In a clear, systematic and appealing style, Barbara Fiand presents an analysis of community within a human, cultural and religious framework of consciousness.

The popular author and international speaker draws on her influential work in the fields of holistic and feminist spirituality as well as the writings of Diarmuid O Murchu and others. Sr. Fiand lays out a passionate vision of the spiritual life as the forgotten core of all religions. Sheshows us that as seekers, we need to move beyond the easy answers of many religious systems, taking the insights of science seriously, and taking responsibility for loving each other as a sign of God's love."

Addressing the eternal conflict of new ideas challenging old practices, Catholic scholar Barbara Fiand offers a poignant resource for seekers and faithful alike, determined to resolve their own struggles between the rational world and the spiritual one. Identifying numerous moments when old ways of viewing reality begin to crumble in light of new information, Fiand draws freely from the findings of physicists and philosophers to advance her argument that old religions can be remain current, and even better understood, when complemented with advances in science and technology. Encouraging her...

Barbara Fiand is a sister of notre Dame de Namur. She gives retreats, workshops and courses throughout the country and abroad on issues rlated to holistic spirituality, prayer, religious life, feminist spirituality, tranformation of consciousness, quantum spirituality, and the psychology and spirituality of human maturation. She is the author of eight books and numerous articles as well as cassette tapes."

We live in a time of bridging that invites us to learn, and then to accept with utmost respect, that what has provided us with a certain wisdom and security for several thousand years of movement around our star is today ebbing away and has, in fact, done so for at least a century or more. A time of bridging involves allowing for this realization and, with serenity, courage, and trust, seeking the footprints revealing who has walked among us unobserved all this time. Today this realization is lighting up with ever greater brilliance and being recognized and acknowledged with ever more urgency...