Traveling to a New America - Latest Stops

EL CERRITO, Calif. - Sept. 13, 2016 - PRLog -- "Traveling to a New America", the town-to-town and city-to-city tour of America created by author James Hilgendorf, made its recent stops in Vancouver, Washington and Crockett, California.

Hilgendorf is a filmmaker, speaker, poet, and the author of ten non-fiction books that are opening the way to a new vision of ourselves, a new dream of America, and a new religion for the world.

He made the stop in Vancourver, Washington, just across the river from Portland, Oregon, after spending a week in Portland and giving two talks - one at the Eastrose Unitarian Fellowship, and the other at the Wy-East Unitarian Universalist Congregation.

In Crockett, California, a small town of about three thousand, he met with many people, one by one, on the town's streets, to talk about their feelings and vision of the country at this time in its history.  He also gave a poetry reading at the Valona Deli.

His travels, and what he is finding out about America, can be followed on his Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/NewDreamOfAmerica/?ref=br_tf

In his book, "A New Myth for America", he writes:

"Life unfolding in immense diversity.  Horses and dogs and cats and alligators and chimpanzees and birds in a whirl and the whole incredible parade of good and evil characters, villains, do-gooders, shopkeepers, business men in suits, the stars of our world, and war and peace and hatred and love, and a single soul at the heart of it all, learning, growing, manifesting, drawing upon the heart of the universe amid nuclear explosions, atomic bombs, hydrogen bombs, asteroids beaming toward the earth, this one soul expressing and manifesting it all.

"These are the people to come.

"They are greater than you and I, but they could never be here but for you and I and our delusions and illusions, they are going to expand upon the land of America and bless it from the farms and fields and manhattan towers to the blue rivers and majestic mountains, the sounds of America, the sounds of people marching from the infinite past, drumming their drums, playing their bugles, they are coming to announce a new world."

Hilgendorf is a Buddhist, having practiced Buddhism for over forty years with the Soka Gakkai International, the largest Buddhist lay organization in the world now, with 12,000,000 members in 192 countries and territories around the globe; and his outlook is colored by Buddhism's emphasis upon the sanctity of all life and respect for the dignity of all individuals regardless of their race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, or even religion.

Speaking engagements can be arranged through his website at http://www.jameshilgendorf.org