<B>Explores how the Universe, our planet, ourselves, and everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose</B><BR><BR>• 2023 Nautilus Gold Award<BR><BR>• Examines our emergence as self-aware members of a Universe that is itself a unified and innately sentient entity that exists TO evolve<BR><BR>• Shares leading-edge scientific breakthroughs and shows how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living being--Gaia<BR><BR>• Rewrites evolution as not driven by random occurrences and mutations but by intelligently informed and meaningful information flows and processes<BR><BR>Exploring our emergence as self-aware members of a planetary home and entire Universe that is a unified and innately sentient entity, Jude Currivan, Ph.D., shows that mind and consciousness are not what we possess but what we and the whole world fundamentally are. She reveals our Universe as “a great thought of cosmic mind,” manifesting as a cosmic hologram of