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

Richard Sclove

Jan 2023 · Karavelle Press · Narrated by Richard Sclove and Victor Vertunni

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A celebrated saga from ancient India tells of a young king who mysteriously shifts character and gambles away his kingdom. By unraveling this legend’s secret meaning, Escaping Maya’s Palace launches a sleuthing expedition into a distortion in psychological and spiritual growth that lies buried deep at the root of modern civilization. Today this undetected malady contributes to woes ranging from opioid addiction to social alienation, the rise of authoritarian populism, and environmental catastrophe.

Informed by long-lost wisdom from the Mahabharata, one of the great epics of world literature, award-winning author Richard Sclove explains how our civilization descended into this blighted condition. Integrating a missing psychological dimension into social theory and world history, this intellectually daring and engrossing work clears a path for remaking modern politics and economics, social movements, and daily life. This book’s profound insights offer renewed hope to a world in crisis.

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Richard Sclove has served as the director of strategic development at the Mind and Life Institute, cofounded by the Dalai Lama. He earned his PhD in political theory at MIT and held an endowed postdoctoral fellowship in economics at the University of California-Berkeley. His essays have appeared in many venues, including the Washington Post and Christian Science Monitor. The American Political Science Association honored his book Democracy and Technology as the best in its field, and he is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

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