Eden

Is Our Way of Life Sustainable? Can humans control their destiny? Do we have freewill? Is our species the focus of creation? Our religious and legal institutions are based on the presumption that the answers to these questions are yes. If we hope to ever again live in concert with Nature, a requirement for our eventual survival, we had better be sure! Chet Shupe is an engineer and researcher who has spent thirty years delving into these questions. In his groundbreaking book, Eden, Shupe provides answers that may be hard to face. But the gut reaction they produce tells many that he may very well be right.Sure to engender controversy, Eden provides vivid glimpses of another life entirely—a sustainable way of life that allows humans to live together without sacrificing their spiritual freedom. A life in which living in the moment is as natural as breathing. This book leaves no sacred cow untouched, yet Shupe’s arguments hit the nail dead-on, time after time. Even outraged skeptics struggle to counter his reasoning.EDEN IS AN EXPOSE revealing the root causes of our intractable social, economic and political problems.EDEN IS A CALL TO ACTION for those whose instincts have been telling them something is fundamentally wrong.EDEN IS A MESSAGE OF HOPE about the resilience of the human spirit and its innate capacity for genuine intimacy, trust, and freedom.

Chet Shupe is a successful electronics engineer who once suffered profound attention deficit disorder (ADD). With ADD, social relationships baffled him. After years of bewilderment and depression, his condition was finally diagnosed, and effectively treated by the drug Ritalin. Suddenly, at 43, everything made sense.Shupe emerged from ADD with a unique perspective on the way society functions. His engineer's mind forced him to ask basic questions about how the brain is organized, why feelings exist, the origin of good and evil, the true dynamics of every relationship – whether between humans or countries – and how all of this relates to the wellbeing of humanity.For years, Shupe has pursued his inquiry with passion and conviction, ranging far into the intricacies of the modern social contract to question how well it is sustaining us, both individually and collectively. As a scientist, he bolsters every conclusion with logical and compelling examples. As a person of feeling and intuition, he expresses his hopes for humanity with genuine compassion and sincerity. As a whistleblower to the world, he speaks with urgency about the need to make fundamental, radical changes in our way of life, if we are to assure the eventual wellbeing of humankind.