Ivan Taub

The Messenger: Part One: Remembrance and Awakening Ivan Taub

The Confessions of an Ordinary Mystic is an account of thespiritual transformation of a young, adventurous poet traveling through Europein the summer of 1970 whose experiences and encounters reveal a newspirituality and wisdom that draws upon insights from the timeless religioustraditions, and the avant-garde spiritual movements. The Confessions gives the reader a deeperunderstanding of the meaning of God and Humankind as it explores the balance ofgood and evil in each person, and the possibility of hope, love, andforgiveness. The story describes a new way to grasp and appreciate spirituallongings and intuitions, a way that leads each person to a reevaluation of lifeand the path to spiritual transformation and enlightenment. In the Confessions, the reader is led to thebrink of madness and ecstasy, and witnesses the birth of a new spiritualconsciousness of which we are the co-creators. The book suggests that as werecognize and assume responsibility for this new spiritual life, it will becomeeasier to transform ourselves in ways that will help us survive the potentiallycataclysmic technological, biological, and cultural changes Humankind faces aswe move into the twenty-first century.