{"product_id":"9781801521857","title":"The Threshold : The Forces of Techno-Materialism and the Struggle for Humanity's Soul by Kingsley L. Dennis","description":"Explore the darker hinterlands of a world accelerating into a full-blown immersion of techno-materialism and its consequences for the human condition.In an exceedingly relevant analysis of the modern technological world, Kingsley Dennis demonstrates that humanity is rushing headlong towards a critical and decisive moment for human civilisation which he terms the `Threshold', where the trajectory for human evolvement is facing `counter-evolutionary forces' that not only reject the path of the human spirit but aim to sabotage our connection to it.   The Threshold brings the reader face-to-face with the intensifying issues of technocracy, transhumanism, AI-theology and false transcendence, and the re-defining of the biological human condition.   Also examined are themes of reality distortion, ?ber-nihilism, planetary re-shaping and environmental modification, neo-gnosticism, the sacred and the profane, and the task of evil in our current times.   Dennis explains that humanity is currently experiencing intense times for these years are a precursor to the critical `threshold' where the future for humankind will be decided. Humanity, both collectively and individually, will need to choose between a future of deepening profane materialism - what the author calls the `will to technology' - or a life that recognises the presence of metaphysical truths and the rising capacities of spirit-consciousness.   At this time, unlike any other in known history, in which the planet is engaged in a struggle for the presence of the human soul upon the Earth, Kingsley Dennis' thought-provoking prose offers a fresh perspective on the future of humanity.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306717884789,"sku":"9781801521857","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781801521857.jpg?v=1762801758","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781801521857","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}