{"product_id":"threshold-21","title":"Threshold","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExplore the darker hinterlands of a world accelerating into a full-blown immersion of techno-materialism and its consequences for the human condition…\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Threshold\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso examined are themes of reality distortion, über-nihilism, planetary re-shaping and environmental modification, neo-gnosticism, the sacred and the profane, and the task of evil in our current times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDennis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aeon Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55283199574360,"sku":"9781801521857","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781801521857.jpg?v=1770522343","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/threshold-21","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}