A New World, Book I

Foretold by ancient seers and now by scientists, we are at an unprecedented historic and evolutionary crossroad. We have the capacity to transform ourselves spiritually and our civilization materially or de-evolve into an Orwellian nightmare.

Religion, the new age and traditional spiritual practices have not enlightened us nor has science. Yet science is the only institution that can spiritually unite humanity with a new worldview. However, science needs to evolve from its current, mechanistic, reductionist, metaphysically immature form to achieve this.

Consciousness, design, purpose, a god concept, spirits and all psychic phenomena can now be accounted for by a maturing science, with new fields like complexity, artificial life, AI, quantum information and higher dimensional physics, supported by computation and neuroscience. Such a science can incorporate mystical wisdom, yet supersede it with a rigorous new worldview, more sophisticated and all encompassing than anything in history. Jonathan R. Banks presents a detailed examination of the evolution of science and a dramatic and inspiring vision of how we may fulfill our spiritual destiny.