The Chrysalis Age: A Handbook for Spiritual and Global Transformation in the New Millennium
 
From 2001-2002 I took a year and a half sabbatical to write a non-fiction book exploring the relationship between spirituality and globalization. I called the book The Chrysalis Age. Although never published, there are excerpts here and the full manuscript can be downloaded as a PDF. You can also find a few essays on issues of spirituality and globalization in this section. 

The Chrysalis Age is an attempt to integrate collective and individual growth; to bridge the gap between the many facets of social and cultural change embodied by the forces of globalization and the profoundly transformative energies of a spiritual practice rooted in the world's wisdom traditions. Firstly, it investigates the need for a more encompassing worldview that is capable of understanding the interconnectedness of the world. Given this new perspective, the book then calls for a more complete ethics, one rooted not in religious dogma or philosophical posturing, but in a direct apprehension of the integral nature of the universe. Based upon these two things, a more complete worldview and deeper ethics, the book goes on to explore how we can create a holistic and spiritual vision of the future, both collectively and individually. Suggestions for how we can change the world socially, culturally, environmentally, politically, and economically are fully outlined and explored. The book also presents tools for personal and spiritual transformation. These tools are designed to foster an expansion of the reader's perspective through meditations and contemplations aimed at both psychological and spiritual development.