A New Renaissance: Transforming Science, Spirit and Society - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0863157599 ISBN 13: 9780863157592

Publisher: Floris Books, 2010

Synopsis

This book diagnoses an urgent need for change and renewal in a period of crisis for philosophy, science and society.

The Florentine Renaissance, some six hundred years ago, took a huge leap forward into realism, rationality and self-awareness. We stand now at a similar junction in history. It is apparent to many that reductionist science with its materialist values - the worldview that has driven modern culture for the last two centuries - is 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 materialist worldview. The first part diagnoses the sources of the crisis in today's world. The second section searches for a new understanding of consciousness and mind. The third section looks to a renewal of spirituality beyond religion. The fourth section examines possible reforms in politics, economics and education to help bring forth a society that can sustain the flourishing of human beings in the twenty-first century.

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About the Author

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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Floris Books
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0863157599
• ISBN 13: 9780863157592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 311
• Editor: Lorimer David, Robinson Oliver