Book excerpt: "New Story, New God" is a startling, controversial new look at the Higher Power which boldly challenges the widely-accepted views of both scientific materialism and traditional religion. Where scientific materialism teaches the world and universe are not alive and act like machines, and traditional religions believe every human must look to an external savior, "New Story, New God" advances the ideas the world and universe are alive, progressing toward greater complexity and growth, and that every human is divine. To express our divinity, we must take full responsibility for our thoughts and beliefs, altering them to where we do not give away our energy and power to external forces or saviors. The Higher Power in "New Story, New God" is a non-local potential of energy and information -- non-local meaning existing everywhere. God is impersonal, non-moralistic, not perfect; i.e., grows and evolve, and exhibits properties of resonance, self-similarity, self-organization, self-determination, intensity and complexity.