We live in extraordinary times. We are waking up to both the consequences of our unconscious actions and our unlimited potential to be living interconnected parts of a unified field of love in action. This evolutionary process represents the positive equivalent of the atomic bomb and accelerates each day at the same time as we recognize our cultural imperative to transform ecocide into living by soulful design and a deep connection to the oneness of life.
“Humanity is being taken to the place where it will have to choose between suicide and adoration.”
~ Teihard de Chardin
NPD features thought leaders and evolutionary activists and philosophers who are helping accelerate the evolutionary shift that is underway. Jan Phillips is clearly an evolutionary catalyst whose integrative and empowering work in the world is touching increasing numbers of individuals on the path of conscious evolution.
In her latest empowering book, No Ordinary Time, award winning visionary author Jan Phillips “calls us to mindfulness and reminds us that “evolutionary action is rooted in silence and stillness, as visionary ideas arise from spiritual practice.”
“This is “a book for people conscious of their power and ready to co-create new sacraments and ceremonies that celebrate the Divine that dwells within us. It is a handbook for people committed to justice, peacemaking and spiritual integrity who are eager to evolve themselves spiritually and creatively.”
“It is a guide to reclaiming your spiritual authority, rethinking your inherited beliefs so you can create a life that is prophetic, ecstatic, and true to your soul. It bridges the One and the many, East and West, masculine and feminine, darkness and light through an array of stories, poems, prayers and songs.”
No Ordinary Time is written in the form of a medieval Book of Hours that helps readers remain spiritually mindful throughout the day. And, it reflects an inclusive paradigm that honors the Divine in its myriad forms.
If you live from a belief that the Divine and mortal are one or wish to, No Ordinary Time will act to support that understanding and the actions that derive from it. As Jan says, “We are not here to debate what God means but to live out the meaning of God, to BE the God we want to see in the world.”
Jan, who started her spiritual journey as a nun and left to live her larger calling in the world, offers us the gift of sharing her intimacy with the Beloved so that we might become familiar with this mystical state.
No Ordinary Time is not so much a book to be read as a sacred moment by moment practice to be engaged in. The result will depend completely on the readers readiness to dive deep into the words and allow them to penetrate to the core of their being and thus embody the ideas presented so beautifully. This is in stark contrast to most books whose ideas we read and forget the next day.
Readers might discover anything from inspiration to a new empowered path. But few will be left unaffected by the experience.
If you are committed to exploring and living your destiny in service to life, No Ordinary Time is an extraordinarily practical wisdom teaching and gift you can give yourself that can help you embody the Divine in your own unique way. You can order the book here.
A few quotes from No Ordinary Time will provide a sense of the luminous teachings in store for you. It was one of the most challenging tasks I have ever had as NPD editor to pick a few quotes from Jan’s powerful book. I ended up copying hundreds and every one was an empowering wake up call from the Divine. So here are some that reflect Jan’s diamond sky mind:
“Our religions and culture have conditioned us toward a deadly passivity that has kept us from bringing forth what is within us, from accessing and expressing that vital spirit within. We have created a life system that has not only outgrown its usefulness, but is actually keeping us from evolving into our next phase of consciousness—the recognition of our own divinity. The violence that is erupting all over this planet is arising out of our failure to create, to shape our lives and our culture with the tools of illumined imagination.”
“This is our chance to BE the ones we’ve been waiting for—to be prophetic, poetic myth makers conspiring in the evolution of a conscious culture, a compassionate culture. As my mystic friend David says, “WE is just an acronym for Who Else?”
“The threshold we’re at right now is a precious one. The whole world is in our hands, and every one of us has the power to act consciously or not. If we do, what will change is us, what we’ll save is ourselves—and what will happen in turn is a heightening of our joy and a deepening of our relationship to whatever we cherish.”
“The requirement of this hour is an awareness of our oneness. It is openness to a new story that will surface in our lives, our families, and our communities when we come together and speak from our hearts. It is a willingness to see ourselves as co-creators of the world we are immersed in, and to shape the world that we want to leave our children and grandchildren.”
“To bring about a world of unity, a planetary community, we must begin to image it, speak it, and believe it into existence. To end war, we must begin to say war is obsolete, and it is time to ban it, just as we banned slavery, child labor, witch burning.”
“To protect the planet or the poor, we must begin to say—convincingly and collectively—that corporations can profit as they wish, but not at the expense of the environment, of human rights, and of the communities in which they do business. This is not a revolution against something, it is an evolution toward something… toward a better quality of life for the whole human family.”
“The old ways are disintegrating before our eyes, as well they might, rooted as they are in the soil of separateness. Profit before people is a concept that should soon be history, for it fails to stand up to the tests of this day. Is it good for the whole? Does it harm the system??
“It is our relationships that sustain us personally—heartening us, empowering us, comforting us. It is our relationships that ground us, support us, inspire us—even in the darkest times. And collectively, as we search for solutions to our global undoing—the poverty that eats at us, the health crises that are decimating populations, the grave imbalances between those who have and those who have not—it will be in relationships that our answers will unfold and our fears subside.”
“Transformation originates in people who see a better way or a fairer world, people who reveal themselves, disclose their dreams, and unfold their hopes in the presence of others. And this very unfolding, this revelation of raw, unharnessed desire, this deep longing to be a force for good in the world is what inspires others to feel their own longings, to remember their own purpose, and to act, perhaps for the first time, in accordance with their inner spirit.”
“We will not find our answers in books or facts or science or religion or anything than has been constructed by minds from another age. The problems we face can only be solved when we stop looking behind us for answers and begin looking within and around us. Our insights will come from communion and convergence, and this must happen both within ourselves and in our relationships with others.”
“While it once seemed there was a “you” and a “me,” we now understand there is only one of us. And while it once appeared that one was giving as the other received, we know now that giving is receiving.”
“The sustainability of any entity depends on its coming into harmony with whatever surrounds it in a mutual give and take that makes it more or less indispensable to the whole in which it is embedded.”
“As we grow in this awareness, becoming more intimate with ourselves, with the earth, with each other, our capacity to see and feel and heal expands. We intuit what is needed and respond. We see what is missing and offer that. We feel where there is pain, and place our hands upon it. We listen each other into being, offering ourselves in relationship, in service and joy. And our interactions then become more meaningful, heartening, wholesome.”
“I can imagine that people looking back on our world from a hundred years in the future will be horrified that we allowed 40,000 children a day to die from hunger when there was plenty of food to go around. That we poisoned our rivers, destroyed our forests, considered war a viable option. I can imagine them with saddened faces, poring over documents of our devastating history, trying to understand the suicide of children, the stoning of women, the obesity of one nation and the starvation of another. Why we spent more on smart bombs than smart children. Why we killed people to show people that killing people is wrong. Why so many billions of dollars were spent on drugs, plastic surgeries, prisons, and weapons, when just a few of those billions could have met the basic needs of every person on the planet. We are all involved in one of the greatest mysteries on earth: why don‘t we care for each other?”
Seth Godin, the innovator, writer, and blogger extraordinaire, persuaded 70 other innovators, writers, and bloggers to participate in a project he calls What Matters Now.The idea is simple: Each of us suggests one word — literally one word — that all of us should think about in 2010, and then takes one page to explain why and how that word matters. The result is an intriguing, inspiring, and at times downright moving collection of unconventional wisdom that is available free to everyone. [ 
