Escaping Maya's Palace
Decoding an Ancient Myth to Heal the Hidden Madness of Modern Civilization

This is an odd book: sort of a mix of a literary analysis of the Mahabarata, coupled with a transpersonal psychological (I had to look that up) or maybe Buddhism analysis of ego being focused on at the expense of community, along with a sort of Marxian political/philosophical/sociological analysis o......more

CAN WE ESCAPE DOOM? Are we humans, arguably the brainiest, most creative species on this planet, doomed? We have achieved a level of consumption that annually produces billions of tons of pollutants to the air, the seas, and the land, destroying hundreds of thousands of fellow-organisms and species,......more

I paused before reading this book because it felt complicated and overwhelming. I was wrong! If you are wondering why, as one of the richest cultures in the world, our people have such high rates of depression, addiction, and life-threatening physical ailments, I would point you to Escaping Maya’s P......more

"Escaping Maya’s Palace" explains the market driven life that most of us have accepted as normal, healthy, optimal…even inevitable. In it, Richard Sclove examines the deleterious consequences of the global market economy and the vicious self- perpetuating cycle it creates. Still, it is a book of hop......more

Somehow Richard Sclove is able to weave in, lessons from the Mahabharata, with early modern European history, and for that matter, world history. What a magical book to be able to magically fuse these trends in early history to talk about/connect the blunder of Yudhisthira, with mass consumerism, th......more