# Website of Jeremy Lent – Author of Ecocivilization

> Information on Jeremy Lent’s ideas, bio and books: Ecocivilization, The Web of Meaning and The Patterning Instinct. Explore humanity’s history, culture, and future.

## Pages
- [A Good Read](https://www.jeremylent.com/a-good-read)
- [A strange, hybrid monster](https://www.jeremylent.com/a-strange-hybrid-monster)
- [About](https://www.jeremylent.com/about)
- [Advance Praise](https://www.jeremylent.com/advance-praise)
- [Alexander & Ashoka](https://www.jeremylent.com/alexander--ashoka)
- [Anthropocene](https://www.jeremylent.com/anthropocene)
- [Articles by Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/articles): Articles written by author Jeremy Lent
- [Articles by Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/articles--2016ndash18)
- [Book Club Guide](https://www.jeremylent.com/book-club-guide)
- [Book Clubs](https://www.jeremylent.com/book-clubs)
- [Calendar](https://www.jeremylent.com/calendar)
- [Chinese Civ Sci Rev](https://www.jeremylent.com/chinese-civ-sci-rev)
- [Christian Rationalism](https://www.jeremylent.com/christian-rationalism)
- [Civilizational collapse](https://www.jeremylent.com/civilizational-collapse)
- [Consumer society is consuming the earth. What are its root causes?](https://www.jeremylent.com/consumer-society): The Western capitalist model is consuming the earth, with its implicit promise that the future offers greater prosperity and happiness for all.
- [Consumer Society Reading](https://www.jeremylent.com/consumer-society-reading)
- [Contact](https://www.jeremylent.com/contact)
- [Culture, Values, and History – How culture shapes history.](https://www.jeremylent.com/culture-values-and-history): Introduces the cultural root metaphors that humans have used through history to infuse meaning into the universe. These have shaped the course of history.
- [CVH Recommended reading](https://www.jeremylent.com/cvh-recommended-reading)
- [Ecocovilization](https://www.jeremylent.com/ecocovilization)
- [Ensnared in an inescapable web](https://www.jeremylent.com/ensnared-in-an-inescapable-web)
- [Event Archive](https://www.jeremylent.com/event-archive)
- [Exploitation as racial destiny](https://www.jeremylent.com/exploitation-as-racial-destiny)
- [Explore Web of Meaning](https://www.jeremylent.com/explore-web-of-meaning)
- [Flourishing future](https://www.jeremylent.com/flourishing-future)
- [Foundations of consumer culture](https://www.jeremylent.com/foundations-of-consumer-culture)
- [Future Recommended Reading](https://www.jeremylent.com/future-recommended-reading)
- [Future sustainable flourishing?](https://www.jeremylent.com/future-sustainable-flourishing)
- [Galileo vs The Inquisition](https://www.jeremylent.com/galileo-vs-the-inquisition)
- [GDP hedonic treadmill](https://www.jeremylent.com/gdp-hedonic-treadmill)
- [God & Power](https://www.jeremylent.com/god--power)
- [How culture sculpts our brains](https://www.jeremylent.com/how-culture-sculpts-our-brains)
- [How humans evolved to cooperate](https://www.jeremylent.com/how-humans-evolved-to-cooperate)
- [How Should I Live?](https://www.jeremylent.com/how-should-i-live)
- [Human Nature | Recommended Reading](https://www.jeremylent.com/human-nature--recommended-reading)
- [Humanity bifurcate](https://www.jeremylent.com/humanity-bifurcate)
- [Interviews with Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/interviews): Interviews conducted with Jeremy Lent
- [Interviews with Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/interviews--2017): Interviews conducted with Jeremy Lent
- [Interviews with Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/interviews--2018): Interviews conducted with Jeremy Lent
- [Introduction](https://www.jeremylent.com/introduction)
- [Is nature a machine?](https://www.jeremylent.com/is-nature-a-machine)
- [Islamic Civ - Sci Rev](https://www.jeremylent.com/islamic-civ---sci-rev)
- [Liology](https://www.jeremylent.com/liology)
- [Mary Hartnett interview](https://www.jeremylent.com/mary-hartnett-interview)
- [Mathematics of the real world](https://www.jeremylent.com/mathematics-of-the-real-world)
- [Media](https://www.jeremylent.com/media)
- [Phineas Gage](https://www.jeremylent.com/phineas-gage)
- [Power and Exploitation: What made the European mindset unique?](https://www.jeremylent.com/power-and-exploitation): The mindset that caused the Scientific Revolution also spawned colonialism, genocides, and environmental havoc. What made it unique in history?
