<p>“Alarming, disturbing, bracing, challenging—The Threshold is all these, a book confronting the essential questions of our age. Is technology subsuming us? Is our humanity being lost? What is our best path forward to human flourishing? Read The Threshold and grapple with what it presents: you need to read this book.” - Arthur Versluis, author of 'American Gnosis, Breaking Through the Materialistic Deception'</p>

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, über-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.

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Explore the darker hinterlands of a world accelerating into a full-blown immersion of techno-materialism and its consequences for the human condition…

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION: Approaching the Threshold

CHAPTER ONE: The External Gaze of the Global Shadow

CHAPTER TWO: Pure Technicity & the Will to Technology

CHAPTER THREE: Recombinants of the Human Condition

CHAPTER FOUR: Techno-Materialism & the Forces of über-Nihilism

CHAPTER FIVE: The Metaphysical Heretics of Lesser Reality

CHAPTER SIX: World-Building & Techno-Terraforming

CHAPTER SEVEN: Vivid Decay & False Transcendence

CHAPTER EIGHT: Dark Gnosis & The Axial Age of the Machine

CHAPTER NINE: The Task of Evil & the Oppositional Forces

CHAPTER TEN: Bare Life (The Stripping Away of Spiritual Awareness)

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Profane Society (The Dark Night of Civilisation)

CHAPTER TWELVE: Dark World’s Fire (Purification & Revelation)

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781801521857
Publisert
2025-10-28
Utgiver
Aeon Books Ltd
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
172

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Biografisk notat

Kingsley L. Dennis, PhD is a full-time writer and researcher. He is the author of over twenty-five books including The Inversion: How We Have Been Tricked into Perceiving a False Reality; Is There Life on Earth?; The Reality Game; Life in the Continuum; Unified - Cosmos, Life, Purpose; Hijacking Reality; The Modern Seeker; Healing the Wounded Mind; Bardo Times; The Struggle for Your Mind; and Dawn of the Akashic Age (with Ervin Laszlo). He is the author of numerous articles on social philosophy; technology and new media communications; global affairs; and metaphysics. He currently serves on the board of the Hieros Institute, which is a non-profit organization whose primary purpose is to develop our shared understanding of the sacred in both theory and practice. For more information, visit his website: https://kingsleydennis.com/  - or his Substack page: https://kingsleyldennis.substack.com/