(1)  What is The American Psyche in Search of its Soul about?

    The American Psyche in Search of its Soul is about the possibility of restoring a genuine sense of meaning and purpose to our lives and
    culture, and doing it without contradicting reason and science.


    (2)  Why did you write it?  

    In many ways, our modern values of open-minded scientific inquiry and the free exercise of human reason have been overwhelmed by
    commercialism and turned into scientism and group-think. Life is explained by mechanics, psychology is explained by sexual and monetary
    greed. All of this leaves us with a dead, hollow universe, filled with violence and terror, poverty and misery, in which people find no greater
    purpose than to go shopping -- rather than the magnificent cultural flowering of Beauty, Wisdom, and Spirit, that was the dream of the
    American Founders.


    (3)  What makes this book different?

    Right now, America is becoming more and more divided. Anger and antagonism are percolating everywhere. As a result, there are plenty
    of exploitative writers and politicians and media personalities who are cheerfully stirring people up with sarcasm, calls to arms, and
    simplistic, half-baked ‘solutions’ to America’s problems. That’s not the purpose of this book. The American Psyche in Search of its Soul
    is even and balanced, it’s conciliatory rather than divisive.

    Each chapter discusses a different issue of modern life: Science and Technology, Economics, Pop Culture, Politics, the Family, Violence,
    and Education. 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 tradition, 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 venerated by the American Founders.


    (4)  What kind of readers are you looking for?

    The American Psyche in Search of its Soul is written for people who are not willing to be swayed by either the fundamentalist ultra-right
    or the atheistic ultra-left, but are searching for thoughtful analyses of contemporary problems and thoughtful solutions that respect both the
    rational mind of humanity and the religious spirit of humanity.

    The American Psyche in Search of its Soul is aimed at readers who are educated, politically savvy, concerned about their families,
    concerned about their local community as well as the national and international community, and are looking for deeper levels of meaning
     in their lives.

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