HOW I STOPPED BELIEVING IN THE END OF THE WORLD

About the Book

A Journey Into the Depths of Religious Revelation and Human Creation In this fascinating documented account, a devout Christian believer journey’s into the depths of religious experience and fundamentalist states of mind. He suffers a major loss in his life, and struggles to reconcile the inconsistency of this loss with the beliefs he loves so well. As he ventures beyond the familiar, his fundamentalist ideas open into a more expansive and illuminating reality. He discovers, during this journey, how certain destructive fundamentalist beliefs came to exist. He sees why people can let go of these beliefs and embrace a fulfilling new way of being. As this story unfolds, its events illustrate which states of mind stand in the way of our best possibilities and which states of mind can move us toward greater fulfillment in a rapidly changing world.

About the Author

Will Whittle studied at the University of Paris, San Francisco State University and Brigham Young University. He was once a minister in Canada and Alaska, following which he became a United States civil servant in France. He has done research in peace and conflict studies while lecturing on grants from the Ark Foundation and the Ploughshares Fund. He has three children, has traveled extensively, and is the author of four books.