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The Myth of the Great Ending

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Very Good - Minimal, limited shelf wear. Clean and unmarked pages.
Format:
Paperback, 276 pages
Publisher:
Hampton Roads, 2011
Edition:
First Edition, First Printing
What is the source of our attraction to the End of Days? In the last sixty years we've been promised Atomic Armageddon, Mutual Assured Destruction, Nuclear Winter, Silent Spring, Global Warming, Climate Change, invasion from hostile Aliens, Peak Oil, Global Pandemic, the War on Terror. Is the prospect of doomsday hardwired into human psychology? In The Myth of the Great Ending, Joseph Felser writes that we believe in an End because we believe in a Beginning, with its attendant notions of Evolution, Manifest Destiny, Progress, and so-called rational thought. But linear time is a lie. Nature's rhythms are cyclic. Every point on the circumference of a circle is at once a beginning, a middle, and an end-each point equidistant from the center, the eternal present, where creation takes place-which is the only place we ever really are.

What is the source of our attraction to the End of Days? In the last sixty years we've been promised Atomic Armageddon, Mutual Assured Destruction, Nuclear Winter, Silent Spring, Global Warming, Climate Change, invasion from hostile Aliens, Peak Oil, Global Pandemic, the War on Terror.

Is the prospect of doomsday hardwired into human psychology? In The Myth of the Great Ending, Joseph Felser writes that we believe in an End because we believe in a Beginning, with its attendant notions of Evolution, Manifest Destiny, Progress, and so-called rational thought. But linear time is a lie.

Nature's rhythms are cyclic. Every point on the circumference of a circle is at once a beginning, a middle, and an end-each point equidistant from the center, the eternal present, where creation takes place-which is the only place we ever really are.

Editorial Review

"Felser (philosophy, Kingsborough Community Coll., CUNY) looks at the prevalence of the end-of-the-world belief system and finds it a morbid and distorted idea that should be discarded so that we can proceed into a new, unified way of thinking and understanding. He believes we must align ourselves with nature and with our own true deepest selves to overturn negative beliefs and move forward into a healthier, more positive, happier life. This is one of his main points in his previous book, The Way Back to Paradise: Restoring the Balance Between Magic and Reason. Adding appeal to this latest work, Felser sprinkles throughout the history of the end-of-the-world movement from Zoroastrianism to present-day thinking and the ideas of many of the world's great thinkers including Joseph Campbell, Carl Jung, David Bohm, William James, and others. VERDICT This book is worth reading for those fascinated by the idea of the world coming to an end. It makes many good points and isn't so scholarly that the average person couldn't enjoy it. —Mary E. Jones, Los Angeles P.L." --Library Journal

"Felser lifts the mask created by the Myth itself, bringin us face to face with the reality beyond the earthly veil." --Hal Z. Bennett, PhD, author of The Lens of Perception: A User's Guide to higher Consciousness. 

About the Author

Joseph M. Felser, Ph.D. earned his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Chicago and is an associate professor at Kingsborough Community College/CUNY in Brooklyn, NY. He is the author of The Way Back to Paradise: Restoring the Balance between Magic and Reason. His work appears regularly in scholarly journals and he was invited to give the Keynote Address at the world-renowned Monroe Institute's 20th Professional Seminar in March 2006. He lives in suburban New Jersey.