Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World

by Betty J. Kovacs Ph.D.

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Author: Betty J. Kovacs Ph.D.

Publisher: The Kamlak Center

Paperback:
ISBN 10: 0972100555
ISBN 13: 978-0972100557

Why did the Roman Church wage a centuries-long campaign to destroy Classical culture and all previous spiritual traditions? What was the secret at the heart of these traditions that was so powerful that an organization would feel justified in torturing and murdering men, women, and children; in burning Christian gospels, Gnostic texts, Jewish texts, Arabic manuscripts; and in destroying temples, monasteries, sanctuaries, Mystery Schools and academies of higher learning?

This persistent repression of the shaman-mystic-scientist traditions has left Western culture addicted to a tragically limited and negative worldview that now threatens to destroy the world. Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That is Changing the World returns to us these spiritual secrets on which our survival now depends:

Our soul stories that carry the blueprint for our evolution
The sacred knowledge that we are immortal, divine, and creative
The wisdom of the heart that was nurtured by the ancient shaman-mystic-scientist cultures and is now being validated by the new science

Review

"Here are the spiritual secrets that the priests of the patriarchy and their drive for power have tried to repress, but which we urgently need at this present moment of evolutionary crisis."

--Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. Sufi teacher and author, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

"Betty Kovács' Merchants of Light is a magnificent masterpiece of illumined scholarship, the most grounded and majestic evolutionary intelligence, and the exquisitely written distillation of a lifetime's experience of revelation and grace."

--Andrew Harvey, Poet, mystical scholar, spiritual teacher, Founder and Director of Institute for Sacred Activism

"This splendid book is a tour de force, an infusion of wisdom capable of changing the direction and fate of our species."

--Larry Dossey, M.D. Author, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

"In Merchants of Light, Betty Kovács combines extensive historical scholarship with personal memoir to show how we lost the knowledge of our immortality and divinity and how we are reclaiming it today. A moving and compelling account that taught me many things. Vital reading in the century where we either transform ourselves or perish."

--Christopher Bache, Ph.D. Author, Diamonds from Heaven and Dark Night, Early Dawn

"Merchants of Light is a brilliant tour de force through 40,000 years of human evolution. This is a wonderful and heart-opening book, a guide for awakening the soul of the world."

--Barbara Hand Clow, Author, Awakening the Planetary Mind and Alchemy of Nine Dimensions

From the Back Cover

"Here are the spiritual secrets that the priests of the patriarchy and their drive for power have tried to repress, but which we urgently need at this present moment of evolutionary crisis."

--Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, Ph.D. Sufi Teacher, author, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth

"Betty Kovács' Merchants of Light is a magnificent masterpiece of illumined scholarship, the most grounded and majestic evolutionary intelligence, and the exquisitely written distillation of a lifetime's experience of revelation and grace."

--Andrew Harvey, mystical scholar, Founder, Institute for Sacred Activism

"This splendid book is a tour de force, an infusion of wisdom capable of changing the direction and fate of our species."

--Larry Dossey, M.D. Author, One Mind: How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

Why did the Roman Church wage a centuries-long campaign to destroy Classical culture and all previous spiritual traditions? What was the secret at the heart of these traditions that was so powerful that an organization would feel justified in torturing and murdering men, women, and children; in burning Christian gospels, Gnostic texts, Jewish texts, Arabic manuscripts; and in destroying temples, monasteries, sanctuaries, Mystery Schools and academies of higher learning? Merchants of Light returns to us these spiritual secrets on which our survival now depends:

Our soul stories that carry the blueprint for our evolution
The sacred knowledge that we are immortal, divine, and creative
The wisdom of the heart that was nurtured by the ancient shaman-mystic-scientist cultures and is now being validated by the new science

Betty J. Kovács, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine, in Comparative Literature and Theory of Symbolic/Mythic Language. She served many years as Chair and Program Chair on the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont in California and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation. She is author of The Miracle of Death: There is Nothing But Life.

About the Author

Betty J. Kovacs received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, in Comparative Literature and Theory of Symbolic/Mythic Language. She has studied and taught in Europe and the United States. She taught Literature, Writing, and Symbolic/Mythic Language for twenty-five years. She served many years as Chair and Program Chair on the Board of Directors of the Jung Society of Claremont in California and sits on the Academic Advisory Board of Forever Family Foundation. Seminar series include "Deeper Orders of Reality: Creating Our Future" and "The Feminine Dimension of the Divine." Dr. Kovacs is author of Merchants of Light: The Consciousness That Is Changing the World and The Miracle of Death: There Is Nothing But Life. DVDs available on Amazon.com: "The Dream of the Cosmos: An Interview with Anne Baring by Dr. Betty J. Kovacs." Dr. Kovacs has been interviewed on radio, local cable TV, in newspapers and magazines, and is a frequent radio show guest.