The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe
The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe The Web of Meaning addresses one of the deepest dimensions of the Great Transition: the worldview through which we understand ourselves and our relationship with the living Earth. Jeremy Lent argues that the dominant culture’s experience of separation—from nature, […]
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning The Patterning Instinct explores a foundational question for the Great Transition: how did humanity come to see the world in ways that produced today’s dominant civilization? Jeremy Lent traces the evolution of meaning-making across cultures, showing how deeply rooted patterns of thought shape societies, […]
Ecocivilization
Ecocivilization Ecocivilization is Jeremy Lent’s ambitious attempt to move beyond diagnosing the failures of industrial civilization and envision what could actually replace it. Drawing on the design principles of living systems, Lent explores how economics, governance, infrastructure, agriculture, housing, and other foundations of society could be reorganized around justice, mutuality, diversity, symbiosis, and the flourishing […]