NEW HAMPTON, Iowa, January 21, 2003 (PRIMEZONE) -- In "Primary Scripture" (now available through 1stBooks Library), author Sylvester Steffen gives a scientific perspective of the great catholic mandate "to love God and to love one's neighbor as oneself."
In Steffen's view, science documents the essential continuity of energy and matter, soul and substance, spirituality and materiality -- the natural source of rationality. Steffen finds validation for new age consciousness in the wisdom of the ages. "Primary Scripture" is a helpful first reader for anyone confused by the wave of new books seeking to connect science and religion.
According to Steffen, today's mainstream religions are experiencing a crisis of credibility, for none has successfully inspired public respect for nature and the human individual. Ideologically, the bureaucracies of religious institutions are more focused on corporate priorities than on those of people and nature. Patriarchal religions, premised in dominion theologies including Christianity, Judaism and Islam, have historically prosecuted a politic of exploitation, violence and alienation. Thus, these religions fail to reflect the true communal nature of the Godhead they claim to serve. Public consciousness now seems to be awakening to the artifice of corporate religion. People long for and desire a new sense of consciousness based on continuity experience of life.
"Primary Scripture" offers this new consciousness -- a universal consciousness that is cosmically originated and renewed in the natural processing of energetic transubstantiation: it is ideal for anyone seeking a religiously and scientifically harmonized worldview that has room for new age insights.
Sylvester Steffen is a 13-year student to the Catholic priesthood. He earned his Master's degree in the science of plant physiology in 1960. He and his wife, Felicitas, have raised a family of six daughters.
In the late 1970s, Steffen began writing seriously on the subject of the essential continuity of evolving consciousness.
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