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The Follies of the Western Mind<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Arktos, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is thinking? What calls on us to think? Who decides what\u2019s good and bad? Do modern societies understand the meaning of peace? Has science become closed-minded? Does freedom mean the same for everyone? How does language affect the way people think? Is it possible to understand consciousness? Is humanity on a collision course with destiny?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A book about thinking. It’s not a philosophy book, a spiritual book, or a medical book, though it’s a little bit of each. It’s mostly about how people in the West think, and about how they don\u2019t think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thinking in the West has become boxed-in, inflexible and blinkered. Like a deep-sea diver\u2019s suit, Western thinking is weighed down, with an outlook in only one direction. Western minds have become trapped, while another world exists outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book doesn\u2019t offer a way out of this prison of the mind. It offers instead some of the tools needed to escape, some hammers and spanners to pry open the bars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Escaping the West’s mental trap requires people to see the world a little differently, to question deeply held beliefs and ideas. It requires them to understand that the way they view the world is not the only way. It requires them to see that there are alternatives, and that some of these might actually be better.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Introduction <\/h3>\n\n\n\n