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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 Five: Distant Longing

    It is the infinite for which we hunger, and we ride gladly on every little wave that promises to bear us towards it. – Havelock Ellis Modern Westerners typically experience themselves as isolated, self-contained units of consciousness disconnected from other human beings and life itself. An intuitive sense our true self is infinitely greater than…

  • 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…