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Facing the Future Perfect Paperback – March 1, 2010

by David Spangler (Author), Julia Spangler (Editor)
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Facing the Future is a book about the forces shaping our future. Written by David Spangler, a well known cultural visionary and spiritual seer, the book brings deep insights into how we might face the challenges of our time and craft a positive future. David offers personal stories and perspectives from subtle realms as well as from his own experience and wide-ranging study. This book is a must read for anyone seeking to build a bright future for themselves, their children , their fellow humans and the world as a whole.
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David Spangler lives in the Northwest, is married and has four children. He has been a spiritual teacher since 1964. From 1970-1973, he was a co-director of the Findhorn Foundation Community in Northern Scotland. In 1974 he co-founded the Lorian Association, a non-profit spiritual educational organization, and continues to work with it today. David is also a Fellow of the Lindisfarne Association, a gathering of scientists, mathematicians, artists, spiritual and religious teachers, ecologists, and political scientists, all interested in promoting a new culture based on holistic and Gaian values. For further information on his work, writings and classes, please contact the Lorian Association.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lorian Press; First Edition (March 1, 2010)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Perfect Paperback ‏ : ‎ 176 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0936878282
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0936878287
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.41 x 8.5 inches
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Jonathan
5.0 out of 5 stars Hopeful, wise, inspiring to action
Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2016
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Spangler's writing always expands my thinking in unexpected ways. His urging to move beyond a linear concept of time to an ecology of inter-related factors that create past present and future is far from simple to grasp but therein lies its usefulness. Likewise his idea of the three kinds of futures.
The book is a great antidote to anxious worry, fear and demonizing the other. Maybe more relevant in 2016 than when it was written in 2010.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bringing hope back into your own life
Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2011
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I was deeply affected by David Spangler's thoughts and insights in this book. There is hope and possibility for a more evolved future all around us all the time and yet we do not see, we do not know. My sense of hope for the future was reawakened by this book. Thank you, David, for sharing your experiences and insights for the benefit of us all.
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Iona Main Stewart
4.0 out of 5 stars Somewhat challenging book but worth the effort
Reviewed in the United States on March 31, 2011
I didn't find this an easy book to read. Though I was expecting to read a book patently written by a spiritual leader, the renowned Findhorn "guru", much of its content, particularly in the preliminary chapters, was extremely cerebral, rational and mundane, to my mind.

Especially the frequent references to peak oil I found absolutely boring, and I kept forgetting what it was, if I had ever understood Spangler's definition of the term, until I came across a diagram stating "peak oil (loss of energy)".

Now, I've recently been immersed in the absorbing theme of our planet's, solar system's and humankind's ongoing transition into the 4th/5th dimension, culminating on 21st December 2012, whereas Spangler makes a point of reproaching our society's tendencies to embrace an apocalyptic view of our near future. I looked up the word "apocalypse" in "Webster's desk dictionary of the English language" and there found the definition "a prophetic revelation esp. concerning a cataclysm in which good wins over evil". I have to say that Spangler seems to be using the term in connection with cataclysmic disaster with not much reference to good defeating evil, whereas the scenario I believe will occur absolutely is positive (since it entails a great leap forward in both human and planetary development) in the greater scheme of things, though there will presumably be many casualties (but as Patricia Cori points out our souls are immortal, so nobody really dies).

However, no matter what, Spangler does not believe in, or care to focus on this for many disturbing scenario. Though he does admit that radical transformation is necessary, and that transformation "may entail loss and suffering".

The primary theme of the book is the nature of the future, and here Spangler, or shall we now call him David, defines three types of future - the consequential, imaginal and creative future. The consequential future is made up of "consequences of past actions and choices"; the imaginal future is the future that one imagines it will or could be; and the creative future evolves from our creativity in the moment. It is "an attitude open to possibility and potential". This latter future is not limited by the past, but honours "the power of the present".

David advises us not to allow fear to constrict our creativity and our sense of possibility. He states that the idea of karma represents the consequential future, karma being the principle of consequence. As regards karma and the consequential future, love and forgiveness can alter the course of events.

He concludes we should not limit our view of the future only to consequences and effects but should also be aware of the imaginal and creative futures. There is where our power to change, and hope, lie.

He introduces us to John, his mentor and friend in the "subtle worlds", who has had considerable influence on David's view of the future. We are given a short exposition of the New Age, its history and culture and an account of his time in Findhorn, the renowned community on the North coast of bleak Scotland, where humans co-operated with Nature to produce wondrous vegetables in what apparently was a barren landscape.

This is the chapter where the book begins to appeal to me, since it comprises accounts of several "miraculous" healings.

He states:" The ability to create miracles lies in that place in us from which the creative future emerges ... an important step ... is to open ourselves to this innate capacity to create, invoke or participate in miracles",

He contests the view that miracles are supernatural. They are rather principles of nature that we do not yet understand.

He calls time an "ecology", and quotes John as stating that time "is not a road running through a landscape, it is a landscape itself ... Time holds and nurtures the seeds of possibility in you ...and from these seeds come the future you experience .. your consciousness is your future ... both for you as a person and for humanity as a whole."

