Connecting with Wholeness

Robert Atkinson, Ph.D.‘s new book A New Story of Wholeness: An Experiential Guide for Connecting with the Human Family, shares how connecting with wholeness advances humanity. Synthesizing his work in personal mythmaking, soul-making, and storytelling, award-winning author Robert Atkinson draws from mythology, mysticism, rites of passage, and psychology to identify a pattern within our unconscious that guides our evolving consciousness, transforms our lives, keeps our focus on the wholeness of all things, and keeps humanity on its evolutionary trajectory. In bringing all the paths to wholeness back together as one, this pioneering, practical, and easy-to-use experiential guide provide the context, framework, and reflective writing exercises needed for telling our stories of wholeness. In doing so, we connect the human family, one story at a time. We talk about The unconsciousness guides our evolution the role of stories in humanity’s evolution connecting with wholeness The Unconsciousness that transforms our lives Keeping our focus on connecting with the wholeness of all things The importance of storytelling The Evolution Principle The Consciousness Principle The Wholeness Principle The call to wholeness The path of purification The return to wholeness Shangerla Robert Atkinson, Ph.D., award-winning author, educator, and developmental psychologist, is a 2020 Gold Nautilus Book Award winner as co-editor of Our Moment of Choice: Evolutionary Visions and Hope for the Future and a 2017 Silver Nautilus Book Award winner for The Story of Our Time: From Duality to Interconnectedness to Oneness. He is also the author or co-editor of nine other books, including A New Story of Wholeness: An Experiential Guide for Connecting the Human Family (2022), Year of Living Deeply: A Memoir of 1969 (2019), Mystic Journey: Getting to the Heart of Your Soul’s Story (2012), and The Gift of Stories (1995). With a Ph.D. in cross-cultural human development from the University of Pennsylvania and a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago, he is professor emeritus at the University of Southern Maine, an internationally recognized authority on life story interviewing, a pioneer in the techniques of personal myth-making and soul-making, director of StoryCommons, founder of One Planet Peace Forum, and a member of the Evolutionary Leaders. www.atkinson.net