Jeremy Lent
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | California, United States |
| Introduction | I’m a first-time novelist, who was once an Internet entrepreneur. I’m currently in the middle of a multi-year research project for a book that will probably be called Finding the Li: Towards a Democracy of Consciousness. It’s about how human consciousness has lost its balance in the past two thousand years, and how we can go about regaining a harmony within ourselves. I was born in London, England, studied English Literature at Cambridge , and left England in 1981 to move to the United States. My first novel was Requiem of the Human Soul, published in 2009. I wanted to write about where I saw our world going, and what it means for our human soul. Not the Judaeo-Christian immortal soul, but the kind we mean when we say: "That's got soul, man." How genetic engineering may put the final nail in the coffin that Western civilization's been building around our soul for the past 500 years. I tried to make the story believable - not some angst-ridden dystopia, but a realistic view of our future may hold for our species. |
| Interests | Taoism, Buddhism, Complexity theory, Neuroscience, Indigenous cultures, Yoga, Spirituality, Neo-Confucianism |
| Favorite Movies | Out of Africa, The English Patient, Legends of the Fall, The Godfather, Once Upon a Time in America |
| Favorite Music | Ray LaMontagne, John Mayer, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez |
| Favorite Books | Catch-22, Cat's Cradle, Tao Te Ching |