E-Books →Reading the Dream A Post–Secular History of Enmindment

This book seeks to transcend the slow breakdown of our current global political order by returning to its generative cultural roots in enmindment (that is, both secular and spiritual enlightenment). It sees our emerging global culture as dialectical on interconnected levels: the tension between scientific (yang) analysis and non-rational (yin) hopes and dreams; the source of this tension in the bicameral human brain, in competing rural and urban ethical values, and in the master-servant relationship. Behind the screen-history of chaotic political violence, it revives a vision of cultural progress, in which the vertical imposition of political order from above is slowly supplanted by the emerging post-secular tolerance of cultural diversity, including both religion and science, from below.
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