Discover an Inner Pattern for Living into Wholeness
Synthesizing his work in personal mythmaking, soul-making, and storytelling,
award-winning author Robert Atkinson draws from mythology, mysticism,
rites of passage, and psychology to identify a pattern within our unconscious
that guides our evolving consciousness, transforms our lives,
keeps our focus on the wholeness of all things,
and keeps humanity on its evolutionary trajectory.
In bringing all the paths to wholeness back together as one,
this pioneering, practical, and easy to use experiential guide
provides the context, framework, and all the reflective writing exercises
needed for telling our stories of wholeness.
In doing so, we connect the human family, one story at a time.
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A New Story of Wholeness asserts itself among the great texts on spiritual evolution and Unity consciousness, allowing us to create and share a new narrative grounded in love, harmony, and interconnection. Study this guide. Your new life awaits you. 
~ Michael Bernard Beckwith, Founder & CEO, Agape International Spiritual Center
Dr. Robert Atkinson’s wonder-full synthesis and eminently practical wisdom is a marvellously valuable companion and guide for these transformational times. He describes ‘an interspiritual path that is a superhighway for everyone’ on our collective journey of homecoming.
~ Jude Currivan PhD, author of The Cosmic Hologram and The Story of GAIA
A New Story of Wholeness is a gem offering superbly lucid and wise guidance for the journey from fragmentation to optimal coherence and richly fulfilling wholeness. It is a journey that we all must take if we are to thrive in dangerous times.
~ James O’Dea, author of Soul Awakening Practice
Written with great love, this gentle excursion into the sacred emphasizes what all spiritual teachings express — that higher consciousness brings a realization of unity that can heal our world. A true manifesto for the spiritual awakening so needed in these times.
~ Anodea Judith PhD, author of The Global Heart Awakens
Contents
Foreword by Jean Houston – Reweaving Our Stories ………………. i
Prologue—A Pattern of Wholeness ……………………………………….. v
Introduction—A New Story of Our Evolving Consciousness……..xiii
Blueprint for Living Our Story of Wholeness ……………………… xxix
Part One
Meaning – Healing the Illusion of Separation
1. The Evolution Principle …………………………………………………….. 5
2. The Consciousness Principle ……………………………………………. 15
3. The Wholeness Principle …………………………………………………. 29
Part Two
Pattern – Finding Connection in Apparent Randomness
4. Call to Wholeness ……………………………………………………………. 45
5. Path of Purification ………………………………………………………….. 57
6. Return to Wholeness ……………………………………………………….. 73
Afterword by Deepak Chopra – Wholeness Is What We Are ……….. 83
Epilogue—A Call for Stories of Wholeness ………………………………. 89
A Guide to Living and Writing Our Story of Wholeness …………….. 97
You Are the Story and the Teller…………………………………………….101
Keys to a Timeless Pattern…………………………………………………… 109
Call to Wholeness Reflective Writing Exercise………………………… 123
Call to Wholeness Worksheet………………………………………………..127
Call to Wholeness – Shaping a Narrative ……………………………….. 131
Path of Purification Reflective Writing Exercise …………………….. 133
Path of Purification Worksheet……………………………………………. 137
Path of Purification – Shaping a Narrative…………………………….. 141
Return to Wholeness Reflective Writing Exercise ………………….. 143
Return to Wholeness Worksheet…………………………………………. 147
Return to Wholeness – Shaping and Merging the Narratives……..149
Meditation for Living into Wholeness……………………………………. 153
Acknowledgments ……………………………………………………………… 155
Notes ……………………………………………………………………………….. 159
Further Resources ……………………………………………………………… 167
Index
About the Author
Excerpt
Prologue
A Pattern of Wholeness
Perhaps there is a pattern set up in the heavens for one who desires to see it,
and having seen it, to find one in himself. —Plato
Apattern perhaps found in the heavens and in us emerges as all things in the universe are seen as tied together, operating according to an overarching principle of wholeness.
Derived from a holistic worldview of balance and unity within the whole, this is expressed in the Hermetic principle of “That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above corresponds to that which is Below, all things accomplishing the miracles of the One Thing.”
This principle integrates all levels of reality from the macrocosm (the universe as a whole) to the microcosm (i.e., the human being, a miniature universe) and is upheld by the latest science and the earliest spiritual wisdom. It bridges the divide between duality and nonduality, confirms that the individual and the collective mirror one another in their essential nature and processes, and explains how all things are interconnected.
Imagine what it may have been like for the first Indigenous peoples seeking wisdom to live by. They seemingly observed a “pattern set up in the heavens” and wove this understanding of wholeness into the heart of the stories they told.
Now known as myths, their ancient stories established great truths and held communities together. Whether by metaphor, symbol, pattern, or repetition, their narratives offered a unifying framework for living within the flow of the natural world around them. These were unitive narratives, essential to their individual and collective well-being.
Across many millennia, however, communities expanded, spread out, became more diverse, and experienced conflict and disorder. Out of this discord emerged divisive narratives framed by a consciousness of duality that maintained separation and challenged the trajectory of the evolutionary impulse. Most of humanity’s history has consisted of competing narratives fighting for the minds and hearts of people everywhere.
As we approach a consciousness of global integration, a new story of our wholeness is needed to frame this emerging interconnectedness. Humanity has arrived at a time when it is necessary for our own survival to come together again through unitive narratives. Such narratives would represent the unified nature of reality…