Bookshelf

The Living Universe

 Duane Elgin
Author, Social Scientist
14 Lupine Circle
Novato, CA  94947
707-665-0737

DUANE ELGIN
duane@awakeningearth.org
http://www.awakeningearth.org

BIOGRAPHY
Duane is an internationally recognized author and speaker who looks beneath the surface turbulence of our times to explore the deeper trends that are transforming our world. As a respected visionary, Duane has been in the forefront of exploring humanity’s evolutionary journey, sustainable ways of living, media accountability and citizen empowerment, and the convergence of the new science with the world’s wisdom traditions.

He is the author of three major books: Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future, Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich, and Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness. With Joseph Campbell and others he co-authored the book Changing Images of Man.

He has worked as a senior social scientist with the think-tank, SRI International where he coauthored numerous studies on the long-range future for government agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the President's Science Advisor. He has also worked as a senior staff member of a joint Presidential-Congressional Commission on the American Future.

Over the past twenty years, Duane has co-founded three non-profit organizations concerned with media accountability; see: www.ourmediavoice.org. He has an MBA from the Wharton School, an MA in economic history from the University of Pennsylvania, and an honorary Doctor of Philosophy for work in "ecological and spiritual transformation" from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA.

Duane has given more than 200 keynotes and workshops with audiences ranging from business executives and civic groups to spiritual communities and college students. Duane likes to bring an engaging, conversational approach to his talks. Say reviewers: Duane is "absolutely captivating" and "inspired our deepest thinking."

ARTICLES/BOOKS
In The Living Universe, Duane Elgin brings together evidence from cosmology, biology, physics, and even his participation in NASA-sponsored psychic experiments to show that the universe is permeated by a living field and that we are always in communion with that field of aliveness whether we are conscious of it or not. (2009)
Promise Ahead: A Vision of Hope and Action for Humanity's Future (2000),
Voluntary Simplicity: Toward a Way of Life that is Outwardly Simple, Inwardly Rich (1993 and 1981)
Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness (1993)

WHAT GETS YOU UP IN THE MORNING?
"The world at the tipping point: engaging personal experience and collective wisdom to explore how unprecedented "adversity trends" (such as climate change) are meeting equally unprecedented "opportunity trends" (such as the communications revolution), the pivotal time in history this is creating, and what we can do in our personal, professional, and civic lives to build a promising future."