"One of the greatest thinkers of our age"
George Monbiot​, The Guardian

Jeremy Lent's new book, The Web of Meaning, integrates science and traditional wisdom to lay out a solid foundation for a worldview of deep interconnectedness

USA/Canada

New Society Publishers

UK/Commonwealth

Profile Books

​Available now: USA | Canada | UK

THE WEB OF MEANING
WINNER OF TWO NAUTILUS AWARDS, 2022

GOLD AWARD
WORLD CULTURES' TRANSFORMATIONAL
​GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
SILVER AWARD
​SCIENCE
​& COSMOLOGY

​What kind of worldview could

enable sustainable flourishing

on the earth?

JOIN THE DEEP TRANSFORMATION NETWORK

An online community for people who recognize that our civilization is in existential crisis—and who want to engage with others in facilitating a deep transformation toward a life-affirming future on a regenerated Earth.

The Deep Transformation Network invites open-hearted, caring, and curious folk, engaged citizens, and changemakers from around the world to come together in helping catalyze the deep transformation our global society needs.

​Animate Intelligence: Nature's Original AI

How can a single cell, a slime mold, or a tree— each demonstrate capabilities beyond the most advanced supercomputer?

Discover how nature’s own AI 
leaves artificial intelligence in the dust. 

The Tao in My Own Nature

What are the deep principles of organization that we share with all of nature?
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​​Is humanity headed for collapse?

For techno-utopia?

​Or for something completely different?


 The Patterning Instinct explores the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day.

Prometheus Books, 2017

2017 Nautilus
​Silver Award Winner

Social Sciences and Education Category

The mindset that led to

​ the Scientific Revolution...


​... also led to genocides and environmental havoc.




​Our rampant

consumerism

is consuming

the earth

Jeremy Lent

Jeremy Lent is an author and founder of the nonprofit Liology Institute, dedicated to fostering a worldview that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on the earth.

​The Liology Institute, which integrates systems science with ancient wisdom traditions, holds regular workshops and other events in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In addition to The Patterning Instinct, Jeremy is author of the novel Requiem of the Human Soul. Formerly, he was the founder, CEO, and chairman of a publicly traded internet company.

Lent holds a BA in English Literature from Cambridge University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

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