Ascend: Releasing the Power of the Human Spirit - Softcover

Ascend: Releasing the Power of the Human Spirit brings us to the foundations of the Judaeo-Christian tradition -- life-transforming relationships with the God who speaks to us in and through our hearts and inspires us to live above destructive struggle through compassion, love, and peace. It helps us to build transforming relationships with ourselves and significant others through trust and empathy, and with God by making and sustaining a vital connection from within. When we are hard-wired to the God within, we break the hold of insecurity, overcome life's injustices, act from our deeply embedded values, live redemptively, and exult in our transformation. Ultimately, we ascend to spiritual well-being by releasing the power within -- the power of the human spirit, God's Spirit, expressed in our everyday lives as a surge of positivity . . . like a mighty wave.

James L. Cantanzaro is president of Chattanooga State Technical Community College in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He is a popular keynote speaker at national conferences and speaks to church groups, colleges, and universities across North America. His online course, Religions of the World as Practiced in America, has been recognized by Syllabus magazine for its use of streamed interviews with more than fifty of America's leading authorities on religion.