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  • The Web of Meaning

  • Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
  • By: Jeremy Lent
  • Narrated by: Adam Henderson
  • Length: 15 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Web of Meaning

By: Jeremy Lent
Narrated by: Adam Henderson
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As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview of disconnection, which tells us we are split between mind and body, separate from each other and at odds with the natural world, has passed its expiration date.

Yet another world is possible.

Award-winning author Jeremy Lent investigates humanity's age-old questions - who am I? why am I? how should I live? - from a fresh perspective, weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism and Indigenous wisdom.

The result is a breath-taking accomplishment: a rich, coherent worldview based on a deep recognition of connectedness within ourselves, between each other and with the entire natural world.

©2021 Jeremy Lent (P)2021 Hachette Audio UK
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"The Web of Meaning is both a profound personal meditation on human existence and a tour de force weaving together of historic and contemporary world-wide secular and spiritual thought on the deepest question of all: why are we here?" (Gabor Maté MD, author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction)

"We need, now more than ever, to figure out how to make all kinds of connections. This book can help - and therefore it can help with a lot of the urgent tasks we face." (Bill McKibben, author of Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?)

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Integrative, ethical, committed, ecological.

I loved The Patterning Instinct (Lent's first book) which I frequently return to and re-listen to various chapters, and I thoroughly enjoyed this book as well. This book is probably a more succinct presentation of his general worldview; it's a very accessible book from one of the most erudite ecological writers on the planet.

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beautiful, timely and inspiring

in this book, Jeremy Lent manages to argue for a new philosophical framework which derives insights from several ancient sources, especially Chinese philosophy. while the book touches on many topics it does not feel dense or difficult, Lent understands how to make his message accessible to a wide audience while keeping the content rich, relatable and inspired

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