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As told in Friendship with God, if we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we're all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we've done all our lives pointless.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.

The new spirituality will step away from dogma, will step away from 'We're right and you're wrong.'

There is a divine purpose behind everything - and therefore a divine presence in everything.

I think in metaphysical terms, I would call that increasing the speed of the vibration of life.

The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.

I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

They may not use the word better. But they certainly believe that they'll go to heaven and Jews will not.

The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true.

The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.

And because we are, somehow, better than they, we get to go to heaven and they don't. Christians will tell you outright that they believe that.

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

As the new spirituality begins to become the pervasive spirituality of the planet, we'll find that we have abandoned our philosophy of contradictions in which we say we're all one but continue to try to win.

One either has to believe in a God who's terribly prejudiced, or disbelieve the teachings of such exclusionary theologies. Religions have taught us that 'we are better than they.'

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.