She challenges readers to examine certain aspects of human existence that are only becoming available today in light of recent cultural and scientific developments. Margaret Placentra Johnston's writing is aimed at encouraging expanded spiritual vision. Margaret's first book, F aith Beyond Belief: Stories of Good People Who Left Their Church Behind, was named GOLD WINNER of the 2013 Nautilus Book Award in Religion/ spirituality (Western.)Īs a practicing Optometrist for over three decades, Dr. While challenging current assumptions, Overcoming Spiritual Myopia presents a hopeful view for an inclusive, interconnected and more loving society that would be ours if only more people could appreciate the unifying potential of postmodern spiritual understandings.
Its symptoms include Personification, Literalism, Fundamentalism, Triumphalism, simplistic Binary Logic and the Need for Certainty. New Lenses for Spiritual Clarity include Global Communications and Cultural Intermixing, the Perennial Philosophy, Big History, the New Physics, the Interfaith Movement and Interspirituality. In Overcoming Spiritual Myopia: A View Toward Peace Among the Religions, the provincial nature of exclusive belief systems is characterized as a culture-wide Spiritual Myopia. It also points beyond the atheist/believer controversy wrecking such divisive havoc in our culture today.Margaret is proud to announce the publication of her second book. Johnston’s book will help doubters to see things in a new light as well as those who are struggling to clarify their own spiritual vision. Her second set of stories are of people at the “mystic” level who can tolerate paradox and see truth and reality as multidimensional. But, while that step is a necessary one on the spiritual path, it is only intermediate. The stories of the nonbelievers-including an ex-Catholic, a former Mormon, and a clandestine Muslim apostate who left his community after the attacks of 9/11-show how complete confidence in human reason can lead away from literal religious interpretation. Some of these real-life accounts are by nonbelievers others are by those among the growing numbers of the “spiritual but not religious.” All are thoughtful people with too much integrity to live what they consider a lie. Johnston uses first-person stories as well as known spiritual authorities in describing various stages of religious growth. Faith Beyond Belief gives a much-needed voice to the “good” people who have left their church but whose spirituality continues to mature.
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