Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Meeting Master Stanley
Touched By the Man with the Aura
The Drive to Discover What Really Matters
The Beginning of the New Age
Why Do We Teach That Mystics
Only Live in Places and Times We Can’t See?
In Search of Explanations

Why Are We Here?
New Traditions?
The Icthar Bunny
Restricted Access to “The Rulebook”
Brightly Lit Evergreens on the Shortest Day
Changing the Day of Worship
What to Make of These Findings?

Life in a Tipi

The Question of the Soul

Meeting Herr Müller
Transition: Master Stanley Dies
A Prayer and an Answer
Gottfried Müller

The Salem Pin and the Curve of Time

The Lapis Ring

The Trap

A Visit by Angels

Changing the World by Changing Ourselves
Science: Making Distinctions and Separating Things
Some Institutions Grow in Influence by Separating
Themselves from Us
Each of Us Is Connected to Spiritual Truth

Starting Salem in New Hampshire
A Second Visit by Angels

Herr Müller Meets a Priest

Pictures, Images, TV, and the Face of G-d

The Hundredth Monkey

Cosmic Consciousness in a Prison Cell

The Sack of Gold

Visiting Jerusalem

The Miracle Baby

The Blessing of Elijah

Uganda
Uganda Sojourn: Light in the Heart of Darkness

Wake Up and Take Pictures
Exercise 1: See the Presence of G-d in Everything
Exercise 2: Notice the Whole World in the “Now"

Leaving Salem in New Hampshire

Sent into the World by Michael
Exercise : Finding your True Purpose

Patience and Impatience

Discovering and Writing Books about ADD

Bogota, 1993 and 1995
Returning in 1995
The Ride to the Slum
Dinner
A Billboard Above Death in the Morning
An Older Culture Reaches Out to Ours
Can We Stop It?

Older and Younger Cultures

Living on the Edge
Edges, Turbulence, Fractals, and Chaos
Create Edges; Keep Yourself at the Edge
To Create Change, Go to the Edge

India, 1993 and 1996
Bombay
The Train to Dowleswaram
Rajamundri
Arriving at Dowleswaram
India, 1996
Returning to Bombay
Visiting Mrs. K.
26 May 1996
Meeting and Serving the Lepers
in Ratnam’s Colony
Epilogue

Coincidences

Russia: A New Seed Planted Among Thorns
Saturday
Sunday
Monday

“Where Is a Leader For Peace?”
Humble Actions Can Make Great Change
The Power for Change Is in Individual Actions

Rwanda, 1994

“My Lord Is a Loving G-d”
An Exercise in Forgiveness

Small Miracles

A Visit to the Apache Nation

A Walk in the Woods

The Flaming Sword

Consciousness and Transformation

Next Steps Along the Prophet’s Way

Afterword

Epilogue

Appendix: Lessons from Abram Poljak,
Herr Müller‘s Teacher

About the Author

Thom Hartmann is the award-winning, bestselling author of over a dozen books, including The Edison Gene, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, and Unequal Protection. A former psychotherapist and founder of the Hunter School, a school for children with ADHD, he lives in central Vermont.

Reviews

“This is the most important book I have ever read. . . . Now I can do no less than give my remaining years to its message.”
*Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Biology of Transcendence*

“This is the most important book I have ever read. . . . Now I can do no less than give my remaining years to its message.”
*Joseph Chilton Pearce, author of The Crack in the Cosmic Egg and The Biology of Transcendence*

“The Prophet’s Way produces its own butterfly effect: the simple act of reading it can change your life.”
*Michael Hutchison, author of Mega Brain Power and The Book of Floating*

“Thom Hartmann is an absolutely original mind, with an original way of looking at the world: he has made an enormous contribution to our culture.”
*Owen Lipstein, former editor in chief of Psychology Today and Mother Earth News*

“This book represents the path of a spiritual initiate and the signposts he met along the way. We Coptics are honored that Thom’s path included Hamid Bey and Master Stanley, two great lights of the 20th century.”
*John Davis, director of the Coptic Fellowship*

“Thom Hartmann is one of the great adventurers of our time, both in the world at large and the world of ideas.”
*Jill Neimark, journalist and author of Bloodsong*

“Thom Hartmann has a capacity to go to the essence of things. He does so with power and beauty.”
*Wayne Teasdale, author of The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World’*

“The Prophet’s Way draws you in like a novel, keeping you on the edge waiting to see what happens next, yet is a true story. Like a painting by a great master that was painted over and hidden for centuries, Thom Hartmann peels away the layers of distortion heaped on original visions of religion and faith which existed 2,000 years ago, revealing once again the essence of humanity, spirituality, and mysticism. This book helped me make a major change in my life for the better.”
*Rob Kall, coauthor of Biofeedback Theory & Practice; founder of FUTUREHEALTH, Inc.*

“Thom Hartmann exposes many of the ugly truths hiding beneath the surface of contemporary ‘civilization.’ Hartmann’s book masterfully combines autobiography, science, and Christian spirituality and shows us how to rehabilitate our world with acts of compassion rooted in spiritual humility and faith in the Creator of all creatures and cultures. Easy to read, hard to practice.”
*Jay Fikes, Ph.D., author of Carlos Castaneda: Academic Opportunism and the Psychedelic Sixties and R*

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*Neale Donald Walsch, author of Conversations with God*

“Thom Hartmann is one of those people who puts it all together for us, explaining not only what has seriously gone wrong in the world but, even more important, all that can still go right. He is an awakener of the highest order.”
*Marianne Williamson, author of A Return to Love and Everyday Grace*