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  • Chapter Four: Deeper Voice

    If we can wake up now, if we can move out of our slumber and attachment to a worldview that is both boring us and destroying the planet, there is much beauty that awaits. – Matthew Fox Belief in the inherently sacred nature of existence is one of humankind’s ancient and enduring notions. Western culture’s…

  • Chapter Two: Cloud of Unknowing

    The idea that culture is an adventure of the human spirit, to be carried on in fellowship for the good of our souls, vanishes from sight. – Theodore Roszak In 1887 iconoclastic German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche issued an ominous warning: “Our knowledge will take its revenge on us, just as ignorance extracted its revenge during the…