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    THE AMERICAN PSYCHE IN SEARCH OF ITS SOUL: A MEDITATION ON GOVERNMENT, BUSINESS, SCIENCE, EDUCATION, MEDIA AND FAMILY
    by Andrew Cort
                                                            

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    Andrew Cort
    PO Box 364
    Tyringham, MA 01264
    (413) 243-8950
    email:      Andrew@AndrewCort.com
    website:   www.Spirituality-and-Religion



    WAR, TERROR, TUCSON, RECESSION, SCANDAL, GREED -- WILL IT EVER END?

    WITH AMERICANS BECOMING MORE AND MORE DIVIDED AND ANTAGONISTIC, WITH MEDIA PERSONALITIES AND POLITICIANS
    STIRRING PEOPLE UP WITH SARCASM, VULGARITY, AND HALF-BAKED ‘SOLUTIONS’ TO ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS, THE
    AMERICAN PSYCHE IN  SEARCH OF ITS SOUL SEEKS TO RENEW THE FOUNDERS’ DREAM THAT AMERICA BECOME THE SITE OF A
    GREAT FLOWERING OF WISDOM, BEAUTY AND SPIRIT.



    Tyringham, MA – July 20, 2011 – Can we restore a genuine sense of meaning and purpose without compromising our rationality, scientific achievement, and social justice? In The American
    Psyche in Search of its Soul: A Meditation on Government, Business, Science, Education, Media and Family, author Andrew Cort addresses this question with passion, intelligence and
    hope, in chapters covering the gamut of science and technology, business ethics, pop culture, politics, family values (including a plea for a much-needed renewal of respect for fatherhood),
    education (which should be based on curiosity and wonder, not state-imposed ‘standards’), urban violence, and religion in America.

    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. Cort reminds us that the dream of the Founding Fathers is not just a preposterous fantasy that modern sophisticated people can no longer take
    seriously.

    Here is what Reviewers are saying:

    “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."  
                                                                                                                                            – George Gilder, noted social commentator and author of Wealth and Poverty and The Israel Test

    "I have never in my long life read a better or clearer explanation of why things have gone awry as much as they have…. [A] genuine contribution to understanding what has happened to American
    society in the past fifty or sixty years."
                                                                                                      – Peter O'Lalor, professor of history and author of The Never Realized Republic: Political Economy and Republican Virtue



    SPECIAL NOTE: In September, 2011, the 10th Anniversary of 9-11, Andrew Cort's Blog, Spirituality and Religion, will be hosting A Celebration of Religious and Spiritual Unity,
    Wisdom and Friendship. There will be Book Excerpts, Guest Blogs, Music, Videos, as well as Contests and Prizes. Please visit the website or contact Andrew Cort for more information.


    About Andrew Cort:

    Dr. Andrew Cort is an author, teacher, attorney, and doctor of chiropractic. He is the host of Spirit of the Berkshires, a weekly interview show on CTSB-TV. His books include:
    The Purpose of Religion;  The American Psyche in Search of its Soul;  Love, Wisdom and God;  From Joshua to Jesus; and Our Healing Birthright.  His website, Spirituality
    and Religion, at www.spirituality-and-religion.com, is subtitled "Spiritual Ideas From All Our Traditions. A Blog About Spiritual Meaning, Religious Unity, and Contemporary
    Life." He lives in the Berkshires in western Massachusetts and can be reached at Andrew@AndrewCort.com for interviews and speaking engagements.

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