William Monroe Whittle

How I Stopped Believing in the End of the World: a Story About Religion and Creativity William Monroe Whittle

A Journey Into the Depths of Religious Revelation and Human CreationIn this fascinating documented account, a devout Christian believer journey's into the depths of religious experience and fundamentalist states of mind. He suffers a major loss in his life, and struggles to reconcile the inconsistency of this loss with the beliefs he loves so well. As he ventures beyond the familiar, his fundamentalist ideas open into a more expansive and illuminating reality. He discovers, during this journey, how certain destructive fundamentalist beliefs came to exist. He sees why people can let go of these beliefs and embrace a fulfilling new way of being. As this story unfolds, its events illustrate which states of mind stand in the way of our best possibilities and which states of mind can move us toward greater fulfillment in a rapidly changing world.