- [Power Exploitation Reading](https://www.jeremylent.com/power-exploitation-reading)
- [Praise for The Patterning Instinct](https://www.jeremylent.com/praise-for-the-patterning-instinct): "A tour de force on the biological and psychological background of the human predicament" - Paul Ehrlich
- [Readers' Responses](https://www.jeremylent.com/readers-responses)
- [Requiem of the Human Soul](https://www.jeremylent.com/requiem-of-the-human-soul)
- [Reviews](https://www.jeremylent.com/reviews)
- [Science & Religion | Reading](https://www.jeremylent.com/science--religion--reading)
- [Science versus Religion: A false choice?](https://www.jeremylent.com/science-and-religion): Are science and Christianity really implacable foes? The structures of thought that led to Christianity also laid the foundations for scientific cognition.
- [Selfish, rational maximizer](https://www.jeremylent.com/selfish-rational-maximizer)
- [Social brain, (selfish gene)](https://www.jeremylent.com/social-brain-selfish-gene)
- [Sustainable Flourishing Reading](https://www.jeremylent.com/sustainable-flourishing-reading)
- [Table of Contents](https://www.jeremylent.com/table-of-contents)
- [Talks by Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/talks--2012ndash18): Talks by Jeremy Lent
- [Talks by Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/talks): Talks by Jeremy Lent
- [Technological Singularity](https://www.jeremylent.com/technological-singularity)
- [That forever empty](https://www.jeremylent.com/that-forever-empty)
- [The "I" and the "Self"](https://www.jeremylent.com/the-i-and-the-self)
- [The Future: Where is humanity headed?](https://www.jeremylent.com/the-future): The Future...Is humanity headed for collapse? For techno-utopia? Or for something entirely different?
- [The head or the heart](https://www.jeremylent.com/the-head-or-the-heart)
- [The Patterning Instinct: A History of Humanity's Search for Meaning, by Jeremy Lent](https://www.jeremylent.com/the-patterning-instinct): Showing how culture shapes values and values shape history, The Patterning Instinct provides a fresh perspective on crucial questions of the human story.
- [The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place In the Universe](https://www.jeremylent.com/the-web-of-meaning): Jeremy Lent's new book, The Web of Meaning, lays out a rich, coherent, worldview based on a deep recognition of connectedness.
- [The Western View of the Split Human](https://www.jeremylent.com/the-western-view-of-the-split-human)
- [Themes](https://www.jeremylent.com/themes)
- [Website of Jeremy Lent – Author of The Patterning Instinct](https://www.jeremylent.com/)
- [Website of Jeremy Lent – Author of The Patterning Instinct](https://www.jeremylent.com/old-home)
- [Website of Jeremy Lent – Author of The Patterning Instinct](https://www.jeremylent.com/home)
- [What Am I?](https://www.jeremylent.com/what-am-i)
- [What Is Our True Nature? (And Why Does It Matter?)](https://www.jeremylent.com/human-nature): Is it our true nature to be selfish and competitive, or empathic and cooperative? What we believe about ourselves becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
- [What is the Patterning Instinct?](https://www.jeremylent.com/what-is-the-patterning-instinct)
- [What kind of worldview could enable sustainable flourishing?](https://www.jeremylent.com/sustainable-flourishing): Our global civilization is on an unsustainable course because the meaning we’ve derived from the world has historically been based on disconnection.
- [Where Am I?](https://www.jeremylent.com/where-am-i)
- [Where Are We Going?](https://www.jeremylent.com/where-are-we-going)
- [Who Am I?](https://www.jeremylent.com/who-am-i)
- [Who Am I? 1.0](https://www.jeremylent.com/who-am-i-10)
- [Why Am I?](https://www.jeremylent.com/why-am-i)
- [With fifty men](https://www.jeremylent.com/with-fifty-men)
- [Worldviews in transition](https://www.jeremylent.com/worldviews-in-transition)