Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows of the Enlightenment Ballantine Books Cassandra Knightsbridge

Cassandra Knightsbridge

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The interweaving of religion and morality

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Collective Wisdom in the West: Beyond the shadows of the Enlightenment Ballantine Books Cassandra KnightsbridgeThis book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, tightly held ideas from 'the enlightenment' rationality, individuality, equality and secularity are considered as sources of suffering: technocracy, broken politics and 'moral acrimony'. Freedom lies not in accepting or rejecting these views, but in seeing where they've become dogmas, feeding cultural