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Shaking the Foundations: Coming of Age in the Postmodern Era
 
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Shaking the Foundations: Coming of Age in the Postmodern Era [Paperback]

John H. Brand (Author)
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075961041X 978-0759610415 February 2001
John H. Brand’s unusual background gives him a unique perspective for writing a book ahead of its time. He dismisses as irrelevant today’s religious banalities, political propaganda and corporate self-interests. Continued pursuit of narrow self-interests by powerful groups will place America’s greatness next to the ruins of Rome’s Coliseum and Athens’s Parthenon.

Scientific discoveries in the Twentieth Century require the restructuring of our understanding the nature of Nature and of human beings. In simple language the author explains how significant implications of quantum mechanics, astronomy, biology and brain physiology form the foundation for new perspectives to comprehend the meaning of our lives.


Brand, now retired, is an attorney, ordained minister, decorated combat Infantryman and successful business executive.
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  • Paperback: 180 pages
  • Publisher: 1stBooks Library (February 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 075961041X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0759610415
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,770,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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4.0 out of 5 stars Life is Precarious, July 23, 2008
Shaking the Foundations feels like a marvelous, charming fireside chat with your warm, wonderfully enlightened friend who cares deeply about you and all of mankind. As the roles of life and interconnectedness unfold, any movement we make toward an authentic life involves our own forming and shaping, becoming and happening. John Brand, a minister by job category and so much the exhibitor of his humane ideal, delivers an intelligent description of man's evolutionary processes detailing the three brain functions and areas while reflecting his earnest hope that Nietzsche's human "Geist" theorem is correct: we have the quality to transcend our thoughts, actions, and beings from visceral responses to life presence because of our innate human essence. Stress in our lives ooccurs with all the meaningless beliefs and myths countering reality that take a toll on the human psyche. Interestingly,the strange bent in the human brain oddly prefers dogmatism to truth. Life isn't controlled by a deity; it's a precarious world and uncertainty abounds. Man, much like democracy, needs mature individuality which responds to life in terms of disciplined social insights. We may choose and guide ourselves to develop a richer inner life through an approach of play where the greatest adventure of all is the journey into one's own self.
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