Sylvester Steffen

Religion & Civility: the Primacy of Conscience Sylvester Steffen

RELIGION& CIVILITY: The Primacy of Conscience (the third book of the breakthrough "Second Enlightenment Trilogy")reveals trial-and-error failures and successes of past and presentcivilizations. Man inherits from nature hard-won intelligence (cortical consciousness)to learn from errors of irreligion and incivility. Though more painful, erroris sometimes the most convincing teacher. Theauthor, Sylvester L. Steffen, deciphers from nature her rosetta code - the trimorphicprocesses of resonance - by which cosmic energy/matter evolves inconscious complexity. Brute inclinations, sex, violence and instinct arebackground to enlightenment. Steffen gives come-uppance to the frustrations ofpatriarchal self-worship. The ugly sides and the good sides of popes, kings andcommoners stand to face bloodied truth. Thedead-end absolutes of religion and politics, cultured in static worldconsciousness, are looked at - upfront and close - and are relegated to historyin favor of open-ended possibilities of evolutionary consciousness. Religion& Civility is a book of epochal potential. It is powerfully indicting,powerfully illuminating. From cover to cover it is surprising, evenlife-changing. Theother books of the "Second Enlightenment Trilogy" are Primary Scripture: CosmicReligion's First Lessons, and Quantum Religion: TheGood News of Rising Consciousness, also published by 1stBooks Library.