Having traveled over 2,000,000 miles to forty-four countries over 35 years, this author has found that people of all cultures universally share the same basic needs and wants; to love and be loved, to provide a better life for their children, and more basically, to experience life without threat. Threat can manifest in the form of hunger, poverty, illiteracy, illness, or physical/emotional/spiritual aggression. The 21st century provides an atmosphere of escalating violence, and terror, amidst the Middle East in particular, and the world in general. Such as the Roman Forum prior to the turn of the first millennia after Christ, mankind seems unable or unwilling to cease participation in the spiritual morphine of violence whether real or virtual, or vicarious. This author has written Toward Spiritual Sovereignty, A New Reformation, and Rosebud, in order to diagnose spiritual samodaya (Buddhist terminology for emotional craving), and use knowledge and wisdom from masters of ages past to refocus the spirit of man (spiritus mundi) on a wholesome recreation of the world community. Every soul has the divine right to determine his or her sacred path to their unique destiny upon the horizons of learned choice. Political aggression, (governmental power), religious aggression (proselytizing), and financial aggression (voracious capitalism) work against the ends of happiness and wellbeing. These works are an attempt to advocate for the abolition of hindrance toward those ends, to advocate, without fetter, for spiritual sovereignty of every soul.

The title of the book is drawn from a quote from none other than Mother Teresa. Quoting an undated confession addressed to Jesus at the suggestion of a confessor, "Lord, my God, who am I that you should forsake me? The Child of your Love - and now become as the most hated one - the one - You have thrown away as unwanted - unloved. I call, I cling, I want - and there is no One to answer - no One on whom I can cling - no, No One. - Alone... Where is my faith - even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness & darkness - My God - how painful is this unknown pain - I have no Faith - I dare not utter the words & thoughts that crowd in my heart - & make me suffer untold agony. So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them - because of the blasphemy - If there be God - please forgive me - When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven - there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives & hurt my very soul. - I am told God loves me - and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul. Did I make a mistake in surrendering blindly to the Call of the Sacred Heart?" Whose heart could not be moved by the profound loneliness of Teresa's suffering...her chalice of pain? This book offers a spiritual antidote to the religious dogma that failed Teresa and millions of others...A Chalice Of Miracles.

The title of the book is drawn from a quote from none other than Mother Teresa. Quoting an undated confession addressed to Jesus at the suggestion of a confessor, "Lord, my God, who am I that you should forsake me? The Child of your Love - and now become as the most hated one - the one - You have thrown away as unwanted - unloved. I call, I cling, I want - and there is no One to answer - no One on whom I can cling - no, No One. - Alone... Where is my faith - even deep down right in there is nothing, but emptiness & darkness - My God - how painful is this unknown pain - I have no Faith - I dare not utter the words & thoughts that crowd in my heart - & make me suffer untold agony. So many unanswered questions live within me afraid to uncover them - because of the blasphemy - If there be God - please forgive me - When I try to raise my thoughts to Heaven - there is such convicting emptiness that those very thoughts return like sharp knives & hurt my very soul. - I am told God loves me - and yet the reality of darkness & coldness & emptiness is so great that nothing touches my soul. Did I make a mistake in surrendering blindly to the Call of the Sacred Heart?" Whose heart could not be moved by the profound loneliness of Teresa's suffering...her chalice of pain? This book offers a spiritual antidote to the religious dogma that failed Teresa and millions of others...A Chalice Of Miracles.

Having traveled over 2,000,000 miles to forty-four countries over 35 years, this author has found that people of all cultures universally share the same basic needs and wants; to love and be loved, to provide a better life for their children, and more basically, to experience life without threat. Threat can manifest in the form of hunger, poverty, illiteracy, illness, or physical/emotional/spiritual aggression. The 21st century provides an atmosphere of escalating violence, and terror, amidst the Middle East in particular, and the world in general. Such as the Roman Forum prior to the turn of the first millennia after Christ, mankind seems unable or unwilling to cease participation in the spiritual morphine of violence whether real or virtual, or vicarious. This author has written Toward Spiritual Sovereignty, A New Reformation, and Rosebud, in order to diagnose spiritual samodaya (Buddhist terminology for emotional craving), and use knowledge and wisdom from masters of ages past to refocus the spirit of man (spiritus mundi) on a wholesome recreation of the world community. Every soul has the divine right to determine his or her sacred path to their unique destiny upon the horizons of learned choice. Political aggression, (governmental power), religious aggression (proselytizing), and financial aggression (voracious capitalism) work against the ends of happiness and wellbeing. These works are an attempt to advocate for the abolition of hindrance toward those ends, to advocate, without fetter, for spiritual sovereignty of every soul.