How can we respond urgently and effectively to the ecological crisis—and stay sane doing it?This landmark work is simultaneously a manifesto, a blueprint, a call to action, and a deep comfort for troubling times. David R. Loy masterfully lays out the principles and perspectives of Ecodharma—a Buddhist response to our ecological predicament, introducing a new term for a new development of the Buddhist tradition.This book emphasizes the three aspects of Ecodh...

Systems scientist and evolutionary theorist David Loye argues that Darwin was misunderstood and misinterpreted. After years of research, Loye discovered two things: less than a dozen people understood what Darwin was writing about; and Darwin spoke far more about love than he did about selfishness and the survival of the fittest.

The startling, long ignored, but now widely acclaimed new story of the life and full theory of the Darwin who wrote only twice about “survival of the fittest” but 95 times about the evolutionary drive of LOVE in the lives of all species—including us—in The Descent of Man. This is the first of five books for Darwin’s New World View Series. Book by book the series will unfold pioneering evolutionary systems scientist David Loye's reconstruction of the drive of love in Darwin’s life and the p...

Grandfather's Garden has the endearing quality of a classic of a new kind. As with the Harry Potter books, its rollicking stream of quirky tales is for "kids, teens, moms, dads, grandmoms, granddads, and the close, warm delight of reading aloud to kids at bedtime."A lonely child who lives beneath the clatter of the stairs in a busy household dreams of a magic island where he can live in the wonder of Grandfather’s garden. Eggplants big as elephants. Tap dancing stalks of celery. Th...

Hailed as a breakthrough in 12 pages of pre-publication reviews by leading evolutionary thinkers, this new book has been rushed into print for impact in the wake of both the honoring and the dishonoring of Darwin’s 209th birthday on February 12.Rediscovering Darwin: The Rest of Darwin’s Theory and Why We Need it Today weaves three gripping stories into a compelling single account. First a new perspective on the startling discovery of the long-buried rest of Darwin’s theory of evolut...

The twin Lasserman boys grew up in mid-twentieth century middle America. As children they were as close as one would expect twin boys to be. But as adults their life paths took them to far different destinations, economically, socially and geographically. At a time when they were past middle-aged, a severely divided nation driven by polarizing political demagogues, stressed their moral foundations to the breaking point. What happens beyond the breaking point teaches them a great deal about...

As the world approaches the middle of the twenty-first century, octogenarians Donald Lasserman and Richard Adamo maintain unbridled hope and vision for a more promising future. They unite several retired world leaders, including a former nemesis, to brainstorm ideas for a better world. While this happens, Donald’s self-made billionaire nephew, Nate, goes up against a terrorist kidnapping in the Panamanian rainforest and a coup in Cuba.Packed with intellectual stimulation and thrill...

Acclaimed author David Loy explores what has gone wrong with humanity and how we can fix it.Humanity’s survival instincts worked great back when humans were few, primitive, and had to fight against the entirety of nature to survive. But those same instincts proved disastrous once humans began to organize themselves into complex societies. How did we manage? We developed moral and ethical frameworks that kept societies functioning for centuries.But now, in t...

Loy draws from giants of psychotherapy and existentialism, from Nietzsche to Kierkegaard to Sartre, to explore the fundamental issues of life, death, and what motivates us.Whatever the differences in their methods and goals, psychotherapy, existentialism, and Buddhism are all concerned with the same fundamental issues of life and death—and death-in-life. In Lack and Transcendence (originally published by Humanities Press in 1996), David R....

In this dynamic and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell—about what is and is not possible, about ourselves, about right and wrong, life and death, about the world and everything in it—become the very building blocks of our experience and of reality itself. Loy uses an intriguing mixture of quotations from familiar and less-familiar sources and brief stand-alone micro-essays, engaging the reader in challenging and illuminating ...

One of Western Buddhism’s most sophisticated thinkers on one of Buddhism’s most central topics.The concept of nonduality lies at the very heart of Mahayana Buddhism. In the West, it’s usually associated with various kinds of absolute idealism in the West, or mystical traditions in the East—and as a result, many modern philosophers are poorly informed on the topic. Increasingly, however, nonduality is finding its way into Western philosophical debates. In this “scho...

What's Wrong with Sex?How to Drive Your KarmaConsciousness CommodifiedThe Karma of FoodThe Three Poisons, InstitutionalizedWhy We Love WarThese are just some of the chapters in this brilliant book from David R. Loy.In little time, Loy has become one of the most powerful advocates of the Buddhist worldview, explaining like no one else its ability to transform the sociopolitical landscape of the modern world....