A Call to Consciousness
In a world fracturing under the weight of mistrust, cynicism, and division, A Call to Consciousness arrives as both remedy and invitation.
Zerbanoo Gifford – human rights campaigner, founder of the ASHA Centre, and Founding Fellow at George Washington University’s One Humanity Lab – has spent nearly six decades working at the intersection of faith, justice, and compassionate action. This book is the distillation of that lifetime of moral practice.
Drawing on the world’s great spiritual traditions – Zoroastrianism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Ubuntu, Indigenous wisdom, and many more – Gifford traces the golden thread that runs quietly through them all: compassion that moves into service, truth that restores order, balance that protects the earth, joy that renews courage, and dignity that binds us as one.
Chapters explore Scientific Imagination, Mythic Imagination, The Golden Thread, Alchemy of the Heart, Sacred Stewardship, Divine Trust, Circle of Return, The Sacred Feminine, and the Great Synthesis – each an interwoven mode of remembering our shared humanity.
With a foreword by Dr. Ina Gjikondi, Founder of One Humanity Lab at George Washington University, and endorsements from His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama and faith leaders spanning every tradition, A Call to Consciousness is both a lantern for our times and a practical guide to ethical, purposeful living.
“It is a prayer with a kick.” – Dr. Ina Gjikondi