Here's your red-ribbon super-duper mystery gift!

May it inspire and sustain you!

As promised, your red-ribbon super-duper mystery gift . . .

Last week, in celebrating The Raft’s “Thanksiversary,” I promised you a surprise gift too big for your inbox.

Are you ready?

Ready, set, unwrap . . .

Here’s The Book of the World: A Contemporary Scripture (original publication in 2008). I’ve uploaded the entire book to a new section on The Raft called “Bonus Content.”

I’ve broken the book into around twenty parts, each linked to the next so that you can continue reading at a comfortable pace.

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What’s The Book of the World?

I edited and published this one-of-a-kind book on behalf of its anonymous author. It’s one of the most remarkable projects I’ve ever been part of.

Reflected in this book’s pages are many of the values and concerns that are central to the living of a spiritual life in a contemporary world, such as

• the cultivation of compassion

• the expansion of peace and justice

• the growth of respect for this planet and all living things

The book calls us out of complacency, urging us to keep on with the great work of making our soul, which is, at the same time, the great work of making the world.

Imagine scripture created for today. Scripture without a religion. Scripture intended not to replace other holy books but to offer alongside them its own poignant witness. Scripture written not by prophet or saint, mystic or messiah, guru or god, but by the world. Scripture nearly 3,000 verses long, woven seamlessly from quotations from around the globe. Scripture whose creator is unknown and whose origins are a mystery. Scripture that first appeared on the Internet, only to be suppressed. Scripture meant not only to be read but also to be tested, and transcended.

Imagine it no more. That scripture is here.

Again, I’m so grateful for you!