A New Renaissance: Transforming Science, Spirit, and Society

Today, we stand at a similar junction in history. It appears to many that reductionist science and its materialistic values--a worldview that has driven modern culture for the past two centuries--is quickly losing credibility. Its objectives of growth and acquisition and its guiding principles asserting that there is no intrinsic meaning to life or purpose in the cosmos are now widely seen as creating an unsustainable world. The essays gathered in A New Renaissance are a cultural response to the failings of the prevailing materialistic worldview.

Contributions in the first part diagnose the sources of the crises in today's world. The second section searches for a new understanding of consciousness and mind, based on findings in recent non-materialistic fields of philosophy. The third section looks toward a renewal of spirituality beyond religion, aiming to recapture the personal depth and connection to the cosmos that materialism denies, ignores and actively struggles against. The fourth section examines possible reforms in politics, economics, and education that will help birth a society that can sustain the flourishing of human beings in the globally interconnected, twenty-first-century world.

Contributors include: Ervin Laszlo, Richard Tarnas, the Prince of Wales, Iain McGilchrist, Larry Dossey, Chris Clarke, Rupert Sheldrake, Anne Baring, Satish Kumar, Max Payne, Peter Russell, Jean Hardy, David Peat, and Elisabet Sahtouris.

Author: David Lorimer
Publisher: Floris Books
Published: 01/31/2011
Pages: 311
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780863157592

About the Author
Lorimer, David: - David Lorimer is a writer, lecturer, editor, and program director of the Scientific and Medical Network. After a career as a merchant banker, Lorimer became a teacher of philosophy and modern languages at Winchester College. He has a long-standing interest in perennial wisdom and has translated and edited books on the Bulgarian sage Peter Deunov. He is also a member of the International Futures Forum and editor of its digest, Omnipedia: Thinking for Tomorrow. David Lorimer is chair of the Wrekin Trust, an adult education charity. He is also vice-president of the Swedenborg Society and the Horizon Foundation (The International Association for Near-Death Studies in the U.K.), and chair of the University for Spirit Forum. He also chairs the All Hallows House Foundation, which is concerned with holistic health. His other books include Whole in One: The Near-Death Experience and the Ethic of Interconnectedness and Survival: Body, Mind, and Death in the Light of Psychic Experience.Robinson, Oliver: - Dr. Oliver Robinson is a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Greenwich, London, an honorary teaching fellow at Birkbeck College, and a manager of the Scientific and Medical Network.