Praise for Return of the Avatars

Sasha Siem, Ph.D.

Sound Alchemist, Singer, Composer, The Earth Song

“Return of the Avatars is a masterpiece that works on multiple levels to facilitate awakening in the most pleasurable and profound of ways. Interweaving story with sacred practices, this brilliant book is less a book than a portal, activating us to become conscious future creators. Thank you Anneloes Smitsman and Jean Houston for this roadmap. Your collaboration is a work of genius and a great gift.”

Jude Currivan, Ph.D.

Cosmologist, Author, The Story of GAIA

“This extraordinarily powerful sequel to the Future Humans Trilogy continues to share profound insights and way-showers for our cosmic destiny. Beyond reading, this is a book to be experienced and essentially embodied. Compassionately facing the shadow and trauma of our evolutionary journey thus far, the authors offer wise and practical tools for their and so our re-soulution. Empowering us at the inner depths of our being, they inspirationally support our hearing and aligning with the emergent impulse of the entire Universe and our planetary home Gaia; to arise to become their co-evolutionary partners and actualize our future human potential.”

Mariana Bozesan, Ph.D.

Author, Integral Investing, Full member Club of Rome

“Few authors have the courage and skill to discuss the impossibilities of the human factor from the perspective of consciousness evolution, and to give hope at a time of crisis. Anneloes Smitsman and Jean Houston have that courage because they know that as we evolve, we can make the impossible of the previous stage of evolution possible in the next stage by using the exponentially growing complexity of consciousness evolution to our advantage. This genre-defying book captures this new potentiality and paints a picture of a powerful future with stunning insights and beautiful imagination.”

Julie Krull, Ph.D.

Author, Fractured Grace, Founder & President of GOOD of the Whole

“I am celebrating this evolutionary masterpiece! Return of the Avatars, book two in the Future Humans Trilogy, exudes creative genius, visionary insight, and archetypal pathways to navigate these liminal, evolutionary times of whole-systems transformation. The relatable, relevant, and real-time storytelling is brilliant. Grounded in new science and ancient spiritual wisdom, it leaves the reader with a peculiar sense of comfort and hope. The adventure and intrigue catalyze our innate capacities and quicken our gestating evolutionary potentials. From the Cosmic Compass to the Cosmic Mirror, we are invited into layers upon layers of teachings and tools that will induce higher states of consciousness, access the imaginal realm, and activate new codes and patterns. Bravo, Drs. Jean Houston and Anneloes Smitsman! Return of the Avatars is a magnificent, inspiring guide to consciously evolve ourselves and our world. With the turning of each page, we become equipped cosmic architects of the future human we know is possible.”

Rama Mani, Ph.D.

Co-Founder, Home for Humanity

“Return of the Avatars catapults us at quantum pace into a mytho-poetic journey of exploration and expansion of our fathomless inner capacities and of unfathomed cosmic realities. I found myself torn between devouring the pages at high speed in breathless fascination, and lingering to savor each word of this portable masterpiece. I have no doubt that this book will remain ensconced at my bedside table for years to come, so I can plunge into it over and over again to contemplate, apply, and integrate the incandescent wisdom and scintillating scientific innovations woven seamlessly into every chapter. Building on the wonder of The Quest of Rose, this book offers us an illuminating adventure into our possible future, and I wholeheartedly recommend it to questers of all ages.”

Alexander Schieffer, Ph.D.

Co-Founder, Home for Humanity

“DELICIOUS! Exactly the evolutionary food we now need, cooked to the finest! Return of the Avatars provides a profound initiation journey, magnificently crafted for this moment of planetary awakening—deep and accessible, scientific and playful, grounded and imaginative, courageous and irresistible. A Jump-Time book, oozing with the “lure of becoming” that can propel us into the era of the Future Human. A transformative—and beautifully transgenerational—guide to the New Story that we cannot afford to miss.”

Jim Garrison, Ph.D.

Founder & President Ubiquity University

“Return of the Avatars is where the Future Humans Trilogy creates traction toward transformation. It offers practical steps all of us can take that empower our capacity to navigate an increasingly dark world and thrive. The Cosmic Architect Practices and transformational tools are the yellow brick road to the future we all seek for our children unto the seventh generation.”

Anne Baring, Ph.D.

Author, The Dream of the Cosmos: A Quest for the Soul

“A book written from the cosmic heart—deeply engaging our own heart, as well as our mind. It informs, enlightens and transforms with a light touch, and more than a touch of magic, to delight us as we journey through it, discovering treasures of insight as we go.”

Tomas Björkman

Author, The World We Create, Founder of Ekskäret Foundation

“Return of the Avatars is a profound guidebook for exploring the deep societal transition that humanity is right now entering into. It helps us to experience and re-member who we are from our eternal bonds of life, as children of the evolutionary process and ancestors of the future. Nordic myths and indigenous wisdom are masterfully woven together with the latest scientific discoveries about the nature of consciousness and the systemic architecture of life. Return of the Avatars also gives you tools to decode and transform the harmful systems of dominance, beginning with ourselves, and change the ways we relate, and the why and how we play the game of life on planet Earth.”

Dr. Bruce H. Lipton, Ph.D.

