The Next Enlightenment: Integrating East and West in a New Vision of Human Evolution Book

In The Next Enlightenment, Walter Truett Anderson treats eastern religious traditions as no less important to the study of spiritual enlightenment than Western philosophy, pop cul-ture, psychology, and even biology. He looks at five forms of 'Liberation Movements': the eighteenth-century Euro-pean Enlightenment; nineteenth-century upheaval caused by the emergence of Darwin's Origin of Species; and in the twentieth century, psychoanalysis, existentialism, and the human poten-tial movement of the 1960s and 1970s. He then argues that this century's next movement of rational thought will see the exploration of the universe and the study of human consciousness as two sides of the same coin, and equally important, personal enlightenment as a natural process of indi-vi-dual growth rather than a supernatural gift bestowed upon a chosen few. Elegantly argued and written with a sense of humor, The Next Enlightenment will interest New Age and psychotherapy buffs, as well as general history and phil-os-ophy readers.Read More