Daring to Cross the Threshold – Are you ready for reality?

We live within a culture that is constrained by a worldview rooted in a devastating illusion which infects our way of experiencing, attending and relating with our inner selves and our outer world.

Within our dominant worldview, the ‘self’ as an organism is deemed separate from, and in competitive struggle with, its environment.  This worldview forms a paradigmic logic of exclusion rather than inclusion, where organisms and beings are objectified as struggling for survival through dog-eat-dog competition within an evolution of selfish ascendency. This is the logic upon which our Western education systems, business systems and social systems draw from, yet it is deeply divisive and woefully inadequate. Enter the capitalist consumerism of today’s individualistic culture characterised by control-based thinking, domination, hierarchy, status, fear and exploitation.

This logic corrupts how we relate to each other and the wider matrix of life we inhabit. It is what C.S. Lewis called ‘the philosophy of Hell’ tending towards what Albert Einstein called an optical illusion of consciousness that sets us apart from each other and Nature. It is this corrupting logic that breeds the problematic symptoms facing us today whether in business, in social welfare, health and education, setting humanity on collision course with collapse.

If the vast majority of the world’s leading scientists are to be believed, we are fast running out of time to alter the error of our ways. It would seem most timely to address the root cause of these problems so that we can move forward with real solutions unconstrained by the corruptions that caused the problems in the first place.

Dealing with the root cause of today’s plethora of problems is what the newly released book The Illusion of Separation focuses on.  It explores the whys and wherefores of corruptions in our ways of thinking and experiencing the world and then uncovers a way ahead to shift our dominant story of ‘self as separate’ and ‘Nature as commodity’ into a fresh and timeless logic. It draws upon East and West wisdom and blends ancient philosophy with pioneering new thought. Are you up for crossing the threshold? Here we find the answers to our pressing challenges.

The book has been blessed with numerous reviews – here are three recent ones from recognised experts in their respective fields:

‘With clarity and insight Giles Hutchins analyses the roots of our present collective mind-set of separation, and yet shows how science and spirituality point to a deeper, inclusive consciousness. Here are signposts for a future that is vitally needed in the present moment, if we dare to cross the threshold’

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. Sufi teacher and author, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

‘Cutting through habitual denials and academic evasions, Giles Hutchins exposes the delusion at the root of our planetary crisis.  And with a holographic richness of resources and disciplines, he discloses—indeed activates—the attitude that might just provoke our needed evolution. This is a wise and urgent text: may it be heard, and soon!’

Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew University, author of On the Mystery

 ‘As the world cries out for the shift in perception we know is needed, this is a positive response to the deep seated crisis we face.  We may be aware of being, but we have lost contact with the “beingness” of which we are aware.  But how do we “opt in” rather than opt out?  How do we “participate” in creation, rather than seek its control and mere consumption?  Here lie the answers… As this book so ably demonstrates, it is our task is to make the turning possible.  The brilliance of it is that it explains how.’

Ian Skelly, broadcaster and writer, co-author of Harmony by HRH The Prince of Wales

Giles Hutchins applies twenty years business experience to the emergence of new logic inspired and in harmony with nature, for a short video see here.

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