Publisher's Synopsis
The author acknowledges the uncertainty, instability, and fear so prevalent in our world today. While many desire to return to normal, he questions why we should want to continue practices leading to materialism, consumerism, exploitation of nature, rigid ideologies on the left and on the right, institutionalized prejudices, proliferation of hate groups, radical disparity between rich and poor, individualism, and extravagant use of fossil fuels.
As an alternative, he maintains we need a depth perspective that questions destructive practices, accepts human finitude and fallibility, and affirms a deep, eternal, and invisible dimension of reality within and transcending existence. He argues this dimension is the ultimate source of love, freedom, justice, compassion, and other desirable qualities.
The book compares different dimensions of reality, asks What Difference Does it Make, distinguishes between spirituality and religion, compares assumptions underlying conventional and depth perspectives about humans and knowledge, and contrast options for how we might go from here.
