God 4.0

On the Nature of Higher Consciousness and the Experience Called “God”

By: Robert Ornstein

Narrated by: Fred Sanders

What does it mean to go beyond our ordinary perception of reality? Why has almost all of humanity, throughout our history, had the concept of transcendence and connection to “the other” – to “the spirit world,” to “God,” or to “the One behind it all?”

This remarkable work coalesces findings from the shamans of the Ice Age (God 1.0), to the first temples, priests and gods of the Neolithic era and Mesopotamia (God 2.0), to the Axial Age prophets and the three major monotheistic religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam (God 3.0). It reveals how verbal descriptions of a nonverbal transcendental experience, always intended to be metaphorical, gradually became taken by many as literal truth.

In a stunning unification of modern science, religion, and spirituality, God 4.0 presents a provocative new view of transcendence and connection as the activation of an innate quiescent faculty in the brain, a second system of cognition we all share. If developed, it can help to dissolve religious, tribal and cultural biases and usher in a higher level of conscious connection — a new “spiritual literacy.”

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An immense gift to humanity

Starting with the first stirring of humanity in caves filled with art Ornstein weaves the history of humankind through the transition from hunter gatherer to farming and the first communities with beginnings of animist religion to a breathtaking summary of thought in the first cities to the religions of the axial age and the Abrahamic tradition to Muhammad. Not a word is without deep meaning. He ends with a blinding exposition of the potential of humanity in the arrival of ways fusing mysticism and the best of modern science to open paths to the future of humanity, a brilliant spiritual awakening we must all work to bring about. He ends with a piece by the Sufi master idries Shah. There has never been a book like it or of greater value.

A new understanding to a higher consciousness.

The Psychologist and Brain researcher Robert Ornstein covers an important way to develop humanity to a higher awareness.