The American Psyche in Search of its Soul A Meditation on Government, Business, Science, Education, Media and Family |
| By Dr. Andrew Cort, DC, JD |
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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.
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, social commentator and author of Wealth and Poverty, Life after Television, and The Israel Test
and mere scientism.... [T]hroughout the book he addresses issues of gender, feminism and sexuality that remain painful and insufficiently addressed by many people. - Robin Friedman, attorney, Amazon reader "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 * 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. I have taken this advice to heart with this new book (Parts I and II are also being re-released as two separate books, 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. |
Today, at a time when the nation is becoming more and more divided, when anger and antagonism are percolating everywhere, plenty of exploitative writers and media personalities are cheerfully stirring people up with sarcasm, calls to arms, and simplistic, half-baked ‘solutions’ to America’s problems. That is not the purpose of this book 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 communities as well as the international community, and are looking for deeper levels of meaning in their lives. |
One major theme of this book is the need to provide our children with safe, loving homes,and to protect them from violence, abuse, and neglect. To help support this effort, $1 (one dollar) from the sale of each copy of The American Psyche in Search of its Soul will be donated to the Children’s Defense Fund |
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More about The American Psyche in Search of its Soul 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. The American Psyche in Search of its Soul is about restoring a genuine sense of meaning and purpose to our lives and culture. 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:
affects our contemporary lives;
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;
of Eros and was venerated by the American Founders. Table of Contents Introduction: The Soul and Eros Chapter 1: Science Chapter 2: Economics Chapter 3: Culture Chapter 4: Family Chapter 5: Violence Chapter 6: Education Epilogue |
| Chapter Two: ECONOMICS (click to read the Chapter) |
| "Can we restore a genuine sense of meaning and purpose to our lives and culture without contradicting our hard-earned rationality, our scientific achievement, and our demand for social justice?" |
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