Author, The Biology of Belief & The Honeymoon Effect, stem cell Biologist, Pioneer in Epigenetic Science

“Science acknowledges that human behavior has undermined the web of life and that today’s global chaos is a symptom of our own imminent extinction. A primary principle of both quantum physics and the new science of epigenetics is that consciousness creates our life experiences. Consequently, civilization’s survival is predicated upon a radical change in our collective consciousness. Unfortunately, the innate conscious creative potential for most of the population has been disempowered before age 7 by limiting, and self-sabotaging developmental programs. To survive through evolutionary chaos, we must first recover our creative powers. In Return of the Avatars, book 2 of the Future Humans Trilogy, distinguished visionaries Anneloes Smitsman and Jean Houston offer vital tools for accessing, activating, and empowering innate creative consciousness. Return of the Avatars is a profoundly important science-based guide for future humans to become Cosmic architects of a sustainable and thrivable world. Thankfully, Smitsman and Houston have transformed what would be a heady topic into an informative and entertaining parable, spiritual lessons as edutainment. I highly recommend this readable book as a valuable and empowering contribution in nurturing our evolving civilization.”

Ervin Laszlo, Ph.D.

Author, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, Author, The Upshift: Thriving on Planet Earth

“We need to gather all our forces to meet the challenges that now face us, and will face us in the next future. These forces include that of imagination—in fiction as well as in the interpretation of non-fiction. The authors of this book provide essential tools and ideas to help us gather these forces. Their book is one to savor and to treasure, both for the reading pleasure it offers and for the essential tools it places at the disposal of our rational intellect, as well as of our inherent, and today largely neglected, power of imagination.”

Chief Phil Lane Jr.

Ihanktonwan & Chickasaw Nations, Union of the Condor, Quetzal & Eagle, Founder of Four Worlds International Institute

“The Future Humans Trilogy is based on the fundamental understanding that at the core and foundation of all cultures of our human family are universal archetypes guiding the dynamic unfolding of our evolutionary development. While our cultural garments may appear different, at the heart of hearts exists the fundamental spiritual reality and understanding of the prior Unity and Oneness of our human family and all Life. From this spiritual realization, it becomes crystal clear that the Hurt of One is the Hurt of All and the Healing and Restoration of One is the Healing and Restoration of One of All. Return of the Avatars, book 2 of the trilogy, prepares us for our spiritual adulthood by helping us remember how despite our culturally diverse pathways—individually and collectively, and from infancy to the dynamic awakening of our spiritual adulthood—Life moves us to Oneness and Unitary Consciousness. Return of the Avatars empowers us to walk the mystical path with practical feet, as the seeker is drawn deeper and deeper into the understanding of our collective consciousness, as well as how to address our collective shadow. With a spiritual hunger for the conclusion of what is yet to unfold in book 3, this is a trilogy not to be missed. Inviting us to experience and understand what it means that each of us is a Sovereignty, Ancient, Imperishable, and Everlasting.”

Diane  Williams

Founder of the Source of Synergy Foundation

“Be ready for an upgrade! Return of the Avatars is much more than a book, it’s a sacred initiation that takes us by the hand and leads us through a portal into the world of the Avatars where we can fully access and activate the multidimensional nature of our Cosmic selves and call into being a heart-based future powered by love. This book is a gift to be shared with anyone who deeply loves our Earth and all of the precious beings that call it home.”

Carolyn Rivers

Founder and Director of The Sophia Institute

“In their brilliant partnership Dr. Jean Houston and Dr. Anneloes Smitsman bridge the evolving frontier of science with the new understandings from the Awakening and New Spirituality movements as well as the wisdom traditions, and so much more. It’s a holy union between them, in their co-authorship of the Future Humans Trilogy, one destined to help those on the journey of actualizing their own self-hood and participating in the advancement of a consciousness of wholeness, so needed now to address the changes we are facing and find transformative breakthrough solutions for a renaissance in new, sustainable ways of living and being on the Earth.”

Dagmar Wolff, Ph.D., M.D.

Pianist, Educator, Medical Doctor, Founding member Future Humans Course Community

“Since the launch of the Future Human Trilogy, hundreds of people have been gathering from around the world to work with the powerful content, keys, tools, and practices this series offers. This has strengthened our trust in a new kind of humanity as we learn how to support each other in becoming the required people for this time, and have been developing our imaginal capacities.  Our senses have opened towards becoming the great Unity, as Seekers of the yet Unknown. Return of the Avatars, the second book in the trilogy, trains us further by giving us seven Cosmic Architect Tools for developing our future human powers. We now join Rose, Sophia, Li, and Olaf, wisely guided by the magus Verdandi, to discover how to confront the sleeping giants and puppet masters of our social, economic, and political divisions and stop the reckless exploitations of our planet. Return of the Avatars shows us how to counteract these developments, starting within oneself, by becoming receptive of capacities we did not even fathom to exist. It follows the great spiritual teachings of the Gnostic and indigenous traditions, and deepens our insights from the New Paradigm Research, Systems Change Research, and Quantum Sciences.

This book gives hope that humanity will indeed be able to turn around, and become aware and capable of bringing on a brighter future. Using this knowledge in day-to-day contexts enhances the capabilities of consciously responding to daily challenges, in interactions with our family and community, in treatment situations, in artistic expressions, and so much more. Getting in touch with our fuller potential is the greatest gift. In a time of painful separations and social rifts, learning about our fundamental unity is essential for healing ourselves, society, and the planet. This book endows you with the essential tools and abilities for becoming conscious of yourself and the nature of the Universe, returning you to our Original Home.”