Traveling to a New America - Collected Works of James Hilgendorf, Ten Complete Books

Traveling to a New America - Collected Works of James Hilgendorf, Ten Books

Amid all the division, chaos, and loss of hope we are currently experiencing, both in America and around the globe, a new world is emerging, beyond anything we have previously known.

Pointing the way to a deep transformation in the way we view ourselves, of our own boundless potential and our relation to each other and the world around us, and to our relationship to the universe itself.

Book One:  Traveling to a New America:  
 A compilation of selected pieces from my prior ten books, as well as blogs I have written over the last few years; of poems; articles about great, though sometimes not so well known, heroes and heroines of our American past; and comments and reflections about America from a few of the many ordinary men and women I met and interviewed on the streets in different towns and cities while "Traveling to a New America".

Book Two:  Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age:
Encouraging excerpts from my own writings, as well as inspiring words from some of the great figures of our past - all as an encouragement to youth as they struggle to carve out their own lives and dreams, and the dreams of a better world.  

Book Three:  A New Myth for America
"I do believe a book like 'A New Myth for America' can not only spark an important dialogue in the world, but help us to look at the future with more hope." —Cyrus Webb, "Conversations Book Club".  

Book Four:  The New Superpower
Thoughts of my own and others, inspired by my visit to make a film in Hiroshima, Japan on nuclear weapons.

Book Five:  Life & Death: A Buddhist Perspective
In a wide-ranging, profoundly liberating tapestry, this book weaves together Buddhist history and ideas, science, psychology, near-death experience research, and personal experiences, to offer unique insights into the subject of life and death.

"Having read all or parts of nearly a thousand books dealing with spiritual matters, I cannot recall another that so simply and effectively blends the fundamentals of religion and science." - Michael E. Tymn, Journal of Religion and Psychical Research.  

Book Six:  Forever Here
 "Be Earth's Dreamer."
The Earth is looking through our eyes, wondering:
How much can I see?  How big can I dream?  How to bring forth new worlds?
Be bold.  Don't hold back.

Book Seven:  The Buddha & The Dream of America
America is the promise of the self.  It is the unfolding, finally, of everything that was imagined or dreamed.       

Book Eight:  Poems of Death: Time for Eternity
In 1871, in his great work, 'Democratic Vistas', Walt Whitman wrote:
"In the future of these States must arise poets immenser far, and make great poems of death."
By "poems of death", Whitman was referring not simply to poetry about death, but to a broader awakening to the eternity of life itself.
He was calling forth a greater, truer Dream of America.

Book Nine:  Time's Turning
 A book of prose and poems.   

Book Ten:  Maybe We Need A New Religion:  
Inspired by an article I read of a ten-year-old boy, who, after reading over and over of the continuing religious conflicts taking place all over the world, exclaimed:  "Maybe we need a new religion."