Founder of California's Agape International Spiritual Center, Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith teaches a form of nondenominational spirituality called the "new thought ancient wisdom" tradition, dedicated to stepping up humanity's evolutionary consciousness. Recorded in front of a live audience at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, Your Soul's Evolution is a three-CD set of lectures and guided meditations from Beckwith meant to guide the listener in a myriad of ways to "consciously participate in the unfolding of our own destiny" and "wake up to the real."

Exposing the fundamental flaws at the core of human thought and emotion, Beckwith notes that "most people don't experience reality; they experience their thought about reality." Beckwith urges us to see the difference between sympathy, empathy, and true compassion, as only the last is "a very high state of love that understands that individuals are locked in thought forms of lack," and the other two merely take on the burden. "You can't alleviate suffering if you're caught in the illusion of separation," he says. When we transcend that illusion, our thoughts and actions become selflessly attuned toward the betterment of all of us, of life, of experience as a whole.

A funny, intelligent, insightful speaker, Beckwith is at times full of fire and power like a preacher, at other times hushed and intimate as a meditation instructor, but always grounded, grateful, and humble. His is the insight of a visionary soul healer who's moved far beyond any negativity, specific religious rules, or dogma. And he has kept a great sense of humor about himself, noting the tendency of newly spiritual people to lose their sense of humor: "Serious and reverential are not the same thing!" The audience cracks up when he advises, "If you can't find something about yourself to laugh at, ask some of your closest friends." For in laughing at ourselves we create an opening to step outside linear time and space. Listening to some of the tracks on this set can feel like your whole soul is doing just that, as bad habits fall away, indicating that you are finally ready to let Beckwith help boost Your Soul's Evolution to the next plateau.

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"Waking Up to Reality" "Prayer and Meditation" "Guided Spiritual Meditation"