Dear Kurt, Many thanks for your new and excellent blog very useful to form the spiritual culture of harmonious civilization in the 21st century. This culture can not exist without the TCIA as its 'major "interfaith book" in your words. But this culture can not exist without the scientific components of harmony, without a scientific dimension of social harmony, which is represented in the main scientific "harmony book" - in the ABC of Harmony (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478). These two books constitute the two inseparable dimensions of spiritual culture for harmonious civilization: interfaith/interspiritual/religious and scientific which both are united, coincided and inseparable in the harmony as them common denominator. Only on the basis of harmony can grow harmonious unity of religion and science in culture of a new civilization. They can and will reinforce each other and work with each other in their harmonious unity through mutual harmonious education. It is presented in detail in the GHA Project of Interfaith Harmonious Education (CIHE: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=561) on the basis of its two "main" books - TCIA and the ABC of Harmony. A new culture of harmonious civilization is a culture not a spiritual sections, divisions and them confrontation as in industrial civilization and the culture of spiritual unity and cooperation on the basis of common universal and global harmony. This also is applied to combining disparate social sciences. New research project GHA - CSSS (www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=579) gives the example of combining and joint development of global sociology and global statistics. Without them unity, they are weak and helpless in many ways. Their union on a common (spheral) basis of global social structure of harmonious (spheral) classes including all population makes them a powerful tool for global peace, sustainable development and prosperity of all nations, excluding the social pathologies of war, terror, hunger, poverty, financial tyranny, global crises, etc. Of course, the culture of harmonious civilization, unlike the culture of outgoing industrial civilization, can be only the result of conscious (with common knowledge of social and spiritual harmony) and equitable cooperation of all its members. Such a pattern of a harmonious collaboration builds GHA more than 8 years in joint 46 projects and 7 books. Of course, it's a pioneer, and therefore a very complex way that can not be absolutely perfect and smooth. On it there are natural conflicts, the overcoming of which makes us all wiser in harmony. This is our common philosophy and vision in GHA. Salute to all of us! Salute to GHA in honor of the fourth anniversary of Global Harmony Day on June 21! With love, best harmony wishes, Leo Dr Leo Semashko: State Councillor of St. Petersburg, Philosopher, Sociologist and Peacemaker from Harmony; Director: Tetrasociology Public Institute, Russia; Founding President, Global Harmony Association (GHA); Director, GHA Website "Peace from Harmony": www.peacefromharmony.org World Interfaith Harmony Project on the ABC of Harmony Base: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=541; GHA Program Book, The ABC of Harmony: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=478; P/Web page: www.peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=253; Address: 7/4-42 Ho-Shi-Min Street, St. Petersburg 194356, Russia Phone: 7 (812) 597-65-71; Skype: leo.semahko Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/leo.semashko?ref=tn_tnmn ----- Original Message ----- From: Kurt Johnson, kurtjohnsonisd@xxxxxxxxx To: leo.semashko@xxxxxxxxx Sent: 15 ???? 2013 ?., 8:04:42 Subject: A link that will interest you, and an invitation to blog GHA, CIHE colleagues-- You'll be interested in the link below and the invitation there to blog. With the backing of a coalition of Progressive Christian, Advaita Vedanta and Humanist groups, TheSpeakEasy media has taken on THE COMING INTERSPIRITUAL AGE (TCIA) book for a media and educational campaign. You will recognize many of the historical figures at: http://www.mikemorrell.org/2013/06/speakeasy-the-coming-interspiritual-age/ It will be very interesting to see what happens now as a major "interfaith book" like TCIA is introduced to progressive audiences within and across the traditions. This is such an interesting time in our global and multicultural melding! And we are all part of it thanks to those who have pulled GHA together! A salute to them! kurt Dr. Kurt Johnson www.thecominginterspiritualage.com www.isdna.org www.onespiritinterfaith.org GHA-USA Vice President and a Director, CIHE