Ralph White discusses The Jeweled Highway at Green Apple Books

Please join Green Apple Books in welcoming Ralph White, author of The Jeweled Highway, on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 at 7pm at our Clement St. location (506 Clement St.).

Filled with beauty, transcendence and vitality, The Jeweled Highway is about the search to find the secrets of life and give them to others. A new story for our time by a pioneer of the consciousness movement, Ralph White’s memoir traces the life of someone who unexpectedly embarks on a spiritual quest into a new worldview, experiences an opening to the mystical, and the beginning of a life dedicated to the creation of a new culture. It takes the reader from childhood in the Celtic world, through adolescence in gritty Northern England, to the outburst of freedom in the ’60s. A gripping narrative of a life at the forefront in a global movement, readers will also gain an insider’s knowledge of the origins of major centers of holistic learning, learn why they have served as such focal points for positive change, and how are they part of a worldwide emergence of points of holistic learning intent on bringing greater sanity, wisdom and awareness to the world.

Ralph White is co-founder of the New York Open Center, America’s leading urban institution of holistic learning, where his current role is Creative Director. He is an international speaker on spirituality, consciousness, the history of the Western Tradition. He is also editor of the award winning Lapis magazine, and taught the first fully accredited course in holistic thinking and learning at New York University. He has made numerous appearances on radio and television, both in the United States and internationally, including National Public Radio, the BBC World Service, Voice of America, and CBS Nightwatch with Charlie Rose. He was featured in a prominent recent article in the Los Angeles Times, and been quoted in The New York Times, Time magazine, the New York Daily News, the New York Observer, and many other more holistically oriented publications. He currently hosts a program on WBAI FM radio in New York City where he has interviewed many of the major figures in the holistic world and numerous scholars in the fields of multicultural mysticism and ecology.