Awaken

Foreword

This is a remarkable book. Anyone who intends to exercise leadership in today's complex and volatile business and social environment needs to read it.

Here, Raj Sisodia describes the personal journey we must all take in order to step into our personal power; gain full agency; and participate in healing the fragmentation in America and the world. This is a book full of wisdom – wisdom that Raj acknowledges came through him and not from him – the most profound gift we can receive – the gift from universal consciousness – the gift of Grace.

The journey Raj describes is distinctly his own painful and ultimately successful journey toward accessing the wisdom to make instant and informed choices. At the same time, it is an archetype for the necessary developmental path we must all take with commitment and fortitude to trust and cross the threshold. Once we do, we encounter the inevitable “road of trials” that the philosopher Joseph Campbell describes as the Hero's Journey. In trusting ourselves, if we don't turn back, we will meet our guides who will help us through the most difficult of these trials.

Like Raj, we will ultimately reach our destination – that level of development when our life becomes the one that was intended for us: a life of service infused with gratitude, joy, and fulfillment. Most importantly, this is the point at which we regain our inborn innocence – like that of the peaceful warrior – immune, inviolable, and resilient. This is the Call of our Time: ...