Jeremy Lent  ​Author and Integrator

  • The Web of Meaning
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      • Who Am I?
      • Where Am I?
      • What Am I?
      • How Should I Live?
      • Why Am I?
      • Where Are We Going?
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  • The Patterning Instinct
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      • Culture, Values, and History
      • Human Nature
      • Science and Religion
      • Power and Exploitation
      • Consumer Society
      • The Future
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  • The Web of Meaning
    • Advance Praise
    • Explore Web of Meaning >
      • Introduction
      • Who Am I?
      • Where Am I?
      • What Am I?
      • How Should I Live?
      • Why Am I?
      • Where Are We Going?
    • Book Club Guide
  • The Patterning Instinct
    • Themes
    • Explore Themes >
      • Culture, Values, and History
      • Human Nature
      • Science and Religion
      • Power and Exploitation
      • Consumer Society
      • The Future
      • Sustainable Flourishing
    • Table of Contents
    • Praise for The Patterning Instinct
    • Reviews
    • Readers' Responses
    • Book Clubs
  • About
  • Media
    • Interviews >
      • Interviews | 2018
      • Interviews | 2017
    • Articles >
      • Articles | 2016–18
    • Talks >
      • Talks | 2012–18
  • Blog
  • Liology
  • Calendar
    • Event Archive
  • Contact
  • Requiem of the Human Soul

THE WEB OF MEANING


INTEGRATING SCIENCE AND TRADITIONAL WISDOM
TO FIND OUR PLACE IN THE UNIVERSE

Our mainstream worldview has expired.
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What will replace it?

A worldview of deep interconnectedness

As our civilization careens toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings.

Our dominant worldview of disconnection, tells us we are
— split between mind and body,
— separate from each other, and
— at odds with the natural world
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This worldview has passed its expiration date

It's not just dangerous—it's based on a series of flawed assumptions that have been superseded by modern scientific findings
Once we shift our worldview, another world becomes possible

The Web of Meaning offers a coherent and intellectually solid foundation for an alternative worldview based on deep interconnectedness, showing how modern scientific knowledge echoes the ancient wisdom of earlier cultures.

Weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous wisdom, it offers a rigorous and integrated way of understanding our place in the cosmos that can serve as a philosophical foundation for a life-affirming future.

WINNER OF TWO NAUTILUS AWARDS, 2022

GOLD AWARD
WORLD CULTURES' TRANSFORMATIONAL
​GROWTH & DEVELOPMENT
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SILVER AWARD
​SCIENCE
​& COSMOLOGY
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The Great Existential Questions

Everyone asks them . . .

But in each case, our mainstream culture has the answer wrong

Our dominant worldview was formed in seventeenth-century Europe, with deeper roots going back to the Greeks, and is based on a series of flawed preconceptions that have been superseded by modern findings in science.
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The Web of Meaning investigates each of humanity's existential questions.
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In each case, it shows the flaws of the dominant worldview—and lays out an alternative framework of interconnectedness, showing how the findings of modern science intersect with the wisdom traditions of the past. 

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