The Lost Way to the Good

<p>The West has lost its way. But which way was it?<strong> </strong>Disoriented by postmodern relativism and critical theory many seek refuge in older certainties of religious or political traditions. But many of these paths author Thomas Plant maintains are only recent forks off a wider older road-a way that belongs as much to the East as to the West and can unite Christians Jews Muslims Buddhists and more in pursuit of the truly common Good. </p><p>This Way is the nondualistic philosophy of Eastern or theurgic Platonism. Claiming Indian and Egyptian roots it entered medieval European universities through the works of Dionysius the Areopagite. Overshadowed in the West it continued to thrive in Eastern Christian and Sufi spiritual teachings that spread along the Silk Road providing thereby a basis for creative dialogue with Taoists and Buddhists. <em>The Lost Way to the Good</em> is a guidebook for a spiritual and metaphysical journey with Dionysius from Athens to Kyoto and the True Pure Land Buddhism of Shinran Shonin. Find out by perusing its pages where the West deviated from the track and how even radically differing religious traditions can nonetheless unite to resist the divisive forces of Western secular modernity. </p>