"Awakening Mystical Consciousness provides essential principles to enable readers to cope with the personal, community, national, and international problems that beset us on all sides. It deals in a practical way with living the spiritual life in a material world." "Blending profundity of thought with a refreshing simplicity of approach, Joel Goldsmith shows readers how to approach most effectively such universal concerns as physical well-being, human interrelationships, and problems of lack and limitation. Special emphasis is placed on attaining a consciousness of spiritual power that frees one from fears that engulf the whole world: fear of disease, of economic disaster, of war - fear for the survival of civilization." "Goldsmith provides the means to overcome negative impulses in the self and negative forces in the external world by tapping into our innate spiritual power." "Awakening Mystical Consciousness shows how to apply the discipline of The Infinite Way that in turn reveals the healing presence of the Holy Spirit - the experience which is the key to awakening mystical consciousness. From this enlightenment comes the opportunity to open ourselves to the spiritual power that can bring in its wake personal wholeness and world stability." "As Goldsmith demonstrates, once we achieve the necessary higher consciousness, we can continue to draw upon it through introspection, meditation, and inner communion - recognizing the divine within the self even through our everyday activities.