
Reading the Dream
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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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- Cover
- Contents
- Note about the Cover Image
- Acknowledgments, Leading to a Very Brief Note on Method
- Introduction
- Enlightenment
- The Sh'ma, the Three Refuges, and the Axial Moment
- The Lord's Prayer: A Second Pivotal Shift
- Yang and Yin: Torah, Psalter, and Disruption
- Yang and Yin in the Polis: The Pre-Socratics and Plato
- Yang and Yin in Hellas: The Post-Socratic Philosophers
- Yin and Yang in Alexandria: The Song of Songs
- Virgil as Prophet of the Second Pivotal Shift
- Endarkenment
- Disruptive Shifts in the Evolution of Culture
- Earlier Dark (Yin) Ages, Disruptions, and Mnemohistory
- Benign Cultural Progress in the Third Pivotal Shift: The Dark Age
- Secular and Spiritual Power
- St. Martin and the Diminution of Social Violence
- Augustine as Prophet of the Third Pivotal Shift
- Bede, Alcuin, and the Waning of the Dark Age
- End of the Poem in Prose
- A Personal Note after Finishing This Book
- Four Poems
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
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