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“Victor Shane’s Book of Life offers intriguing prescriptions for society’s problems. In an audacious feat of virtuosity he blends the physical and the spiritual into a seamless solution that is persuasive and compelling.”
— Rabbi Daniel Lapin, Toward Tradition

“An immense and worthy Biblical-philosophical work; soundly based in the timeless truth, yet relevantly addressing the contemporary confusion —the ‘strife of tongues’ that stand against ultimate realities.”
— Pastor Jack Hayford, The King’s Seminary

Inside Book of Life

All of us are wondering why there is so much disorder and violence in the world. Why does evil tend to get selected more often than good? Is there a rational, scientific explanation for the anatomy of human destructiveness? Is there a holistic explanation for such things as racism, anti-Semitism, holocaust, ethnic cleansing, terrorism, suicide bombings and 911?

In this publication Victor Shane throws fascinating new light on the unsolved mysteries that surround the irrational nature of man. Book of Life reconciles the Biblical model of human nature with the scientific model of a cosmos in which disorder (entropy) is always increasing, suggesting that our understanding of our own nature has been flawed all along. Misled by our sense of pride and self-importance, we have been externalizing the nature of the cosmos and setting ourselves up on anthropocentric pedestals of privilege and exemption.

To break free of this veil of tears, Shane argues, we need to smash the last pedestal of human arrogance, swallow our pride, come out of denial and realize that our physical constitution is fully wired into the fabric of a cosmos oriented towards disorder. The nature, property and orientation of the cosmos isn’t something “outside” us—it is internalized. And if the cosmos were oriented towards disorder, then you would expect human nature to be oriented towards disorder as well; i.e., you would expect to find disorder in sufficiently large samples of human history, which is actually the case—cycles of violence, war, destruction, genocide, reduction and degradation. 

Book of Life confirms the existential stumbling block and cosmic pitfall that the Bible has been warning about for thousands of years, encouraging mankind to overcome both. The hour is late and the old model of human nature mortally flawed. It is time for another tectonic shift—a Spiritual Revolution.

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