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S.O.U.L. - Spiritual Order of Unconditional Love

by Ernst Ketel

Disregard for basic human rights, pervasive poverty, looming environmental calamities such as global warming, and religions in deadly conflict with each other, these and other crises can no longer be effectively tackled separately. This little book, a scant 160 pages, unlocks the mystery, provides the missing piece to the puzzle of how these hitherto intractable problems are really part of a larger issue, and how they can be solved as such.

s.o.u.l. distills the wisdom of our greatest ancient and not so ancient spiritual savants and the insights of our greatest scientists into a brief, clear, dogma-free and joyful spiritual worldview, one that is in agreement with our innate sense of empathy, and with unfolding sci-entific understanding. It then applies this worldview, our "highest common beliefs," to the crises that beset mankind across this world, citing the work of some of our greatest human rights activists.

This book is a call for action. It's a general, yet clear and concise template for us to take control. No longer will our work to create a more spiritual, more humane civilization be held hostage to any electoral process or to the whims of the power elites. A "critical mass" of as few as 2% of us, worldwide, can and will begin to put in place all the societal support structures that are necessary to facilitate the birth of a more humane global civilization.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR...

Ernst Ketel was born in The Hague, The Netherlands in December 1943. He lived in Indonesia from 1949 until 1956. In 1960 he emigrated from The Netherlands to the United States with his parents and his two brothers. He received his B.S in Plant Science from the University of Maryland in 1966, and his M.S. in Plant Genetics from the University of New Hampshire. He taught high school Science for two years, and then worked as a grower for large wholesale greenhouses until 1979. Since that time he works for Prime Tanning, a leather manufacturer in Berwick, Maine. He also operated Ernie's Green- house, a seasonal ornamental and vegetable plant producer and retailer, from his home in Rochester, New Hampshire until 2004.

Ernst is a lifelong participant in progressive politics and human rights causes. He has also searched most of his adult life for a spiritual path that is relevant in today's chaotic world, comes without doctrines, and is not in contradiction with evolving scientific knowledge. He is a member of Humanity's Team, a worldwide spiritual activist movement based on Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations With God books.  He enjoys spending time with his wife, Elayne Baillargeon, three adult children and three grandchildren. Skiing, fishing, hiking in the White Mountains are some of his favorite pastimes.