Jeremy Lent's new book, The Patterning Instinct, explores the way humans have made meaning from the cosmos from hunter-gatherer times to the present day.

Prometheus Books

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

​​Is humanity headed for collapse?

For techno-utopia?

​Or for something completely different?

Science versus Religion?


​It's a false choice
​

​What is our true nature?

Selfish and competitive?
​ 
​Empathic and community-minded?

​The answer may shape humanity’s destiny. 

​What kind of worldview could

enable sustainable flourishing

on 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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