Subtitled "On Progress and Other Modern Myths"
Collection of short essays that flow from on to another but shift between topics.
Interesting examination of his usual issues, but also of our very concept of what it means to be human and how we set ourselves apart from the natural world - again a reflection on the role of Christianity (and other Eastern Mediterranean religions) in shaping the mythology (personal, historical, political, social of our time).
He also spends time examining the concept of our "true self, real me" that is at the heart of modern western economics and social mythology.
In sections he explores the experience of animals and the world from other nonwestern religious points of view.
A book to reread repeatedly if you want to get everything out of it.
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