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Dr. Andrew Cort is an
author, attorney,  
doctor of chiropractic,
and teacher.  His work
encompasses
religion, spirituality,
mythology, politics,
history, science, and
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these all relate to
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American culture.
                                            
The American Psyche in Search of its Soul
A Meditation on Government, Business, Science, Education, Media and Family

             "I have never in my long life read a better or clearer explanation
        of why things have gone awry as much as they have."*
                         - Peter O'Lalor, author of Alexander Hamilton and the Duty and Obligation of Government
                                                                      

    Can we restore a genuine sense of meaning and purpose to our lives and culture without compromising
    our hard-earned rationality, our scientific achievement, and our demand for prosperity and social justice?

    With passion, intelligence and hope, THE AMERICAN PSYCHE IN SEARCH OF ITS SOUL addresses this critical question in chapters
    covering the gamut of science and technology, economics, pop culture, politics, family, urban violence, and education. It
    reminds us that the dream of the American Founders was that this nation would be the site of a great flowering of wisdom,
    beauty and spirit – and this dream is not just a preposterous fantasy that sophisticated modern people can no longer take seriously.





                                                                      That is not the purpose of this book.
















    One Reviewer has written:

    "Failing to reach the deeper levels of meaning and truth, people are stranded in a secular wasteland where they may engage in a lot
    of commerce, worship, sex, and science. But the commerce, as Cort concludes, will twitter into trivia, the worship will sink into an
    idolatry of soulless forms, or veer off into Jihad and vanity fair, and the science will end up merely performing an autopsy on a
    universe that it has declared dead and meaningless.

    “This learned and inspirational book rescues philosophy from the mathematicians, sex from the hedonists, religion from
    empty sanctimony, and science from barren materialism. A must read for all of us who seek a guidebook for meaningful
    life in the new millennium."* ( George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty, Life after Television, and The Israel Test )
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    THE AMERICAN PSYCHE IN SEARCH OF ITS SOUL: A Meditation on Government, Business, Science, Education, Media and
    Family, is available in Paperback, eBook, and Amazon Kindle format. You can Buy Your Copy Here, and after you've read it
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    Thanks a thousandfold in advance!  



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    Life in ancient and medieval times – teeming with poverty, disease, early death, cruelty and war – was hardly enviable. The concern
    of The Enlightenment was to alter this. Rather than a world of countless suffering serfs and a few princes living in luxury off of
    everyone else’s labor, a great humanitarian endeavor was undertaken to elevate suffering humanity and provide a good life for all.
    The value of this endeavor is undeniable.

    But the cost has been enormous. In far too many ways, the Enlightenment agenda of open-minded scientific inquiry and the
    unfettered exercise of human reason has been overwhelmed by commercialism and turned into scientism and group-think.

    Now we are the heirs of ‘Logical Positivism’, a philosophical endeavor that seeks to impose scientific thinking into every aspect of
    our lives by suggesting that all forms of human knowledge should aspire to the same sort of rigorous rationality as science. Thus do
    we attempt to reject all the wonder and mystery of life, which means, on the one hand, that we are lying to ourselves (under the
    guise of being rational and intellectually sophisticated), and on the other hand, that our constricted minds have seceded from our
    emotions and intuitions, shattering the soul into fragments. This enormous encroachment of scientific methodology into all aspects of
    human life, coupled with the barren assumptions that all of creation can be explained by mechanics and all of human psychology can
    be explained by sexual and monetary greed, confers a dead, hollow universe, increasingly filled with violence and terror, in which a
    debased humanity finds no greater purpose than to go shopping.





    Each chapter discusses a different issue of modern life. However, three themes run consistently throughout the chapters, uniting
    the entire work and making the book unique:

    ●  The very particular way in which the soul, as it was defined by Socrates, Plato, and Judeo-Christian scriptures, has been
    broken (i.e., it is inverted) and how this directly and concretely affects our contemporary lives;

    ●  The impact of our having lost the intuitive understanding that creation exists on many levels. Nothing characterizes the modern
    world more completely than the loss of faith in transcendence, our lack of any genuine appreciation for levels of reality above our little
    everyday affairs. By shutting the door on transcendence, we have cut off any light from that world that might have illuminated this
    one, leaving us in darkness, leaving us with nothing but a dead world where scientists are merely performing an autopsy;
        
    ●  The need to restore a genuine and passionate desire for all that is beautiful, good and true – in other words, the quest for
    love, wisdom and meaning that was epitomized by the Greek concept of Eros, and was the dream of the American Founders.
                    
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    * Please Note: This book, The American Psyche in Search of its Soul, is a revised and expanded version of what was formerly Part III of my previous book,
    Return to Meaning. The earlier book was, admittedly, much too long. Many readers suggested that  the last section was very much worth reading but few
    people would get to it, and anyway it could stand alone as its own book and it needed more. I have taken this advice to heart with this new book (Parts I and
    II are also being re-released soon as two separate books, Love, Wisdom and God: The Longing of the Western Soul, and The Sacred Quest in Judaism,
    Christianity, and Islam.)

    The above Testimonials are from reviews of Return to Meaning.
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