What is the Ultimate Truth about God?

LONDON - Oct. 9, 2013 - PRLog -- On very rare occasions a book is written that has the potential to shake up our understanding of reality and change the world. It is no exaggeration to suggest that the new book by Oxford philosopher Steven Colborne is indeed such a book.

Ultimate Truth: God Beyond Religion (£7.99, SilverWood Books) draws from and expands upon a series of articles published on Steven’s philosophy blog www.perfectchaos.org in the first few months of 2012. The articles explore the author’s new found understanding of how God is omnipresent in all aspects of life and existence, and is not limited by cultural or religious boundaries.

This is the second book from the author, who suffers from schizoaffective disorder. His first book ‘The Philosophy of a Mad Man’ was published in 2012 and documents his desperate search for spiritual enlightenment following the traumatic death of his mother to cancer. The journey ends with a ‘coming home’ to Christianity and the realisation that the quest for enlightenment rarely ends with finding it, but does often reveal what causes one to search for enlightenment in the first place.

Ultimate Truth: God Beyond Religion is the next stage in Steven’s journey. It was inspired by a third spell in a psychiatric hospital in 2011, during the completion of Steven’s postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Religion at Heythrop College in London. During this time, Steven began to question his Christian faith and realised that it didn’t properly equate with his views and experiences of God.

The new book explains the errors of traditional theological thinking before proceeding to describe the true nature of God in a way that religion has not yet managed to do. He discusses a wide range of controversial topics ranging from the battle of good vs evil, the reasons why we suffer, whether there is such a thing as free will and why he believes that concepts such as karma and enlightenment are flawed. He also discusses what he considers might become the Church of the Future as religion continues to evolve.

“I feel I am finally in a place of great clarity, where for the first time I understand in principle the way God’s world works. As a result, I am no longer a Christian. There is no philosophical word or phrase I have found that sums up my worldview. I am close to being a panentheist or a pantheist, but neither of these terms adequately captures what I believe. So for the moment, it seems, my belief is a somewhat of a solitary one, but one I believe to be the truth”, explains Steven.

‘Ultimate Truth: God Beyond Religion’ was released on 16^th September 2013 and is published by SilverWood Books