“Thinking Big to Save Humanity”: A Review of The Rainbow Bridge: Bridge to Inner Peace and to World Peace (4th ed.) by Brent N. Hunter
(San Francisco and Los Angeles: Spirit Rising Publications, 2015). ISBN: 978-0-9912064-4-5 Scanning the nine pages of blurbs at the start of this important handbook for making a difference in a dark and troubled world, you will immediately notice the names: His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Neale Donald Walsch, Arun Gandhi, Louis Gossett Jr., Ervin Laszlo, and Edgar Mitchell, among many others. This, and the fact that it is now in its fourth edition, creates big expectations for The Rainbow Bridge , and, to me, it meets them. To those who have been doing social justice and spiritual work for any length of time—for me it is more than two decades—you will find the age-old wisdom very familiar and the continually quoted names to be in many ways your standard fare. In balance, however, with this abundance of the familiar are sections of the book that are very original, profound, and most importantly, ambitious . Perhaps some readers might even think they are naïve . ...