John felt that the idea of an eternal Now in which there was no past or future was simplistic and "not fully grasping the nature of a holistic, multi-dimensional reality ... time was a complex topology in which past, present and future were not in a linear relationship but in a collaborative and mutually interactive one".

This is quite interesting, but somewhat difficult to comprehend. This chapter on the whole is fascinating. He cites another of his friends from the "subtle worlds", who, regarding the power to heal or manifest, informed him that "there are no powers, only relationships". I find this quite insightful.

On the whole, the book comprises several such absorbing chapters.

David discusses what he variously calls "distributive generation", "distributed generation" and "generative distribution". I think the latter two phrases may be errors. "Distributive generation" is "the condition in which a resource is generated at the point of consumption and use rather than at some distant, centralized source". An example of this is the cell phone. He praises iPhones and the like, unfortunately, without mentioning the considerable dangers of magnetic radiation.

As stated, David's view of the future is much influenced by John, and John, and thus David, do not believe in an Apocalypse of any kind, though it is stated that there will be "mini-apocalypses" affecting localized areas "but having wide ripple effects throughout all of humanity". Well, we've already experienced many of these, including the consequences of the recent severe earthquake and tsunami in Japan (March 2011)

David tackles the problems of 1) Peak oil (there we have it again) 2) Climate change 3) Dysfunctional systems and 4) Limiting consciousness and bad habits, and suggests solutions for these.

His basic suggestion for dealing with future problems is partnership with our friends in the subtle worlds. Since I am participating in the MAP program, where on a a daily basis I obtain help from beings from these worlds, I must agree with him. (For information on MAP - Medical Assistance Program -see Machaelle Small Wright's book with this title.)

In a final chapter David describes the unusual experience of having contact with beings from the future, who suddenly appear in his consciousness, observing our world through his eyes and commenting upon it. From this contact David receives confirmation that our world will survive, and these beings inform him that they inhabit a comfortable, peaceful world after the "Change" as they term it, a world perhaps 3-400 years in the future, where their technology is what we might term "magical"; the civilization is "profoundly" connected to water, and they take the "livingness" of their planet for granted. Also David quotes a letter from his friend Lee ( previously mentioned in the book as being directly involved in the healing of a cancer patient) who sees a vision of the future that confirms the one imparted to him by the two consciousnesses in his head. Features of this vision include a loss of population, a very good life, oceans higher and less land mass, and great technological sophistication. There is a discovery of a new non-polluting energy source and a superweb for communication.

Thus David ends the book on a positive note.

Much more could be said about this, mostly fascinating work. But I will leave you with one of David's main messages - Do not engage the future with fear, otherwise you may end up attracting exactly what you fear.

The only negative features of the book I would mention are a certain looseness of language, mainly in the first part of the book, with a few wrong uses or misspellings of words, together with the aforementioned, for me, slightly boring chapters. But mostly this is an exciting exposition of the future, and how it is we create it, mostly because the author implicates to such an extent beings from the subtle worlds, and recounts miracles and his own special experiences. We are reminded of the fact that the future is not ready made and lying in wait for us as a done product, but that we ourselves can change its course for the better at each moment, here in the present. I strongly recommend this book.
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Magdelena
5.0 out of 5 stars A fresh, soulful perspective
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2011
David Spangler's Facing the Future touches on humanity's Apocalyptic Visions as well as its Utopian ideals. He examines the limitations of both and emphasizes our capacity for visionary creativity to counter act both the paralyzing effects of fear and discouragement and our tendency to bury our heads in the sand.

WHen we talk about the future, which future are we speaking of? David explains the consequential future, the imaginal future and the creative future. While facing the possible futures of Peak Oil or climate change, David encourages a mind open to possiblities. No matter what future you decide is the most important one to confront or work with, David encourages us all to keep the doors open to alternative ideas. As he says, no one image is a "big enough tent to hold all the diverse creative imaginations, efforts, styles that make up humanity." He reminds us of the Law of Grace, in which "consequential futures" (aka Karma) can be set aside through Grace and forgiveness. David helps us straddle the future between being in denial of possible consequences and assuming the worst, by encouraging us to be alert and yet to expand our vision beyond hard and fast predictions and to stay open to hope and the possibilities of our power to create change. Don't shut out the people you don't agree with, or who don't agree with you. See the striving for humanity's wholeness that may underly any effort at solving looming problems. Excellent references to futher reading. I'm a fan of David's work and his practical spirituality and loving spirit.

In a world that at times seems to be going "mad" - David's voice offers a particular anchor of sanity which involves a more comprehensive view than the seemingly dominmant materialistic world-view can encompass. His view and experience of "subtle worlds," energetic support and Subtle activism will not attract hardcore, materialistic scientists, but it will encourage and uplift those thinkers and futurists who sense the power the intention, prayer and meditation to "support collective healing and social change."
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best New Age book
Reviewed in Australia on May 11, 2023
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I am not a new age believer, but I read from every available perspective. Some New Age books make some predictions I consider silly. But Spangler is a balanced, reasonable, and open-minded author without dogmatic predictions. He shows wisdom and subtlety in his thoughts about the possible futures. His perspective is worth reading regardless of what you believe or don't believe.
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