Apocalyptic Grace

Here is a unique exploration of the five eras or Worlds of cultural (socioeconomic,
psychological, spiritual) evolution. Stephen Powell, a seasoned anthropologist
and psychotherapist, illuminates the hunter/gatherer, horticultural,
agrarian, and industrial/technological epochs in unexpectedly fresh and timely
ways. Foremost, the diversity of these Worlds is still within us all.
World One, reaching back to 50,000 BCE, was a time of widely accepted
shamanic assumptions. World Two (10,000 to 3500 BCE) developed small-scale
horticulture and tribal cohesion, but also unprecedented social conformity. World
Three (from about 3500 BCE) experienced the global rise of caste-structured
hierarchies with the World Religions as cultural compensation. Beginning in
the 1600s, World Four developed a mechanistic, secularized worldview, accentuated
by individualism, popular culture and a capitalist agenda.
Finally, Powell describes the beginnings of a new, fifth set of world
assumptions a world without borders. Here we may start to integrate humanitarian
aspects of the preceding Worlds, embracing multiculturalism without
losing cultural integrity. Moreover, the wisdom traditions from each time
appear to hold seed truths of the profound changes that mark the end-time
and the beginning of each World. Apocalyptic Grace leads the reader on a
stunning survey of this remarkable journey.