New Expanded Speaker Series by author James Hilgendorf

EL CERRITO, Calif. - Sept. 24, 2015 - PRLog -- A new, expanded series of talks is being presented by James Hilgendorf, author of "Life & Death: A Buddhist Perspective" and nine other non-fiction titles that broadly focus on human empowerment, a new vision of ourselves, a new dream of America, and a new religion for the world.

The talks cover a broad list of topics, including:

Waking up to who you really are
You are the Center of the Universe
Karma and Morality
What is Happiness?  Relative and absolute.
The real dream of America
Women and Religion
Change yourself, change your environment
There are no negatives in life
Life & Death: Perspectives of Christianity, Islam and Buddhism compared
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
Don’t let anyone tell you something is impossible
Marriage, love & relationships
How do we see ourselves?
Life & Death: A Buddhist Perspective
Handbook for Youth in a Muddied Age
Religion and Democracy
A New Myth for America
Your Life in the Mirror
You are the Universe
The Great New Emerging Civilization
Youth - Become all that you can be
Buddhism and the Environment
A New Vision of Ourselves.  A New Myth for America.
Maybe We Need a New Religion
The True Meaning of Democracy
A New Myth for the World
Becoming the Person you dream of being
What our religions tell us about ourselves
Are we here forever?
Religion and the atomic bomb
Atheism, Humanism, and Buddhism
Self and Environment; How to Change the World
The Future of Religion

Hilgendorf is a filmmaker also, having produced a highly-acclaimed series of travel films and documentaries.  He and his wife Elizabeth have been practicing Buddhism for forty-three years with the Soka Gakkai International, the largest lay Buddhist organization in the world now, with 12,000,000 members in 192 countries and territories around the globe.

His website is at http://www.jameshilgendorf.org

To arrange talks anywhere in the United States, contact the author directly.