The awakening earth. Our next evolutionary leap

Following on from his previous highly successful books, The TM Technique and The Brain Book, Peter Russell puts forward the idea of the Earth as a collective, self-regulatory living organism, and considers what functions the human race may be playing in this planetary system. He invites us to join him in a great adventure - an exploration of humanity’s potential as seen through the eyes of the planet - and to share with him in a vision of our evolutionary future.Drawing on the work of physicists, psychologists, philosophers and mystics, he shows that human society may be about to make a quantum leap in evolution, as significant as the emergence of life itself some 3,500 million years ago. Spiritual growth is shown to be no less than the force of evolution working through the human mind, and a widespread inner awakening could lead to humanity functioning as a single social super-organism, analogous to the way in which cells in a body function as a biological organism. Moreover, he suggests that such a transition may not be very far away.This is an impressive, stimulating tour-de-force, an exciting book which challenges our traditional view of ourselves and our place in the Universe.