A Guide for the Perplexed

It is possible to live without temples, but it is not possible to live without religion, that is, without the systematic work of contacting and developing towards the Higher Levels above the level of “ordinary life” with all its pleasure and pain, excitement and pleasure, refinement and crudeness. The modern world’s experiment in living without religion has failed. Once we understand this, we will understand what our “Post-Modern” tasks are.

- E. F. Schumacher -

A Guide for the Perplexed offers us a harvest of sober, comforting, and hopeful insights from one of the wisest minds of our time.

- Theodore Roszak -

Schumacher not only decries the emerging results of modern science, he also makes a fundamental critique of modern science and economics.

- Sayyed Hussein Nasr -

The intensification of an embracing and vitalizing system of thought that is opposed to our widespread opinions... The most reasonable thing I can say about Schumacher's ideas is: God willing, it will happen as he says, amen.

-Arthur Koestler-

When Schumacher says, "Western man has become rich in means and poor in ends. His knowledge hierarchy has been disrupted, his will has been paralyzed," these words echo in us with pain: What about us? Isn't our mind more complicated than that of the Westerner?