Thom Hartmann is the host of the nationally and internationally syndicated talkshow The Thom Hartmann Program and the TV show The Big Picture on the Free Speech TV network. He is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of 24 books, including Attention Deficit Disorder: A Different Perception, ADHD and the Edison Gene, and The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, which inspired Leonardo DiCaprio’s film The 11th Hour. A former psychotherapist and founder of the Hunter School, a residential and day school for children with ADHD, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Meeting Master Stanley
Touched By the Man with the Aura
The Drive to Discover What Really Matters
The Beginning of the New Age
Why Do We Teach That Mystics
Only Live in Places and Times We Can’t See?
In Search of Explanations

Why Are We Here? New Traditions?
The Icthar Bunny
Restricted Access to “The Rulebook”
Brightly Lit Evergreens on the Shortest Day
Changing the Day of Worship
What to Make of These Findings?

Life in a Tipi

The Question of the Soul

Meeting Herr Müller Transition: Master Stanley Dies
A Prayer and an Answer
Gottfried Müller

The Salem Pin and the Curve of Time

The Lapis Ring

The Trap

A Visit by Angels

Changing the World by Changing Ourselves
Science: Making Distinctions and Separating Things
Some Institutions Grow in Influence by Separating
Themselves from Us
Each of Us Is Connected to Spiritual Truth

Starting Salem in New Hampshire A Second Visit by Angels

Herr Müller Meets a Priest
Pictures, Images, TV, and the Face of G-d

The Hundredth Monkey
Cosmic Consciousness in a Prison Cell

The Sack of Gold

Visiting Jerusalem

The Miracle Baby

The Blessing of Elijah

Uganda Uganda Sojourn: Light in the Heart of Darkness

Wake Up and Take Pictures
Exercise 1: See the Presence of G-d in Everything
Exercise 2: Notice the Whole World in the “Now"

Leaving Salem in New Hampshire

Sent into the World by Michael Exercise : Finding your True Purpose

Patience and Impatience
Discovering and Writing Books about ADD

Bogota, 1993 and 1995
Returning in 1995
The Ride to the Slum
Dinner
A Billboard Above Death in the Morning
An Older Culture Reaches Out to Ours
Can We Stop It?

Older and Younger Cultures
Living on the Edge
Edges, Turbulence, Fractals, and Chaos
Create Edges; Keep Yourself at the Edge
To Create Change, Go to the Edge

India, 1993 and 1996
Bombay
The Train to Dowleswaram
Rajamundri
Arriving at Dowleswaram
India, 1996
Returning to Bombay
Visiting Mrs. K.
26 May 1996
Meeting and Serving the Lepers
in Ratnam’s Colony
Epilogue

Coincidences

Russia: A New Seed Planted Among Thorns Saturday
Sunday
Monday

“Where Is a Leader For Peace?” Humble Actions Can Make Great Change
The Power for Change Is in Individual Actions

Rwanda, 1994

“My Lord Is a Loving G-d” An Exercise in Forgiveness

Small Miracles

A Visit to the Apache Nation

A Walk in the Woods

The Flaming Sword

Consciousness and Transformation
Next Steps Along the Prophet’s Way
Afterword

Epilogue

Appendix: Lessons from Abram Poljak,
Herr Müller‘s Teacher