In this new work, The Modern Chirstian Mystic, Albert LaChance presents a complete reframing of Christianity as an experiential rather than dogmatic approach to the presence of Christ. It emphasizes the idea of Christ as the source and sustainer of the cosmos, the Earth, the life community, and global culture. As such, it takes a “unitive” approach, with Christianity understood as being in mystical union with global culture, and with the ecological realities of the Earth. In the author’s view, Christianity thus joins hands with Buddhism, Hinduism, and Taoism in a unitive oneness with all that is. Consisting of twenty-eight short chapters, The Modern Christian Mystic focuses on the presence of God permeating and organizing the beginning of existence, in the form of consciousness giving birth to energy, and then the material reality of the universe. The author argues that just as St. Augustine introduced the “pagan” Plato to Christianity, and a millennium later St. Thomas Aquinas revitalized his faith with the “pagan” philosophy of Aristotle, so in the modern age the “non-theism” of Buddhism, Taoism, and Hinduism holds the key to a revivified mystical practice. The Modern Christian Mystic posits a nurturing new world based on commonality rather than conflict in the world of spirit. (From RandomHouse.com)

Dr. Albert LaChance's book, Cultural Addiction: The Greenspirit Guide to Recovery, truthfully acknowledge the subtle, or perhaps, obvious problem that churns in the back of our minds: we are living a degraded life. With each day that passes, we witness the slow poisoning and destruction of our planet. We are pained at the ever growing list of endangered or extinct species, made so by "industry" plowing through their habitats. We leave once lush areas of earth dead and barren, stripped raw to provide for our insatiable need for more and more.

The Architecture of the Soul introduces and maps out a model of the human person that represents a new way of interpreting and treating human — and by extension global — dysfunction. Arising from the transpersonal and integral schools of psychology, this model provides an alternative to the view of the human person as a product of brain chemistry, whose dysfunctional behavior can be treated through pharmaceuticals and traditional psychology. Based on the author’s years of clinical experience treating addiction, the book posits a human psyche made up of three zones of awareness. The first two are reached by present-day psychology, focusing on cognitive and affective disorders, and therapies that treat addictive disorders. The crucial third zone, called Tertiary Awareness, is the "rudder" of the human personality that contains deep bio- and eco-wisdoms that must be brought to consciousness and cultivated. In explaining how to integrate self and spirit, the author demonstrates how people must be made aware of this zone if we are to survive as a species and a planet.

Embracing Earth: Catholic Approaches to Ecology

"In these essays the Catholic voice in its ecological concerns finds a new fullness of expression. Here as in so many aspects of the human venture the Catholic community provides insight and inspiration on a comprehensive scale beyond that available anywhere else." - Thomas Berry "

[This collection is] drawn from a variety of Catholics who are responding to the planetary crisis. They give witness to the deep awakenings happening within themselves and within the lives of many Catholics." - Miriam Therese MacGillis

Embracing Earth brings together original and seminal contributions by contemporary Catholic spiritual and mystical writers who explore the Christian view of nature and our place in it. Their writings address not only theological, philosophical and spiritual parameters but specific, concrete issues as well.

This is a sensitive reflection on the path of woman as mother, wife, colleague and lover. The author shares her meditations on birth, beauty, relationships and wisdom. For Carol LaChance the way of the mother is the way home… to be a participant in furthering and nurturing new life, physically, psychologically, and spiritually… for in that movement of history, in the terror and ecstasy of our conscious ‘yes’, lies possibly and the promise of the future.