Theatre of the Mind: Evolution in the Sensitive Cosmos - Spiritual Growth & Consciousness Exploration Book | Perfect for Meditation, Self-Discovery & New Age Philosophy Studies

Henryk Skolimowski (if you're not Polish, don't even try to pronounce it) is a gem of a "practical" contemporary philosopher who has not received proper recognition by the "How do we fix the world" circles. His writing is passionate, never obscure, and addresses very creatively the foremost philosophical problem of "understanding all of reality's aspects - cosmos and consciousness".This is an early effort by Skolimowski to expound his idea of "Evolution in the Sensitive Cosmos" - a subtitle of this volume. His subsequent books, with similar themes, are "A Sacred Place to Dwell" and "The Participatory Mind" go even further in explaining his grand vision of a cosmos that is co-created by consciousness. These books are highly recommended as well. This reviewer is also looking forward to reading his latest Let There Be Light: The Mysterious Journey of Cosmic Creativity.Skolimowski's style is very straightforward, intended for the general reader and doesn't get bogged down in technical arguments. This book, and his other efforts, are chock-full of potential aphorisms for the Ages. For example there is this opening sentence of Chapter 1: "What is most important about man is that he is a sensitive being; that he is endowed with sensitivities; that via sensitivities he is making his evolutionary ascent." Or from the end of the book: "God is evolution realizing itself; transforming us into more and more radiant fragments of godliness. We are God in the making."This way of thinking may be seen as offensive, heretical and outright blasphemous to any adherent of "traditional" religions, especially of the Abrahamic branch. What Skolimowski is attempting to do is to find a way of thinking that transcends the false dichotomies of Religious v. Scientific thinking and discourse about Being and Becoming. He is asking a very important theological and cosmological question - if the physical cosmos has been evolving, why do we still think of God in such static, non-evolutionary terms?This reviewer has found this book liberating by being a challenge to conventional thinking about evolution, consciousness, the sacred and the profane, mind and matter.Prepare to be pleasantly surprised and your creative impulses strengthened.