One of the founders of the human-potential movement shows how the millenial passage portends a new birth of humanity - a unique "jump time" in both global and individual consciousness.

In Jump Time , author and scholar Dr. Jean Houston explains how a series of concrete, identifiable elements have been building over the previous generation and how they point to a quantum leap forward for each of us. Her powerful book shows how humanity is on the brink of this leap and that every individual can participate.

Among the areas Dr. Houston explores are:

• The shift in human nature that is moving people to discover and use dominant or little-known capacities.
• How the breakthroughs in technological connection and the new ways of being in community in global society are repatterning human consciousness.
• How a dramatic new awareness of our shared and intermingled ecology, culture, economy, and ethnicity are creating a different kind of human being for the twenty-first century.
• How the uprising of spiritual yearning and cross-fertilization of the wisdom and practices of world spiritual tradition are newly uniting us to one another as well as to the universe.

Jump Time is the culmination of Dr. Houston's work as a psychologist and cultural anthropologist for a generation. It is the ultimate statement of the revolution in human potential and a crowning achievement from one of today's most dramatic and adventurous social thinker. - J.P Tarcher / Putnam

Jean Houston, Ph.D. is the author of many books, including The Possible Human, The Search for the Beloved, A Mythic Life, and A Passion for the Possible. An internationally renowned psychologist, scholar, philosopher, and teacher, Dr. Houston is the co-director of the Foundation for Mind-Research in Pomona, New York, and a consultant to the UNICEF and other international agencies.

Also by Jean Houston:

The Possible Human: A Course in Enhancing Your Physical, Mental & Creative Abilities (1982)

The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Sacred Psychology (1987)

A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story (1996)

A Passion for the Possible: A Guide to Realizing Your True Potential (1997)

with Robert Masters, Mind Games: The Guide to Inner Space (1972)

with Margaret Rubin, Manual for the Peacemaker: An Iroquois Legend to Heal Self & Society (1995)

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