225447
ISBN-13: 978-0692225448

by Andrew F. Beath (Author)
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Book Three of our Creation Story provides solutions. Our hope for the future resides in the unexpected, in the irrational, in the intuitive. Mostly, our hope comes from faith in the human capacity to find a way through, to be brilliant when circumstances require brilliance. In our story, the Universal Organizing Principle is the absolute nature of reality arising as pure consciousness, intelligence, function, and beauty, which appears in objective form as all manifest things, including whales, birdsongs, human children, stars, bees and primrose flowers. We are standing on a precipice that will destroy us unless we act brilliantly, now! The Ecological Epoch shows us how to do so—that is, how to recreate a healthy relationship with the Earth and with all Nature’s creatures. Spirit, Eros and Climate Chaos have left us facing two possible outcomes to our current destructive behavior. The first is a proactive, graceful transition into an Earth-honoring sustainable way of life; the second, economic collapse from weather anomalies, agricultural disruption, rising seas, scarcity of clean water, and radioactive toxicity—all creating innumerable environmental refugees, social chaos and human demise. No matter which scenario eventual holds sway, the end result will be a worldwide culture that has dramatically changed its appreciation for the Earth’s living systems and biological functioning; we will have completed the recently begun journey into the Ecological Epoch—changing our relationship with Nature from ignorance to a reorientation based on respect and reverence. Will the transition needed to integrate this new consciousness into our collective behavior be graceful or traumatic? That is the issue of our generation’s short existence here on Earth. “A bold and brilliant analysis of the human story set against the predicament of climate change. Beath strikes at the heart (exposes the pain) of our cultural paralysis, explores the root causes and skillfully describes the way to a responsible and enlightened future. I can genuinely say how very good it is, and how particularly poignant it was to read it after the Climate March in NYC—in the context of the ever-present question of what will become of us, what should we do?” —Linda Solomon Wood, Editor-in-Chief, The National Observer “Beath has written a thoughtful, passionate history of The Planet, The Human Species, and, basically, The Future, where we are now, and where may be headed. It’s both an easy-going and a stunning read, one of these profound books that seemingly come out of nowhere. One of the best reads in a long time, and couldn’t be more timely.” —Steve Chapple, UCSD, author “Andrew Beath is a true visionary of our time. This third book in the trilogy calls us to evolve into a new epoch, one that leads with balance, integration, and connectivity. Beath masterfully links scientific, historical, spiritual, and mythological information. The New Creation Story is a sacred adventure that honors the Earth and all of its creation.” —Rachel Lang, radio program host for “Blissen Up!”

Consciousness In Action: The Power Of Beauty, Love And Courage In A Violent Time

ISBN-13: 978-1590560792
ISBN-10: 1590560795

by Andrew F. Beath (Author)
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Consciousness in Action features the thoughts of Julia Butterfly Hill, Deena Metzger, Joanna Macy, Ralph Metzner, John Mack, and many others in an inspiring dialogue between environmental and spiritual activists. Their subject is the seven attributes of consciousness that they have employed in their activism and that have demonstrated their viability across time and cultures to bring about change.

The seven attributes discussed are:

  • Nonviolence amid passion
  • Introspection and self-discovery
  • Not knowing and spontaneity in the moment
  • Eros, the way of loving-kindness
  • No enemies and co-creating a healthier world
  • Vision free of reaction to others
  • Joy in opening of the heart

Andrew Beath writes: “Our actions reveal our depth of connection. I define conscious activism as engagement in the world that expresses our most profound understanding of the nature of reality. It is imbued with appreciation and reverence and encourages compassionate connection—the basis for lasting social change.” Consciousness in Action is a vital contribution to ongoing efforts toward a peaceful, habitable earth.