Metaphysics & Esoteric Philosophy

This book demonstrates that the old secret societies were driven by the same impulse as Anonymous and WikiLeaks are today.

One hundred thousand years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens. How did our species succeed in the battle for dominance? Why did our foraging ancestors come together to create cities and kingdoms?

From one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, and the author of the international bestseller Small Is Beautiful, the reissue of a timeless treatise on the meaning of living.

As imperfect human beings, we often face ethical and moral challenges as we relate with others on a daily basis, be it with our office mates, our Facebook friends, or our best friend since grade school.

They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history—or what we have come to know as history—has been written by the wrong people? What if everything we’ve been told is only part of the story? What if it’s the wrong part?

Author of Money and the Meaning of Life, Jacob Needleman makes “philosophy” come alive for us, showing how time has become the greatest modern scarcity.