Finding Our Way Forward: New Perspectives On Our Evolving Human Potential
Dear Readers,This book has come out of the time when I was a teenager, when I had some  big and urgent questions about how to fit into this crazy world of ours. In an environment of doom and gloom, what does a young person do? How does one  participate in a way that does not make one a part of the problem? I didn't have any good answers - I didn't know. I ended up more or less dropping out, separating myself from the problems of the world. I didn't  want to hear all the bad news from the media. I just wanted to grow my own food and live close to nature.Now, as this book is finished I am 59. It has taken all this time to come up with the answers to my own teenage questions.I  introduce an unbelievably broad group of topics in order to address those questions, topics such as human development, brain science, evolutionary theory, perception and so on. I am not trying to present myself as an expert in all of these fields, but instead to function as integrator, tying it all together for the reader in the way that I have tied it all together for myself.I hope it offers a way of looking at the world situation that makes sense of it and balances a lot  of the fear and worry that is around as we move into this time of awakening, transformation, transition and change. I hope also that it becomes an ally and an inspiration to you as you find your way forward.Warmly and with best wishes,Alice Gardner