Arjuna Ardagh - The translucent revolution: how people just like you are waking up and changing the world

Arjuna has given us the most comprehensive, elegant, and vital guide to the current stage of human transformation that I have read since Marilyn Fergusons The Aquarian Conspiracy . It is must reading for all of us working toward a more positive future.

Barbara Marx Hubbard, author, speaker,
president of The Foundation for Conscious Evolution

The Translucent Revolution is a brilliant and timely missive from an author who is deeply in touch with the pulse and essence of our evolution and our awakening. At a time when nothing but bad news seems to be the tenor of the day, this beautiful message emerges uplifting, inspiring, and revitalizing the reader with a new seeing of the radical truth of our time. Clearly and precisely written, with eye-opening stories and examples, Ardagh leads the reader through a new map of our time and its possibilities and power. He draws on some of the great thinkers and mystics that we share this time in history with and explores distinctions that empower and further clarify who we are and the profound possibility of life. An excellent read and great piece of work.

Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money

The Translucent Revolution delivers a cumulative punch. It is a rare combination of reason, passion, and spiritual insight. After you put this book down you know that a great shift in consciousness is already underway and that the path to a sane, peaceful, and sustainable future has been seeded in our time. Arjuna Ardagh offers us substantial hope. At a time when the human story has been in a prolonged eclipse, he provides evidence to support a transformation of global society from the inside out.

James ODea, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences

This is a brilliant book really many books in one. I couldnt put it down. It is chock full of fascinating information, valuable insights, useful techniques and great wisdom. I would highly recommend this to anyone on a spiritual path. It is both a powerful mirror to our common experiences and a handy guidebook for the part of the journey we are all currently on.

Jack Canfield, co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series,
author of The Success Principles

Translucent Arjuna has penned a luminous contribution to the individual and collective awakening of us all. I heartily recommend this book to anyone seeking inner knowledge, self-realization, and enlightenment.

Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within ,
founder of the Dzogchen Center

The Translucent Revolution is going to have a timely impact on the national conversation, picking up where Paul Rays description of the Cultural Creatives leaves off. One of the distinguishing characteristics of Cultural Creatives is that they tend to feel that theyre alone, and that societys dominant institutions not only do not reflect, but are at variance to their most precious values. The Translucent Revolution may simultaneously confirm this perception and stimulate the Cultural Creatives to finally begin connecting with others who share their values, get organized, and work together to create the world they want. Its certainly about time, dont you think?

Eric Utne, founder of Utne magazine,
editor of Cosmo Doogoods Urban Almanac

Not since Marilyn Fergusons The Aquarian Conspiracy has there been such a rich collection of views covering so many dimensions of the unfolding new paradigm on conscious awakening. A most valuable resource for personal and social evolution.

Peter Russell, author of From Science to God and The Global Brain

Engaging, enlightening, and even entertaining, The Translucent Revolution is a powerful handbook for the soul. With great clarity and deep heart, Arjuna offers the reader a rich feast of possibility and everyday practices for humanitys greatest quest.

Mary Manin Morrissey, author of Building Your Field of Dreams ,
founder of the Living Enrichment Center

Arjuna Ardagh has created an insightful historical document and a festive celebration of inspiration. Ardagh has connected what at first may appear as unrelated ideas and activities into a coherent whole that explains the contemporary phenomenon of the translucent revolution. He frames his perspectives clearly and shows how they are manifest in the lives of accessible people. Readers will realize that the transformation of themselves and their world is within their grasp. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to live a more daring and authentic life.

Joseph L. Subbiondo,
president of the California Institute of Integral Studies

Compelling, compassionate, and clear, The Translucent Revolution is a comprehensive exploration of one of the most important and hopeful movements of our time. Arjuna takes us on a journey to the very essence of transformation and healing, and in so doing shines a light through a timeless truth: What we are looking for is what is looking.

Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, authors of Conscious Living and
Attracting Genuine Love , founders of The Hendricks Institute

New World Library
14 Pamaron Way
Novato, California 94949

Copyright 2005 by Arjuna Ardagh

All rights reserved. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, or other without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer, who may quote brief passages in a review.

The material in this book, including the exercises, is intended for educational purposes only. It is not meant to take the place of diagnosis and treatment by a qualified medical practitioner or therapist. If you have any doubt about the suitability of any of these exercises for your personal use, please consult a licensed health care provider. No expressed or implied guarantee as to the effects of the use of the recommendations can be given nor liability taken.

Cover photograph by Idana Bluem
Text design and typography by Tona Pearce Myers

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ardagh, Arjuna.

The translucent revolution : how people just like you are waking up and changing the world / Arjuna Ardagh. 1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 1-57731-468-9 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Spiritual life. 2. Self-actualization (Psychology)Religious aspects. 3. Social service. 4. Consciousness. 5. Self. 6. Conduct of life. I. Title.

BL624.A72 2005

204'.4dc22

2005002752

First printing, June 2005
ISBN 1-57731-468-9
ISBN-13 978-1-57731-468-4

Printed in Canada on 100% postconsumer waste recycled paper

A proud member of the Green Press Initiative

Distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West

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