It has become some­what fash­ion­able in recent years to begin dis­cus­sion of just about any topic by stat­ing that we are liv­ing in revolu­tion­ary times.

Even annu­ally updated consumer-electronic items get described as revolu­tion­ary. How­ever, there is little con­sensus about the actual scope and nature of the revolu­tion com­ing, or the revolu­tion already upon us. Is this unfold­ing revolu­tion really to do with advances in tech­no­logy? Is it to do with over­pop­u­la­tion, or with aging pop­u­la­tions? Is it to do with the fin­an­cial sys­tem, or the eco­lo­gical crisis? Is it to do with a crisis in edu­ca­tion, or with a rising, global middle-class; or increas­ingly author­it­at­ive cent­ral­ised powers…?

In this book I will argue that the source of the revolu­tion tak­ing place in the fab­ric of human real­ity is to be found much “deeper”, as it were, than any of the above and sim­ilar wide ran­ging issues and changes people gen­er­ally might think of.

Put simply,
the revolu­tion of our time is the revolu­tion in thought*.