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  • Chapter Six: Mirabile Dictu

    When we pursue and inquiry beyond a certain depth we step out of the field of psychological categories and enter the sphere of the ultimate mysteries of life. Bruno Schulz The modern Western worldview assumes the natural world and human life are in principle fully comprehensible through the lens of a secular scientific-materialist paradigm. However,…

  • Chapter One: Paradise Lost

    “What joins all these – in the book as in life – is the roaring current of change, a current so powerful today that it overturns institutions, shifts our values, and shrivels our roots.” – Alvin Toffler “We come from God and we are in exile.” – Jan van Ruysbroeck Modern human identity and awareness has…