<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Gene Marshall <<a href="mailto:jgmarshall@cableone.net">jgmarshall@cableone.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">November 26, 2013 10:25:17 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Gene Marshall <<a href="mailto:jgmarshall@cableone.net">jgmarshall@cableone.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Religion? Next Christianity??</b><br></span></div><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Dear Friends,</span><div style="font-size: 17px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 17px; ">I have selected you for this mailing because of our conversations and relationships having to do with creating a Next Christian Practice that works for many people who want to live realistically in this century.</div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 17px; ">To this end I have been writing books that seem to me crucial background for supporting this possibility. My last two books, still awaiting publication, are of special importance to me.</div><div style="font-size: 17px; "><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">I want to share with you our new web side, and especially a video of a talk I gave at a workshop on the Philosophy of Truth, Consciousness, Wonder, and Religion. This well-made video (thank you Maryellen Greulich) was made of the first talk of a workshop I conducted in Bloomington, Indiana.<br><br>You can access it by going to our website – <a href="http://www.RealisticLiving.org/">http://www.RealisticLiving.org</a> – and then click <b>Videos</b> and then scroll down to the next to last video. Clicking this video box starts a 36-minute talk. This talk was part of a 9am to 4pm workshop in which I led talks and exercises on the topics of my recent Book:<br><br><i>The Enigma of Consciosness: A Philosophy of Profound Humanness and Religion.</i><br><br>This book is still in process of being published, but drafts of its chapters are up on our website for feedback purposes:<br><br><a href="http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/Enigma/">http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/Enigma/</a> All these chapters have been updated in the last month.<br><br>You are welcome to download any of the draft chapters of this book and make feedback on them. I hope to see a final draft published in 2014.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">Also, I have finished an even more recent book: </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><i>The Love and History and the Future of Christianity: Toward a Manifesto for a Next Christianity</i></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">While <i>Enigma</i> is a general philosophy of religion, this book is more directly on the topic of a Next Christian Practice. You can also download advanced drafts of chapters of this book:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/History/">http://www.RealisticLiving.org/PDF/History/</a></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;">I am inviting you not only to read portions of these writings and provide feedback for their improvement, I am inviting you to long-term conversation about these topics and assistance in figuring out how hundreds of leaders can be inspired to put into history a strong example of a Next Christian practice.<br><br>Grace and Peace (transformative happenings and boundless equanimity),</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 17px; ">Gene </span></div></div></div><br></body></html>