Week Description

Accomplishing a deep transformation of our worldview and the way we live our lives requires an initial understanding of how these were formed. In the first week, we will trace some of the biggest historical shifts in worldviews and how they shaped the course of history. These sessions draw in large part from Jeremy Lent’s book The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning .

Advance Reading

Note: This will include both links to online articles as well as pdfs.

Beyond modernist and postmodernist history.pdf. This article, published in February 2022 in Institute of Art and Ideas Magazine, explains the limitations of modernist and postmodernist interpretations of history, and how a cognitive history can help us become conscious of how our values will shape the future.

Preface to The Patterning Instinct.pdf

This helps to lay the conceptual groundwork to understand the themes of the first week’s sessions.

A House On Shaky Ground by Jeremy Lent.pdf

This article, originally published in Tikkun Magazine, delineates some of the key flawed assumptions of the mainstream worldview and shows how alternative assumptions are based on more solid scientific understanding.