The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, by Steve McIntosh
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The Presence of the Infinite sheds new light on the important subject of spiritual experience. Using the emerging insights of evolutionary spirituality, integral philosopher Steve McIntosh enlarges readers’ capacity to have spiritual experience more abundantly and use it more effectively to improve their lives and the world around them.The Presence of the Infinite starts by providing a timely cultural analysis and critique of the various forms of spirituality that are vying for influence in contemporary American society. Building on this context, McIntosh shows how evolutionary spirituality overcomes the limitations of religious, secular, and New Age spirituality by better harmonizing science and spirit. Evolutionary spirituality’s transcendent potential is found in its deepening realization of the essentially spiritual qualities of beauty, truth, and goodness. McIntosh then uses evolutionary spirituality’s enlarged understanding of what spiritual experience is and how it works to consider the question of ultimate reality. This leads to an examination of conflicting ideas that regard spirit as either formless and nondual, or as loving and creative. By working to harmonize and integrate these alternative conceptions of ultimate reality, McIntosh shows how evolutionary spirituality can achieve a synthesis of nondual and theistic teachings of truth that can produce a spiritual renaissance in America and beyond.The Presence of the Infinite is destined to become a definitive text in the exciting new field of evolutionary spirituality.
The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, by Steve McIntosh- Amazon Sales Rank: #286671 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Released on: 2015-10-01
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Review "McIntosh has written another important and groundbreaking book. The Presence of the Infinite helps establish the central significance of the beautiful, the good, and the true as the foundation of human wellbeing. By shining the light of integral philosophy onto the subject of spiritual experience and spiritual leadership, McIntosh convincingly describes the future course of humanity's spiritual evolution. Reading this book is a spiritual experience in its own right." --John Mackey, Co-Founder and CEO of Whole Foods Markets, and Co-Author of Conscious Capitalism"In the Middle Ages, great Christian theologians developed a range of rational arguments for the existence of God. Many of those arguments have been discredited in the centuries since Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, and Hubble. As a result, belief in God or spirit, or any transcendence at all, has been slipping away, often leaving a reduced and empty world in its wake. Steve McIntosh is a leading philosopher seeking to rediscover transcendence--not apart from scientific evidence, but by interpreting it afresh. I find his work--especially The Presence of the Infinite--helpful, stimulating, and inspiring in my own work as a Christian thinker, writer, and activist." --Brian D. McLaren, Author of A New Kind of Christianity, and host of brianmclaren.net"Spirituality is evolving, and The Presence of the Infinite is proof. This book is required reading for any serious student of evolutionary spirituality. Steve McIntosh passionately and meticulously gives his well-trained and inspired intellect to his work as a philosopher, seeing philosophy's role in evolving a new worldview as an absolutely critical undertaking, with a mission to balance and integrate our rapidly-evolving science and spirituality. Your understanding of your own spirituality will be challenged and clarified if you read this book with a serious heart." --Terry Patten, Co-author of Integral Life Practice and creator and host of the online teleseminar series Beyond Awakening"The Presence of the Infinite represents a unique contribution to the East-meets-West philosophical dialogue. Uncovering the common oversimplifications and misconceptions inherent in both theism and popular nondualism, McIntosh invites us to consider a broader religious synthesis that affirms and begins to unify both the ancient impulse to transcend and the contemporary impulse to evolve. An important book for anyone tracking the evolution of spirituality in our time." --Craig Hamilton, Founder, IntegralEnlightenment.com, and CEO of Evolving Wisdom transformative education"With The Presence of the Infinite, McIntosh has established himself as one of the leading intellectual authorities in progressive spiritual culture. Erudite, uplifting, and provocative, The Presence of the Infinite is written by a heart filled with love for Spirit and a razor sharp mind determined to illuminate and integrate theistic and non-dual visions of the sacred. Few people have the courage or insight to ask the questions that McIntosh does and see the evolution of culture through such a magnanimous lens. This is a book that will change the way you think about spiritual experience and the direction of our religious and secular future. Take notice--evolutionary spirituality has an eloquent and formidable new champion." --Carter Phipps, Author of Evolutionaries and Co-founder of The Institute for Cultural Evolution"Steve McIntosh has become our leading voice for making the case that human beings can evolve far beyond the levels we've so far attained. By telling the story of spirituality through the Platonic notions of truth, beauty and goodness, he grounds the evolutionary journey in a specific path we can each walk. More broadly, he defines a new and inspiring method for reconciling the polarization and paralysis that divide us as we try to navigate the future of our imperiled planet." --Tony Schwartz, bestselling author, and founder and CEO of the Energy Project consulting firm"In The Presence of the Infinite, integral philosopher Steve McIntosh shares his infectious passion for evolutionary spirituality. As McIntosh shows, once we begin to recognize that the science of evolution actually presents a profound spiritual teaching of its own, this can help us reinterpret and