Abstract
This article presents a review of Steve Taylor’s (2023) book, DisConnected: The Roots of Human Cruelty and How Connection Can Heal the World. Taylor makes a significant contribution to the study of psychological development, spiritual growth, and the overall evolution of consciousness by thoughtfully examining the disconnection that underlies violent crime, terrorism, dishonest business practices, authoritarianism, religious extremism, surrender of autonomy, culture wars, and polarized politics. He convincingly argues that disconnection is not the default state of humanity, but rather an aberration, and that dark aspects of human nature emerge from an environmentally conditioned sense of separation and inability to empathize with others. Based on his research and enlightened understanding of connection as the basis of spirituality, Taylor charts a course from a world governed by pathocracy to one thriving under empathocracy.
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Floro, Zeke
(2023)
"Review of Steve Taylor’s DisConnected,"
Journal of Conscious Evolution: Vol. 20, Article 9.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/cejournal/vol20/iss20/9
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