This book is a banger! Disagree with about a third of it, but it is remarkably prescient and thought-provoking. To be extremely reductionistic, it's a very down to earth and historical meditation on the intersection of spirituality [in the most broad sense] and modern "progress". If you like Ian McGilcrest's thought patterns or are one of those people who Jekyll and Hyde between the esoteric and technologic, pick this up!