reaffirm humanity's deepest religious insights. In this extraordinary book, McIntosh brilliantly lays out a "Higher Synthesis" of Eastern and Western spirituality that is both deeply instructive and profoundly inspiring to anyone whose soul is craving to take the next step. Highly recommended!" --Andrew Cohen, Author of Evolutionary Enlightenment and Founder of What Is Enlightenment? magazine"As spirituality evolves, it places increasing emphasis on spiritual experience. And now, our understanding of what spiritual experience is and how it works is being expanded and deepened by the work of integral philosopher Steve McIntosh. In his new book The Presence of the Infinite, McIntosh charts a compelling trajectory to a post-postmodern spirituality that can help us have spiritual experience more abundantly, and use it more effectively to empower our work in the world. I'm especially impressed with the way McIntosh integrates the experience of nondual emptiness with the experience of a loving Creator, showing how these alternative conceptions of ultimate reality can actually serve to "true each other up." This book is a historically significant masterpiece that should be read by every serious spiritual practitioner." --Jeff Salzman, host of The Daily Evolver program, and Co-founder of Career Track Training adult education company
About the Author Steve McIntosh is a leader in the integral philosophy movement. He is co-founder and president of the Institute for Cultural Evolution (ICE) think tank. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia Law School and the University of Southern California Business School. His website is www.stevemcintosh.com.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful. A new synthesis for spiritual leaders By Jeffrey Wattles Steve McIntosh has written a pathbreaking book for spiritual leaders. He discerns strengths and weaknesses in traditional, modern, and postmodern spiritualities, and he discerns an emerging synthesis. The synthesis will be different enough from its ancestors to merit a new name: evolutionary spirituality. The synthesis integrates insights from nondual and theistic traditions and sets forth a concept of Infinity as revealed in beauty, truth, and goodness. Insights from nondualism include postconceptual, intuitive experience of the Infinite; and insights from theism include regarding human beings as free-will sons and daughters of God. The best stretches in this book rank with today’s most mature religious writing. The philosophical argument in The Presence of the Infinite is carefully laid out and supported by extensive scholarship and occasional references to his own spiritual journey. He avoids dogmatism and lucidly includes caveats alongside the bold hypotheses that attract him. His critiques are clear and incisive, never polemical; his appreciation is open, generous, and inclusive. McIntosh is a patient and careful scholar building an edifice of thoughtful and insightful studies. The Presence of the Infinite stands on the shoulders of his previous books, Integral Consciousness and Evolution’s purpose. This book, a satisfying achievement in itself, has set an exciting stage for his ongoing initiatives.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful. An Infinitely Valuable Book for Understanding & Practicing Modern Spirituality By Jordan Gruber Broad in scope, specific in practices, and positive in vision, Steve McIntosh’s new book, The Presence of the Infinite: The Spiritual Experience of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness, has much to offer both for those with a desire to see a comprehensive account of the “big picture” of the modern psycho-spiritual landscape (especially in America), as well as those who simply want to enhance their own experience and practice by participating in the evolutionary renaissance that the author is describing.Put differently, as both a work of scholarship and a deeply personal expression of what McIntosh has experienced and worked through in his own lifetime, this book is a kind of integral and self-similar fractal or hologram of the very evolutionary dynamics, processes and practices that it elucidates.Give yourself some time to sink into this groundbreaking volume as you also sink ever-deeper into the ground of your own being. Whether you are a member of a traditional religion or find yourself involved in cutting-edge progressive spiritual pursuits, this book will give you an opportunity to thoughtfully and heart-fully consider what your own practices of beauty, truth, goodness, and love have looked like and what they might become. In this way, following McIntosh’s energetic, well-written, and prodigious lead, you may become ever more consciously aware of — and capable of — contributing to the great spiritual evolutionary blossoming that is already taking place and changing our world for the better.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Engaging and inspiring By Brett Walker This book proves that McIntosh is one of the pre-eminent spiritual philosophers of our time.For those of us that graduated from conventional religion to modern empiricism to postmodern explorations of Eastern philosophy and practice, this is a welcome next step to a post post-conventional relationship with the divine.Presence explores the dialectic between what McIntosh calls progressive spirituality on one hand and evolutionary spirituality on the other. The former has blossomed into an awareness of nondualism, with the popularity of Advaita Vedanta and Buddhism in the West, while the latter pushes off of this realization to experience the love of God once again—a phenomenon that is fundamentally relational.Some themes from the book:- The nature of spiritual experience- A cultural analysis of the different kinds of spirituality- A critique of progressive spirituality and an explanation of its importance- The spiritual leadership that evolutionary spirituality can provide- Evolutionary spirituality as a distinct emergent that includes the great scientific truths of our ageMcIntosh engages the head and the heart in this book to lead humanity into the next step on it’s spiritual journey.
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